Events
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Start: 9:30 am
Saturday University Sacred Sites of Asia Lecture Series, presented by the GARDNER CENTER FOR ASIAN ART AND IDEAS, cosponsored by UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON JACKSON SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES and ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY. A popular Saturday morning lecture series launched a year ago, resumes for a second 'school year,' this quarter's lectures mostly devoted to 'Sacred Sites of Asia.' First on tap is University of Washington professor Vikram Prakash on "The Many Truths: Diversity of the Sacred in Indian History and Architecture." Elliott Bay is usually on hand at these with a selected of related titles. Individual lecture tickets are SAM members $5, nonmembers $10. Series tickets are SAM members $38, nonmembers $75. The Stimson Auditorium of the Seattle Asian Art Museum is at 1400 E. Prospect in Volunteer Park. For more information, please see www.seattleartmuseum.org.
Start: 10:00 am
Presented by HISTORIC SEATTLE. The appreciation of all things Arts and Crafts, and Bungalow, is again celebrated in Historic Seattle's annual Bungalow Fair, now in its thirteenth year. Period and period-inspired collectible furniture, textiles, art, ephemera, glass, and other items are available (books from Elliott Bay, too!) for purchase, with dealers from all over the U.S. on hand. This year's lecturers are: Arts and Crafts guild stalwart Daniel Lees, speaking on Saturday the 25th at 11 a.m. on his book, Leather of the Arts and Crafts Era (Schiffer); Susan Futterman, speaking on Sunday the 26th at 11 a.m. on color block prints by Frances Gearhart; and Jim Heuer, on Sunday the 26th at 1:30 p.m., speaking about Portland's Arts and Crafts neighborhoods. Food and drink are available for purchase on-site. For tickets/information, please see www.historicseattle.org or call (206) 622-6952. Tickets are $10 for Fair entry and $10 for each lecture, with discounts for seniors/Historic Seattle members. Tickets will also be available at the door. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For those wanting more, take the Home Sweet Bungalow Tour and view historic houses, gardens, and selected interiors in Seattle's Ravenna neighborhood. This tour is offered both days of the Fair, from 2 - 5 p.m. Cost is $25 in advance/$30 day of, from www.brownpapertickets.com.
Start: 11:30 am
Join us for this fun round of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!
Start: 2:00 pm
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Presented by THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Join the Seattle Public Library in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The program will include remarks from Seattle author and actress Stephanie Kallos, and will also feature an excerpt from Scout, Atticus and Boo, a documentary by Mary McDonaugh Murphy, who is also the author of the book, Scout, Atticus and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of 'To Kill a Mockingbird (HarperCollins). A complete screening of the classic 1962 film version of To Kill a Mockingbird, starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, will also be shown. The Microsoft Auditorium of the Seattle Public Central Library is located at 1000 Fourth Avenue.
Start: 7:00 pm
That Jimi Hendrix's story is one that starts in Seattle is well-known to music listeners and readers here and elsewhere. In their new book, Becoming Jimi Hendrix: From Southern Crossroads to Psychedelic London, the Untold Story of a Musical Genius (Da Capo), music journalist/archivists Steven Roby and Brad Schreiber focus on his formative musical experiences between 1962 and 1966, years that saw him out of Seattle, eventually in Europe. Both authors, who live in the Bay Area, have done work on Hendrix before, with Steven Roby having written Black Gold: The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix.
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