Passion, or Death!
Friday and Saturday 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. // Hale’s Ales Palladium // $25
SOUNDLY CONSTRUCTED: Sympatico is an interactive sound installation by local multi-media artist Carlisle Roveto featuring rapping puppets. Sort of. See, Roveto is on an autodidactic path to better understand the physics of machines, and her current step is transparent puppets that will spit beats when activated by viewers. And that is awesome. Housed at Jack Straw, it is the perfect merging of intentions: unusual sonic exploration with an interactive bent. Go wander through the gallery until you come to the truth.
Now until July 8th (Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.) // Jack Straw New Media Gallery // FREE
DANCE FOR CHANGE: 826 is Seattle’s delightful non-profit writing center devoted to helping students aged 6 – 18 with their creative talents. Housed in the back of a Space Travel Supply Company, 826 is mission control for interstellar prose. And if that’s the sort of thing you like to support, then check out the 2nd annual Dance Your Cash Off marathon, a fundraiser in the style of the dance endurance contests of old, only without the absurd durations and undertone of desperation. Teams will shake, shimmy, and quite possibly electric slide for five hours, all to support 826 Seattle. You don’t have to compete to attend, just dance when moved.
Sunday 6:00 p.m. // Nectar Lounge // $10 (21+)
COME AS YOU ARE: Pride. It’s this weekend. Sure, there’s a parade on Sunday, but there’s also so much more. Put on by Seattle Out & Proud (SO&P), Pride is a weekend long feel-good shitshow of debauchery, joy, fabulousness, glitter, Lady Gaga, leather daddies, hugging and inclusion. The list of things blown begins with your mind and ends wherever you want. Check out the full schedule of events on SO&P’s website.
All Weekend // Various Locations // Pride
