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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Highlights IDEA Odyssey Gallery presents “Balik/Ibalik”, an exhibit of new photographs by Carina A. del Rosario. In this new work, the artist documents her recent trip to the Philippines after a 22 year absence and explores the intersections of language, culture, family and place. Opening reception is Thurs., Feb. 2 from 5 – 8pm. On [...]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Highlights Seattle’s Annual Lunar New Year Festival takes place Sat., Jan. 28 from 11am – 4pm at Hing Hay Park at Maynard Ave. S. & S. King St. With Dragon and Lion Dancers and a food walk with $2 Tasting Menu at participating restaurants. Also a children’s costume parade contest. Go to SeattleChinatownID.com for details. [...]
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Highlights O(PA)PERA is a live music installation co-created by composer/musician/performer Byron Au Yong and director/installation artist Roger Benington. Tackling the big issues of earthquakes and tsunami’s that re-shape the Pacific Rim and its’ inhabitants and the aftershocks of a global economy in crisis, musicians/performers (Au Yong, Jeremiah Cawley, Tiffany Lin & Tari Nelson-Zagar) gather in [...]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Highlights As Arts Editor at the Examiner, I help assign stories on the arts but the wide-ranging coverage of all the arts is made possible by dozens of hard-working knowledgeable volunteer writers who rally behind their passion and love of the arts with well-written stories issue after issue. We couldn’t do it without them. I [...]
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
Highlights The North American Post’s Nagomi Teahouse Space has in a few short months, become an exciting new venue presenting Asian American arts and culture. Famed mystery novelist Naomi Hirahara, known for her unique character, Kibei landscaper/detective Mas Hirai will talk about how she created her protagonist and the inspiration behind her books. Sat. Dec. [...]
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Visual Arts The work of Jason Hirata and Rumi Koshino is included in a group show at SOIL entitled “11 Most Dangerous Toys of 2011” curated by Klara Glosova. Opening reception is Dec. 1 from 6 – 8 p.m. SOIL Gallery at 112 – 3rd Ave. S., Seattle. Cambodian-born artist Soheap Pich immigrated to the [...]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Highlights Cambodian-born artist Sopheap Pich immigrated to the US with his family to escape the Khmer Rouge and attended art school here, earning an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After a few years of meaningless jobs less than conducive to making art, he returned to his home country where he [...]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

A seven-year-old incarnation of Buddha offers me his bowl for breakfast. Cold rice, 2 fried eggs, 4 boiled ones, round tangerines crisscrossing yellow stripes of banana, a fried snake, a bunch of grapes, some spiced pork in a leaf and a piece of sponge cake. The year is 1971 and I’m at a temple [...]
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Leaves Scratching Across Pavement When one sees the leaves falling off the branches and scratching across the sidewalk, you know that autumn has arrived and so has a new arts season. Even a dreary economy hasn’t managed to slow down the creativity as this new arts season promises nothing if not variety. Go out and [...]
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Highlights “Swimming The List” is a new performance piece by Stranger Genius Award winner Susie Lee that fuses dance, technology and live music to present an imaginatively intense, fantastical journey of creativity throughout a routine day. Featured dance artist Ying Zhou with music by Emily Greenleaf and live digital imagery by Keena Rhoades. Sept. 23 [...]
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Highlights Paul Kikuchi’s Portable Sanctuary performs in the century-old Union Station on Sept. 18 from 1 – 3 p.m. 401 South Jackson St. Admission is $5 – $15 on a sliding scale and the first 30 guests receive a free copy of the new Portable Sanctuary album. The compositions and improvisations the group does here [...]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Highlights Activist Grace Lee Boggs is 96 years-old and still going strong. She has participated in every major social justice movement of the 20th century. Her analysis of what lies ahead for social change activists is anthologized in the book, “The Next American Revolution” with the assistance of Scott Kurashige, Associate Professor in the American [...]
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Highlights “From Hiroshima To Hope” (see related article elsewhere in this issue) is the annual ceremony of remembrance for victims of all war as well as those of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic bombings in 1945. Lantern preparation starts at 6 p.m. with a program of musical performances & speakers starting at 7 p.m. Lantern floating [...]
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Highlights “Talking To Ghosts – Waiting In The River Between Worlds” is an installation by Nari Baker. The piece is a collection of messages from Korean transnational adoptees to their imagined birth families. Viewers are invited to listen to these messages through rotary telephones. Through this community process, it is hoped that people cam [...]
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Highlights The Seattle Chinatown-International District Street Fair has a new name this year. Now called “Dragon Fest”, the event takes place on July 9 & 10 at Hing Hay Park. Sat. hours are noon – 8 p.m. and Sun. hours are noon – 6 p.m. Includes a “Food Walk” with $2 tasting menu at area [...]
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Highlights The long awaited grand opening for the IDEA Odyssey Gallery will be on First Thursday, July 7 from 5 – 8 p.m.. This collective gallery was founded by Carina del Rosario, SuJ’n Chon and Minh Carrico. The inaugural exhibition “A Sense of Place” guest-curated by Seattle artist Juan Alonzo is on view throughout the [...]
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Highlights Young Sub Lee is an up-and-coming performer of Korean traditional music and his specialty is the “daegeum” or Korean bamboo flute. He will perform and talk about Korean traditional music and instruments while accompanied by janggo drums. Lee is the musician-in-resident for the UW Ethnomusicology program and will be teaching in Spring. Witness this [...]
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

In Italy, when I answered ‘I’m an artist,’ that was it. You didn’t have to justify your life. And you didn’t have to hear the second question that most artists in America hear – “What do you do for a living?” From an interview with James Leong by Keith Raether in the August 24, 1997 [...]
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
Highlights Visual Arts Performing Arts Film/Media Art News/ Opportunites Back to Top Highlights Town Hall presents “MAYDAY! – A NEW MUSIC MARATHON” on Sunday, May 1 from noon – 10 p.m., featuring Michael Lim, Eyvind Kang, Jessika Kenney and music by composer Mamoru Fujieda plus a whole host of talented local musical improvisers. For tickets [...]
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
Highlights Visual Arts Performing Arts Film/Media Art News/ Opportunites Back to Top Highlights Seattle’s own resident gamelan orchestra, Gamelan Pacifica (see related articlein this issue) performs “Gamelan Gadhon”, the classic repertory of Central Javawith special guest Ki Midiyanto. Sat., April 9 at 8 p.m. at Cornish School of ArtsPoncho Concert Hall, located at 710 East [...]
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
A comprehensive list of Arts Events happening around Seattle. Updated February 16th, 2011
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
A comprehensive list of Arts Events happening around Seattle. Updated February 2nd, 2011
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
A comprehensive list of Arts Events happening around Seattle. Updated January 19th, 2011
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
A comprehensive list of Arts Events happening around Seattle. Updated January 5th, 2011
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Thursday, December 16th, 2010
A comprehensive list of Arts Events happening around Seattle. Updated December 15th 2010.
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Highlights Visual Arts Performing Arts Film/Media Written Arts Art News/ Opportunites Back to Top Highlights The Holiday Arts, Crafts & Book Fair returns to St. Peter’s Episcopal Church featuring book signings on Sat., Dec. 4 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. with authors Irene Akio, Kieby Larson, Lawrence Matsuda and Samantha Vamos. The fair goes [...]
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
A comprehensive list of Arts Events happening around Seattle. Updated November 3rd 2010.
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
A comprehensive list of Arts Events happening around Seattle. Updated November 3rd 2010.
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

It has been over a year since Bay Area poet/community activist Al Robles passed away and a gaping hole is still left in the fabric that was and is the Bay Area Asian American community. The first time I heard about Al was when I took one of the first Asian American creative writing classes [...]
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Thursday, October 21st, 2010
A comprehensive list of Arts Events happening around Seattle. Updated October 20th 2010.
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