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Fall is the time when a new season for the arts gets under way. This year is full of promise. It is hard to predict trends but a few things do stick out.

Highlights Visual Arts Performing Arts Film/Media Written Arts Art News/ Opportunites Back to Top Highlights Would you like to hear a classical Indian music concert in a perfect acoustic space?  Check out Pandit Vikash Maharaji who will play the sarod with his son on tabla in the lovely acoustic setting of the Chapel Performance Space [...]

A comprehensive list of Arts Events happening around Seattle. Updated August 18th 2010.

A comprehensive list of Arts Events happening around Seattle. Updated August 4th 2010.

A comprehensive list of Arts Events happening around Seattle. Updated July 21st 2010.

A comprehensive list of Arts Events happening around Seattle.

Click Here for Book Reviews “Of Butterflies And Bees” It’s true that summer will be here any day now (weather permitting) and we’ll have our share of butterflies and bees in the garden but writing this introduction to our latest Pacific Reader brings on memories of Mulhammed Ali’s poetry instead. Our feature story for this [...]

An in depth list of upcoming Arts Events happening around Seattle.

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Veteran documentary filmmaker Loni Ding passed away in February. Her career as an independent filmmaker, university professor and television producer spanned decades. Her numerous film and television projects garnered over 15 awards and fellowships. Best known for the award-winning documentary, “The Color of Honor: The Japanese American Soldiers During World War II”, her film that [...]

Highlights Visual Arts Performing Arts Film/Media Written Arts Art News/ Opportunites Highlights Michelle Cruz Skinner, a Filipino American writer from Hawai’i reads from her new book of short stories entitled “In The Company of Strangers” (Bamboo Ridge Press) on Tuesday, May 18 at 7 p.m. Author R. Zamora Linmark describes the book as “deceptively simple [...]

Highlights Elliott Bay Book Company has achieved a smooth transition to its new Capitol Hill home at 1521 10th Ave. Come hear Ed Lin read from his new detective novel on May 1 at 4 p.m. Reading with Lin is college classmate and former Examiner staff writer Soya Jung. Also Jean Kwok on May 8 [...]

Highlights Nrityagram Dance Ensemble of India bring traditional Indian dance to Seattle in a concert set for April 17 at 8 p.m. at the Moore Theatre. Presented by Seattle Theatre Group. (877) 784-4849. There is a painterly beauty to every frame of every shot by the late director Kenji Mizoguchi. Before he began a career [...]

Highlights The Wayward Music Series presents “moveable, long commutes between loved ones, music for motors and personal strings”, a performance by pianist Tiffany Lin (see related story in this issue for details on this project) for retuned piano plus “Piano Monster” a re-built by Ranjit Bhatnager. April 2 at 8 p.m. At the Chapel Performance [...]

Highlights Wing Luke Asian Museum opens yet another new exhibition entitled “Paj Ntaub – Stories of Hmong in Washington State” on view from March 5 – Oct. 17. Family photos, cultural artifacts, first person stories uncover their history and culture in Washington state. Exhibition opening reception for members and invited guests on March 4 from [...]

You might say my years at Microsoft were my formative years. In the first three years with the company, I was working 100-hour weeks and I never took a day off. Well, that’s not entirely true – I took one day off. That discipline continued during my remaining years with the company, but a lot [...]

Highlights Cincinnati-based musician C. Spencer Yeh  (voice, violin, electronics) participates in the annual Seattle Improvised Music Festival and joins Chris Corsano, Bill Horist and Wally Shoup in a concert on Feb. 18 at Ballard’s Sunset Tavern. 5433 Ballard NW. ACRS 2010 Art Opening with support from Washington State Arts Commission, 4 Culture and Odyssey Enterprises [...]

Highlights “Kurosawa-sensei” brings new prints of five classic films by master Japanese filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa. Includes “Seven Samurai” and “Stray Dog.” Feb. 5 – 15 at SIFF Cinema at 321 Mercer St. (206) 633-7151. “Farewell: A Fantastical Contemplation of America’s Relationship with China” features Donald Byrd’s Spectrum Dancers with a live score by composer Byron [...]

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Highlights Inspiring Community Through Film: A Night with Tadashi Nakamura” (see elsewhere in this issue for related story) gives us a chance to meet this L.A.-based filmmaker and see two of his community based films. Feb. 6 at 7 p.m.  NVC Community Hall. For reservations, e-mail: ryenms@gmail.com. ”TAO: The Martial Art of Drumming” (see related [...]

By Alan Chong Lau Highlights Noted New York Times science writer Carol Kaesuk Yoon travels from her Bellingham home to Seattle to read from her new book “Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science” (W. W. Norton & Co.)  in which she shares her observations on how animals (including humans) perceive the world in [...]

By Alan Chong Lau Highlights Pamela Yasutake sings and dances in the role of Mary in Langston Hughes Cultural Center’s production of “Black Nativity” currently on stage at the Intiman Theatre through Dec. 22. 201 Mercer St. (206) 269-1900. Mochizuki is a traditional Japanese New Year celebration that involves the pounding of sweet rice to [...]

Highlights Bora Ju, Korean gayageum virtuoso (traditional Korean stringed zither) is the “artist-in-residence” at UW’s School of Music for the fall quarter, 2009. During her time here, Ju is performing around as much as possible. Don’t miss hearing this virtuoso Korean musician while she is in the area. Future performances include Dec. 4 at 7 [...]

View Pacific Reader Articles Here It’s been a long time coming but we would like to welcome our loyal readers to the return of our Pacific Reader book review supplement that covers new titles by or about Asians in North America as well as new books from Asia. This new issue is a special feature [...]

Highlights The First Annual Slack Key Festival takes place on Nov. 22 at Town Hall from 2 – 6 p.m. With concerts and workshops from Hawaiian music masters and Ukulele virtuosos including Cyril Pahanui, Leabert Lindsay, Sonny Lim, David Kamakahi, Kunai Galdeira, Makana Donald Kaulia and Jeff Peterson. There will be an Evening Dinner/Heavy Pupu [...]

Highlights Opening Nov. 19 from 6- 8 p.m. and continuing on view through Dec. 22 is a new show by of ceramic sculpture and installation by UW ceramic professor Akio Takamori entitled “Europeans” in which the artists continues his wry look at world history, colonialism and how different cultures meet and collide. Expect humor and [...]

October 21st 2009 Highlights Concerts of ethnic music abound this month. Ragamala presents “Utsav 2009”, Seattle’s Annual South Asian Performing Arts Festival Oct. 30 at East Shore Unitarian Church in Bellevue, Oct. 31 at Kirkland Performance Center in Kirkland and Nov. 1 at East Shore Unitarian Church in Bellevue. The festival features exciting performances by [...]

I think I first heard about Jamie Ford’s new book “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter And Sweet” sometime last year from Oregon poet, Lawson Inada, who told me it took place in Seattle’s International District. I later found out Ford was living in Montana but had passed through Seattle and was part- Chinese American. [...]

Welcome to our annual Fall Arts Preview in which we try and give you a little taste of some of the artistic riches that will appear in the fall and into the new year whether it be in the visual arts, performing arts, literary arts or media. In this issue, we have features on Roger [...]