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  • Aug 08 Monday

    Washington's Cutest Pet Contest

    Online
    See website for more details.
    12:00 AM - 11:59 PM, every day through Sep 18, 2022.

    Do you have the cutest pet in Washington state? Time to make it official! Enter your pet's picture today so your friends, family, and all of Washington can vote for who they think should be named the cutest pet in the state. Take the top spot and your pet will be featured on the front cover of our 2023 Calendar!

    Plenty of ways to win! There are so many opportunities for your pet to be featured in the calendar! Enter early to get a paw up on the competition!

    Your pet's entry and any votes received on your pet's page are tax-deductible donations that will go right to work, helping to care for the animals at the Humane Society for Tacoma & Pierce County.

    Buy a special day for your best friend to mark their birthday, adoption day, or any other event. We'll put your pet's photo on the date in the calendar. Each date block requires a $15 donation.

    Get more information and find out about the prize levels here.

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  • Aug 09 Tuesday

    Otis Taylor - August 9-10

    Dimitriou's Jazz Alley
    $32.50
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM, every day through Aug 10, 2022.

    Presented by KNKX. To date, Otis Taylor has received 16 Blues Music Award (BMA) nominations. Taylor is also nominated regularly as an instrumentalist for his banjo playing, and won a BMA for his original style in 2009, following the release of Recapturing the Banjo. His albums Double V, Definition of a Circle and Recapturing the Banjo all won DownBeat’s “Best Blues” CD award. He also took the magazine’s Critic’s Choice Award for “Best Blues” Album for 2003’s Truth Is Not Fiction. In 2000, he was awarded a fellowship from the Sundance Institute’s Composers’ Lab, and Taylor has been nominated two times for the prestigious Académie Charles Cros award in France, winning the Grand Prix du Disc for Blues in 2012. Five years ago, Contraband — his 12th album — took the DownBeat Critics’ Choice award again for “Blues Album of the Year.” His 2015 album, Hey Joe Opus/Red Meat, is on display in the new Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture.

    Fantasizing About Being Black, Taylor's latest release, is a raw and haunting multi-instrumental blend that reveals the connection of history to modern day events. With Otis Taylor, it's best to expect the unexpected. An amalgamation of roots styles in their rawest form, his music discusses heavyweight issues like murder, homelessness, tyranny, and injustice, even while his personal style is lighthearted.

    Following his 2015 psychedelic masterpiece Hey Joe Opus/Red Meat, the new album from visionary roots music songwriter and bandleader Otis Taylor, Fantasizing About Being Black, is a stark and poetic lesson on the historical trauma of the African American experience, from the voyages of slave ships to the Mississippi Delta. Taylor simultaneously travels back in time while moving forward as a musical artist.

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  • Aug 11 Thursday

    Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band - August 11-14

    Dimitriou's Jazz Alley
    $36.50
    Every week through Aug 14, 2022.
    Sunday: 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Thursday: 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Friday: 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Friday: 09:30 PM - 11:00 PM
    Saturday: 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Saturday: 09:30 PM - 11:00 PM

    Presented by KNKX. For more than three decades, conguero Poncho Sanchez has stirred up a fiery stew of straightahead jazz, gritty soul music, and infectious melodies and rhythms from a variety of Latin American and South American sources. Throughout his career Sanchez has held aloft the torch lit by such innovators as Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente and Cal Tjader, embraced by each of those icons and entrusted to carry forward the traditions of Latin Jazz.

    Sanchez's influences are numerous, and his catalogue is rich with his homages to several of his mentors -- Santamaria, Puente and Tjader among them. But alongside those Latin pioneers, among the more prominent figures that inform his music is the iconic saxophonist John Coltrane. On his latest Grammy-nominated album Trane's Delight, Sanchez pays tribute to the late jazz legend with Latin-tinged re-imaginings of Coltrane classics as well as new pieces composed in honor of the tenor titan.

    Trane's Delight continues Sanchez's remarkable 37-year relationship with Concord, a rich legacy that has now yielded 27 albums. The album features the conguero alongside his longtime band; trombonist and musical director Francisco Torres, trumpet and flugelhorn master Ron Blake, saxophonist Robert Hardt, pianist Andy Langham, bassists Rene Camacho and Ross Schodek, and percussionists Joey DeLeon and Giancarlo Anderson.

    With Trane's Delight, Poncho Sanchez continues to honor the giants whose music has helped shape his own, while building upon the rich legacy they've left behind. As this celebratory and heartfelt album exemplifies, he's long since joined the ranks of the luminaries to whom he pays such profound tribute. Sanchez's deeply personal reimagining of the jazz canon, as well as his own spirited original compositions, affirm his place at the forefront of Latin Jazz's trailblazers.

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  • Aug 12 Friday

    22nd Annual Bainbridge Island Summer Studio Tour

    Various artist studio locations
    Every week through Aug 14, 2022.
    Sunday: 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM
    Friday: 10:00 AM - 06:00 PM
    Saturday: 10:00 AM - 06:00 PM

    This year, as they mark their 22nd Annual Summer Tour, the Bainbridge Island Studio Tour is inviting you to celebrate the craftsmanship of handmade art by regional artists. Bainbridge Island is known for quaint shops, restaurants, and an abundance of artists and their art. As regional artists come and sell their work at Island artists’ studios and historic community halls, you have the opportunity to meet the artists, discuss their work, and see, first-hand, some works in process, raw materials, and tools. Come support your local economy and help your regional artists to thrive. Bainbridge Island is just a 30-minute ferry ride from Seattle, surrounded by water and picturesque views to go along with the hand-crafted art waiting for you.

    The Studio Tour has just barely survived the past few years, and greatly appreciate support from locals and non-locals. So please show your support, whether that be through a quick donation, or through the purchase of beautiful, hand-crafted art.

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  • Aug 09 Tuesday

    Bellevue Beats Summer Concerts - through September 8

    Various venues in Downtown Bellevue
    Every week through Aug 08, 2022.
    Tuesday: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
    Wednesday: 11:00 AM - 02:00 PM
    Thursday: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

    Find a little rhythm and drown out the blues with Bellevue Beats Summer Concerts! Spanning July through September, we’re reigniting Downtown’s music scene with 25+ free outdoor concerts in the Heart of Bellevue. Starting July 5, live shows will take place every Tuesday and Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. and every Wednesday in conjunction with a pop-up market from 11:00 a.m.to 2:00 p.m. From delta blues to bluegrass, take your lunch outside and enjoy a wide range of live performances at parks and plazas across Downtown.

    Check out our 2022 artist lineup at the link above. Birch Pereira & The Gin Joints perform August 16 at Bellevue Downtown Park.
    With deep sonic roots in virtually every style of mid-20th century American music - from Americana to blues to jazz, soul and vintage rock ’n’ roll - the versatile Seattle-based band offers a rangy dial’s worth of songs for audiences who want to sock-hop in poodle skirts one minute, rock out to hot guitar licks the next and later hug their honeys under the stars as a car stereo plays into the night.

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  • Aug 18 Thursday

    Fred Wesley and the New JB's - August 18-21

    Dimitriou's Jazz Alley
    $40.50
    Every week through Aug 21, 2022.
    Thursday: 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Friday: 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Friday: 09:00 PM - 11:00 PM
    Saturday: 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Saturday: 09:30 PM - 11:00 PM

    Presented by KNKX. Legendary bandleader, trombonist and author Fred Wesley is one of the forefathers of funk, still setting the standard with his jazz-funk band The New JBs. Together at its core for more than 30 years, the band is a living celebration of roots funk and more, performing such hits as “Pass the Peas” made with James Brown and the JBs including Maceo Parker, as well as selections from the P-Funk years and Fred’s own and others’ soulful jazz, funk and blues compositions.

    Born in Columbus, Georgia, and raised in Mobile, Ala., Fred began his career as a teenage trombonist with Ike and Tina Turner. He later was music director, arranger, trombonist and a primary composer for Brown from 1968-1975, then arranged for and played with Parliament-Funkadelic and Bootsy’s Rubber Band.

    With Brown, Fred became “the world’s most famous sideman, orchestrating the sinuous grooves and contributing the bold, surgically precise solos that defined the language of funk.” He helped take funk to the next level with George Clinton and Bootsy Collins.

    Fred has recorded a dozen solo albums including the cult favorite House Party, which is featured in the Oscar-winning documentary When We Were Kings and countless other documentaries and books about the fun. In addition he hosts master classes around the world.

    Fred’s critically acclaimed memoir Hit Me, Fred: Recollections of a Side Man (Duke University Press, 2002) chronicles through hilarious stories, a half century of music history, through the eyes of one of the world’s most-sampled musicians.

    Also a veteran of the Count Basie Orchestra, Fred has worked with scores of other artists, from Ray Charles to Trombone Shorty. His current projects include the organ trio Generations and the klezmer-funk-hip hop unit Abraham Incorporated.

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  • Aug 20 Saturday

    Cajun Fest

    Burlington Green Park
    03:00 PM - 08:00 PM on Sat, 20 Aug 2022

    Sponsored by KNKX. Dance, dine, and have a ragin’ Cajun good time at the Cajun Food and Music Festival- where Southern culture and hospitality turn historic downtown Kent into our own “Little Louisiana”!

    ** Limited PRE-SALE T-Shirts on sale now -- until July 29 - Click register to order **
    The event will be held in Burlington Green Park and Railroad Avenue; the adjacent street is closed and will come alive with music performances, food, a beer garden, artists/makers, 2nd line parade, vendors, kid’s activities, and more.

    MUSICIANS: Bayou Envie, Zydeco Lowdown, Swamp Soul, Nick Vigarino’s Meantown Blues, Jukebox Jamzz

    BEER GARDEN: Half Lion Brewing

    FOOD: Crawfish King, Po Boy n’ Tings, Where ya at Matt? Full Tilt Ice Cream, Cheddar Boy Plus local restaurants and pubs downtown on same block or short walk.

    ARTISTS & MAKERS: Featuring 40 local and regional vendors

    New Orleans-style costumes encouraged washboards, folding chairs, and blankets. FREE family event, guarantee’d good time.

    This is a free event, RSVP requested

    Bring your costumes, washboards, folding chairs and blankets. FREE family event, guarantee’d good time

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  • Aug 21 Sunday

    Seattle Center Festál - BrasilFest

    Armory Food & Event Hall, Mural Amphitheatre, and Fisher Pavilion Rooftop
    Free
    12:00 PM - 07:00 PM on Sun, 21 Aug 2022

    Seattle Center is presenting Festál 2022, a series of 24 free cultural festivals from February to November. 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of Festál, with each festival showcasing the unique heritage, traditions, richness and identity of diverse ethnic communities from across the Pacific Northwest. Festál is "Where the World Gathers" through in-person and streamed visual and performing arts, food and activities, guest speakers, presentations and more.

    Seattle Center Festál presents BrasilFest in partnership with Brazil Center and Show Brazil Productions. BrasilFest invites the broader community to enjoy capoeira, food, music, dance, and more!

    BrasilFest exposes the community to Brazilian arts and traditions during the week of the Brazilian Folklore Day. This is a unique mission, as this day is not usually celebrated outside of Brazil. In Brazil, this event is an important educational tool in continuing Brazilian folkloric traditions. The festival's mission goes beyond keeping traditions alive, and combines traditional and contemporary Brazilian expressions. It provides an opportunity to bring together all artists and organizations concerned with Brazil and to unite them in one venue. Thereby, they hope to increase the visibility of the Brazilian cultural landscape in the community.

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  • Aug 08 Monday

    Chateau Ste. Michelle 2022 Summer Concert Series - June 15-September 17

    Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery
    See website for ticketing information.
    12:00 AM - 11:59 PM, every day through Sep 17, 2022.

    Tickets for all shows go on sale Monday, March 28 at 10 a.m. at https://www.ticketmaster.com/.

    The lineup:

    Norah Jones - June 15-16, 7 p.m.

    She & Him - June 17, 7 p.m.

    John Fogerty - June 18, 7 p.m. - tickets go on sale April 4

    Tenacious D with special guest Puddles Pity Party - June 21, 7 p.m.

    Chris Isaak and Lyle Lovett & His Large Band - June 25, 7 p.m.

    Trombone Shorty's Voodoo Threauxdown featuring Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue - July 2, 6 p.m.

    Jason Mraz & Raining Jane, Lalalalivesongs - July 9-10, 7 p.m.

    The Black Crowes present: Shake Your Money Maker - July 19, 7 p.m.

    Michael Franti & Spearhead - July 22, 7 p.m.

    Goo Goo Dolls - July 23, 7 p.m.

    David Gray - July 25, 7 p.m.

    The Revivalists - July 30, 7 p.m.

    Amos Lee - August 6, 7 p.m.

    The Australian Pink Floyd Show - August 17, 7 p.m.

    Bonnie Raitt with special guest Mavis Staples - August 19-20, 7 p.m.

    Fitz and the Tantrums, Andy Grammer - August 21, 6:30 p.m.

    Gipsy Kings featuring Nicolas Reyes - August 26, 7 p.m.

    Steve Miller Band - August 27-28, 7 p.m.

    Chicago - September 2-3, 7 p.m.

    Ziggy Marley - A Live Tribute to His Father - September 9, 7 p.m.

    An Evening with Jackson Browne - September 16-17, 6:30 p.m.

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  • Aug 08 Monday

    Summer Book Bingo 2022 - enter before September 6!

    Online
    Free
    12:00 AM - 11:59 PM, every day through Sep 06, 2022.

    Summer Book Bingo 2022, the adult summer reading program co-presented by Seattle Arts & Lectures and The Seattle Public Library, launches today! For eight years, Summer Book Bingo has been a joyful, connective, and free way for Washington state readers to expand their summer reading—and to enter to win fabulous prizes!

    HOW IT WORKS: Each square on the bingo board presents a reading challenge, where you read and record a book title that fits that category. New categories this year on the adult board include “Banned or Challenged Book,” “Set South of the Equator,” “A Book About Books,” “LGBTQ+ Love Story,” and many more.

    Have young readers in your life? SAL offers a Kids Book Bingo Board for readers ages 0-17, too!

    1) Download your board. Fill in the card with the titles and authors of the books you read from now through September 6, 2022.

    2) Read books, fill in the squares, and find your community. Want to find reading recommendations? Search the hashtag #BookBingoNW2022 on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook to get ideas from our wonderful community of bingo players.

    SPL librarians have also prepared suggested reading lists for many bingo squares, which you can access on spl.org. For more recommendations, you can also ask a librarian at a location with in-building services or fill out a brief form at www.spl.org/YourNext5.

    And, we always recommend checking in with your local independent bookstores for suggestions! (A list of SAL's bookstore partners is on the back of each board.)

    3) Enter to win fabulous prizes! When you’ve filled the front and back of your bingo board for either Bingo (a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line) or Blackout (filling out all 25 squares), you can submit it to enter prize drawings in a number of ways; see the back of your board for details.

    Blackout card entrants will be entered in the drawing for one of three grand prizes, including a subscription to the 2022/23 SAL series of your choice. Both blackout card and bingo entrants will be automatically entered to win a gift card from one of Seattle’s independent bookstores.

    Entries must be received by 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022.

    More information: https://lectures.org/community/book-bingo/

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  • Aug 08 Monday

    Summer in SLU

    Day 1 Playfield
    08:00 AM - 08:00 PM, every day through Sep 10, 2022.

    To make the most of the summer, South Lake Union is hosting Summer in SLU — a fun, family-friendly, interactive experience in the heart of the city. Summer in SLU provides free daily activities from July 20-Sept. 10, 2022, including an art installation, food pop-ups, craft workshops, and more.

    The focal point of Summer in SLU is an interactive art installation title Mi Casa, Your Casa 2.0. The red three-dimensional frames feature a swinging bench and are a blank canvas for people of all ages to enjoy. The installation is created by artists Esrawe + Cadena and produced by Creos.

    Each day, Summer in SLU has something unique to offer:

    Quick Crafts with Expressions Art Lab, Tuesdays, 11 am-1 pm
    Spark your creativity with a 30-minute craft activity, presented by the Amazon Expressions Art Lab. This experience is free and open to participants of all ages. No reservations are required, so availability is on a first come-first served basis. Projects include alcohol ink coasters, paper marbling, feather macramé and more.

    Food Pop-Ups, Wednesdays, 3-5 pm
    Visit the Day 1 Playfield on your way to happy hour for a foodie pop-up, ranging from cookies to fruit kebabs. Each Wednesday is a new surprise, and all are free of charge. While supplies last.

    Urban Oasis; Thursdays, all day; Tiki bar hours, 11 am-3 pm
    Take a break from the workday in your own Urban Oasis. Thursdays will feature lounge chairs, thatch umbrellas, and a self-serve Tiki Bar. Tiki Bar is open 11 am-3 pm or while supplies last; all water refreshments are free of charge.

    Giant Lawn Games; Friday + Monday, 8 am-6 pm; Saturday + Sunday, 3-7 pm
    Nothing says summer like a round of lawn games in the sunshine. Every Friday-Monday, enjoy a variety of games including cornhole, Giant Jenga and Giant Connect Four on the Day 1 Playfield. First come, first to play; no reservations needed.

    The events are hosted by South Lake Union and presented by Amazon.

    South Lake Union is excited to take on summer with you. To let us in on the fun, follow @southlakeunion on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and use #SummerinSLU to share your photos!

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  • Aug 08 Monday

    Velocity's Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation

    Velocity Dance Center
    $10 - $1400
    09:00 AM - 11:59 PM, every day through Aug 14, 2022.

    The Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation is a vibrant month-long immersion into the Seattle dance community, and a chance to dive deep with dance practitioners experimenting at the leading edge of dance technique, creative practices, and dance improvisation. Grounded in SFDI’s nearly 30 years of community-building and intergenerational collaboration, this festival is a gateway for new dancers to connect with artists making work in the Seattle dance and improvisation community, and a chance for Seattle-based artists to train and research with internationally renowned artists. Whether you are brand new to dance, just out of college, or an experienced dance practitioner, SFD+I is a festival for you. The festival is composed of three interwoven modules, TRAIN, RESEARCH, and SHARE. So whether you would like an intensive three-week experience of training while creating and performing a new work by a Seattle-based choreographer, or you’re interested in a week-long research intensive, or both, all participants can find connection and enrichment in the festival’s many threads. Registration and details, including our 2022 faculty and choreographers, will be announced by the end of January.

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  • Aug 08 Monday

    Ruth E. Carter: Afrofuturism in Costume Design

    MoPOP (Museum of Pop Culture)
    See website for ticketing information.
    10:00 AM - 05:00 PM, every day through Jan 31, 2023.

    Ruth E. Carter: Afrofuturism in Costume Design will feature Oscar Winner Ruth E. Carter's costumes from more than a dozen films on display in an exhibition exploring her perspective on Afrofuturism: the application of knowledge intertwined with imagination, self-expression, and an entrepreneurial spirit.

    Exhibition Highlights:

    55 costumes designed by Ruth E. Carter from films including Black Panther, Do the Right Thing, Selma, Malcolm X, Roots, Coming 2 America, and more
    Immersive, interactive experiences including a Black Panther “Warrior Falls” photo opportunity
    Afrofuturistic installation incorporating original artwork by Brandon Sadler
    Original drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, and mood boards
    Descriptive text panels with supplemental digital materials

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  • Aug 08 Monday

    IN THE SPIRIT Contemporary Native Arts Exhibition - through September 11

    Washington State History Museum
    See website for ticketing information.
    10:00 AM - 05:00 PM, every day through Sep 11, 2022.

    IN THE SPIRIT is an annual summer celebration of diverse Native American arts and culture. A juried exhibition of exciting new works by contemporary Native artists opens in June and is on view through the summer at the Washington State History Museum, accompanied by programs, artist talks, and an Artist Awards event.

    See exciting new works by Native artists from our region and beyond during this very special exhibition at the Washington State History Museum. Each work is accompanied by the artist’s statement. Step into the gallery and explore art that relates to a wide variety of themes, presented in a range of mediums including textiles, paintings, carvings, beadwork, mixed media, basketry, and digital works. Vote for your favorites; two People’s Choice Awards will be announced at the end of the exhibition.

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  • Aug 08 Monday

    Art of the Aloha Shirt: Keoni of Hawaii, 1938-1951 - July 1 through September 11

    Washington State History Museum
    10:00 AM - 05:00 PM, every day through Sep 11, 2022.

    Explore the history, artistry, and production of Hawaii’s enduring fashion statement, the Aloha shirt. This exhibition of 60 objects, including original textile artwork, production sketches and swatches, advertisements, and vintage shirts, tells the story of an early innovator, John “Keoni” Meigs, in an industry that has left an indelible mark on fashion in the United States and the world.

    Although many claim authorship, the exact origin of the Aloha Shirt remains uncertain. The patterns of Polynesian tapa cloth, the colorful and bold floral designs of Tahitian pareau, and the sheer Japanese fabric used for making kimonos are often cited as some of the early stylistic influences of the shirt.

    Sometime in the late 1920s to the early 1930s, when Hawaii’s economy began to shift from an agricultural to a service-oriented economy and tourists started flying to Hawaii in ever-increasing numbers, the emphasis of the island clothing industry shifted from the production of work clothes to sports and casualwear. Combining the young islander’s love for colorful clothing with the tourist’s desire to bring home keepsakes of their holidays on the islands, the Aloha Shirt enjoyed massive popularity, particularly after the conclusion of World War II.

    In the history of the Aloha Shirt, there has been no more innovative merchandiser nor better self-promoter than “Keoni of Hawaii.” John “Keoni” Meigs (“Keoni” is Hawaiian for John) was a self-taught painter whose talent became known to the early shirt manufacturers in Honolulu. In 1938, he created his first designs, concentrating on Polynesian tapa patterns inspired by the originals he had studied at the local Bishop Museum.

    One of the most innovative Island fabric artists, Keoni is credited with creating as many as three hundred Aloha shirt designs. In Meigs’ words, “In a sense, Aloha shirts put Hawaii on the map. The first thing people did when they arrived was make a beeline for a department store to buy one. A lot of kooky things were designed, but I always tried to be a purist when it came to using motifs from Hawaiian sources.”

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  • Aug 08 Monday

    Underwater Research at Cama Beach State Park

    Cama Beach State Park
    10:30 AM - 11:30 PM on Mon, 8 Aug 2022

    Underwater Research based at Cama Beach State Park with Russ Holmes and Michael Kyte showing their research into sea star wasting syndrome using an undersea ROV.

    Russ Holmes and Michael Kyte utilize an Underwater ROV (remotely operated vehicle) in Saratoga Passage between Cama Beach State Park and Whidbey Island. Footage will show a wide range of species from depths of 20 to 200 feet. They will bring the ROV and let people see it in person and how the controls are run. The ROV is owned by Cama Beach Foundation which helps support educational activities at Cama Beach State Park.

    The public is invited; held at Cama Center at Cama Beach State Park. Business meeting at 10 am; presentation at 10:30 am. Discover Pass or Day Pass required to park in the state park. https://soundwaterstewards.org/event/2022-08-08-monthly-mtg/

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  • Aug 08 Monday

    "Boren Banner Series: Stefan Gonzales"

    Frye Art Museum
    Free admission. Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday.
    11:00 AM - 05:00 PM, every day through Oct 16, 2022.

    Seattle-based artist Stefan Gonzales chronicles the lives of ordinary objects through photography, sculpture, and installation. Their project for the next iteration of the Frye’s Boren Banner Series will represent the culmination of a monthslong process of collecting and documenting raw materials from area construction sites. Selecting worksites according to chance and intuition, Gonzales will gather similarly sized samples of unaltered materials like quarry stone, photograph them in their home studio, and return the objects to be built into the intended structures. Their Boren Banner image will be a compilation of these photographs that functions as a provisional archive—a small, subjective core sample of the enormous quantity of earth that is currently shifting within our community.

    Over the last several years, Gonzales’s practice has focused on decolonizing and feminizing the aesthetics of 1960s–70s land art, which is strongly associated with the “heroic” masculinity and rugged individualism of artists like Robert Smithson. Smithson’s most famous artwork, Spiral Jetty (1970), is a 1,500-foot-long formation in the Great Salt Lake that is made from over 6,000 tons of displaced dirt and black basalt rocks. The work, alongside other touchstones of land art like Michael Heizer’s Double Negative (1969), has what Gonzales calls a remarkable “mythological imprint” that obscures the history and preexisting significance of the site. “They were talking about big, open, free geologic locations,” Gonzales says, “but what about the land that Spiral Jetty sits on? Who occupied the land first? That land had not really been ‘empty’ in the past.”

    In contrast to these monumental gestures, Gonzales attends closely to individual elements of the built environment that normally go unnoticed. The artist’s recent projects have relied on a group of otherwise unremarkable stones that they continuously reconfigure, variously photographing them in the detached style of scientific cataloguing or arranging them in sculptural formations within gallery settings. Gonzales notes, “Something happens in this exchange from domesticated object to art object. When they are at home, they may be paperweights, doorstops, firepits, ashtrays, furniture, and so on. When they are in a gallery, they are an object used to perform the roles of minimalism. Decisions are made based on their structure, color, weight, reflexivity, mass, and how those various qualities interact with each other.” The artist’s Boren Banner project broadens the scope of their inquiry into the ways that context shapes perception and bestows value.

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  • Aug 08 Monday

    The Ye Firm Hometown Hero Nomination

    The Ye Law Firm, Inc. P.S.
    12:00 PM - 11:59 PM, every day through Aug 31, 2022.

    The Ye Law Firm is thrilled to announce its Hometown Hero Nomination. This nomination means a lot to the firm because it is important to recognize those who are putting more kindness into the world. Through this nomination, the firm would like to honor first responders as well everyday citizens who make a difference in the community through kind actions. To learn more about this event and how to send in a submission, visit the Hometown Hero Nomination page!

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