Apr 20 Saturday
Presented by KNKX. NEA Jazz Master and four-time Grammy Award Winner Stanley Clarke has attained “living legend” status during his over 50-year career as a bass virtuoso. He is the first bassist in history who doubles on acoustic and electric bass with equal ferocity and the first jazz-fusion bassist ever to headline tours, selling out shows worldwide. A veteran of over 40 albums, he won the 2011 Best Contemporary Jazz Album Grammy Award for The Stanley Clarke Band. Clarke co-founded the seminal fusion group Return to Forever with Chick Corea and Lenny White. In 2012 Return to Forever won a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Forever.
Clarke’s creativity has been recognized and rewarded in every way imaginable: gold and platinum records, Grammy Awards, Emmy nominations, virtually every readers and critics poll in existence, and more. In 2022 Clarke was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts as one of its four new Jazz Master honorees. He also was Rolling Stone’s very first Jazzman of the Year and bassist winner of Playboy’s Music Award for ten straight years. Clarke was honored with Bass Player Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award and is a member of Guitar Player Magazine’s “Gallery of Greats.” In 2004 he was featured in Los Angeles Magazine as one of the Top 50 Most Influential People. He was honored with the key to the city of Philadelphia and put his hands in cement as a 1999 inductee into Hollywood’s “Rock Walk” on Sunset Boulevard. In 2011 he was honored with the highly prestigious Miles Davis Award at the Montreal Jazz Festival for his entire body of work. Clarke has won Downbeat Magazine’s Reader’s and Critics Poll for Best Electric Bass Player for many years. In September 2016 he became a part of the permanent collection displayed at the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington DC.
Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is the largest tulip festival in the USA by acreage of tulips, number of farms, and days of blooms. The Tulip Festival features fields of tulips, display gardens, experiences, and events annually in April.
Skagit Valley Tulip Festival features four farms: RoozenGaarde, Tulip Town, Tulip Valley Farms, and Garden Rosalyn. Historically, the tulip was a symbol of paradise on earth. We welcome you to our modern-day paradise on earth, the Magic Skagit Valley, where millions of tulips burst into bloom in April during the 42nd Annual Skagit Valley Tulip Festival!
The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is Magic Skagit at its finest! The Magic Skagit Valley’s natural wonders include the Salish Sea shorelines, bays, islands, mountains, the Skagit River, and one of the largest and most diverse agricultural communities west of the Cascade mountain range.
Cadence Video Poetry Festival, presented by Northwest Film Forum, programmed in collaboration with Seattle author Chelsea Werner-Jatzke and intermedia artist Rana San, is a series of screenings, workshops, and discussions on the genre of video poetry, during National Poetry Month.
Cadence approaches video poetry as a literary genre presented as visual media that makes new meaning from the combination of text and moving image. Featuring screenings, an artist residency, generative workshops for youth and adults, and juried awards, the festival fosters critical and creative growth around the medium of video poetry.
Spring is here and the time for garden planning is now! Learn from community experts and get your gardening questions answered. Join us on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 for free these gardening classes! For the first time we are excited to offer a class exclusively in Spanish. Pre-registration not required. We hope to see you there. Workshops available are as follows:
A Beginner’s Guide to Successfully Growing PeoniesGrowing & Raising BerriesCosmo Cultivar Vegetables – Primeros Pasos (How to Cultivate Vegetables presented in Spanish) Biosolids CompostMason Bees BasicsLavender 101
Opening April 29th. Museum hours Wednesday – Sunday | 10am–5pm
Do you think your kids are too young for glass? Does picturing your toddler at a glass museum remind you of a bull in a china shop? Well, Museum of Glass is not just for grown-ups! Illuminate is an exhibition for early learners and their grown-ups which explores what makes glass a unique art material – the ability to capture and manipulate light.
Art, science, and play collide as visitors learn about color, light, reflection, and shadow. The exhibition will unfold through world-class artworks created by Nikola Dimitrijevic, John Kiley, Richard Royal, Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend, Veruska Vagen, and more. Each piece of art will be activated by opportunities for early learners and their families to create, to move, to play, and to experience what makes glass extraordinary in the world of art. Create your own design with a larger-than-life LiteBrite™, make art from your own shadow, and discover what makes glass glow-in-the-dark!
Sound Check! The Music We Make
October 15, 2023 through September 14, 2024 Special Exhibition Gallery
This exhibition explores the role music has played in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander lives & communities as an element of cultural heritage/identity, a form of personal/creative expression, a commercial industry, a connecting/healing force, and an integral part of thriving communities and culture.
The interactive exhibit includes behind the scenes-photos, framed artworks, podcasts, artifacts, storylines, audio, and video that feature Asian artists’ expressions of cultural identity.
Sound Check! The Music We Make reflects the Wing Luke Museum’s mission to highlight stories from the Asian American experience while connecting the community to the dynamic history, cultures and art of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders through vivid storytelling and inspiring experiences to advance racial and social equity.
Hours: Wednesday 10 AM–5 PMThursday 10 AM–5 PMFriday 10 AM–5 PMSaturday 10 AM–5 PMSunday 10 AM–5 PMMonday 10 AM–5 PMTuesday Closed
The textile-based works in Soft Power are declarations: potent expressions of care, rebuke, resistance, and resilience. These soft manifestations of cultural heritage - the natural, tangible, and intangible- amplify personal narrative and social criticism through process and materiality. Visitors are encouraged to join in the creation of a large-scale collaborative soft artwork within the gallery.
In 1936, the University of Washington men’s rowing team did the unthinkable: despite injuries and illness, they defeated British, German, and Italian crews and brought home a gold medal at the Berlin Olympics. In celebration of the film The Boys in the Boat, directed by George Clooney, MOHAI is proud to display a selection of rare artifacts and photographs related to the 1936 champion crew which offer a look into the rich history of rowing in Seattle.
On view at Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) November 24, 2023-June 2, 2024, Pulling Together explores how the sport of rowing has united the city around the shared values of teamwork and inclusion and connected us to the world beyond.
The opening day festivities on November 24 including a panel discussion with former UW Olympic rowing medalists, screenings of the critically acclaimed American Experience documentary film, The Boys of '36, courtesy of KCTS 9, and a special Pop-Up-Shop at the MOHAI Mercantile featuring a wide-range of rowing-themed merchandise.
Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century illuminates the untold story of African American visual and performing artists, such as Doug Crutchfield, Herb Gentry, Dexter Gordon, William Henry Johnson, Howard Smith, and Walter Williams, who sought new possibilities, inspiration, and environments in the Nordic countries as an alternative to Paris. This exhibition is the first comprehensive examination of this topic.
Join MOHAI for a chance to learn more about the Junior League of Seattle and its 100-year history of volunteer service to the community. This exhibit will includes a stunning selection of art from the Northwest Art Project, founded in the 1960s and the longest lasting program of the Junior League of Seattle. In addition to highlights from the organization’s century of service, the exhibit on view at Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry from February 3-April 21, 2024 will include works by Seattle artists George Tsutakawa, Jacob Lawrence and Barbara Earl Thomas.
This exhibit was organized by MOHAI and the Junior League of Seattle.