Madre de Dios, there’s a lot of stuff to do this weekend! For film buffs, you have the options of pouring over the SIFF catalog and ordering tickets for the Film Festival that opens on May 20…OR, you can check out the Translations Film Festival, which I covered yesterday, featuring fascinating films about the transgendered community…OR, you can check out the locally made documentary, Condo Millennium, a self described “performance exposition” written and directed by local filmmaker Marya Sea Kaminski that can only be said to be:
Inspired by the transformation of Seattle’s Pike-Pine corridor and developed from live interviews with Seattle politicians, activists, developers, children, comedians and residents at large, this event brings performance, video, song, dance and absurd fantasy together to sketch a picture of our evolving urban landscape and the places we call home.
It’s a local film about local events featuring local people! You can check it out locally at Northwest Film Forum Friday and Saturday night; a few tickets are still available.
If you’re an art lover, you also have an embarrassment of riches to choose from. The HUUUUUGE new Kurt/Warhol exhibit has opened at the Seattle Art Museum and it’s an eye (and ear) full of delights. I got to go to the press launch on Tuesday, and I was blown away by it…a full report/preview will be coming soon. And, if you’re looking for a lower key show to attend, then check out my favorite gallery in town, Roq La Rue, 2312 2nd Avenue in Belltown, the Seattle center for the Pop Surrealist movement. Curator/Dealer Kirsten Anderson has an exciting new group show opening tonight, “Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright” a show based around the theme of tigers, inspired by the poem, “The Tiger” by painter/poet William Blake. Artists represented in the show include Audrey Kawasaki, Isabel Samaras, Robert Burden, Anthony Ausgang, Yumiko Kayukawa and many more. The opening reception is tonight, Friday, May 14 from 6pm to 9pm.
For the kid in you, you can always check out Giant Magnet, the renamed Seattle International Children’s Festival…it’s running Friday and Saturday at Seattle Center and features family friendly musicians, artists and performers from all over the world (also, in a sidenote/Strangeways gripe: their website is kind of awful…boring and confusing at the same time…like it was DESIGNED by children…) AND, for the naughty-ish, over 21 kid in you, check out Lucha VaVoom at The Showbox SoDo a night of “Sexo y Violencia” featuring Mexican Masked Wrestling and Bouncy Burlesque queens shaking their tatas…The show is Sunday, May 16 and the doors open at 7pm at the SoDo branch of The Showbox (NOT the downtown Showbox). Come out and cheer/hiss for “Chocolate Caliente”, “Dirty Sanchez”, “Lil Cholo”, and out gay wrestler, “Cassandro”…it’s more fun than a sock of chorizo! (Wow! I’ve been mentioning chorizo a LOT lately on here…wonder what the Freudian implications of THAT are?)
Oh, and don’t forget HUSH at Snoqualmie Casino, if you need to get out of town and Pride Idol, going on at RPlace, Sunday, May 16 at 8pm…That is all…for now…gotta go find me a chorizo sammich!
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