MOVIES & LASERS
Bjork’s Voltaic, Munyurangabo, Treeless Mountain, and more @ Northwest Film Forum
Laser Radiohead, Laser Beatles and more @ Seattle Laser Dome
Animalopolis, Lewis & Clark, Journey to Mecca, Under the Sea 3D @ IMAX
MUSEUMS
Jim Henson’s Fantastic World, American Letterpress, Jimi Hendrix: An Evolution of Sound @ EMP
ROBOTS @ Science Fiction Museum
Target Practice, Young Americans, and more! @ Seattle Art Museum
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PICK OF THE WEEK the break/s: a mixtape for stage @ ACT
DOWNTOWN
"Hip-hop renaissance man" Marc Bamuthi Joseph is an accomplished dancer, an award-winning poet and a passionate educator. His new play – the break/s: a mixtape for the stage – features Joseph’s unique fusion of movement and theater; a powerhouse mixture of dance, sound, story, and visual imagery. With two turntables, a video jockey and Joseph’s virtuosity, the break/s is an enthralling piece of performance magic. Drawing on interviews and documentary footage, this collaboration between performer, score and projected image explodes the boundaries of theater, dance and film and explores the conflicts between public identity and private identity in our globalized, multi-everything era. This powerhouse performance has sold out theatres and electrified audiences around the country – come experience it for yourself.
Jun 17 – Jul 12
More info and showtimes: www.acttheatre.org
ACT’s Ticket Office: 206-292-7676
ACT Theatre is located at 7th & Union in downtown Seattle. It is served by a whole bunch of buses. For bus routes and schedules, visit tripplanner.metrokc.gov. MAP
YOUR PASSPORT TO THE ARTS: a special contest for Teen Tix members
Log onto the Teen Tix website www.seattlecenter.com/teentix and download your Passport. Then, simply bring this Passport with you anytime you use your Teen Tix pass, and have the ticketing office stamp your Passport. Once you receive six stamps, return the Passport to us to be entered into a drawing to win gift cards to some of your favorite shopping and food destinations.
Prizes:
Orchestra Tier: one $200 gift card. Your Passport must show 6 different venues to qualify.
Mezzanine Tier: two $100 gift cards. Your passport must show 6 stamps with at least 2 different arts genres to qualify.
Balcony Tier: two $50 gift cards. Your passport must have 6 stamps to qualify.
If you are selected as a winner, you get to choose a gift card from the following list: Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Gap, iTunes, Pagliacci Pizza, Starbucks, Target, or a pre-paid Visa card.
Contest runs from May 18 to December 18, 2009. Winners will be notified in January 2010.
THEATRECLOSING THIS WEEKEND: The Tempest @ Seattle Shakespeare Co.
SEATTLE CENTER
Enter a world of illusion and magic where a wronged sorcerer manipulates both spirits and humans in his quest for revenge. Deposed of his dukedom and sent into exile, Prospero uses his powers to draw his enemies to his enchanted island to wreak vengeance. Ultimately he discovers that love and forgiveness work the most potent magic of all.
More info and show times: www.seattleshakespeare.org
Seattle Shakespeare Company’s ticket office: 206-733-8222
Ticket office hours: Tues – Fri: 1 – 6 p.m. and one hour before curtain | Mon, Sat & Sun: One hour before curtain.
Seattle Shakespeare Company is located in the Center House Theatre at Seattle Center. It is served by buses 3,4,5,8,16,19,24,74 and 82. For bus times: triplanner.metrokc.gov. Map
Unexpected Productions
DOWNTOWN
Unexpected Productions produces comedy, theatresports, and improv shows every weekend – but no two shows are the same! See listings below and go to their website for more details.
This week: Honkey Tonk: An Improvised Play
Each performance is like its own country music ballad, complete with beer guzzling, heart ache, fighting, and friendship. Set in a Honky Tonk bar the characters create meaningful stories about hurt and longing, where pain and lust are a part of everyday life. Though the characters may be inspired to sing, this ain’t no musical: sometimes a cowboy’s just gotta croon. Think Hank Williams and Waylon Jennings, in Enumclaw, slinging back whiskeys and telling tales.
Unexpected Productions is housed in the Market Theater, which is located in downtown Seattle at the Pike Place Market. The Market Theater’s address is 1428 Post Alley Seattle WA, 98101 and is served by a whole bunch of buses. For bus routes and schedules, visit tripplanner.metrokc.gov. If you haven’t been there before, be sure to look at this VERY HELPFUL MAP
Driftwood Players
EDMONDS
CLOSING THIS WEEKEND: Leading Ladies
Two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves down on their luck and performing scenes from Shakespeare on the Moose Lodge circuit in Amish country. When they catch wind of an old lady about to die leaving her fortune to two long-lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as hers and get the cash. Trouble brews and romantic entanglements abound! June 12 - 28
CLOSING THIS WEEKEND: Love is a Divine Accident
Two short stories about love and coming of age are presented together in a beautiful evening of sometimes sweet, sometimes bittersweet romance. Love is a Divine Accident premiers new adaptations of Anton Chekov’s A Little Joke and Sherwood Anderson’s Sophistication, examining that moment in time when a boy and girl cross a threshold and reach the understanding of one another as man and woman. June 21 - 29
More info and show times: www.driftwoodplayers.org
Driftwood Players’ Ticket Office: 425-774-9600
Ticket Office Hours: Open for phone calls 10 – 6 Tuesday – Saturday. Ticket office at the theatre opens one hour prior to show time.
Driftwood Players is located at 950 Main Street in Edmonds. It is served by Community Transit routes 110, 131, 404, 416, and 870. For bus times: tripplanner.metrokc.gov. MAP
CLOSING THIS WEEKEND: Franklin & Figaro @ WICA
WHIDBEY ISLAND
Set in 1776, Franklin and Figaro begins with Benjamin Franklin’s legendary arrival in France.
Lauded for his exploits in physics, philosophy, and philandering, Franklin trigged a wave of
whispers, shrieks, and sighs especially among the upper-crust society of Madame Du Deffand’s salon. This action-packed (and mostly true) story follows the high stakes adventures of Pierre Beaumarchais, the Parisian playwright who wrote The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville. As the aging Madame DuDeffand fights for control of her changing world, young upstart Pierre Beaumarchais runs guns for Franklin’s American Revolution in the pursuit of liberté, fraternité, and cold hard cash! June 12 - 27
Whidbey Island Theatre Festival
Here’s a sample of some of the classes you can take this summer during the Whidbey Island Theatre Festival:
Stagecraft: Get “behind the scenes” training in technical theatre. This class will explore the fundamentals of stage lighting, set construction, stage management, and more. Performance Writing for Actors: As actors, artists, and humans, we all have a story to tell. In an atmosphere of trust and freedom, students will write their own scenes and develop them with exercises that interweave writing and acting.
Performance Collage: Utilizing the original texts from the previous workshop, we will stage a collage of scenes for performance. Mornings will focus on freeingthe body, voice, and mind to allow greater depth and range as actors, through the use of exercises and group games. Afternoons will
focus on staging the scenes for performance. Students with a desire to practice directing will be encouraged to do so.
More info and show times: www.wicaonline.com
WICA’s ticket office: 360.221.8268
Ticket office hours: 1 p.m. – show time
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts is located at 565 Camano Avenue in Langley, Washington. For info on getting to the island, check out www.whidbeycamanoislands.com. MAP
MUSIC The Planets @ Seattle Symphony
DOWNTOWN
Hear the music of the spheres! This film score staple brings the gods of Rome to life with its brilliant orchestration. PLUS! The World Premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis’ Symphony No. 3, "Symphony of Meditations," on June 25 & 26.
Listen to a sample of Holst: The Planets here
June 25th, 26th & 27th
More info: www.seattlesymphony.org
Ticket office: 206.215.4747
Ticket office hours: Monday–Friday: 10am–6pm and Saturday: 1pm–6pm. On performance days, the Ticket Office opens two hours before the performance begins.
Seattle Symphony is located downtown in Benaroya Hall at 200 University Street. It is served by a whole bunch of buses (since most buses go through downtown). For bus routes and schedules, visit tripplanner.metrokc.gov.
MOVIES & LASERSSIFF
SEATTLE CENTER
SIFF CINEMA is taking a little break for the summer. They’ll be back in the fall with tons of new (and old) excitement for all you cinemafiles.
Northwest Film Forum
CAPITOL HILL
THIS WEEK:
Bjork’s Voltaic: The Volta Tour Live in Paris
"Why not go out to an actual show, or wait for Bjork to come back to Seattle? Simply put: you’ll never get this close to Bjork in your life! ... Throughout the film, every colorful detail and visual idiosyncrasy is brought to you by bird’s eye view, stage hand’s view, front row view, side stage view, and, well, you get the point. It’s hard to image ever wanting to go to a live show again!" – KEXP Friday and Saturday June 26th & 27th @ 11 pm
Munyurangabo: Set in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, Lee Isaac Chung’s impressive debut feature, Munyurangabo is the story of two young men—one a Tutsi, the other a Hutu—trying to create futures by putting their pasts behind them.
June 26 – July 2
Treeless Mountain: In this quiet gem of a film, a semi-autobiographical work by Korean-American filmmaker So Yong Kim, sisters Jin and Bin live in a middle-class Seoul apartment. Jin is a serious girl, mature beyond her years. She cares for her sister after school while their single mother works. After a series of events that uproot the pair, they adapt to each circumstance anew, learning to rely on each other after so many disappointments from adults. Seattle Magazine says: “small yet stunning”.
June 26 – July 2
Also playing this week: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Duet for Cannibals, My Night at Maud’s
Note: Except where noted, these films are not rated and may contain mature content. For more information on content, please contact NWFF directly
More info: www.nwfilmforum.org
Movie line: (206) 829-7863
Tickets are sold at the box office and are sold only for day of show, starting 30 minutes prior to showtime.
Northwest Film Forum is located on Capitol Hill, 1515 12th Ave, Seattle WA 98122, on 12th between Pike and Pine. It is served by buses 2, 8, 9,10,11,12, 43, 49, 60 and 84. For bus schedules: tripplanner.metrokc.gov
Laser Dome!
SEATTLE CENTER
Here’s what’s happening at the Laser Dome this week:
Thursday
8:00 p.m. | Laser Beatles
9:15 p.m. | Laser Dirge featuring the music of TOOL
Friday & Saturday
8:00 p.m. | Laser Queen
9:15 p.m. | Laser Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
10:30 p.m. | Laser Daft Punk
Midnight | Laser Floyd: The Wall
Sunday
8:00 p.m. | Laser Muse: Black Holes and Revelations
9:15 p.m. | Laser Radiohead
Laser shows often sell out (especially on Friday and Saturday nights) so check their website or call ahead before you head down there.
More info: www.seattlelaserdome.com
Seattle Laser Dome is located at the Pacific Science Center at Seattle Center. It is served by buses 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 19 and 24. For bus times: tripplanner.metrokc.gov. MAP.
Pacific Science Center’s IMAX
SEATTLE CENTER
Under the Sea 3D -- Under the Sea 3D will transport moviegoers to some of the most exotic and isolated undersea locations on Earth, including Southern Australia, New Guinea and others in the Indo-Pacific region, allowing them to experience face-to-face encounters with some of the most mysterious and stunning creatures of the sea.
Also playing this week at the IMAX Theatre: Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West and Journey to Mecca and Animalopolis
Note: Teen Tix pass is not accepted for Star Trek or Night at the Museum
For show times and descriptions: www.pacsci.org/imax/
The IMAX Theater is located at the Pacific Science Center at Seattle Center. It is served by buses 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 19 and 24. For bus times: tripplanner.metrokc.gov. MAP.
MUSEUMSCurrent exhibits showing at EMP:
Jim Henson’s Fantastic World A rare peek into the imagination and creative genius of this multitalented innovator and creator of Kermit the Frog, Big Bird and other beloved characters.
The exhibition features 100 original artworks, including drawings, cartoons and storyboards that illustrate Henson’s talent as a storyteller and visionary. Among the variety of exhibition objects are puppets and television and movie props, photographs of Henson and his collaborators at work and original vido productions, including excerpts from henson’s early career and experimental films. May 23 - Aug 16
American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print illustrates the fascinating fusion of art with popular culture and music history. Featuring the work of one of the nation’s oldest operating printing shops—Nashville, Tennessee’s Hatch Show Print—the exhibition highlights the uniquely American posters produced to advertise everything from vaudeville shows, state fairs and stock car races to the Grand Ole Opry, Elvis Presley and Herbie Hancock.
Jimi Hendrix: An Evolution of Sound explores how Hendrix indelibly affected popular music with his unique talents and innovative sound.
EMP is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily (summer hours). For more info, visit www.empsfm.org
EMP is located at the base of the Space Needle on the Seattle Center campus. They are served by buses 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 13, 16, 26, 28, 74, 82 and several others, along with the Seattle Center monorail. For bus times, visit tripplanner.metrokc.gov
ROBOTS @ Science Fiction Museum
SEATTLE CENTER
Robots: A Designer’s Collection of Miniature Mechanical Marvels celebrates our long fascination with humankind’s technological version of itself. This exhibition draws from a one-of-a-kind assemblage of toy robots, which noted designer Tom Geismar has been collecting for decades. Inspired by antique tin and wooden toys, samurai warriors and mid-20th century Japanese film characters, these intricately detailed and beautifully designed miniatures are set against EMP|SFM’s backdrop of life-sized robots, androids and cyborgs from the world of science fiction film and television.
The Science Fiction Museum is open daily from 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. (summer hours)
For more info, visit www.empsfm.org
SFM is located at the base of the Space Needle on the Seattle Center campus. It is served by buses 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 13, 16, 26, 28, 74, 82 and several others, along with the Seattle Center monorail. For bus times, visit tripplanner.metrokc.gov
Current exhibits showing at SAM:
Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-1978
Target Practice is an international, historical survey of the attacks that painting endured in the years following World War II. For the artists in the show, painting had become a trap, and they devised numerous ways to escape the conventions and break the traditions that had been passed down to them over hundreds of years. This phenomenon occurred in all parts of the world, and the exhibition documents why artists felt compelled to shoot, rip, tear, burn, erase, nail, unzip and deconstruct painting in order to usher in a new way of thinking. June 25 – September 7
Young Americans
Young Americans is one of the latest works from Mary Simpson and Fionn Mead, filmed primarily at the Home of the Good Shepherd, originally a residential institution for "orphaned and wayward girls" that was built in Seattle in 1907. Alternating between pensive shots within the empty building, and frenetic but cryptic passages in which a group re-enacts archaic games, the film maintains a provocative mystery through its fragmentation. Narrative clarity is withheld from the viewer but also from the actors as internal struggles for control of the rules and storylines mirror contemporary society’s increasingly fractured interpretation of daily events. Young Americans finds a poetic visual analog to this condition, suggesting that consequently we may all be, in a sense, orphaned and wayward. Through August 30th
Also on view: Titus Kapher: History in the Making, SAM Next: Corin Hewitt, A Bead Quiz, A Quartet of Suits, Light in the Darkness
SAM is located at 1st & Union in downtown Seattle. It is served by a whole bunch of buses. For bus routes and schedules, visit tripplanner.metrokc.gov.
DID YOU KNOW THAT YOUR TEEN TIX PASS ALSO GETS YOU INTO The Seattle Asian Art Museum?
Very cool. Located in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill – go here for more info: www.seattleartmuseum.org
TEEN TIX HOW-TO
Hey there Teen Tixer! Did you know that you’re a part of a huge community of arts-going teens? Yeah! There are more than 15,000 of you now. But it’s not enough to just be a Teen Tix member – Teen Tix is about experiencing the arts. Here’s how:
1. Get your pass: If you’re getting this newsletter, you should also have a little blue plastic Teen Tix pass. This pass is your ticket to $5.00 tickets at all of our participating venues. Lost your pass? Never got one in the first place? Go here
2. Find out what’s playing: What’s the best way to find out what you can see each week with your Teen Tix pass? You’re reading it. The Teen Tix e-newsletter will always tell you every single thing that you can see that week for $5.00 with your pass. It comes out every Wednesday evening right to your inbox. You can also read the newsletter on our MySpace blog: www.myspace.com/teentix and at our website: www.seattlecenter.com/teentix.
3. Go to the show! Teen Tix tickets are available day-of-show only. That means, anytime on the day that you want to go, you just show up at the box office of the venue you want to attend and buy your ticket. You can also purchase tickets over the phone on the day of the show by calling the box office. When you go to pick up your ticket, make sure you remember to bring your pass, some form of ID (like a school or state ID or drivers license) and your five dollars in cash. If you forget any of these things, you might not be able to buy your ticket.
IMPORTANT: Ticket availability is NOT GUARANTEED. Sometimes shows will sell out and there won’t be any day-of-show tickets available. How do you make sure there will be a ticket for you when you go? Call ahead and ask! The people who work in our participating box offices can usually tell you whether or not there will be Teen Tix tickets available on the day that you want to go. Give ‘em a call! They’re happy to help. The phone numbers for the box offices are always listed in the newsletter and on the Teen Tix website.
4. Bring a friend! On Sundays (at our performing arts venues) and Thursdays (at our museum venues) Teen Tix tickets are 2 for $10. That means that a Teen Tix member can bring anyone they like – including an adult or a child too young for Teen Tix – for just $5.00 more! Teen Tix also hold events called Teen Takeovers once a year at each of our venues. On these special days, Teen Tix members are invited to chat with artists, tour the venues, and bring someone along for just $5.00 more. Stay tuned to the newsletter for Teen Takeover announcements.
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CLOSING THIS WEEKEND: The Tempest @ Seattle Shakespeare Co.
This week: Honkey Tonk: An Improvised Play
Driftwood Players
Set in 1776, Franklin and Figaro begins with Benjamin Franklin’s legendary arrival in France.
Lauded for his exploits in physics, philosophy, and philandering, Franklin trigged a wave of
whispers, shrieks, and sighs especially among the upper-crust society of Madame Du Deffand’s salon. This action-packed (and mostly true) story follows the high stakes adventures of Pierre Beaumarchais, the Parisian playwright who wrote The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville. As the aging Madame DuDeffand fights for control of her changing world, young upstart Pierre Beaumarchais runs guns for Franklin’s American Revolution in the pursuit of liberté, fraternité, and cold hard cash! June 12 - 27
Whidbey Island Theatre Festival
Hear the music of the spheres! This film score staple brings the gods of Rome to life with its brilliant orchestration. PLUS! The World Premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis’ Symphony No. 3, "Symphony of Meditations," on June 25 & 26.
Listen to a sample of Holst: The Planets 
Bjork’s Voltaic: The Volta Tour Live in Paris
Munyurangabo: Set in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, Lee Isaac Chung’s impressive debut feature, Munyurangabo is the story of two young men—one a Tutsi, the other a Hutu—trying to create futures by putting their pasts behind them.
Treeless Mountain: In this quiet gem of a film, a semi-autobiographical work by Korean-American filmmaker So Yong Kim, sisters Jin and Bin live in a middle-class Seoul apartment. Jin is a serious girl, mature beyond her years. She cares for her sister after school while their single mother works. After a series of events that uproot the pair, they adapt to each circumstance anew, learning to rely on each other after so many disappointments from adults. Seattle Magazine says: “small yet stunning”.
Jim Henson’s Fantastic World
Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-1978
Young Americans
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