Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Pharos Editions debuts in June with a carefully curated collection of out-of-print, lost, or rare books hand-picked and introduced by some of today’s most exciting authors; three of them–Sherman Alexie, Jonathan Evison, and Jess Walter–discuss their choices with Paul Constant, books editor for The Stranger.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
In her wittily illustrated memoir of making a family, One Good Egg, Suzy Becker chronicles her travels through a maze of fertility treatments, considering and reconsidering how far she was willing to go to have a child.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. Free.
Internationally bestselling author Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns) has worked for six years on his new novel, And the Mountains Echoed—and this time, the writer called “a storyteller of dizzying power” by Evening Standard adds a whole new dimension to his work.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Following in the footsteps of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose, and even Stephen Hawking, Jim Holt—author of Why Does the World Exist? (a New York Times notable book of 2012)—offers an engrossing narrative that traces our latest efforts to grasp the origins of the universe.
Friday, May 17, 2013, 6:00 – 8:30pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. Free, but registration is required.
In honor of educator, philanthropist, and Town Hall supporter Louise McKinney, who passed away in August 2012, artist Marita Dingus’ donated sculpture Woman As the Creator debuts through a dramatic temporary installation in the Great Hall, along with a reading by Hansberry Project co-founder Vivian Phillips and music from Dr. Quinton Morris, accompanied by Dr. Erin Chung.
Friday, May 10, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $5.
This event has been postponed. E.O. Wilson has had to cancel his West Coast book tour for health reasons, but we remain hopeful we can reschedule. Current ticketholders will automatically be refunded by our ticket service, The Stranger Tickets, and will be given priority ticketing for the rescheduled date. Please check www.townhallseattle.org for updates.
Monday, May 6, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Scott Skinner, a philanthropist of kiting with the Drachen Foundation in Seattle and co-author of Wings of Resistance, examines the politics and art of the giant kites of Sumpango, Guatemala, and how a festival originally centered on remembering the dead has evolved into a way for an indigenous community to heal itself from the trauma of war.
Sunday, May 5, 2013, 4:00 – 5:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $10-$15.
Andrew Jewell, co-editor of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, joins Short Stories Live for a program featuring actors reading the newly published personal letters of one of the leading figures of American literary Modernism.
Sunday, April 28, 2013, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $5.
In the culminating performance of Town Hall’s second three-month In Residency program, Artist in Residence Geo and Scholar in Residence David Mitsuo Nixon present the creative results of their terms—so creative, in one case, you could become a permanent part of music history!
Infinity Box Theatre Project: Thought Experiments on the Question of Being Human: Robots and Artificial Intelligence (Set A)
Thursday, June 13, 2013, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5-$17.
In the three-day, four-event Thought Experiments festival, five local playwrights and five scientists collaborate on five original plays that ask: What does it mean to be human when robots and AI become an integral part of our lives?