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?
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Infinity Box Theatre Project: Thought Experiments on the Question of Being Human: Robots and Artificial Intelligence (Set B)
Saturday, June 15, 2013, 8:30 – 10:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5-$17.
Infinity Box Theatre Project: Thought Experiments on the Question of Being Human: Robots and Artificial Intelligence (Set A)
Saturday, June 15, 2013, 6:00 – 8:00pm
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?
Seattle Girls’ Choir: 30 Years of Inspiration
Saturday, June 15, 2013, 1:30 – 3:30pm
Great Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $15-$20.
This concert of rich and varied music features premieres of new works by each choir level, all celebrating the strength of young women.
Infinity Box Theatre Project: Thought Experiments on the Question of Being Human: Robots and Artificial Intelligence (Set B)
Friday, June 14, 2013, 7:30 – 9:30pm
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?
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?
Byron Schenkman and Friends: Schubertiade
Sunday, June 9, 2013, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $13-$18.
This celebration of the music of Franz Schubert features chamber music; songs; and the beloved Shepherd on the Rock for soprano, clarinet, and piano. Pianist Byron Schenkman is joined by soprano Clara Rottsolk, violinist Liza Zurlinden, and clarinetist Sean Osborn.
Seattle Public Library and Elliott Bay Book Company: Khaled Hosseini: ‘And the Mountains Echoed’
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.
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Seattle Cultural Community 2013 Mayoral Forum
Monday, June 3, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. Free, but reservations suggested.
KUOW Weekday host Steve Scher moderates an in-depth discussion among seven of Seattle’s 2013 mayoral candidates on Seattle’s cultural community, and how its health relates to our city’s economic vitality.
Dick Falkenbury: ‘Rise Above It All’
Monday, June 3, 2013, 6:30 – 7:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Dick Falkenbury, writer of the initiative approved by Seattle voters in 1996 to “build, operate, and maintain” a 40-mile, citywide monorail and author of Rise Above It All, tells the story of the movement behind the failed monorail project.
Dan Savage with Ari Shapiro: ‘American Savage’
Sunday, June 16, 2013, 7:00 – 9:30pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $10.
Just before Seattle Pride Fest, The Stranger columnist and all-around provocateur Dan Savage weighs in on love, sex, marriage, LGBT rights, politics—and anything else that comes up in conversation with Ari Shapiro, NPR’s White House correspondent.