Saturday, April 27, 2013, 8:00 – 10:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $10-$15.
In Seattle Poetry Slam’s biggest show of the year, the top poets from a season of competitions throw down one last time. The all-ages event features a performance by poet and publisher Mahogany Browne, a showcase of some of the weekly slams’ best performers, and a tribute to the late Jack McCarthy.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 7:00 – 9:30pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. Free, but tickets are required (available beginning April 12).
ALL TICKETS HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED. A limited number of standby or limited-view tickets may be available the day of the event, beginning at 6:45 pm.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $10-$15.
Celebrated poet Carolyn Forché, perhaps best-known for coining the term “poetry of witness,” joins local Hedgebrook poets and performers to celebrate Hedgebrook’s 25th anniversary with poetry and song.
Monday, April 1, 2013, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
In advance of Book-It Repertory Theatre’s upcoming staging of Mark Twain’s classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: UNCENSORED, this interactive teaching/performance lecture touches on various approaches to the text: How do you teach it? How do you perform it? And what can we still learn from it?
Friday, March 29, 2013, 8:00 – 10:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $15-$20.
The Bushwick Book Club of Seattle presents original music inspired by some of the most popular stories from the Bible’s Old Testament, with the Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble and members of Captain Smartypants and Sensible Shoes.
Thursday, March 28, 2013, 8:00 – 10:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $15-$20.
The Bushwick Book Club of Seattle presents original music inspired by some of the most popular stories from the Bible’s Old Testament, with the Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble and members of Captain Smartypants and Sensible Shoes.
Sunday, March 24, 2013, 6:30 – 8:30pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $12-$20.
The innovative collaborative project Poetry+Motion presents local African-American poets and writers joined by jazz/blues vocalist Elnah Jordan in a celebration of the work life of African-American women.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Known for work that addresses feminism, gender, sexual identity, class, and race in ever-provocative ways, Chavisa Woods is an award-winning writer whose debut novel, The Albino Album: A Novel as Songs, tells the epic story of a girl who rides the line between abandon and lunacy on a speeding albino horse.
Monday, March 11, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $5. TRIPLE feature!
Mark Russ Federman, former proprietor of Manhattan’s legendary Russ & Daughters eatery, tells the story of one immigrant family’s journey through the Great Depression, World War II food rationing, heartbreaking years of neighborhood blight, and an almost-miraculous renaissance, in conversation with legendary Seattle chef Tom Douglas.
Short Stories Live: ‘The Selected Letters of Willa Cather’
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.