The beyond-best-selling sci-fi/fantasy author, who thrilled a sold-out crowd during his last Town Hall appearance in July 2011, has a couple new installments to follow A Dance With Dragons in his A Song of Ice and Fire series: The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring.
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Clarion West Summer Reading Series: George R.R. Martin
Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on Eighth Avenue. $10.
Seattle Arts & Lectures: Subhankar Banerjee: Arctic Voices
Thursday, June 21, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Subhankar Banerjee is a photographer, writer, educator, and leading international voice on issues of Arctic conservation, indigenous human rights, resource development, and climate change.
YES! Magazine: Alice Walker & Frances Moore Lappé with Makana
Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 7:00 – 9:30pm
Great Hall; enter on 8th Avenue. $12-$25.
As part of this 2nd Annual Celebration of People Power, Alice Walker and Frances Moore Lappé speak to how we can build the world we want. Guided by YES! Magazine board member Puanani Burgess, food-justice and democracy advocate Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet and Ecomind
David Hancocks: The Future of Zoos
Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on 8th Avenue. $5.
The former director of Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo addresses the future of modern zoos—and particularly the place of elephants in them. Today’s zoos need to change fundamentally, says David Hancocks—who has already led one revolution in zoo design (in the 80′s and 90′s). Zoos need to do more, he says—not only for the wellbeing of individual creatures, but for the welfare of the planet.
Association for India’s Development: Dhwani feat. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
Friday, May 11, 2012, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on 8th Avenue. $30-$50.
“Master of the sarod” Ustad Amjad Ali Khan headlines this evening of Indian classical music. Part of the Bangash lineage, Khan represents a sixth generation of musicians; his family claims to have invented the sarod. Khan was awarded India’s second-highest civilian honor, the Padma Vibhushan, in 2001, and has played with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
Hari Kondabolu: Town Hall’s ‘Scratch Night’ Debut
Monday, May 28, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
Comedian and writer Hari Kondabolu returns to Seattle to inaugurate Town Hall’s “Scratch Night” workshop series with new stories and other material. Kondabolu gets to experiment with longer-form ideas that would be hard to do in most comedy-show settings, and the audience gets to be part of a talkback session after the set. Kondabolu is also known and beloved nationwide from appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham, John Oliver’s New York Standup Show, and his recent feature on Comedy Central Presents.
Seattle Jewish Chorale: Songs for Hard Times: Music of Humor, Hope & Healing
Sunday, June 3, 2012, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on 8th Avenue. $16-$20.
The 30 voices of the Chorale, under the direction of Mary Pat Graham, and accompanied by pianist Harumi Flesher, perform songs in English, Yiddish, Ladino, and Hebrew—melodies and words that have comforted and sustained the Jewish people throughout history and still can bring hope today.
PSSO: Spring Concert
Saturday, May 19, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on 8th Avenue. $4-$10.
Under the baton of Alan Shen, this extraordinary all-volunteer orchestra performs an ambitious program including Mozart’s Don Giovanni Overture; selections for guest vocalists Larissa Humphrey, soprano, and Frances Hoffman, soprano; Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks; and Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture.
Clarion West Summer Reading Series: Chuck Palahniuk
Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on 8th Avenue. $10.
Bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk reads from new work as part of Clarion West’s writer workshop—and it might be OK to talk about Fight Club. A self-described minimalist, Palahniuk blends horror and satire to create genre-crossing stories about nontraditional protagonists.