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Chronicling Beatniks and Loiterers
Tonight:
Late local luminary August Wilson (1945-2005) was a well-known and widely respected playwright whose 10-part Pittsburgh Cycle is a cornerstone of American drama. With one play set in each decade of the 20th Century, the cycle depicts life in the African-American Hill District of Pittsburgh, and was Wilson’s magnum opus. His premature death of liver cancer came just months after he finished its final installment.
Representing the 1950s, Fences is arguably the most prominent work in Wilson’s oeuvre, having been recognized with both a Tony Award and a Pulitzer. Seattle Repertory Theatre , Wilson’s theatrical home for the last ten years of his life and the only theater that produced the Cycle in its entirety, opens Fences tomorrow night. James A. Williams plays Troy Maxson, an aging garbage collector who once dreamed of becoming a great baseball player. He won the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune’s 2008 Artist of the Year award for the same role.
Tonight at 7:30 pm in Seattle Rep’s Bagley Wright Theatre (155 Mercer Street). Tickets start at $15.
Tomorrow:
It's First Thursday again. If you head to the UW tomorrow night, you can one-stop shop and hit both the Henry Art Museum and the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. In addition to the Kiki Smith exhibition we hyped here,
the Henry is showcasing the works of Milton Rogovin , a photographer who split his time chronicling beatniks and loiterers in his Buffalo, NY neighborhood and miners and factor workers from as far away as Zimbabwe. Rogovin actually turned 100 this year, and the Henry show is something of a tribute.
From Rogovin's Lower West Side series.
The Burke Museum is continuing their "Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway" show, which presents the Burke's entire fossil collection, with dinosaur bones, side-by-side with illustrations by artist Ray Troll.
Finally, at the Northwest African American Museum, Daniel Atkinson, a doctoral candidate in Ethnomusicology, which is what I meant to study in college, is giving a lecture on the slave-based musical tradition of Angola State Penitentiary, the largest prison in the country. That's at 6:30 pm.
The Henry gallery (15th Avenue NE & 41st Street) is open from 11 am to 9 pm on Thursday.
The Burke Museum (Northeast 45th Street & 17th Avenue N) is open from 10 am to 8 pm.
The Northwest African American Museum (2300 S. Massachusetts Street) is open from 11 am to 7 pm.
Tomorrow's Full Calendar:
The city's Parks Department and Seattle Center are holding a special joint meeting on leasing park space around the city, and there's going to be a special presentation by Robert Nellams, Seattle Center director, which means this Chihuly museum thing will probably come up. There will also be a public comment session. Thursday at 5:30 pm at the Seattle Center House Conference Room A (305 Harrison Street).
Fostering Media Connections is a national non-profit that aims to bring foster-care issues to the general public by going city to city and presenting stories to the local media; they're doing a mixer event tomorrow night. Thursday at the UW School of Social Work (4101 15th Avenue NE), from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm.
Seattle's City Neighborhood Council, the all-star Justice League of district and neighborhood councils in the city, is having a special meeting of their Youth, Schools, Education Committee tomorrow night to discuss the Mayor McGinn's Youth and Families Initiative. Thursday at 4 pm at the Rainier Community Center (4600 38th Avenue S).
Late local luminary August Wilson (1945-2005) was a well-known and widely respected playwright whose 10-part Pittsburgh Cycle is a cornerstone of American drama. With one play set in each decade of the 20th Century, the cycle depicts life in the African-American Hill District of Pittsburgh, and was Wilson’s magnum opus. His premature death of liver cancer came just months after he finished its final installment.
Representing the 1950s, Fences is arguably the most prominent work in Wilson’s oeuvre, having been recognized with both a Tony Award and a Pulitzer. Seattle Repertory Theatre , Wilson’s theatrical home for the last ten years of his life and the only theater that produced the Cycle in its entirety, opens Fences tomorrow night. James A. Williams plays Troy Maxson, an aging garbage collector who once dreamed of becoming a great baseball player. He won the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune’s 2008 Artist of the Year award for the same role.
Tonight at 7:30 pm in Seattle Rep’s Bagley Wright Theatre (155 Mercer Street). Tickets start at $15.
Tomorrow:
It's First Thursday again. If you head to the UW tomorrow night, you can one-stop shop and hit both the Henry Art Museum and the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. In addition to the Kiki Smith exhibition we hyped here,
the Henry is showcasing the works of Milton Rogovin , a photographer who split his time chronicling beatniks and loiterers in his Buffalo, NY neighborhood and miners and factor workers from as far away as Zimbabwe. Rogovin actually turned 100 this year, and the Henry show is something of a tribute.
From Rogovin's Lower West Side series.
The Burke Museum is continuing their "Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway" show, which presents the Burke's entire fossil collection, with dinosaur bones, side-by-side with illustrations by artist Ray Troll.
Finally, at the Northwest African American Museum, Daniel Atkinson, a doctoral candidate in Ethnomusicology, which is what I meant to study in college, is giving a lecture on the slave-based musical tradition of Angola State Penitentiary, the largest prison in the country. That's at 6:30 pm.
The Henry gallery (15th Avenue NE & 41st Street) is open from 11 am to 9 pm on Thursday.
The Burke Museum (Northeast 45th Street & 17th Avenue N) is open from 10 am to 8 pm.
The Northwest African American Museum (2300 S. Massachusetts Street) is open from 11 am to 7 pm.
Tomorrow's Full Calendar:
The city's Parks Department and Seattle Center are holding a special joint meeting on leasing park space around the city, and there's going to be a special presentation by Robert Nellams, Seattle Center director, which means this Chihuly museum thing will probably come up. There will also be a public comment session. Thursday at 5:30 pm at the Seattle Center House Conference Room A (305 Harrison Street).
Fostering Media Connections is a national non-profit that aims to bring foster-care issues to the general public by going city to city and presenting stories to the local media; they're doing a mixer event tomorrow night. Thursday at the UW School of Social Work (4101 15th Avenue NE), from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm.
Seattle's City Neighborhood Council, the all-star Justice League of district and neighborhood councils in the city, is having a special meeting of their Youth, Schools, Education Committee tomorrow night to discuss the Mayor McGinn's Youth and Families Initiative. Thursday at 4 pm at the Rainier Community Center (4600 38th Avenue S).
