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| Week of April 9 to April 15, 2007 |
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Life Balance: Fusing Work, Life, and Service by the Seattle Red Cross , April 11th, free. Designed as a networking event for professionals, the host discusses how to achieve the trinity of creating business success, raising a healthy family, and giving back to the community. Everyone is trying to gain balance, but the typical excuse is, they're way too busy doing something else at the moment. Hear from other professionals, who are just as busy as you are, on how they gained their harmony. Restaurant: Teatro ZinZanni , $104, the combination of good food and circus-based performance art. This is a fantastic alternative to the same-old same-old that everyone should do at least once. While everyone is expecting (and gets) breath-taking circus acts, the comedic elements, solid singing and music acts, and table-to-table performances puts the experience over the top. All this with sumptuous food, too! What are you doing for your next birthday? Fundraiser: Benefit for Invisible Children at the Red Sky Studio, hosted by Debora Spencer Photography. There will be a little reception with drinks, music, and art. Then, they'll show the movie, Invisible Children, which you can be sure is going to be a real tear-jerker. Several volunteers straight from the villages will be on hand to answer questions. Class: The Secret of Great Relationships , April 9th, free. Not just for couples, this class takes on gaining happiness with all relationships, of spouses, kids, co-workers, and relatives. Learn how to pick better friends instead of the usual loser lot, feel good about yourself and your choices, or put that pesky mother-in-law into place once and for all. * Also, Art of Paper Making, April 14th, $69. Recycle your own paper into envelopes and greeting cards. Suffice to say, you'll have the best looking Christmas cards next December. Dance: NW Dance Extravaganza, April 14th, $80. It's part dance, part competition, and part performance, so theyve really got it covered on all levels. Nothing makes the pulse flutter like dancing. All dance styles are celebrated at this big blast. Appraisals: Seattle Antiques Road Show , April 14th, $5 per item, limit of six. The usual satire of this show is someone brings in a piece of junk, and it turns out to be worth thousands of dollars. Local appraisers combine talents to identify the worth of whatever curiosity you have lying around the place. Jewelry experts will also be able to test the validity of precious metals. Libations: Sake Nomi, a new sake bar opening in Seattle. This town is loaded with wine bars, so it's refreshing when someone finally opens a sake place. There are tastings and selections from over 150 sakes. That sake is good stuff, but it can also sneak up on a person and really lay a person out. Environmental: Lecture, Why Environmental Law Has Failed, Noon - 1:30 PM, April 16th, free, at room C1 in Sullivan Hall, at Seattle Univ , attorneys speaking about the inherent rights of mother nature and how to bring about positive change to environmental law. * Also, Comprehensive Organic Gardener Program, starting April 11th, $235, about everything in your vegetable garden without chemicals. * Also, Seattle Parks celebrates Earth Month , starting April 14th, with classes, outdoor celebrations, films, lectures, and work parties. * Also, benefit show for Eco Encore, April 13th, $7, a special Earth Month Benefit Concert at The Nectar Lounge. Participation: Understanding Your Cancer Risk , April 14th, free. Understand how genes, lifestyle choices, and eating habits affect cancer risk, and what changes you can make to mitigate risks. There's so much contradictory evidence on what contributes to cancer and what doesn't, so here, you can figure out how to sort through this morass of confusion and apply it to your own health. * Also, Intersections of Race and Gender: Reimaging the Family , April 12-14th, free. This one is a full conference, picking up different threads on the role of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual orientation in the context of the family. This one certainly sounds like a very Seattle thing. Organization: Book Arts Guild, for those who appreciate and create books. This one isn't necessarily for writers; instead, its members include bookbinders, calligraphers, papermakers, and others who help bring the actual book into our hands. |
Seattle's
Best Public Art: The Black Sun by Isamu Noguch to the tourists, or The Donut You Can See the Space Needle Through to everyone else.
Changing Form by Doris Chase at Kerry Park, a gift from Kerry's three children. The postcard view of Seattle also helps.
The Interurban Sculpture in Fremont. This isn't the best sculpture artistically, but it is the best at encouraging public interaction.
We'll also throw out a raspberry to...
The Ballard Bridge Sculptures - collections of beer cans pasted together into different collages. Cool YouTube Video: Seattle Zombie Walk, hungry zombies looking for brains to snack on...
(If you can't see the video, your security settings prevent embedded video. Click here to see it.) |
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