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Must List: Polar Bear Plunge, Free Day at WA State Parks
What to do this weekend in Seattle
By Seattle magazine staff December 29, 2015
Must Rock
Patti Smith Rocks The Moore
(1/4 to 1/5, 8 p.m.) Punk rock songwriter, musician and poet Patti Smith brings her world tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of the release of her seminal debut album, Horses, to the Moore Theatre. Hear her sing the songs that helped make her an icon.
Must Get Outdoors
Free Day at WA State Parks
Friday (1/1, times vary) Celebrate the first day of the new year in grand Pacific Northwest fashion and access any Washington State Park without the need for a Discover Pass.
Must Plunge
Enter 2016 with a Splash
Friday (1/1, 12 p.m.) Earn your “cold badge of courage” at the annual Matthews Beach Polar Bear Plunge, where brave revelers leap into Lake Washington’s chilly waters.
Must Cheers
Spend NYE with the Seattle Symphony
(12/31, 9 p.m.) Lift your glass of New Year’s bubbly to toast the musical splendor of Beethoven’s Ninth performed by the Seattle Symphony, and then dance into 2016.
Must See
Last Chance to See Intimate Impressionism at SAM
(Through 1/3, times vary) In the show Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, SAM fills its walls with tiny treasures: small-scale paintings by a bunch of French guys you may have heard of, such as Monet, Cezanne, Degas and Renoir, and one from the Netherlands who goes by Van Gogh.
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