Town Hall – Great Hall
Kathleen Hanna: In-person & online
Town Hall - Great Hall 1119 8th Ave., SeattleBikini Kill and Le Tigre frontwoman, and riot grrrl movement seminal musician Kathleen Hanna will speak and read from her memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
Joy Harjo: In‑Person & Online
Town Hall - Great Hall 1119 8th Ave., SeattleJoy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022, the first Native American to receive the honor, and she is the winner of Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.
A Conversation with Sohla El‑Waylly
Town Hall - Great Hall 1119 8th Ave., SeattleIn-person and online. In this epic guide to better eating, the chef, recipe developer, and video producer Sohla El-Waylly reimagines what a cookbook can be, teaching home cooks of all skill levels how cooking really works. A practical, information-packed, and transformative guide to becoming a better cook and conquering the kitchen, Start Here is a…
Deb Perelman
Town Hall - Great Hall 1119 8th Ave., SeattleThe author of three cookbooks, Perelman is hailed as one of the original food bloggers and beloved for her endlessly comforting, faithfully tested recipes. She will be joined in conversation by J. Kenji López-Alt, our Community Curated Series director.
Concert of Duke Ellington’s Sacred Music
Town Hall - Great Hall 1119 8th Ave., SeattleFor the past 30+ years Earshot Jazz and Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra have partnered to present an annual concert of Ellington’s Sacred Music. Ellington’s wonderful “Sacred Music” is both serious and swinging. It is a reverent and hip body of jazz composition, written late in his career, for jazz big band, vocal and instrumental soloists,…
Burnt Toast Live Podcast Recording With Virginia Sole-Smith and Angela Garbes
Town Hall - Great Hall 1119 8th Ave., SeattleJournalist, author, and podcaster, Virginia Sole-Smith, was previously among those who upheld diet culture as a way to practice healthy living. After becoming a mother, Sole-Smith went through a reckoning as to the hidden damage that dieting can cause oneself as well as one’s children. In her new book, Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age…
Steve Inskeep: In‑Person & Online
Town Hall - Great Hall 1119 8th Ave., SeattleAs the host of NPR’s Morning Edition for almost two decades, Steve Inskeep has mastered the art of bridging divides and building constructive debate in interviews. In Differ We Must, his new nonfiction, he brings his skills to bear on a prior master, forming a fresh and compelling narrative of Abraham Lincoln’s life and expanding…
David Brooks: In‑Person & Online
Town Hall - Great Hall 1119 8th Ave., SeattleDavid Brooks, one of the nation’s leading writers and commentators, delivers a practical, heartfelt guide in How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. In order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives, Brooks digs into the essential conversations and questions of any community…
SAL Presents Viet Thanh Nguyen
Town Hall - Great Hall 1119 8th Ave., SeattleIn-person and Online With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life in A Man of Two Faces. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, Nguyen expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with…
Ignite Seattle presents: Ignite #44
Town Hall - Great Hall 1119 8th Ave., SeattleIgnite Seattle is the largest open submission public speaking event in the Pacific Northwest. Each speaker gets 20 slides, for 15 seconds each, to share a passion for 5 minutes – it’s an evening of curated discovery. Ignite Seattle takes pride in providing every audience with a deep sense of the community and possibility that…
Ignite Seattle #44
Town Hall - Great Hall 1119 8th Ave., SeattleIgnite Seattle is the largest open submission public speaking event in the Pacific Northwest. Each speaker gets 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds, adding up to just 5 minutes to share their passion with the world – it’s an evening of curated discovery.
Hiromi’s Sonicwonder
Town Hall - Great Hall 1119 8th Ave., SeattleHiromi Uehara has electrified audiences and critics east and west, with a creative energy that encompasses and eclipses the boundaries of jazz, classical and pop parameters, taking improvisation and composition to new heights of complexity and sophistication. Image courtesy of Ellora Management