EMP|SFM’s Late Night Exhibitchin’ returns, an afterhours dance party with cheap drinks and super surprises. We went to the last one with The Saturday Knights, and it was a hoot! Looking forward to this one too, as our friends The Moonspinners will be playing.

The event at EMP|SFM is Saturday, August 7 from 9 p.m. – 1 a.m. This is their second annual afterhours dance party and will feature live music, amazing DJ’s, cheap drinks and super surprises throughout the evening and into the morning.

In true 60′s tradition, dance to the soulful sounds of Seattle’s The Moonspinners and the way-out garage go go of The Basements. The party will continue with DJs spinning soul, mod, and garage rock tracks. Enjoy beer and cocktail drink specials throughout the night.

Prizes for Best Dancer and Hottest Outfit will be awarded. Save a place in the competition- so dress to impress.

Tickets are $8 for EMP|SFM members; $10 for the general public at brownpapertickets.com.

“The World of Puppetry: Treasures from the Cook/Marks Collection” will be the first opportunity for a portion of this massive collection to be displayed in Seattle.  Don’t miss your chance to see the world through wooden eyes with puppets from Bucharesti, Palermo, Bali, Athens, Osaka, Rio de Janeiro, Bamako, Bursa, and many more points on the globe.

Included on display are stunning examples of Sicilian opera dei pupi, Indonesian wayang and Japanese bunraku (some of the puppet traditions recognized by UNESCO as “Intangible Cultural Assets to Humanity”).  You will even see vaudeville marionettes returning to the limelight after making their original appearances on Seattle stages a century ago!

Northwest Puppet Center presents

The World of Puppetry: Treasures from the Cook/Marks Collection

Location:
Seattle Center Pavilion B (next to the skate park)

On View July 23-Aug. 1, 2010
6pm-9pm on Fri. July 23
11am-4pm on weekends
11am-3pm on weekdays

Admission is FREE but donations to Northwest Puppet Center are welcomed to help continue NWPC’s expanding museum efforts.

Exhibit sponsored by The Jacqueline S. Marks Fund at the California
Community Foundation and Seattle Center.  General support provided by ArtsFund and Washington State Arts Commission.

To learn more about the Cooks/Marks Collection:
http://nwpuppet.org/worldofpuppetry.html

Get a double-dose of puppets by combining your visit with the regional festival, Puppet-O-Rama,
organized by members of Puppeteers of Puget Sound, to be held at Seattle University July 30-Aug. 1.  International Puppetry Museum and Northwest Puppet Center will be hosting a reception at the regional festival on July 30 to celebrate this new collection and would like you to join in their celebration.   Come learn more about puppetry at the festival:  http://www.puppet-o-rama.org

Not a puppeteer and want to see puppet shows all around the area?

Find out where the Northwest Puppet Center will be performing this summer  http://www.nwpuppet.org/summer.html

After this exhibit at Seattle Center, more of the collection will be on display when the 2010-2011 season opens in November. Northwest Puppet Center will feature two exhibits each year and The Cook/Marks Collection will be a major portion of the Puppet Museum at the Northwest Puppet Center for generations to come.

To find out more about the Northwest Puppet Center’s 2010-2011 season performances: http://nwpuppet.org/weekend.html

Stop, in the name of love and fashion, at the new EMP Reflections: The Mary Wilson Supreme Legacy Collection exhibit. Fancy gowns, sequined dresses and boa’s worn by Mary Wilson, Diana Ross and Florence Ballard when they were still known as the Primettes; a set of black velvet Bob Mackie gowns worn on the GIT on Broadway television special in 1969; outfits worn on the Supremes’ television specials and featured on album covers; and those from their 1977 Farewell Performance. One set of dresses includes a loose-fitting maternity outfit worn by Wilson while she was pregnant.

In addition, the exhibition will incorporate a soundtrack specific to the collection, featuring highlights from the trio’s chart-topping hits to rarely heard alternate and live performances. EMP will also screen performances from the Supremes on the Ed Sullivan Show from 1964-1970, appearances that feature gowns included in the exhibit. So this will be a fun treat for Supremes fans, a multi-media extravaganza of feathers, lace, sequins and glitter.

Also, for today only, you can get 50% off a membership to EMP/SFM and celebrate both worlds with the musical-science-fiction double feature of today’s Groupon to Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum, which celebrates its 10th anniversary on June 19. Purchase a Groupon for one of the following membership levels:

$25 for an individual membership (unlimited free admission for one person plus two single-use guest passes) (a $50 value)
$30 for a dual membership (unlimited free admission for two people plus two single-use guest passes) (a $65 value)
$40 for a family membership (unlimited free admission for two named adults and all children under 18 in the household plus four single-use guest passes) (an $85 value)

Click HERE to purchase your 50% off membership to EMP/SFM.

The nationwide program provides cardholders free access to 120 of the nation’s finest arts, cultural and educational institutions during the first full weekend of every month.

Offer valid the first full weekend (Sat. and Sun.) of the month. Photo ID and any valid Bank of America/Merrill Lynch credit or debit card must be presented.

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Lots of Creepy events this week at Cafe Racer!

Wednesday October 28: Matt Romero & Tim Tenson 9PM

mONDAY sAINT sIREN AND THE cORRESPONDENTS 9pm

Seattle artist Margot Quan Knight creates Mirror Quilt photographs which are reflections photographed from a 51 x 36 inch mirror quilt.

Instead of quilting with fabric, she cut glass mirrors in a traditional 8-pointed star pattern and glued them on a fabric backing. She takes the quilt to different people’s homes, hangs it on a stand, and lets it gather color from the surroundings. One of the homes she visited was ours, our Dead Elvis Lounge, and the piece that came from this photo shoot, along with several others, is on display at the Bellevue Art Museum through this weekend at the show ÜberPortrait, curated by Stefano Catalani.

Watching Margot work on this project was an intense experience and her approach to her art is serious, yet playful. Take a look at her other photographs on her website MargotKnight.com.

Enjoy free general admission for you and a guest to hundreds of museums and cultural venues nationwide on Saturday, September 26, 2009.

Included are such great museums as EMP and the Science Fiction Museum, the Museum of Flight, the Seattle Art Museum, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, plus dozens of others all around the state. Click HERE for the entire list of free museums. Sponsored by Smithsonian Magazine.

On May 2nd and 3rrd, get free admission the the Museum of History and Industry, Wing Luke Asian Museum or Northwest African American Museum in Seattle. Also, the Tacoma Art Museum is free if you’re heading South.

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