This week in the arts, UW faculty take us into the community, from the Seattle Art Museum to the Royal Room. There will be music, art history lectures, drama, and more!
SAM Talks: Peacock in the Desert Discussion
October 18, 7:00 pm | Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Avenue, Seattle
Dr. Karni Singh Jasol, Director of the Mehrangarh Museum Trust, Jodhpur, and Dr. Sonal Khullar, Associate Professor of Art History at 天美影视传媒, discuss the themes and works on view in the new Seattle Art Museum exhibition,聽.
Free with RSVP.
EARSHOT JAZZ FESTIVAL & UW SCHOOL OF MUSIC:
Ted Poor, “The Blues and Otherwise”
October 19 | The Church, 1300 E Olive Street, Seattle
LA-based sound engineer David Boucher will record Ted Poor (drummer), assistant professor of School of Music Jazz Studies and frequent collaborator and performer with indie pop artist Andrew Bird, and friends Kris Davis (piano) and Tyler Chester (bass, keyboard) in a concert in Capitol Hill.
$10 tickets for students.
Cuong Vu and Indigo Mist featuring George Garzone
October 22, 8:00 pm | The Royal Room, 5000 Rainier Ave S., Seattle
Indigo Mist has become a vehicle for the musical musings of a group of forward reaching artists with tendencies towards experimentation. Having crossed paths over the years as University of Washington music faculty, the group is currently comprised of UW faculty Richard Karpen, Cuong Vu, Juan Pampin, Ted Poor, and 15 time Grammy winner, bassist/producer Steve Rodby. Invited into the fold is world renown tenor saxophone master/improviser George Garzone.
$10 tickets for students.
Incident at Vichy
Previews October 20 & 23rd, Opening October 24, Closing November 4聽 | Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse
UW School of Drama’s season opener is a production that the New York Times considered “one of the most important plays of our time” in 1964. The questions at the heart of this story鈥攁bout evil, complicity, self-preservation, and the death of human decency鈥攁re perhaps more resonant now than at any time since that first production. Guest Director Kelly Kitchens, who is well-known to local audiences for her work at Seattle Shakespeare Company and Seattle Public Theater, among others, directs an all-male cast.
$10 tickets for students.
Music of Today: Mivos Quartet
October 23, 7:30 pm| Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater
The New-York-City-based Mivos Quartet,聽鈥渙ne of America鈥檚 most daring and ferocious new-music ensembles鈥� (The Chicago Reader), is devoted to performing works of contemporary composers and presenting new music to diverse audiences.聽In this performance, the quartet performs music by UW faculty composers Huck Hodge and Jo毛l-Fran莽ois Durand, including Durand鈥檚 String Quartet (2008) and other works.
$10 tickets for UW students.
Opening Reception for Sonny Assu: 脡tudes for the Settler
October 24, 5:00 to 7:00 pm | Jacob Lawrence Gallery
This exhibition brings together a new body of work by Sonny Assu,聽Territorial Acknowledgements, alongside his prior series that problematize colonial conceptions of the landscape:聽The Paradise Syndrome听(2017),听1UP聽(2016), and聽Interventions On The Imaginary聽(2014). Through these works, Assu offers corrective visions of colonized landscapes.
“Sonny Assu: 脡tudes for the Settler” is organized in partnership with y蓹haw虛, an exhibition celebrating Indigenous art made in the Pacific Northwest. The y蓹haw虛 exhibition opens at Seattle’s King Street Station in early 2019.