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Peace Vigils [Olympia]
2024-06-28 16:30 - 18:00, 2024-06-21 16:30 - 18:00, 2024-06-14 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Percival Landing, 217 Thurston Ave NW, Olympia, WA, 98501
4:30-6:00 PM
Percival Landing in Downtown Olympia
4th &Water Street

Join us every Friday in downtown Olympia as we continue to gather to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, an end to occupation, saving Gaza’s children, and for peace.

Thanks to the Olympia Fellowship Of Reconciliation for supporting and joining our efforts to demand a permanent peace in Gaza. Thank you to everyone for continuing to respect the peaceful and welcoming atmosphere that the Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) has maintained at these weekly vigils for so many years.

Targeted Truth: The Assault on Palestinian Journalists
2024-06-27 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Join us on Thursday, June 27 at 12 p.m. EST / 7 p.m. Jerusalem for a special panel: “Targeted Truth: The Assault on Palestinian Journalists,” which highlights the work of +972 magazine.

For the last eight months, +972 Magazine has been bringing vital and critical perspectives and lesser-heard voices from Palestine/Israel and beyond. The magazine has been consistently covering Israel’s targeting of Palestinian journalists and has been working to amplify Palestinian voices from the ground to counter the efforts to erase them.

Moderated by +972 Magazine’s editor-in-chief, Ghousoon Bisharat, the event will bring views and analysis from:

Mahmoud Mushtaha, a journalist and human rights activist from Gaza City, currently living in Cairo.
Mohammed R. Mhawish, a journalist and writer from Gaza City, currently living in Cairo, and a contributor to the book “A Land With A People — Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism.”
Fatima AbdulKarim, a journalist based in Ramallah.
Shuruq As’ad, a journalist and media trainer with more than 30 years of experience, and the spokesperson of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate.
Abd Elkader Abd Elhalim, a reporter and social media content writer at Radio Nas, a radio station based in Nazareth.

Ferris Jabr at Town Hall
2024-06-26 19:30 - 20:30 | The Forum at Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave (Entrance off Seneca St.), Seattle, 98101, United States
Ferris Jabr visits Town Hall to explore the question: How much of our own planet do we actually understand? One of humanity’s oldest beliefs is that our world is alive. Though once ridiculed by some scientists, the idea of Earth as a vast interconnected living system has gained acceptance in recent decades.

Purchase tickets here.

In Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life, Jabr examines the connections between life and geology through the many ways that living creatures, including our own species, have transformed the atmosphere, oceans, and continents throughout the planet’s history. Becoming Earth explores ecosystems, discussing plants, weather, animal engineering, the microscopic and the microbial. Additionally, Jabr scrutinizes the human impact on Earth, noting the ways that people have altered existence through fossil fuel consumption, agriculture, and pollution.
Drawing on recent scientific insights, the book reexamines the ancient idea that Earth itself is alive and investigates how this holistic perspective can help us restore longstanding ecological rhythms and possibly mitigate some of the worst outcomes of the climate crisis. From an experimental nature reserve in remote Siberia, to the heart of the Amazon rainforest, to a gold mine-turned-research lab a mile below the Earth’s surface, Jabr invites readers to journey around the world to better understand our planet and our role in it.

Ferris Jabr is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He has also written for The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Scientific American. He is the recipient of a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant and fellowships from UC Berkeley and MIT. His work has been anthologized in several editions of Best American Science and Nature Writing. Ferris Jabr lives in Portland, Oregon, with his husband, Ryan, their dog, Jack, and more plants than they can count.

Arab Tabla with Susu Pampanin (Technique and Middle Eastern Rhythms)
2024-06-26 18:00 - 19:00 | Englewood Christian Church, 511 North 44th Avenue, Yakima, WA, 98908
The Summer Culture Project is offering classes in drumming and dance from master instructors free of charge.
June 24th-Cajon with Luciana Proano (Technique and Peruvian Rhythms)
June 25th-Indian Tabla with Jaspal Singh (Beginning Technique)
June 26th-Arab Tabla with Susu Pampanin (Technique and Middle Eastern Rhythms)
June 27th-Maori Haka with Camille Wilson (Ceremonial Dance and Culture)
All classes are held at Englewood Christian Church. For more information about the classes and instructors or to register go to www.englewoodchristianchurch.com

Rainbow Story Time (online) w/ Lindz Amer
2024-06-26 11:30 - 12:00, 2024-06-19 11:30 - 12:00, 2024-06-12 11:30 - 12:00 | Virtual
Join Lindz Amer, the award-winning LGBTQ+ activist, author and co-host of the beloved indie web series, Queer Kid Stuff, for songs and stories that celebrate the LGBTQ+ community all-year-round.
All ages welcome with adult.
Please register:
https://kcls.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdOuqpzssGtC5XlvnFdvIAD2bwlBzP-RA

Eyewitness: Live In Ramallah
2024-06-26 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
We will be taken around the beautiful city of Ramallah on a Virtual Delegation by Palestinian Artist, Wafa Hourani. Hourani’s work can be found here: https://www.wafahourani.com/.

In Translation Book Club: Slipping, by Mohamed Kheir
2024-06-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Third Place Books – Seward Park, 5041 Wilson Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
The In Translation Book Club meets in person at our Seward Park location on the third Tuesday of every month virtually and the fourth Tuesday in person at Seward Park to discuss translated books from around the globe.

Learn more about this book club.

June:

Slipping (Paperback)

By Mohamed Kheir, Robin Moger (Translator)
$16.95

Vigil at the Democratic Convention
2024-06-23 08:00 - 16:00 | Meydenbauer Center, 11100 NE 6th St, Bellevue, WA, Bellevue, WA, 98004
During the convention, state delegates will be voting on critical resolutions. Our specific goal is to encourage and inform the delegates and the public as to what concretely can be done that day to curtail the continuing death and destruction in Gaza, i.e. to vote affirmatively on the resolutions supporting Palestine. IfNotNow will be working closely with the “ceasefire” delegates toward that goal.
There will be outreach, music, speakers, and reading the names of the children killed by Israeli military forces in Gaza.

Arabic Storytime @ Lake City Branch / وقت القصص بالعربية في فرع ليك سيتي
2024-06-22 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-06-15 10:30 - 11:30 | Lake City – Seattle Public Library, 12501 28th Ave. N.E., Seattle, Washington, 98125, United States
At storytime, children from birth through elementary school and their families can enjoy stories, songs, and fun learning activities.
Event in English and Arabic.

Palestine Talks Teach-in Series: It's Not About Religion
2024-06-20 18:00 - 19:30 | Vibe Coworks, 19225 8th Ave NE #201, Poulsbo, WA, 98370
This is a series, occurring everything 3rd Thursday of the month until elections, ending with a Palestinian feast on December 5th. Each month is a different topic with different panel speakers, with the throughline being what is happening in Palestine.

Through knowledge sharing, panel discussions, and interactive audience discussions, participants engage in critical dialogue and community building, empowering themselves and others to become informed advocates and agents of change. Palestine Talks | Teach-in Series serve as a strategy for raising awareness, promoting education, and mobilizing action for Palestinian liberation.
Accessibility info: Large parking lot, with accessible parking. There are stairs and an elevator. Presentation with slides, and caption video recording of event available afterwards. There are snacks and water available, and “accessible bathrooms.”
Details about each month’s topic, registration link, and event organizer info can be found here: https://www.kccoalition.org/
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Movie Screening: Where Olive Trees Weep
2024-06-20 17:00 - 19:00 | Central – Seattle Public Library, 1000 Fourth Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98104, United States
“It’s been a difficult year for our organization as many of you are seeing live streams on your phones everyday. We are finding community where we can and hope to find community with y’all as we host a free screening of Where Olive Trees Weep.”#whereolivetreesweep#CeaseFireNow #PalestinianLiberation#grief #indigenous #healing #trauma#authenticity #intergenerational#solidarity

In Translation Book Club: Slipping, by Mohamed Kheir
2024-06-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Virtual

Whisk Cooking Class: Street Foods of the World
2024-06-17 18:00 - 20:30 | Whisk, 10385 Main St, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
Want to expand your culinary passport? Are you looking for a new dish to spice up your repertoire? Do you dream of tasty treats on foreign streets, but haven’t been able to get away? If the answer is yes, this class is for you! Join Chef Drew Flanders in this hands-on class where you will prepare simple but flavor-packed dishes inspired by foods sold in the markets, festivals, and by street vendors from around the world. From Morocco to Japan, Mexico to Senegal, in this class you will prepare and enjoy a variety of flavors and textures from the simple perfection of the taco, the warm comfort of “Japanese pizza”, to the glory of two different types of grilled-meat-on-a-stick!
Make, eat and enjoy street foods from

Morocco – Chermoula Chicken
West Africa – Spicy Peanut-Dusted Beef Skewers
Japan – Okonomiyaki – Seafood Pancakes
Mexico – Alambres, Steak and Bacon Tacos with Salsa Verde

Participants will have the option of enjoying wine or beer as street food is always best with a beverage!

Cinema: Celebrate Pride: Arab Love
2024-06-17 - 2024-06-30 | Virtual
Arab Love is AFMI’s annual program focused on sharing the stories of the LGBTQ+ Arab community around the world.
This year’s selection of short films explores the complicated nature of gender and sexuality in relationships, and the pressure young queer people experience across the Arab world to act a role that is in inauthentic to their true selves.
Films included:

Ya Benti by Anissa Allali
Sahbety (My Girl Friend) by Kawthar Younis
Cousins by Karina Dandashi
Conditional Desire by Houcem Slouli
Eitr by Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller

Available online starting today, June 17th, through June 30th. Pay what you can to get access.
Please note that this program is only available in the USA.
Psst: looking for more films to watch? Check out our updated list of Queer Arab Films to watch during Pride month.

Movie: Photo Booth
2024-06-16 19:30 - 21:30 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
In this split-screen opera-documentary about boycott activism, two Palestinian brothers plot with novelist Jean Genet in Jericho to sabotage the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. Their method? Secure the collaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto’s famous naked gay singing penguins. Photo Booth weaves together diverse doc, opera, and video art scenes, blending humour and song to explore the politics of boycott, staged in a surreal landscape of megaphones and photo booths, twelve-tone and split-screen, frisbees and teargas, Gaga and Gaza, solidarity and silence…

Movie: Photo Booth
2024-06-16 16:30 - 18:30 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
In this split-screen opera-documentary about boycott activism, two Palestinian brothers plot with novelist Jean Genet in Jericho to sabotage the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. Their method? Secure the collaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto’s famous naked gay singing penguins. Photo Booth weaves together diverse doc, opera, and video art scenes, blending humour and song to explore the politics of boycott, staged in a surreal landscape of megaphones and photo booths, twelve-tone and split-screen, frisbees and teargas, Gaga and Gaza, solidarity and silence…

Also showing:

Sun Jun 16, 7.30pm PDT

Kuffiyeh Walk - Kirkland Edition
2024-06-16 10:00 - 12:00 | Google Building C (Parking Lot), 747 6th Street South, Kirkland, WA, 98033, United States
Wear your kuffiyeh and walk proudly!
Meet on Google’s Kirkland Campus!
You can park in the parking lot of Building C. Head down to the trail and meet us at the playground

Head down to the trail and meet us at the playground

Contact Nadera with questions: nadera0425@yahoo.com

Mary Ann Peters: the edge becomes the center
2024-06-15 - 2025-01-05 | Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA, 98104
The following description comes from the event organizer.
Seattle artist Mary Ann Peters (born 1949, Beaumont, Texas) has attended to overlooked narratives for almost forty years, interpreting her research through mediums including painting, sculpture, and installation. Peters unearths hidden diasporic histories, often through travel, and contextualizes them within her experiences of the contemporary Middle East as a second-generation Lebanese American. the edge becomes the center brings together the artist’s series this trembling turf for the first time and presents it alongside a new installation—works that together surface the ways forgotten and repressed pasts shape present experience.
this trembling turf features ten abstract drawings, including one from the Frye’s collection, which the artist crafts by applying thin strokes of white ink to black clayboard. The series interprets natural habitats where activity occurs beneath the surface, with rhythmic patterns referencing sound waves used by archaeologists to uncover buried traces of civilization. These intricate drawings imagine the missing records of populations and cultures physically covered over, reminding us that forgotten histories could be buried below us, lost within our collective memory.
The exhibition’s new site-specific installation continues the artist’s ongoing impossible monuments series, works of disparate materials and forms that memorialize disregarded details of socio-political events. Peters writes, “I define an impossible monument as something that deserves reverence but by virtue of its incidental nature would never be elevated to the status of a monument.” Together, these bodies of work ask viewers to consider which narratives are written into history and which are erased.

Movie: Photo Booth
2024-06-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
In this split-screen opera-documentary about boycott activism, two Palestinian brothers plot with novelist Jean Genet in Jericho to sabotage the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. Their method? Secure the collaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto’s famous naked gay singing penguins. Photo Booth weaves together diverse doc, opera, and video art scenes, blending humour and song to explore the politics of boycott, staged in a surreal landscape of megaphones and photo booths, twelve-tone and split-screen, frisbees and teargas, Gaga and Gaza, solidarity and silence…

Also showing:

Sun Jun 16: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT

Sur La Table: A Taste Of Morocco
2024-06-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Sur La Table – Kirkland, 90 Central Way, Kirkland, WA, 98033, United States
Menu

Orange and Olive Salad
Roasted Chicken, Caramelized Onion and Preserved Lemon
Couscous with Saffron and Ginger
Honey Pistachio Ice Cream

Roasted Chicken, Caramelized Onion and Preserved Lemon
Couscous with Saffron and Ginger
Honey Pistachio Ice Cream

Instructor: ShadS

Cooking Class Description: Enjoy a special evening filled with fun, romance and delicious food! In this class, our chef instructor will teach you about essential flavors, spices and ingredients to create staples of the cuisine you’d find at a Moroccan restaurant. You’ll work with your date to make everything from the bright salad to the aromatic main course, then finish with a classic Moroccan dessert.

What To Expect: In our classes you’ll work together with other students in a fun, hands-on environment led by our professional chef instructors.

You will work with other students in groups of 4, sharing workstations and equipment.
Classes are 2 to 2 1/2 hours, unless otherwise noted above
Hands-on classes are limited to 12-16 students, depending on location.
You will be standing, cooking and working for most of the class
Please wear comfortable, closed-toe shoes and have long hair tied back
Students receive a coupon good for 10% off in-store purchases the day of class

Movie: Photo Booth
2024-06-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
In this split-screen opera-documentary about boycott activism, two Palestinian brothers plot with novelist Jean Genet in Jericho to sabotage the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. Their method? Secure the collaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto’s famous naked gay singing penguins. Photo Booth weaves together diverse doc, opera, and video art scenes, blending humour and song to explore the politics of boycott, staged in a surreal landscape of megaphones and photo booths, twelve-tone and split-screen, frisbees and teargas, Gaga and Gaza, solidarity and silence…

Also showing:
Thu Jun 13: 7.30pm PDT

Sun Jun 16: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT

Pinkwashing Exposed: Film & Panel
2024-06-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Description“Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back,” documents an extraordinary moment in Seattle queer history. The hour-long documentary will be followed by a panel with director Dean Spade and other long-time queer Palestine solidarity activists, with plenty of time for talking about visions for the future and what’s going on right now in Seattle.

Accessibility: wheelchair accessible, doors are not motorized. Some assisted listening devices may be available. Email the Patron Services Manager at suji@nwfilmforum.org for more info on access.

Organized by Elder Dykes for Palestine,
email Pinkwashingno@gmail.com with questions.

Tickets may be purchased at https://nwfilmforum.org/films/pinkwashing-exposed-seattle-fights-back-in-person-only/
50% of proceeds will benefit direct aid to Gaza
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Symphonic Dances: Kinan
2024-06-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Mount Baker Theater, 104 North Commercial Street Bellingham, WA, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
The Bellingham Symphony Orchestra is wrapping up another unforgettable season of live music with an exhilarating program, featuring contemporary composer Kinan Azmeh and Sergei Rachmaninoff.First, Genre-bending composer and clarinetist Kinan Azmeh brings his Suite for Improvisor and Orchestra to the stage. Azmeh composed the Suite for Improvisor and Orchestra as a fusion of music cultures with each movement calling back to a memory from his life in Syria and living as an immigrant in New York. Azmeh will be in attendance and performing the improvised clarinet part during this performance.In the second half, tap your toes to Sergei Rachmaninoff’s grandiose and energetic Symphonic Dances .This afternoon is sure to inspire and energize you for the fabulous summer ahead!A Pre-Concert Lecture about the program will take place at 2:15PM in the Walton Theatre. Doors open at 2PM and seating is limited, so please plan accordingly. These lectures are free for ticket-holders.This concert qualifies for Classical Kids, Take-A-Teen, and Student Rush ticket discounts. Visit https://www.bellinghamsymphony.org/visit-us/ticket-discounts to learn more.

Comedian Malik Elassal
2024-06-08 21:30 - 23:00, 2024-06-08 19:30 - 21:00 | Laughs Comedy Club, 5220 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Malik Elassal is a Lebanese-Canadian actor, writer, and comedian from north east Calgary. In the past few years, Malik won Top Comic in his home city of Calgary, recorded sets for television at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival and CBC’s New Wave of Standup, and performed the titular track of the Just For Laughs originals album ‘Yeehaw Hell Yeah’.
In 2022, he was named one of the New Faces at Just For Laughs in Montreal and returned to the festival in 2023 to perform on a Gala and as a part of the prestigious “Just For The Culture” Show where he was a stand out.
