Full Calendar - Pike Place Market
Blessed & Blasphemous
Not your mother’s church service, join us in worship as we explore what it means to be divinely created for a world of sin. With live piano, drag, & burlesque, this show illuminates the power of transforming pain into art, all through the lens of a Southern Church Service.
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The Triple Door presents Federico Aubele at the Rabbit Box
The Triple Door presents Federico Aubele at The Rabbit Box
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The Triple Door presents Alicia Witt – Album Release Show at The Rabbit Box
Actor and singer-songwriter Alicia Witt has been acting since the age of 7, when she made her film debut in David Lynch’s sci fi classic Dune.
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Debbie Miller, Amanda Winterhalter + Friends
The “friends” are a Seattle super-group comprised of Amanda Winterhalter, Debbie Miller, Tomo Nakayama, Rebecca Young and Aimee Zoe. Plus secret special guests!
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Folio Presents: Hamlet – Behind the Scenes with Director Victor Pappas
Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum is thrilled to collaborate with Union Arts Center to bring you a pre-show afternoon with director Victor Pappas, returning to helm this season’s opener, Hamlet.
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Folio Presents: Reading The Declaration of Independence & Letter from Birmingham Jail
Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum concludes our 250th celebration with a reading pairing two of the most significant texts in American history, the Declaration of Independence (1776) and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963), led by Folio librarian Lillian Dabney.
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Inside Story: Storytelling & Improv Comedy Show
True stories inspire spontaneous comedy in this heartfelt, hilarious collision of The Moth and Whose Line Is It Anyway?
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Poe Unexpected: Edgar Allan Poe Improvised
A hauntingly hilarious Edgar Allan Poe-inspired improv comedy show where gothic mystery, audience suggestions, and Seattle laughs collide.
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Rocky Horror Improv Show
The Rocky Horror Improv Show mashes up the cult-classic chaos of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with the anything-goes magic of live improv. Every performance is a wild, one-night-only rock musical parody, built from your suggestions and fueled by the fearless brilliance of our cast and musicians.
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Local Improv talent meets local filmmakers in this magical comedy show
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46th Seattle International Comedy Competition
The Seattle International Comedy Competition returns for its 46th year, bringing top emerging comedians from across North America and beyond to the Market Theater.
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Kit, Cat and Caboodle: An Improvised Musical Retrospective
Every legendary group has a story. The meteoric rise. The backstage drama. The hits that made them icons and the moments that nearly tore them apart. In Kit, Cat & Caboodle: The Retrospective, our improvisers create the entire saga of the world’s most beloved musical trio right before your eyes in song and flashbacks.
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An Improvised Christmas Carol
An Improvised Christmas Carol takes Dickens’ classic holiday tale and turns it into a fast-paced, laugh-out-loud adventure where anything can happen.
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Fa la la la la, ha ha ha ha: A Holiday Musical Extravaganza!
This holiday comedy show begins with a festive sing-along and ends with a movie musical based on your suggestions. Saturdays in December
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Improv Holiday Happy Hour
An improv show on Christmas? What? The presents have been put away, dinner has been eaten, and the dishes are done….now what to do?
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Rachael Sage & The Sequins with special guest, Tekla Waterfield
Album Release Show! Rachael Sage & The Sequins have been creating wildly expressive, original alt-folk-pop for decades – and this is the 30th Anniversary year for Sage’s artist-owned label, MPress Records. After receiving her first “big break” as Ani DiFranco’s opening act in 1998, Sage proceeded to play Lilith Fair with her NYC-based band, beginning an international touring and recording career that’s taken her everywhere from Berlin to Japan.
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MyVeronica with thedaybeforewemet, Cement Creek and Engine 3
Inspired by 90s emo, shoegaze, and alternative rock, MyVeronica began as the solo project of singer/guitarist Mia Lin.
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Sam Weber
Sam Weber is a Portland-based songwriter whose reputation precedes him. If you haven’t seen him in your town on one of his many extended tours, you might have seen his name on marquees beside Dawes, Feist, or Madison Cunningham (and in the latter’s liner notes as a songwriter on her latest LP, Ace).
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Joseph Decosimo / Elise Leavy
Fiddler, banjoist, and singer Joseph Decosimo has introduced audiences around the world to the beauty and vitality of traditional music from the Appalachian South.
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The Triple Door presents Dune Moss at The RabbitBox
The Triple Door presents Dune Moss and special guest, Haven at The Rabbit Box. Dune Moss is a faery songweaver, casting spells with their ethereal vocals and enchanting stage presence,
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Darren Loucas, Barton Carroll & Braly Sangster
Darren Loucas is a Seattle-based guitarist, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He first gained recognition as co-founder of the award-winning blues duo The Jelly Rollers and later with his band Juke, praised by Seattle Weekly as “one of the more moving records to come out of the Northwest in recent years.”
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Movie Night at the Roach Motel!
Jawbone Puppet Theater & Motero Tranquilo present: Movie Night at the Roach Motel! An evening of adult puppetry and transgressive short films
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Feast at the Market by Neighborcare Health
Join Neighborcare Health for the 43rd annual Feast at the Market, a one-of-a-kind evening of food, community and giving at Pike Place Market.
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FOLIO PRESENTS – The Shape-Shifters: Tara Campbell, Ren Cedar Fuller, and G.G. Silverman
Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum is delighted to welcome local authors, G.G. Silverman (The Blood Year Daughter), Ren Cedar Fuller (Bigger), and Tara Campbell (All the Wayward Angels) for an exploration of all the ways we can morph and change.
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Rachael Sage & The Sequins with special guest, Tekla Waterfield
Album Release Show! Rachael Sage & The Sequins have been creating wildly expressive, original alt-folk-pop for decades – and this is the 30th Anniversary year for Sage’s artist-owned label, MPress Records.
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MyVeronica with thedaybeforewemet, Cement Creek
Inspired by 90’s emo, shoegaze, and alternative rock, MyVeronica began as the solo project of singer/guitarist Mia Lin. Now a four-piece band, MyVeronica is still an outlet for “exploring the deeply personal through the universal,” shares Lin.
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Madinah In The Market
Madinah In The Market (MITM) is a radio-first editorial series hosted by journalist and producer Madinah Slaise. Presented in partnership with KBCS-FM and filmed on location throughout Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market, the program offers behind the scenes access to the people, organizations, and traditions that shape one of the city’s most iconic destinations.
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Desert Hollow
Desert Hollow is the special place where the open road meets the back porch. Blending the spirit of their roots in the California desert and West Virginia countryside, the magnetic traveling folk duo Xander Hitzig and Nicole Olney weave dusty harmonies, rootsy rhythms, and a touch of cosmic twang into songs that wander through heartache, hope, and the strange beauty of belonging everywhere and nowhere at once
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The Set Up
The Setup brings its award-winning stand-up comedy series to Seattle’s iconic Rabbit Box Theatre, a hidden gem tucked inside Pike Place Market.
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Richard B. Simon reading from his new novel, “The Dolphin Ambassador’s Daughter”
Bright Spider Press presents Richard B. Simon reading from his new novel, “The Dolphin Ambassador’s Daughter” featuring performances by and with Sanae Yamada, The Barry Walker Unit, and Serafima
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The Bad Things with Mister Ink
Seattle’s The Bad Things are known for their eclectic blend of folk, klezmer, punk, and Americana.
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John Coons and Jonah Wheeler, DOUBLE INDUMBNITY
Sparkling chanteuse John Coons and adult performer Jonah Wheeler return to Seattle with a new evening of queer frivolity, original songs, and unhinged mashups
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