Wednesday, December 1st

• An evening of TreeStories, all in honor of Seattle trees @ Good Shepherd Center
• HAIR‘s faux hippies (clue: they show up on time) sing about peace and love @ the Paramount
• Two more days to see grown men cry about petits fours in bakery competition doc Kings of Pastry @ NW Film Forum
• FREE with RSVP (info at deliseattle dot com) and free drinks care of Batch 206: Nudie Jeans and Deli throw an opening party for holiday shop, with a DJ set by Golden Filter @ Moe Bar

Thursday, December 2nd

• Screening of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, followed by a Q&A with film critic Alonso Duralde, here to promote his hilariously informative holiday film guide, Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas @ Central Cinema
• Brave the winter for a first Thursday art walk @ Pioneer Square
• Pan Pacific Hotel Seattle and local area merchants take part in a South Lake Union neighborhood pet-friendly holiday celebration, hosted by John Curley, and benefiting the Seattle Humane Society @ 2200 Plaza
• Opening night of Dayna Hanson’s newest performance (through 12/5), the dance-driven rock musical Gloria’s Cause @ On the Boards
• Good for the Jews are a returning comedy favorite @ the Triple Door
• Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams, from the UW’s Department of Scandinavian Studies, talks about “August Strindberg and the Occult Societies of Paris in the 1890s” @ the Frye Art Museum

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Friday, December 3rd

• Mad Rad is having an album release party at the venue that once banned them from Party Mountain @ Neumo’s
• In Alamar (running through 12/9), along the Mexican Coast, a father imparts fishing wisdom on his young son and brings him into the trade @ SIFF Cinema
  • The Great Figgy Pudding Street Corner Caroling Competition is a fundraiser for the Pike Market Senior Center/Downtown Food Bank and lots of well-sung holiday carols @ Westlake Center
  • Ithaca I’ll Never See, a new devised theatre piece from Basement Theatre Co., opens @ Washington Ensemble Theatre
  • NextFest NW, a festival of Seattle’s top contemporary dance artists, opens @ Velocity Dance Center
  • BASH Theatre‘s production of Nikolai Erdman’s suppressed classic The Suicide opens @ Freehold Theatre
  • SAM curator Josh Yiu introduces you to the work of Wang Huaiqing @ SAAM

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Saturday, December 4th

• Blue Scholars headline the Redhook “Rad Winter Party,” where entry fee includes two drink tickets @ the Crocodile
• Gamelan Pacifica celebrates their new album of Indonesian music @ Cornish PONCHO Concert Hall
• Shabazz Palaces, Vetiver, Fruit Bats, Wolf Eyes, A-Frames, and others play a benefit show for the Andy Kotowitz Family Foundation @ Showbox
• Another crazy-good lineup with Shenandoah Davis, Cataldo, Ivan & Alyosha, Thousands @ Columbia City Theater
• Young Professionals International Network (YPIN) throws the World Affairs Council holiday party with food, folks, and international relations @ Little Red Studio
• The Books & Black Heart Procession, rescheduled from the Moore @ Neumo’s
• Post Alley Film Festival features a day of female-made films @ Central Cinema
• HERE/NOW, the seventh installment of improvisational pairings of dancers and musicians, goes up @ Open Flight Studio
• FREE: Concert Opera of Seattle performs arias and duets from the Russian opera The Queen of Spades @ the Seattle Downtown Public Library

Sunday, December 5th

• For one night only, English jazz fusion guitarist John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension @ Jazz Alley
• Opening night for the Weird and Awesome with Emmett Montgomery variety show, set to run through 12/19 @ Annex Theatre
• Les Savy Fav wants to get out of here, but first they’ll put on a great show @ Neumo’s
• FREE: Tour the convertible floor and more @ the Paramount
• FREE FOR KIDS: Book-It Repertory Theatre presents The Prince of the Pond: Otherwise Known as De Fawg Pin (5 and up) @ the Seattle Downtown Public Library
• The Hope/Crosby Road to Utopia is showing (through Dec. 9) @ the Grand Illusion

Monday, December 6th

• NextFest NW moves down the block from Velocity with an evening of dance film @ NW Film Forum

Tuesday, December 7th

• The Billy Joe Show Extravaganza of Classic Holiday Music, Burlesque and Sing-alongs with Billy Joe Huels, the Jingle Berry Band, and The Heavenly Spies @ Triple Door
• Ex-Joy Divisioner Peter Hook presents Unknown Pleasures @ the Showbox
• Have a bit of burlesque with your lunch, as Ms. Mischievous Magical Claus is hitting the trapeze for lunchtime performances (through Dec. 16th) @ the Pink Door