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Arts & Entertainment, Dance, Music, Visual Arts

A SAM Remix for European Masters and Downton Abbey Fans Alike

Emma Hart as “The Spinstress,” ca. 1784-85, by George Romney
(Oil on canvas, 68 5/8 x 50 5/8 in.) Kenwood House, English Heritage; Iveagh Bequest (Photo: American Federation of Arts)

Everyone’s favorite museum party is back, as SAM Remix once again fills the Seattle Art Museum with art-loving revelers for after-hours fun. Tonight’s edition of the quarterly event celebrates (and includes admission to) the new exhibit Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London, which opened just a few weeks ago.

Advance tickets are all sold out, so if you didn’t have some purchased as of yesterday, you’ll want to head down early to get in line for the 200 tickets available at the 1st and University museum entrance when the museum opens its doors at 8 p.m.–not to mention the free tickets for the first 50 folks who show up donning faux feathers.

Because this is going to be a posh night, darlings, an evening filled with conversation and performances. There will be soul, pop, and hip hop care of TRUST/Sun Tzu Sounds’ DJ J-Justice and global beats from DJ Jaymz Nylon, not to mention burlesque from the Atomic Bombshells, a sprinkling of Seattle Shakespeare Company actors, and live baroque and early classical music in the galleries.

And of course, you’ll have to get your arts and crafts on by making wigs, designing brooches, and fashioning fascinators. I’ve always wanted to go on one of the My Favorite Things: Highly Opinionated Tours. Or give your own renegade version. It’s all part of a different way to experience the museum, and it is going to be MAHRvelous.

The SunBreak will be among the cast of characters at tonight’s event live-tweeting the festivities. Be sure to follow @iheartsam and @thesunbreak and check out all the action at #SAMRemix.

Arts & Entertainment, Literature, Theatre

Seth Suggests Seateeth by John Osebold

The one City Arts Fest event I’ll be sure to hit this weekend: Seateeth, the new production by Stranger theater genius John Osebold.

I thought about emailing John to ask him some background about the production, but thought better of it, partially because City Arts already did, but also because of this: Much of the fun of Osebold’s shows is that you never know what to expect.

The most recent Jose Bold show I saw was his Christmas show, which ended up being a ton of songs (some funny, some sad, all beautiful) only tangentially related to Christmas, set to a bunch of old weird videos from The Prelinger Archives.

Then there was Spidermann, his parody of the dangerous Broadway musical. I missed that, but here’s how The Stranger described the show’s opening:

Projected onto a large screen, over darkness, the words ‘Jose Bold’ with botanical flourishes blossoming in the corner. Then a lens flare wipes the screen clean. Then ‘presents.’ Then in big, shapely, inspiring, timeless red letters, moving slowly up the screen, one at a time, S-P-I-D—eeeeeeeeeeerp!—an error sound over an error screen, a long awful beep over ‘PLEASE STAND BY,’ and then a janky white screen with Spidermann written in what looks like the clumsy square paintbrush on MS Paint.

As for Seateeth, as you’ll see from the trailer above, who knows? Osebold says the inspiration came from reading his first Haruki Murakami novel, and from seeing a giant whale skeleton at Honolulu’s stellar Bishop Museum. He describes Seateeth as “the Jose Bold version of a literary reading,” which is like saying “the Lady GaGa version of a three-piece suit”–it raises more questions than it answers. I don’t want to ruin the show for myself or for you by trying to figure it out. Go and enjoy as the mystery is revealed.

Seateeth plays Thursday October 20 and Saturday October 22 at Theatre Off Jackson, at 10:30 p.m. both nights, as part of City Arts Fest. (Tickets). Osebold will reprise the show Friday, October 28, as part of SAM Remix, at 9:45 p.m. in the Porcelain Room.