While we recently learned that camel jumping is popular sport in the far off land of Yemen, we weren’t aware it’s also practiced in Seattle. Thanks to zenobia_joy for capturing this Bactrian leap on the grounds of the Asian Art Museum. Continue reading Glimpses: “camel vault”
March is upon us, but it’s still blustery, rainy, and cold outside. Luckily, Seattle’s got plenty of live classical music to keep you warm while we all hunker down and wait for spring to arrive. Continue reading What We’re Hearing This Month: Classical Music Picks for March
You have just a few days left to see the “Painting Seattle: Kamekichi Tokita and Kenjiro Nomura” exhibit at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. The exhibition closes February 19, and, accompanied by the adjacent exhibition, “Looking West, Finding East,” it offers visitors a potent vision, corrective and celebratory, of less-illuminated street corners in Seattle’s past. (I believe if you go to see SAM’s Gauguin exhibition, your ticket stub will also get you into SAAM for up to a week after.) Continue reading In the world, immigrants move to and fro / Trying to let their homelands go
It’s an idea whose time has come, which makes sense, as the Bollywood Panorama Outdoor Film Series is sponsored by Seattle Asian Art Museum’s Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas. (The four Friday screenings are set to happen at the Volunteer Park amphitheatre unless it rains, in which case they’ll take place inside the museum.)
Excitingly, the outdoor film festival comes with food trucks on July 22 and July 29: I Want Curry Now will pull up on both dates,with a side of Sweet Treats on July 22. Continue reading Coming Soon: Outdoor Bollywood Film Fest at SAAM
