Events this weekend in the South Seattle area
Friday, August 21st
Movies: Opening Day of American Ultra– Details: A fast-paced action comedy about Mike, a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive. –Time:4:40pm, 7:00pm,9:20pm-Where: 4816 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98118. More Info: www.arklodgecinemas.com
Movies: Skyway Outdoor Cinema: Guardians of the Galaxy– Details: Preshow starts at 8pm featuring Paisley The Clown twisting up a balloon storm, Sparky The Fire Dog, giveaways & trivia, Luchador Taco Co. & Full Tilt Ice Cream trucks, movie at 9pm with raffle to follow. We'll be showing Guardians of the Galaxy: A group of intergalactic criminals are forced to work together to stop a fanatical warrior from taking control of the universe. –Time: 8:00pm- 11:30pm –Where: Behind the 7-Eleven on Renton Ave S, in the US Bank parking lot at 12610 76th S, Seattle, WA 98178. More Info: Click Here
Community: Meat Raffle– Details:Every Friday, come on down to the Skyway VFW post for your chance to get a great deal on fresh meat! "Meat" some new friends and save some grocery money. Your dollars help support our great VFW Post and all of the charitable work they do for our vets and our community.-Time: 4:00pm- 7:00pm –Where: Skyway VFW Post 9430: 7421 South 126th Street Seattle, WA 98178
Movies: Beacon Hill Meaningful Movies: On Paper Wings– Details: During World War II, the Japanese military developed a new weapon intended to strike directly at the American continent—the balloon bomb. Thousands of hydrogen-filled balloons were attached to bombs and then launched into the jet stream to drift toward North America. When six civilians found a balloon bomb in southern Oregon (near Bly), the device exploded. They became the only people killed on the continental US as the result of enemy action during World War II. "On Paper Wings" is the story of four Japanese women who worked on the balloon bombs, the families of those killed in Oregon, and the man whose actions brought them all together forty years after World War II and the balloon bomb project. Free movie, free popcorn!-Time: 7:00pm- 9:00pm –Where: Garden House: 2236 15th Ave S Seattle, WA 98144. More Info: www.beacon-arts.org
Community: Seattle Catholic Worker Drop-In Center– Details:All are welcome for food, coffee, good conversation or just a dry, warm place to be.–Time: 9:00m- 12:00pm –Where: Hillman City Collaboratory: 5623 Rainier Avenue South Seattle, WA 98118
Music: The Lamar Lofton Trio– Details: Upright bass, guitar, drums, beautiful dirty old Jazz & Blues.Time: 9:00pm-Where: Jude's Old Town: 9252 57th Avenue S Seattle, WA 98118- More Info: 206-353-0773 (Jude's Old Town)
Health: ROAR Farm Stand– Details: Join us Friday evenings, June 12th to September 25th, for the weekly ROAR farm stand at the Hillman City P-Patch! Come listen to music, enjoy the beautiful weather, meet your neighbors and purchase some locally grown veggies! Roots of All Roads (ROAR) is a mobile farm stand connecting communities with locally grown produce, facilitating education and creating opportunities to come together through the shared experience of food and nourishment. –Time: 5:00pm- 7:00pm –Where: Hillman City P-Patch: 4613 S Lucile Street, Seattle, WA 98118- More Info: r.tefft@communityartscreate.org
Music: Who is John Smith– Details:Who Is John Smith is Yaw Amponsah and James Whetzel. They play new West African palm wine music on guitar, vox, high hat, and rumba box. Palm wine music is the original acoustic music that is the roots of highlife music, which is in turn the roots of afro-beat. This is the album release party for their first album "Go To Fly". For the performance at The Royal Room they'll play as a duo and also as a quartet with two additional percussionists. They will be joined for the evening by Ghanaian traditional group Anokye Agofomma, and the Congolese rumba fusion group Eckaman and Super Mokako Time: 9:00pm-Where: The Royal Room Seattle 5000 Rainier Avenue South Seattle – More Info: www.theroyalroomseattle.com
Saturday, August 22nd
Community: Life Skills to Work: Career Readiness Training Program– Details: The Life-Skills-to-Work (LSW) process provides students with the Learn-to-Learn & Cognitive Behavior skill-sets needed for successful transition from prison & jail back to the community. The course work emphasizes practical skills development, assessment tools and application for successful education, training, employment and family reintegration student outcomes.-Time: 8:15am- 2:50pm –Where:New Holly Learning Center 7058 32nd Avenue S. – 2nd floor of the Learners Building Seattle, WA 98118- RSVP: Joseph.Garcia@seattlecolleges.edu
Music: Urban Mix 101 presented by Itech 4 Life Solutions– Details: An intro to the fundamentals of Digital Audio Recording and Music production. Students will be familiarized with the Protools(DigiDesign) work environment as well as the Reasons workspace. Students will also be introduced to an analog mixing console and learn how the digital and analog systems correlate in a typical recording environment. Students will be able to create a unified mix on CD with both vocals and instrumentation by the course's end.-Time: 1:00pm- 3:00pm –Where: Africatown Center for Education & Innovation 3100 S. Alaska St. Seattle, WA 98108- More Info: www.africatowncenter.org
Music: The Ukadelics– Details: Seattle's best kept ukulele secret, take the stage with the force of a runaway pineapple truck and heats up your event like a tropical sunset! From quaint beginnings, strumming for friends at an annual backyard Luau, The Ukadelics now play regularly around town for private parties and themed events. Their repertoire is a range of classic "hapa-haole" Hawaiian songs like Blue Hawaii and Tiny Bubbles to show stopping lounge favorites such as Secret Agent Man and I Wanna Be Like You (from The Jungle Book). Though primarily a uke driven ensemble, The Ukadelics creatively employ a wide variety of percussive instruments as well as a guitar, Hawaiian slide guitar, bass, and nearly a dozen different ukuleles. -Time: 9:00pm-Where: The Royal Room Seattle 5000 Rainier Avenue South Seattle – More Info: www.theroyalroomseattle.com
Sunday, August 23rd
Community: Community BBQ and ROAR Farm Stand– Details: Join us Join us outside in at the Hillman City Collaboratory garden for our weekly summer neighborhood potlucks and Purchase locally grown produce at the Roar Farm Stand! –Time: 5:00pm- 7:00pm –Where: Hillman City Collaboratory: 5623 Rainier Avenue South
Music: Family Gathering w/ Triplifried– Details: Triplifried is a trio of Seattle's finest including D'Vonne Lewis, Andy Coe and Evan Flory-Barnes. The Family Gathering will be a chance for Triplifried to invite many special guests to join in on the music making fun in a family friendly atmosphere. No cover. The musicians are compensated by your donations. –Time: 1:30pm-Where: The Royal Room Seattle 5000 Rainier Avenue South Seattle – More Info: www.theroyalroomseattle.com
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