There are loads extra suave methods to mark MLK Day throughout the town.
At Seattle Artwork Museum, it’s your final likelihood to expertise the highly effective exhibit Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue (by means of Jan. 22), that includes work by two of probably the most celebrated photographers working right this moment. In additional than 100 pictures taken from the Nineteen Seventies by means of the current, the artists reveal how the lives of bizarre Black individuals — whether or not hugging, hanging out, or studying the newspaper — are imbued with longstanding societal points round race, class, gender and energy.
Included are a number of photographs from Bey’s “Birmingham Mission,” which he created a decade in the past to commemorate the sixteenth Road Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed 4 women in 1963. These putting side-by-side photographs characteristic two portraits: one in every of an individual the identical age as one of many victims, and the opposite of an grownup 50 years older, the age the kid would have been if she’d survived.
At City Corridor, Seattle’s personal Bushwick E book Membership presents authentic dwell music based mostly on the New York Instances bestselling novel Crimson on the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson (Jan. 14, 7:30 p.m.). Set within the 2000s however with a timeline that stretches from the the Tulsa race bloodbath of 1921 to the musical heyday of Prince, the ebook follows two interwoven households and divulges how historical past by no means actually stays up to now.
And on KEXP Radio, the twenty third annual Expansions MLK Unity Celebration (Jan. 15, 6 p.m. – Jan. 16, 2 a.m.) celebrates the civil rights icon with a dwell broadcast from the Clock-Out Lounge. The present begins with DJ Supreme La Rock spinning Sunday Soul, and continues with DJ Riz, Child Hops and Brit Hansen — all enjoying music in homage to Dr. King. In-person tickets are bought out, however you may nonetheless tune in and switch it up.
