Welcome to Your Weekend: Steamrollers, puppets and Heart

Things to do around the Sound this weekend

A toast to summer’s end

Despite what the weather (and a few cranky City Arts staffers) would otherwise suggest, summer’s not completely over. Celebrate the tail end of summer Saturday night at the Parkway Tavern in Tacoma, where they’ll be serving over 35 IPAs and plenty of beef and brats at their annual IPA fest. Connoisseurs, check out their Facebook page for a list of what’s on the menu.

Visual Art

The School of Visual Concepts’ ninth annual Wayzgoose event is Saturday from 1:00pm-6:00pm, celebrating the craft of letterpress printing with events like the Steamroller Letterpress Smackdown that literally involves a steamroller, a letterpress marketplace and an equipment swap, and best of all, attendance is free. (If you haven’t noticed, the Northwest is a pretty lively home for letterpress, just read our cover stories, on letterpress around the region and on the group Beautiful Angle).

Bonus: City Arts design staffer and letterpress artist Robin Kessler will be heading up one of sixteen teams printing 3x4 foot posters with the 2-ton roller to print her "queen of hearts" design from 4:45 to 6:00pm.

Literature

The Jack Straw Writers Program that introduces writers to new audio venues presents new works from local authors throughout the upcoming months, starting tonight (Friday) from 8:00pm to midnight. Tonight, Amber Flame and Michael Dylan Welch will be featured at the SAM Remix at the Olympic Sculpture Park.

Music

For a combination of music and film, head over to the EMP | SFM tonight (Friday) at 7:00pm to see Heart: Night At Sky Church, the footage from Heart’s live show at the EMP back in March, in celebration of the release of their new album Red Velvet Car. Admission is free, but call ahead to reserve tickets.

Theatre

Combine adult humor and unconventional theatre and you get Frankenocchio, a puppet show about a boy with a loose head (literally), who joins a circus full of characters, including a shadow-puppet trapeze artist and a hoochie-coochie girl. This reproduction of a popular cirque noir show runs Thursday through Saturday at 8:00pm through September 4 at the Lee Center for the Arts (901 12th Ave., Seattle).

Image designed by Chandler O'Leary

More events recommendations in these genres are always available in the NOW section of City Arts magazine. Pick up a free copy today.