Talks & readings in Seattle

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Friday, November 27

Live at the Eleanor: Pretty Gritty Tours

8:00 PM PSTRoosevelt Room - Tacoma Armory

Monday, November 30

Book Club – Wrecked Romantasy

7:00 PM PSTSwoon City

Tuesday, December 1

David B. Williams and Lyanda Lynn Haupt: Author Talk

7:30 PM PSTTown Hall Seattle — The Wyncote NW Forum

Wednesday, December 2

Collections—A Live Magazine and Public Club

6:00 PM PSTHugo House — Lapis Theater

Subduction Cascadia Poetry Salon

7:00 PM PSTVermillion

A John Waters Christmas

8:00 PM PSTNeptune Theatre

Thursday, December 3

Your Aging Memory: Salvaging a Precious Faculty

1:00 PM PSTEdmonds Library - Sno-Isle Libraries

Talking About Race When the Conversation Gets Hard

7:30 PM PSTTown Hall Seattle — The Wyncote NW Forum

The Moth StorySlam

8:00 PM PSTFremont Abbey Arts Center

Friday, December 4

Nick Martino w/ Ally Ang

7:00 PM PSTElliott Bay Book Company

Saturday, December 5

North Sound Outdoor Leadership Conference

7:00 AM PSTThe Mountaineers — Seattle Program Center

From Stone to Steel: Seattle Style from Then 'til Now

10:00 AM PSTMutual Life Building

Seattle Field Guide Author Talk

1:00 PM PSTSeward Park Audubon Center

Sunday, December 6

Cascade of History: Live Broadcast

7:30 PM PSTTown Hall Seattle — The Wyncote NW Forum

Tuesday, December 8

8:00 PM PSTTheatre Off Jackson

Wednesday, December 9

Nepantla: Exploring Chicano Art

6:00 PM PSTGreen Lake Branch - The Seattle Public Library

Psychedelics and the Reimagining of Older Age

7:30 PM PSTTown Hall Seattle — The Mehdi Reading Room

Thursday, December 10

Art History Lecture Series | To Light a Single Candle

11:30 AM PSTFrye Art Museum

Bikes & Brews Series: Bikepacking the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route with Emma Agosta and Brian Starlin

6:00 PM PSTThe Mountaineers — Seattle Program Center

Disease and Underwater Medicine

Time TBASeattle Aquarium

Saturday, December 12

Backyard Forests and Wildlife with Master Gardener Bill Slater

12:00 PM PSTSultan Library - Sno-Isle Libraries

Saturday University: Lecture

2:00 PM PSTSeattle Asian Art Museum

Sunday, December 13

EXHIBIT+SPEAKER | Author/Photographer Lloyd Wolf, “A Joyful Noise: Klezmer in Motion”

2:00 PM PSTStroum Jewish Community Center

Advent Lessons & Carols

5:00 PM PSTSt Luke's Memorial Episcopal

Advent Lessons & Carols

5:30 PM PSTEpiphany Parish of Seattle — Church

City Council Budget Workshop

6:30 PM PSTCity of Puyallup

Tuesday, December 15

Emergency Preparedness: Resilience

6:00 PM PSTBainbridge Public Library

SJCC Book Club: “Enormous Wings” + Author Laurie Frankel

6:30 PM PSTStroum Jewish Community Center

Wednesday, December 16

Haunted Holiday

7:30 PM PSTSeattle Public Theater

8:00 PM PSTNeptune Theatre

Year in Review 2026

All dayTown Hall Seattle

Thursday, December 17

Burke Book Club | The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

6:45 PM PSTBurke Museum of Natural History and Culture

Saturday, December 19

Diamonds & Gold: The Art Deco Skyscraper Northwest Style

10:00 AM PSTFairmont Olympic Hotel, Seattle

Sunday, December 20

Engayging in Sapphistry: A Book Club

2:00 PM PSTRedmond Library

Monday, December 21

Longest Night Service

6:30 PM PSTSeattle First Baptist Church — SFBC Hintz Chapel

Thursday, December 31

NYE Labyrinth Walk with Midnight Eucharist

6:00 PM PSTSaint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral

Wednesday, January 6

Subduction Cascadia Poetry Salon

7:00 PM PSTVermillion

Thursday, January 7

Power to the People: An Evening with Aaron & Elmer Dixon

5:00 PM PSTthe Metropole

Saturday, January 9

The Bushwick Book Club Seattle: Homer’s The Odyssey

7:30 PM PSTThe Royal Room Seattle

Sunday, January 10

National Geographic Live: Beauty Beyond the Frontlines

2:00 PM PSTBenaroya Hall

Monday, January 11

National Geographic Live: Beauty Beyond the Frontlines

2:00 PM PSTBenaroya Hall

Tuesday, January 12

National Geographic Live: Beauty Beyond the Frontlines

2:00 PM PSTBenaroya Hall

Wednesday, January 13

Long Lost: 8,000 Miles Across America’s Triple Crown Trails

6:00 PM PSTRedmond Library

The Squatters Dilemma: Global Housing Lessons for Local Housing Problems

6:30 PM PSTKenmore Community Club

7:00 PM PSTElliott Bay Book Company

Thursday, January 14

Art History Lecture Series | The Perseus Myth in Art

11:30 AM PSTFrye Art Museum

Saturday, January 16

All Over The Map: Stories Behind the Names of Washington Places and Things

1:00 PM PSTMaple Valley Historical Society Museum — All Over The Map: Stories Behind the Names of Washington Places and Things

Tuesday, January 19

January SJCC Book Club: “Always Carry Salt”

6:30 PM PSTStroum Jewish Community Center

Wednesday, January 20

Shoreline: Funeral Options Presentation (Public)

1:30 PM PSTShoreline Senior Center

Bikes and Brews Series- Bikepacking in the Wallonia region of Belgium with Eric Voboril

6:30 PM PSTThe Mountaineers — Seattle Program Center

Talking to God in the Whirlwind: A Sufferer’s Wisdom in the Book of Job

6:45 PM PSTSaint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral — Bloedel Hall

In the Range of Fire & Ice: Washington’s Cascades

7:00 PM PSTSpanish Ballroom at Elks Temple

Thursday, January 21

Burke Book Club | Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast

6:45 PM PSTBurke Museum of Natural History and Culture

The Office of Public Lecture presents: An Evening with Hasan Piker

7:00 PM PSTTown Hall Seattle

ILVS STRAUSS: Ñ (ENYE)

7:30 PM PSTOn the Boards

Friday, January 22

ILVS STRAUSS: Ñ (ENYE)

7:30 PM PSTOn the Boards

Saturday, January 23

ILVS STRAUSS: Ñ (ENYE)

7:30 PM PSTOn the Boards

Wednesday, January 27

Author Study: A Year of Reading Toni Morrison

4:00 PM PSTFolio: The Seattle Athenaeum

Saturday, January 30

Heart of Glass: Art and Innovation at 2100 Degrees

3:00 PM PSTBainbridge Island Museum of Art — BIMA

Tuesday, February 2

6:30 PM PSTElliott Bay Book Company

Wednesday, February 3

Subduction Cascadia Poetry Salon

7:00 PM PSTVermillion

Thursday, February 4

Watch What Crappens

8:00 PM PSTNeptune Theatre

Thursday, February 11

Art History Lecture Series | Pioneering American Women Photographers

11:30 AM PSTFrye Art Museum

Psychedelic Salon: Moving Through Middle Age

7:30 PM PSTTown Hall Seattle — The Wyncote NW Forum

Sunday, February 14

National Geographic Live: Saving Nature's Symphony

2:00 PM PSTBenaroya Hall

Monday, February 15

National Geographic Live: Saving Nature's Symphony

2:00 PM PSTBenaroya Hall

Tuesday, February 16

National Geographic Live: Saving Nature's Symphony

2:00 PM PSTBenaroya Hall

Wednesday, February 17

7:00 PM PSTSpanish Ballroom at Elks Temple

Thursday, February 18

The Strange Link Between Shark Attacks and Voting Behavior

1:00 PM PSTEdmonds School District

Burke Book Club | Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility

6:30 PM PSTBurke Museum of Natural History and Culture

From Awe to Action: Gather the Waters

7:30 PM PSTTown Hall Seattle — The Wyncote NW Forum

Saturday, February 20

Meditation and Mindfulness with Steve Wilhelm

3:00 PM PSTKitsap Regional Library, Poulsbo

Artists Panel for Booking: Artists’ Books by Black Artists | Part 2

10:00 PM PSTBainbridge Island Museum of Art

Tuesday, February 23

7:00 PM PSTMcMenamins Anderson School — Haynes' Hall

Tuesday, March 2

SJCC Book Club: Polarized by Dr. Roberta Kwall

6:30 PM PSTStroum Jewish Community Center

Convenience Store Woman

6:30 PM PSTElliott Bay Book Company

Wednesday, March 3

Subduction Cascadia Poetry Salon

7:00 PM PSTVermillion

Disrupt or Default: Getting to Affordable Health Care

All daySeattle Unity — Parkview Event Center

Friday, March 5

HYBRID: How Whiskey Won Washington

12:00 PM PSTSeattle Yacht Club

Potluck & Talk: Nigel Foster on Kayaking Around Iceland

6:00 PM PSTTacoma Program Center

Sunday, March 7

Choral Evensong

4:30 PM PSTSaint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral

Thursday, March 11

Art History Lecture Series | Land Art

11:30 AM PSTFrye Art Museum

Psychedelic Salon: Psychedelics in Recovery

7:30 PM PSTTown Hall Seattle — The Wyncote NW Forum

Saturday, March 13

Co-reactors or Co-creators?: Christic Life in an Unfinished Universe

9:00 AM PSTSaint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral — Bloedel Hall

Wednesday, March 17

How Whiskey Won Washington

1:00 PM PDTKent Senior Activity Center

Thursday, March 18

Burke Book Club | Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

6:45 PM PDTBurke Museum of Natural History and Culture

Thursday, March 25

Every Castle, Ranked

Time TBAErickson Theatre

Saturday, March 27

AUTHOR + CONCERT | Indie Musician Alicia Jo Rabins’ Spiritual Memoir

7:30 PM PDTStroum Jewish Community Center

Thursday, April 1

Power to the People: An Evening with Aaron & Elmer Dixon

5:00 PM PDTthe Metropole

Roberta Kwall: Polarized: Why American Jews are Divided and What to Do About It

7:00 PM PDTStroum Jewish Community Center

Tuesday, April 6

6:30 PM PDTElliott Bay Book Company

Wednesday, April 7

Subduction Cascadia Poetry Salon

7:00 PM PDTVermillion

Thursday, April 8

Art History Lecture Series | The Munich Secession

11:30 AM PDTFrye Art Museum

Psychedelic Salon: Modern Men

7:30 PM PDTTown Hall Seattle — The Wyncote NW Forum

Saturday, April 10

The Bushwick Book Club Seattle: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony

7:30 PM PDTThe Royal Room Seattle

Sunday, April 11

National Geographic Live: Weird World of Frogs

2:00 PM PDTBenaroya Hall

Monday, April 12

National Geographic Live: Weird World of Frogs

Time TBABenaroya Hall

Tuesday, April 13

National Geographic Live: Weird World of Frogs

Time TBABenaroya Hall

Monday, April 19

Strangers, Friends, and Lovers: A Night Out with Esther Perel

7:00 PM PDTMarion Oliver McCaw Hall

Wednesday, April 21

7:00 PM PDTSpanish Ballroom at Elks Temple

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