The Weekend List: The arts and culture guide to Seattle's good life

Miranda July, out-of-the-box opera, Seattle Symphony gets all youthy and UW undergrads strut their stuff.
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The Seattle Youth Symphony will play "Side-by-Side" with the Seattle Symphony in a free concert Jan. 25

Miranda July, out-of-the-box opera, Seattle Symphony gets all youthy and UW undergrads strut their stuff.

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The Ballad of Ishtar *

Some of the most out-of-the-box creatives in town — Heather Bentley, Beth Fleenor, Ahamefule J. Oluo, Wayne Horvitz, Evan Flory-Barnes and okanomodé — will assemble for what is being billed as an electro-acoustic, semi-improvised opera about the worldwide rape culture crisis. Twelve musicians in a performance about chaos, the ugly side of humanity and the Babylonian goddess of sex and war.  If you go, I so want to hear what you think.

More on the opera's creation can be found here:

If you go: The Ballad of Ishtar, Chapel Performance Space, Jan. 22 through 24 ($5 to $15) — F.D.

UW Dance Faculty Concert

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Joseph Sutton-Holcomb

Joseph is a full-time landscaper, part-time journalist and full time culture junkie discovering the hidden joys of life as a UW graduate in Seattle. When not taking care of plants or writing, he spends his time in the company of good friends enjoying film, music and the great outdoors.