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February 3, 10, 22 30TH ANNIVERSARY: BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE $9 GA / $6 OFS Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are totally cool high school friends who are starting a band. Only the unimpeachable treachery of a history class stands in their way. If they fail, the threat of military school could […]
November 30 – December 13 WILDLIFE 14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry—a housewife and a golf pro—in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job—and his sense of purpose—he decides to join the cause of fighting […]
Thursday, November 29th THE BRIDGE MUSIC PERFORMANCE: FLOWCASE FREE ADMISSION – Donations accepted at the box office day of show or directly to The Bridge Music Project 6pm doors / 7pm show Over the course of eight weeks this fall, local youth learned how to create collaborative songs. At the conclusion of the program, participants recorded […]
Tuesday, December 11 – KNKX presents KNKX Holiday Jam and Live Broadcast 2018 6:00pm doors / 7:00pm show FREE ADMISSION 88.5 KNKX continues its tradition of bringing yuletide cheer to the Northwest with a concert of music for the season—incorporating some of the area’s best jazz students and regional jazz musicians. The KNKX Holiday Jam and […]
Saturday, November 3 – The Stranger presents Dan Savage’s HUMP! 7:00pm doors / 8:00pm show $20 General Admission / $17 OFS The HUMP! Film Festival has been bringing audiences a new kind of porn since 2005. The festival features short dirty movies—each less than five minutes—all created by people who aren’t porn stars but want to […]
November 23 – 28 TEA WITH THE DAMES What happens when four legends of British stage and screen get together? Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Dame Joan Plowright are among the most celebrated actresses of our time, with scores of iconic performances, decades of wisdom, and innumerable Oscars, Tonys, Emmys, […]
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 – 35th Annual Olympia Film Festival 20TH ANNIVERSARY: THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO Post-film Q&A w/ THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO writer and director Whit Stillman Moderated by Diana Arens, MPA 7:00pm doors / 8:00pm film Alice is such a Scorpio. The Last Days of Disco bridges the carbonated euphoria of music […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 – 35th Annual Olympia Film Festival DAMSELS IN DISTRESS Post-film Q&A w/ DAMSELS IN DISTRESS writer and director Whit Stillman Moderated by Ned Hayes 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm film Led by Whit Stillman’s deliciously sardonic and lemon-wrung dialogue, Damsels in Distress revolves around a troupe of mannered students whose expectations are to […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 – 35th Annual Olympia Film Festival HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING 3:30pm doors / 4:00pm film Love and Happiness reverberating behind a blinking bulb in a nameless yard. Sweat hitting the concrete like pop rocks. The moon sizzling like wet pancake batter. Pollen and rustling leaves. Comprised of intimate and unencumbered moments of […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 – 35th Annual Olympia Film Festival THE BLACK AND THE GREEN on 16mm Introduction by Violet Lucca 2:00pm doors / 2:30pm film Director St. Clair Bourne’s celebrated film documents a conversation between activists. The meeting, held in Ireland, explores similarities between the Black American and Irish liberation strugle. Dir. St. Clair Bourne […]