Town Hall Seattle

Melissa Rossi: What Every American Should Know About the Middle East

2009-01-06T03:30:00Z

Vagabond travel writer and erstwhile resident of Seattle (where she wrote for the Seattle Weekly), Melissa Rossi brings the latest edition of her popular What Every American Should Know... series with a crash course on the Middle East. Rossi offers a clear analysis of the issues playing out in the region, delving into the country's history, politics, economy, and religions. Having traveled through the area over the past year, she examines the U.S.'s geopolitical moves and how our presence has affected the region's economic and political development. Rossi is also the author of an unauthorized biography of Courtney Love, Queen of Noise. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life, with University Book Store.

Tickets are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com, 800/838-3006 and at the door beginning at 6:30. Town Hall members receive priority seating.

Future of Health: William Hanson: The Edge of Medicine

2009-01-07T03:30:00Z

What if cancer could be diagnosed by just smelling it? Dr. William Hanson, author of The Edge of Medicine, explains now an electronic nose can do just that. Hanson, Director of Surgical Intensive Care at University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, describes how medical technology has the potential to change—and save—lives. He offers intimate true-life accounts illustrating the cutting edge of biotechnology—including computer health wizards which will advise and prescribe on home computers, wheelchairs operated by reading electrical brain waves, and the future of surgical robotics. Presented as part of the Future of Health Lectures with Kim Ricketts Book Events, Bastyr University, and PCC Natural Markets.

Tickets are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com, 800/838-3006 and at the door beginning at 6:30. Town Hall members receive priority seating.

ParentMap presents: Preschool Preview Night

2009-01-08T01:30:00Z

ParentMap gathers 30 area preschools under one roof providing parents an opportunity to compare programs, ask questions, and find the right fit for you and your child.

Free, no tickets required. Visit www.parentmap.com or call 206/709-9026 for more information.

KBCS presents: Robin & Linda Williams

2009-01-11T03:30:00Z

Performing a blend of bluegrass, folk, old-time, and acoustic country music, instrumentalist and singer-songwriters Robin and Linda Williams appear with Their Fine Group. They debuted on A Prairie Home Companion in 1975, and as half of The Hopeful Gospel Quartet, they have collaborated on several CDs with Garrison Keillor and were featured in the 2006 Robert Altman film A Prairie Home Companion.

Tickets are $25/$22 KBCS Members. Tickets and information at www.kbcs.fm and at Dusty Strings.

Science: Steven Johnson: 'The Invention of Air'

2009-01-13T03:30:00Z

Bestselling author Steven Johnson (The Ghost Map, Everything Bad Is Good for You, and Mind Wide Open) is back with The Invention of Air, a compelling narrative of world-changing ideas, genius, violence and friendship in the midst of sweeping historical change. It is the story of Joseph Priestly—scientist and theologian, friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson—an eighteenth-century radical thinker who played pivotal roles in the invention of ecosystem science, the discovery of oxygen, the founding of the Unitarian Church, and the intellectual development of the United States. Presented as part of the Seattle Science Lectures, with Pacific Science Center and University Book Store.

Tickets are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com, 800/838-3006 and at the door beginning at 6:30. Town Hall members receive priority seating.

Bishop Gene Robinson: 'In The Eye of the Storm'

2009-01-13T03:30:00Z

Gene Robinson, Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire and the first openly gay bishop in the world wide Anglican Communion, talks about his personal story as told in his recent memoir, In The Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God, and his message of full inclusion. Presented by the Diocese of Olympia, Integrity Puget Sound, and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church.

Tickets are $15/$10 students and seniors at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006. Visit www.saintandrewsseattle.org for more information.

Future of Health: Cherie Calbom: Juicing

2009-01-14T03:30:00Z

Known as “The Juice Lady,” clinical nutritionist Cherie Calbom is author of sixteen books including the best-selling Juicing for Life. Her latest, Juicing, Fasting, and Detoxing for Life describes how juicing vegetables provides concentrated nutrition that is found in virtually no other source including vitamins, minerals, enzymes, phytochemicals, and antioxidants. Calbom, who earned her MS in nutrition from Bastyr University, where she now serves on the Board of Regents, will speak about how juices, smoothies and soups made from vegetables can help promote alkaline balance and weight loss, strengthen the immune system, and cleanse the body and soul. Presented as part of the Future of Health Lectures with Bastyr University and PCC Natural Markets.

Tickets are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com, 800/838-3006 and at the door beginning at 6:30. Town Hall members receive priority seating. Downstairs at Town Hall, enter on Seneca Street.

Malcolm Gladwell: 'Outliers'

2009-01-18T03:30:00Z

With his beguiling blend of storytelling and academic social science, Malcolm Gladwell (Tipping Point, Blink) is back with Outliers, an examination of why some people are so accomplished, while so many more never reach their potential. Gladwell asserts that environmental factors such as the role of culture, work ethic, and accidental opportunity are as important as intellect and talent in shaping the lives of extraordinary men and women. Presented with Elliott Bay Book Company.

ALL REMAINING TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE DOOR BEGINNING AT 6:30 PM. $5 CASH OR CHECK ONLY.

RESCHEDULED Early Music Discovery: Orpheus' Lyre

2009-01-18T21:00:00Z

Seattle-based harpist Maxine Eilander is one of the world’s leading specialists in Renaissance and Baroque harp. She performs on three historical instruments tracing 250 years of music for harp featuring works by Mudarra, De Huete, Trabaci, Frescobaldi, C.P.E. Bach, and others.

Tickets are $10/$5 seniors & students. Visit www.earlymusicguild.org or call 206/325-7066 for more information.

Inauguration Day Viewing Party

2009-01-20T17:00:00Z

The historic nature of Barack Obama’s presidency and his oratorical ability all but guarantee his inauguration will be one for the ages. If you weren't among the lucky 250,000 Americans to score a ticket, join us at Town Hall and watch the historic event on a big screen in the company of friends, neighbors, and the community. We’ll open the doors at 8:30 am (coffee, tea and pastries available for purchase), and just like our Election Night event, it’s free! Presented by Town Hall Center for Civic Life.

Free, no tickets required. Please register at www.brownpapertickets.com (no calls).

From Odetta to Obama: Celebrating a Changing America

2009-01-21T03:30:00Z

On the historic occasion of the inauguration of Barack Obama, and as a tribute to the life and career of Odetta, the famed folk singer whose passionate performances reflected the yearning for a new American dream, Town Hall presents a special gala concert featuring the extraordinary voice of jazz legend Ernestine Anderson. Hosting the evening is performer/disc jockey, KEXP’s Riz Rollins (DJ Riz). Joining them are blues singer Chic Street Man, traditional Negro Spirituals from The Sound of the Northwest, and the joyful gospel vocals of the Imani Fellowship Choir. The evening will begin with a big screen rebroadcast of Obama’s inauguration speech at 6:30 pm. Doors open at 6 pm.

Tickets are $5 and available at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006 and at the door.

TownMusic: Seattle Chamber Players' 'From Moscow to the Silk Road'

2009-01-25T04:00:00Z

Seattle’s leading contemporary chamber ensemble, the Seattle Chamber Players, returns to Town Hall for the first of a two-day festival of folk-inspired music by leading contemporary composers. Dedicated to Russia, the first day of the festival includes performances by the Seattle Chamber Players, together with two leading Russian ensembles, members of the Dmitry Pokrovsky Russian Folk Music Ensemble and the Opus Posth string orchestra, led by the world-renowned violinist Tatiana Grindenko. The program features works by Vladimir Martynov, Alexander Raskatov, and Vladimir Nikolaev.

The members of the Pokrovsky Ensemble and Opus Posth are participating in workshops, discussions, and presentations, including sessions and commentary on folk music performance techniques within different genres of contemporary music.
For more information on these community activities visit www.seattlechamberplayers.org or call 206-286-5052.

Advance tickets are $18/$15 Town Hall members, seniors & students only at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006. $20/$17 at the door. More information at www.seattlechamberplayers.org.

TownMusic: Seattle Chamber Players' 'From Moscow to the Silk Road'

2009-01-26T03:00:00Z

The second day of the festival features works by Ramin Heydarbeygi and Alireza Mashayekhi (Iran), Artur Avanesov (Armenia), Elmir Mirzoev (Azerbaijan) and Mahir Cetiz (Turkey), as well as the Seattle premiere of a new composition by Giya Kancheli (Georgia).

Advance tickets are $18/$15 Town Hall members, seniors & students only at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006. $20/$17 at the door. More information at www.seattlechamberplayers.org.

Ken Robinson: Human Capacity

2009-01-27T03:30:00Z

Ken Robinson is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity and innovation who works with Fortune 500 companies, governments, and educational systems on ways to create environments that enhance talent and learning. In The Element: A New View of Human Capacity Robinson identifies the point where the activities individuals enjoy and are naturally good at come together. He illustrates the importance of nurturing talent and understanding how it expresses itself differently in every individual, emphasizing the importance of mentors and reforming education. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life, with University Book Store.

Tickets are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com, 800/838-3006 and at the door beginning at 6:30. Town Hall members receive priority seating.

Matt Miller: 'The Tyranny of Dead Ideas'

2009-01-28T03:30:00Z

America is at a crossroads and our economy is about it face its most severe test in nearly a century. In The Tyranny of Dead Ideas, Matt Miller overturns orthodoxies of the right and the left—including free trade is always good, employers should be responsible for health coverage, taxes hurt the economy, schools are a local matter, money follows merit—and offers fresh insights that can contribute to reinventing American capitalism and democracy for the twenty-first century. Miller is senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a contributing editor at Fortune, and host of NPR’s Left, Right & Center. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life, with Elliott Bay Book Company.

Tickets are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com, 800/838-3006 and at the door beginning at 6:30. Town Hall members receive priority seating.

World Affairs Council: Paul Krugman

2009-01-29T03:30:00Z

2008 Nobel Laureate in economics and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman delivers a talk on the economic outlook for 2009 and beyond. In response to the current financial crisis, Krugman’s prescient 1999 book, The Return of Depression Economics, has been updated and re-released (The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008) and is included in the price of a ticket. The World Affairs Council will also honor the 2008 recipients of its World Citizen (Karen Kodama) and World Educator (Bob Mazelow) awards.

Tickets (including book) are $55/$35 WAC members and students. Visit www.world-affairs.org or call 206/441-5910 for tickets and more information.

Future of Health: Dalton Conley: Elsewhere Society

2009-01-29T03:30:00Z

Social scientist and writer Dalton Conley is best known for his contributions to understanding how socioeconomic status is transmitted across generations. His latest research focuses on the round-the-clock connectivity and multitasking that are reshaping the most basic patterns of work, family, and values. In Elsewhere, U.S.A. he connects our new social realities with sociological changes and examines how technology has altered how we earn and spend money. Presented as part of the Future of Health Lectures, with Bastyr University and PCC Natural Markets.

Tickets are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com, 800/838-3006 and at the door beginning at 6:30. Town Hall members receive priority seating.

Film, Music and Jewish American Experience

2009-01-30T03:30:00Z

As part of “Jewish in America,” Town Hall and the Seattle Jewish Film Festival join together for a special program on the role film and music play in Jewish American life. Speakers include members of the Zmiros Project—Frank London, Lorin Sklamberg and Rob Schwimmer, singer Joshua Nelson, and others, along with four short musical films.

Free, no tickets required. Downstairs at Town Hall, enter on Seneca Street.

Global Rhythms: Jewish in America

2009-02-01T04:00:00Z

Town Hall and the AJC Seattle Jewish Film Festival present Jewish in America, a gala concert of music and song celebrating the Jewish American experience. Featured artists include the Pacific Northwest debut of The Zmiros Project, mystical Jewish music performed by the trio of trumpeter Frank London and singer/accordionist Lorin Sklamberg, founders of the internationally famed klezmer band The Klezmatics, with keyboard and theremin virtuoso Rob Schwimmer. Joining them are Joshua Nelson, along with his ensemble, who blends his African American and Jewish identities into a unique “kosher gospel” sound; and a suite of Sephardic ballads from Greece and Turkey by noted Seattle artists Rubina and Marcos Carmona of Carmona Flamenco, and Madeleine Sosin of Correo Aereo, who perform together for the first time. There will be a pre-concert talk at 7:20 PM on Sephardic song and zmiros by rabbi and cantor Simon Benzaquen. The Jewish in America concert is the anchor event in five days of community activities that also include lecture-demonstrations, films, and children’s programs. Jewish in America is the fifth annual “In America” program in which the performance traditions of a particular culture are explored in-depth, part of Town Hall’s Global Rhythms series.

Advance tickets are $22/$19 Town Hall members, students & seniors at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006. $25/$22 at the door.

Saturday Family Concert (Sunday edition): Klezmer Music and Yiddish Song

2009-02-01T19:00:00Z

Frank London and Lorin Sklmaberg, founders and members of The Klezmatics, New York's most famous Klezmer band, along with noted keyboard player Rob Schwimmer, perform a special Sunday edition for young audiences of new and traditional Klezmer music and Yiddish songs. Appropriate for children 5-10. Presented with Seattle International Children’s Festival.

Free tickets for kids 12 and under with accompanying adult/$5 for adults. No children admitted without adults; no adults admitted without children. Tickets required for both children and adults and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006.

Saturday Family Concert (Sunday edition): Klezmer Music and Yiddish Song

2009-02-01T21:00:00Z

Science: Mario Livio: 'Is God a Mathematician?'

2009-02-03T03:30:00Z

Author of the best selling The Golden Ratio, internationally known astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the power of mathematics to explain the both physical universe (cosmology) and human behavior (cognitive sciences) in his latest book Is God a Mathematician? Livio also takes on the question of whether mathematics is a creation of the human mind or a virtual world awaiting discovery, just as astronomers discover previously unknown galaxies. Presented as part of the Seattle Science Lectures, with Pacific Science Center and University Book Store.

Tickets are $5 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com, 800/838-3006 and at the door beginning at 6:30. Town Hall members receive priority seating.

Film Screening: 'Access Denied?

2009-02-06T03:30:00Z

Produced by Emmy-winning producers/directors Jon Alpert and Matt O’Neill, Access Denied? The Fight for Corporate Accountability is a new documentary from the nonprofit group Alliance for Justice. The film tells the story of Diana Levine, a Vermont musician who lost her arm due to improper drug labeling, and the bigger story of the legal issues of federal pre-emption—the presumption that if a medical drug or device has FDA oversight and approval, it precludes a personal from filing in state court for damages. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life and Alliance for Justice.

Tickets are $5 at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006, and at the door beginning at 6:30 pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.

Gilbert & Sullivan: 'Die Fledermaus'

2009-02-07T03:30:00Z

The Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society returns for the third annual Hans Wolf Operetta Series, this time featuring the most beloved masterwork of the operetta form, Die Fledermaus by "waltz king" Johann Strauss, Jr. The intoxicating comic operetta (The Bat) premiered in Vienna in 1874 and has remained an audience favorite since that time.

Tickets are $27/$25 senior/$15 student at 206/682-0796 or www.pattersong.org

Gilbert & Sullivan: 'Die Fledermaus'

2009-02-08T03:30:00Z

Town Hall Seattle

Melissa Rossi: What Every American Should Know About the Middle East

Future of Health: William Hanson: The Edge of Medicine

ParentMap presents: Preschool Preview Night

KBCS presents: Robin & Linda Williams

Science: Steven Johnson: 'The Invention of Air'

Bishop Gene Robinson: 'In The Eye of the Storm'

Future of Health: Cherie Calbom: Juicing

Malcolm Gladwell: 'Outliers'

**RESCHEDULED** Early Music Discovery: Orpheus' Lyre

Inauguration Day Viewing Party

From Odetta to Obama: Celebrating a Changing America

TownMusic: Seattle Chamber Players' 'From Moscow to the Silk Road'

TownMusic: Seattle Chamber Players' 'From Moscow to the Silk Road'

Ken Robinson: Human Capacity

Matt Miller: 'The Tyranny of Dead Ideas'

World Affairs Council: Paul Krugman

Future of Health: Dalton Conley: Elsewhere Society

Film, Music and Jewish American Experience

Global Rhythms: Jewish in America

Saturday Family Concert (Sunday edition): Klezmer Music and Yiddish Song

Saturday Family Concert (Sunday edition): Klezmer Music and Yiddish Song

Science: Mario Livio: 'Is God a Mathematician?'

Film Screening: 'Access Denied?

Gilbert & Sullivan: 'Die Fledermaus'

Gilbert & Sullivan: 'Die Fledermaus'

RESCHEDULED Early Music Discovery: Orpheus' Lyre