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Plus, the new ‘Femme Noire’ outdoor exhibit in Seattle’s Central District celebrates Black women artists from all over.

After a three-year hiatus, Seattle’s music and arts festival is reborn with extreme pogo sticking, performance rituals, a cat circus and an emphasis on local bands.

Plus, finger paintings pop at SAM and the Seattle Design Festival spawns a ‘giggle prism’ in SLU.

Plus, embrace humanity with arts, cultural and film festivals in Tacoma, Vashon, Bainbridge and Seattle.

The musician, composer and community-builder creates genre-blending sounds and inclusive spaces.

Film noir at SIFF, an Afghan arts festival, a Brazilian carnival and a pop-up Black history museum.

Up-and-coming Seattle bands, Temptations: the musical and the PNW's first-ever disability-focused comedy festival.

A burlesque Nutcracker, ghost-busting in the Georgetown Steamplant, and a host of humorous holiday shows.

The art of Indigenous tattoos, the return of beloved comics festival Short Run and neon sculptures in the woods.

Four film festivals (queer, Latino, doc, and horror), plus romantic opera, Sorkin’s take on ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ a Chihuly tour, and much more.

Jazz on Jackson Street, riot grrrl power at Marymoor Park, Indigenous futurism in movement, and more.

As the opioid crisis intensifies, nightlife venues, concert spaces and festivals are recognizing that being prepared could save lives.