Vive le France! Croissants. Crepes. Pain au chocolat. Fruit tarts. French fries.
Oui, oui!
The Seattle French Fest is 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. March 20 at the Seattle Center Armory.
You don’t have to speak French to partake.
The free event by France Education Northwest has kids activities, cooking demos, seminars, wine tasting with complimentary nibbles, music, theater, dance, book sale and “best baguette” contest. There’s also a career expo with companies seeking French speakers and workshops led by employment pros.
More at: www.fenpnw.org.
Risque: “Through The Looking Glass: The Burlesque Alice in Wonderland” is March 23 through 27 at The Triple Door, 216 Union St., Seattle.
Verlaine &McCann’s re-imagination of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale follows Alice as she discovers what wonders lie beyond the velvet rope at Wonderland’s most exclusive nightclub, The Looking Glass, and tries to best the evil Queen of Hearts to become the next Queen of Wonderland. Well, you get the picture…
Tickets are $35-$50. For more, go to VerlaineandMcCann.com.
A world class concert: Seattle Symphony offers the West Coast premiere of Scheherazade.2 by John Adams, with violinist Leila Josefowicz, 7 p.m. March 19 and 8 p.m. March 20 at Benaroya Hall, 200 University St. Tickets and information are at www.seattlesymphony.org.
Arguably America’s greatest living composer, Adams returns to Seattle to conduct his newest violin concerto, which he wrote for Josefowicz.
The title of the piece is a nod to Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic poem about a young woman who delays her certain death by telling a long string of stories to her new husband, a Persian king who has a history of executing his young wives lest they bring him dishonor. Disturbed by violence against women, Adams set out to compose Scherehazade.2, a portrait of a fearless woman confronting oppression.
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