Feb. 3-15: Seattle Asian American Film Festival Showcases Local Filmmakers
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THIS WEEK (Feb 3-8, 2014)
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SEATTLE – Join the Seattle Asian American Film Festival for a four-day showcase of films by and about Asian Americans, with an emphasis on filmmakers from the Pacific Northwest. [Details] This program runs from Thursday to Sunday (Feb. 6 to 9) and is supported by a Humanities Washington Spark Grant.
TUESDAY (Feb. 4)
VANCOUVER – Speakers Bureau’s John Marshall, Fire and Forests, East of the Cascade Divide [Details]
THURSDAY (Feb. 6)
Anu Taranath
KENT – Speakers Bureau’s Anu Taranath, The World in Washington: An Exploration of Literature and our Lives [Details]
NEXT WEEK (Feb. 9-15, 2014)
MONDAY (Feb. 10)
LAKEWOOD – Speakers Bureau’s Antonio Davidson-Gómez, Mapping Latino Musical Migrations [Details]
TUESDAY (Feb. 11)
OLYMPIA – Speakers Bureau’s Julia Harrison, A World of Sweets in Washington State [Details]
LYNNWOOD – Speakers Bureau’s Alex Alben, Analog Days: How Technology Changed Our Culture [Details]
WEDNESDAY (Feb. 12)
Eva Abram
YAKIMA – Speakers Bureau’s Eva Abram, Slavery in the Northwest: The Charles Mitchell Story [Details]
BELLEVUE – Speakers Bureau’s Julia Harrison, A World of Sweets in Washington State [Details]
SEATTLE – Speakers Bureau’s Harriet Baskas, Hidden Treasures in Washington’s Museums [Details]
SUNDAY (Feb. 15)
REDMOND – Speakers Bureau’s Peter Donahue, Washington History and Historical Fiction [Details]
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND – Speakers Bureau’s Lorraine McConagy, Territorial Voices: A Civil War Reader’s Theater [Details]
SUNDAY (Feb. 16)
Elizabeth Austen, the 2014-16 Washington State Poet Laureate
SEATTLE – Washington State Poet Laureate reading The Passing of the Laurel: Elizabeth Austen and Kathleen Flenniken [Details]
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND – Speakers Bureau’s Lorraine McConagy, Territorial Voices: A Civil War Reader’s Theater [Details]
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