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“There’s no right or wrong way to look at art,” according to arts writer Jas Keimig.   Which is good news because there’s a lot of art at the Telephone exhibit at both locations of Base Camp Studios in Belltown.  Jas explains how the exhibit was inspired by the kid’s game telephone, that game where you tell someone something and then they tell the next person and so on. When the final person has been told, that person says what they heard and everyone compares how the message changed as it was passed along. Jas says the game of telephone exists in different ways all around the world. Since the exhibit spans two different locations, Jas suggests how to approach it. One tip: if Telephone seems overwhelming, think about memes and how often you alter them and send them in the group chat, and how memes can communicate everything from a simple response to more complex feelings. Then, think of the pieces of art in the exhibit as if they were memes.  In other words: whether you realize it or not, you’re playing a version of the game telephone pretty regularly. And the exhibit Telephone is a fun, clever, artist-imagined way of demonstrating how we’re all riffing off each other, all the time.    Also recommended in this episode: Drag performer Dina Martina has been doing her Seattle holiday show for 25 years. Meet Me Here host Jeannie Yandel is a huge fan and says, “Her shows are surreal and hilarious and some of the best, weirdest theater I've ever seen.” The Dina Martina Christmas Show runs from December 5-24 at Union Arts Center.   If you love Meet Me Here and KUOW's other local shows, help us make them! Donate at kuow.org/meet.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend. Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows.  LINKS: Port Gamble Ghost Conference Best of the Northwest Fall Show 2025 - Seattle NW's Largest Garage Sale & Vintage Sale Brew: A Clue-Themed Winter Beer Festival America's Test Kitchen Live at Food Fight with Rachel Belle GeekGirlCon - 15th Year! Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird Light the Forest: Pilchuck Glass School Seahawks vs. Cardinals SIFF Talking Pictures: Ken Jennings presents Quiz Show Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/meet See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There’s no getting around it. It’s here … the big dark. Every year, Northwesterners battle with shorter and shorter days, and longer and longer nights. It’s cold, it’s wet, it’s dark. It’s kind of a bummer. But it doesn’t have to be!  All three Meet Me Here co-hosts join forces to share suggestions for defeating the Big Dark by getting out and immersing yourself in some great local arts and culture events.    The Geometry of Light - Seattle Asian Art Museum Netse Mot: One Heart, One Mind Gathering - The Paramount, Nov 18 A Evening with David Sedaris - Benaroya Hall, Nov 16 Yume Kitasei w/ Katie Campbell on Saltcrop, - Elliot Bay Books, Dec 7 "Holidaze" Black Night Market - Tacoma Armory, Dec 1 and Dec 6 Julefest - Poulsbo, Dec 6 Where’s your favorite place to meet up around arts and culture in the region? Drop us a line at meetmehere@kuow.org.  Got an arts idea you want to pitch KUOW? Email us at arts@kuow.org  Your support helps create shows like Seattle Now, Soundside, and Meet Me Here!  Become a KUOW member today.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend. Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows.  LINKS: Seattle Short King Contest Seattle Kraken vs NY Rangers - Sat 11/1 Short Run Comix Festival Seattle Opera - The Pirates of Penzance Brewallup 2025 Washington State Toy Show Sea-Meow Convention 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs - Seattle vs Minnesota - Mon 11/3 Seattle Kraken vs Chicago Blackhawks - Mon 11/3 Seattle Welcome Day - Tues 11/4 DIA DE LOS MUERTOS: Nov. 1 — El Centro de la Raza Nov. 1 — Phinney Center Nov. 1 — Shoreline Recreation Center Nov. 1 & 2 — Seattle Center Nov. 1 & 2 — Town Hall Seattle (ticketed event) Nov. 2 — Tacoma Art Museum Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/meet See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There’s more to horror than Stephen King and it’s about time we all started reading it. This week we’re hitting the books with Roxanne Guiney, owner of Haunted Burrow Books in Seattle, and local author Sadie Hartmann, aka Mother Horror, about the new era of horror authors and how they're revolutionizing the genre. Plus, we tell you about the book you’ll definitely want to add to your nightstand. And… if you need some help filling that book shaped void, here’s Roxanne, Sadie and Katie’s Recommended If You Liked (RIYL): The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica What Hunger by Catherine Dang The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim The Lamb by Lucy Rose Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered by Sadie Hartmann Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horror’s Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women  by Sadie Hartmann Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark And of course, go to Haunted Burrow Books for Roxanne’s recommendations https://www.instagram.com/hauntedburrowbooks and follow Sadie’s IG for even more recommendations (from, like, a real person…) https://www.instagram.com/mother.horror/  Event recommendations from this week’s episode: Author Susan Orlean, with Claire Dederer on Friday, November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM https://ticketing.townhallseattle.org/events/019861e7-ffac-fb24-c69a-e94753846e32  Where’s your favorite place to meet up around arts and culture in the region? Drop us a line at meetmehere@kuow.org.  Got an arts idea you want to pitch KUOW? Email us at arts@kuow.org  Your support helps create shows like Seattle Now, Soundside, and Meet Me Here!  Become a KUOW member today.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In time, people can be like sequoia trees. That's the premise of the new graphic memoir by artist and writer Jeremy Collins. The memoir is called Eventually A Sequoia: Stories of Art, Adventure and the Wisdom of Giants. In this bonus episode, Jeannie Yandel talks with Jeremy about how ten years of travel became this graphic memoir, and the role time played in his travels and the making of the book.  And yes, actual sequoias -the largest trees on earth - show up in the book too. Jeremy even climbs one. Jeremy will be in town on Monday October 27th to bring audience members into his process of writing and artmaking with an evening of performance art and cinematic visuals. That's followed by a conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning graphic memoirist Tessa Hulls. It starts at 6:30 pm at the Mountaineers Program Center in Seattle.  Eventually A Sequoia with Jeremy Collins and Tessa Hulls, October 27 from 6:30-8:30 pm  Eventually A Sequoia: Stories of Art, Adventure, and the Wisdom of Giants   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend. Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows.  LINKS: Tacoma Holiday Festival Dustin Nickerson at the Neptune Seattle Kraken vs Edmonton Oilers 2025 PSMS Annual Wild Mushroom Show Seattle Coffee Festival AI & Democracy - Women’s University Club SPOOKY STUFF:  Washington State Horror Con Fashionably Undead: The Goopening KEXP Kids' Halloween Dance Party Pumpkin Bash - Woodland Park Zoo The Museum of Fright GWAR | Showbox Presents Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/meet See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Margo Vansynghel sometimes jokes that she’s the harbinger of doom. As the arts economy reporter for The Seattle Times, it's her job is to spell out the connections between the arts and the economy here in Seattle.  She’s written about the Bellevue Art Museum's sudden closure last year. Along with SIFF’s recent announcement that it’s leaving the historic Egyptian theater on Capitol Hill. In this episode, Margo gives us a temperature check on how Seattle arts organizations are doing overall and says it's not time to freak out just yet. She also shares simple, actionable ideas for things we can all do to support Seattle artists and arts organizations.  In this episode we mention: The Seattle Symphony and its new music director, Xian Zhang Seattle’s 13 art walks, in neighborhoods like the Central District, Capitol Hill, Belltown and Hillman City. Along with the mothership art walk, First Thursday Art Walk in Pioneer Square King County’s cultural funding agency, 4Culture The Seattle Public Library’s free museum pass program. Discount tickets to arts organizations, including Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle Rep and Seattle Art Museum.    Local storyteller Emmett Montgomery The classic silent horror film Häxan (1922) at The National Nordic Museum. MORE ON MARGO: For more of Margo’s coverage of the arts and economy check out her articles about unexpected art experiences in Seattle and 12 ways to support the arts in Seattle.  There’s also this visual story Margo wrote that explains 15 ways you can support local arts and artists.  If you’d like to ask Margo for her arts suggestions based on your personal preferences, email: mvansynghel@seattletimes.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend. Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows.  LINKS: SPORTS!! Mariners!! - Thurs/Fri at home, (Sun/Mon in Toronto if needed) Reign vs Utah Royals FC Seahawks vs Houston - MNF! SIFF DocFest - starts Thurs 10/16, ends 10/23 Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair Seattle Oddities & Curiosities Expo 2025 Slack Key Seattle Festival Seattle No Kings - Oct 18 No Kings - FULL MAP Seattle Opera - The Pirates of Penzance Northwest Record Show SPOOKY STUFF: Haunted Skies | The Museum of Flight Hoot 'n' Howl | Northwest Trek Wildlife Park Zoo Boo | Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium Family Mask Workshop at Dabble Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/soundsidenotes Soundside is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Seen any good local movies lately? Take “M3GAN” and “The Boys in the Boat” for example. Two very different movies, very popular, which are set in Seattle, but they were not filmed in Seattle. That happens a lot. In fact, the film industry is largely absent from Washington state. So what can be done to get more local productions off the ground? Well, we’ve got a few film experts on the show today to dive into this issue. Other events: SIFF Downtown screening of Train Dreams - Oct 29th Seattle Film Critics Society PNW Awards - Oct 29 - Nov 23 Oddmall Emporium of the Weird - Nov 8-9 Where’s your favorite place to meet up around arts and culture in the region? Drop us a line at meetmehere@kuow.org.  Got an arts idea you want to pitch KUOW? Email us at arts@kuow.org  Your support helps create shows like Seattle Now, Soundside, and Meet Me Here!  Become a KUOW member today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend. Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows.  LINKS: Tasveer Film Festival SPORTS! Mariners vs Tigers - Game 5 - Fri 10/10 5:08p Seattle Reign - Fri 10/10 vs Bay FC UW Husky Men’s Football - Fri 10/10 vs Rutgers Seattle Sounders - Sat 10/11 vs Real Salt Lake Seattle Kraken - Sat 10/11 vs LV Golden Knights Love Letters writing workshop Roller Boogie at Pier 66 2025 Cascadia Poetry Festival 9 Cider 'n' Gold HAUNTED - Tacoma Art Museum Seattle Meowtropolitan  - Pumpkin Carving Halloween Train Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to https://www.kuow.org/donate/meet  Meet Me Here is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we’re hitting the books with Charlie Hunts, the owner of Charlie’s Queer Books. We’re catching up with this local bookselling bestie smack dab in the middle of banned books week. So, we’ll find out what readers at the store are vibing with and what the stakes are for booksellers during Banned Books Week. Plus, we’ve got banned book themed recommendations galore for you to get through it all.   Book’s that Charlie and readers at Charlie’s Queer Books are loving:  Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle  Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte  Cubs and Campfires by Dylan Drakes  And… if you need some help filling that book shaped void, here’s Charlie and Katie’s Recommended If You Liked (RIYL) : getting through Band Books week at Charlie's queer books. Matilda (1996)  The books of George M. Johnson  Beloved by Tony Morrison  The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Visit and support your local bookstores and libraries Event recommendations from this week’s episode: The Bainbridge Book Festival on October 10th and 11th, Local authors making an appearance include David Gutterson, Moira Macdonald, Sonora Jha, Ijeoma Oluo, Daniel Tam-Claiborne, and  Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum. Get more information at bainbridgebookfestival.org    Where’s your favorite place to meet up around arts and culture in the region? Drop us a line at meetmehere@kuow.org.  Got an arts idea you want to pitch KUOW? Email us at arts@kuow.org  Your support helps create shows like Seattle Now, Soundside, and Meet Me Here!  Become a KUOW member today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend. Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows.  LINKS: Oktoberfest Northwest - Washington State Fair Event Center Oktoberfest - Leavenworth Washington OktoBEARfest - Woodland Park Zoo 2025 Tacoma Greek Festival  OysterFest The Northwest Chocolate Festival U District Chow Down & Street Party HAUNTED HOUSES: Haunted Forest of Maple Valley Nile Nightmares Haunted House - Mountlake Terrace Georgetown Morgue - SoDo My Haunted Forest - Kitsap Stalker Farms - Snohomish Maris Farms Haunted Woods | Haunted Adventure in Buckley, WA Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to https://www.kuow.org/donate/meet  Meet Me Here is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The City of Seattle has invested a massive effort in rebuilding the city’s central waterfront, after removing the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Part of the city’s investment in the waterfront has gone towards public art. We talk with Brangien Davis, arts editor at Cascade PBS, and the host of the Cascade PBS show Art by Northwest. She highlights a few of her favorite art pieces along the new waterfront - and explains why night time is the right time to visit those pieces.  That includes an art installation by artist Ann Hamilton, called “Guests.” It features 42 large scale puppets, suspended from the underside of the pedestrian bridge between the Pike Place Market garage and the screen wall on the new Elliott Way. Brangien calls these new guests “the night puppets” in her excellent newsletter about the waterfront park. Brangien also tells us about three carved cedar sculptures, titled “Family,” created by artist Qwalsius-Shaun Peterson.  Qwalsius-Shaun Peterson is a Coast Salish artist and a member of the Puyallup Tribe who works in wood, glass, metal, and digital media.   Brangien says, “This is a family and represents families that have been in this region for thousands of years.” The trio represents a mother, father and child and the figures stand between 10 and 12 feet tall, not including their bases. The figures face the water and are brilliantly illuminated at night.    Also mentioned in this episode: Roller Boogie at Pier 66, October 10 from 6-10pm; free, all-ages    Xian Zhang is the new music director of the Seattle Symphony. She is also the first woman and the first person of color to direct the Symphony in its more than 120-year history. “Xian Conducts Rachmaninov” on October 2, 4 and 5, at Benaroya Hall.    You can hear an interview with Xian Zhang on this episode of Seattle Now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This summer, the KUOW Book Club read Seattle author and environmental journalist Lynda V. Mapes' love letter to old-growth trees, "The Trees are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests." Mapes traveled across the country, visiting some of the oldest trees we know about and the people who study and protect them. The result was a book that intricately depicts the importance of old trees, the historic harm humans have done to them, and what's being done to reverse that pattern of destruction. Mapes sat down with KUOW Book Club curator Katie Campbell on August 27 in front of a live audience at the Seattle Public Library. They talked about her love for old-growth forests, the people working to save them, and how you - yes, you - can help. This is the third and final conversation the KUOW Book Club hosted in partnership with the Seattle Public Library this summer. Ijeoma Oluo and Kim Fu also participated, and you can find their interviews in the feed. Where’s your favorite place to meet up around arts and culture in the region? Leave us a message at 206-221-6100. Drop us a line at meetmehere@kuow.org.  Your support helps create shows like Seattle Now, Soundside, and Meet Me Here!  Become a KUOW member today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.