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The Bushwick Book Club Seattle presents Original Music Inspired by Banned Picture Books

A favorite target of would-be censors nationwide—even the ever-charming Where’s Waldo? was one of the ALA’s 100 most challenged titles of the 1990s—picture books like And Tango Makes Three and George Takei’s They Call us Enemy introduce ideas about tolerance, self-expression, and difference with simple language and exuberant illustration. Circle up for uncensored story time!Performers

Works in Progress (In-Person)

Works in Progress is Hugo House's open mic series inclusive of diverse formats and storytelling crafts. Read your work—poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, plays, music, comedy, and more—and connect with our literary community! Works in Progress is a low-pressure, welcoming environment for readers and guests of all skill levels and literary experience. We especially encourage BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, and

Free

Ambrosia Zine’s Dreams

Dreams is Ambrosia Zine’s sixth volume of quarterly zines featuring local poets, visual artists, photographers, and more. Come listen to featured poets’ lingering dreams, subconscious goals, and more. Ambrosia Zine prioritizes QTPOC artists and poets local to the greater Seattle area.Doors open at 7p, The House bar will be open to serve alcoholic and non-alcoholic

Three Pacific Northwest Poets: Laurie Blauner, Richard Robbins, and Patricia Clark

Hugo House welcomes three poets with deep roots in the Pacific Northwest. Laurie Blauner, Richard Robbins, and Patricia Clark all studied with PNW legends Richard Hugo and Madeline DeFrees at the University of Montana. They are eager to share new work. The readings will be followed by a brief Q+A.This event is free and open

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DUNE Mini-Comics Night

DUNE* Mini-Comics Night is where folks are invited to create the contents of a black and white, 5.5” x 8.5” printed anthology within a limited amount of time, in one evening with no prompts or themes. Create whatever you want but it must be physical and finished by the end of the night.An exclusive edition

Noveltease Theatre’s Rhythm & Rhyme

Rhythm & Rhyme is Noveltease Theatre's cabaret series pairing burlesque, poetry, and live music. Each salon focuses on a different poetic movement or theme, with a rotating cast of burlesque performers, bands, and featured poets to bring salacious sonnets, ribald rhymes, and comely cantos to life in an atmosphere of frivolity and intellectual curiosity. Featuring:Ruby MimosaSneaky

Works in Progress (In-Person)

Works in Progress is Hugo House's open mic series inclusive of diverse formats and storytelling crafts. Read your work—poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, plays, music, comedy, and more—and connect with our literary community! Works in Progress is a low-pressure, welcoming environment for readers and guests of all skill levels and literary experience. We especially encourage BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, and

Free

DUNE Mini-Comics Night

DUNE* Mini-Comics Night is where folks are invited to create the contents of a black and white, 5.5” x 8.5” printed anthology within a limited amount of time, in one evening with no prompts or themes. Create whatever you want but it must be physical and finished by the end of the night.An exclusive edition

Write with Hugo House with Jeanine Walker

In this group, we’ll focus on generative writing through poetry prompts. The session will begin with introductions and a short warm-up, after which we’ll read two separate poems and write in response to those. At times writers will be invited to create community through sharing words or ideas with other writers in small groups. Attendees

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The Bushwick Book Club Seattle presents Original music inspired by The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea

Informed by years of research and banned in Arizona upon publication, Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway paints a harrowing portrait of America’s boiling border deserts and the determined migrants who attempt the crossing. So effective was Urrea’s research, in fact, that it became the first book banned in Arizona for being “satanic” and “un-American.”Event

Works in Progress (In-Person)

Works in Progress is Hugo House's open mic series inclusive of diverse formats and storytelling crafts. Read your work—poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, plays, music, comedy, and more—and connect with our literary community! Works in Progress is a low-pressure, welcoming environment for readers and guests of all skill levels and literary experience. We especially encourage BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, and

Free

Cara Stoddard reading and Q&A

A story of kinship, queerness, and the secrets of the body in the wake of illness and loss.Spirography is a coming-of-age memoir about the bond between a father and daughter, their intertwined illnesses, and the enduring love that persists even after death. This memoir follows author Cara Stoddard's intersecting experiences of cancer, grief, and sexuality,

Free

DUNE Mini-Comics Night

DUNE* Mini-Comics Night is where folks are invited to create the contents of a black and white, 5.5” x 8.5” printed anthology within a limited amount of time, in one evening with no prompts or themes. Create whatever you want but it must be physical and finished by the end of the night.An exclusive edition