CHAW on This

Tonight, Capitol Hill officially joins the club, with their first (ever?) Capitol Hill Art Walk at 7-9pm. The CHAW, as people who enjoy smokeless tobacco like to say, will be a monthly First Thursday event, just like the ones in Pioneer Square and Downtown.

Go to the CHAW website to familiarize yourself with the map of all 23 participating venues. There are a few galleries involved, but unlike the old guard of tired-ass neighborhood art walks, this one features lots of less traditional art spaces as well. To steal a succinct paragraph from Nate Lippens:

Geographically, the Capitol Hill Art Walk ranges from lower Pike/Pine up to 15th Ave. The venues include restaurants and coffeehouses (Bauhaus, Aurafice, Rosebud, Cafe Vita, Capitol Hill Internet Cafe, Victrola, Caffe Ladro, and Joe Bar), retail spaces (Lipstick Traces, Edie's, Zebra Club, the Shop, Zero Zero, Black Chandelier, Agent X, Retail Therapy, Retrofit Home, Square Room, and Sal's Barbershop), galleries (Blue Bottle, OlivoDoce, Miner Gallery) and the Capitol Hill Arts Center (CHAC), where the after-party will start at 9:00 p.m. with DJ Curtis on the decks.

Though it's been a few months since we've last gone, our usual art walk of choice is the Pioneer Square version. We have friends with studios on that walk, and perhaps more heading there soon. But despite our sense of obligation as a good friend, we're thinking that if the CHAW ain't bad, we'll probably spend most First Thursdays in Capitol Hill. It pays to have a new art walk in our backyard---that would definitely make things easier in the looming rainy winter months. Ah convenience, how you rule our waking life.