Movie, March, Toga on Saturday
This Saturday offers at least three ways to make a difference in Seattle, or at least look like you care whilst furthering your own selfish interests.
Start things off at the Egyptian Theater for the SIFF volunteer meeting from 10am to noon. This is your best opportunity to learn about all the different jobs that you can do to pitch in for the festival. It's also a good way to get a few good hints about the film line-up for this year's fest. Considering the list won't be out till a month from now, it's prime time for reconnaissance. And considering all the free movie perks of being a SIFF volunteer, that ain't so bad neither. You can sign up to offer your services at Shiftboard, or just show up to the meeting tomorrow morning and sign up there.
Next up, head down to Pioneer Square for an environmental march with all the other hippies.
Be part of a national movement - the climate movement! Join thousands of your neighbors for a collective voice calling for solutions to global warming! And let us be a voice for wildlife, too! This Saturday, April 14th, thousands of concerned citizens will march through downtown Seattle as part of Step It Up, a national movement to promote solutions to address the root causes of climate change. On that day, people just like you in hundreds of cities all across the nation will participate in a day of action to address the problem of global warming. Together, we will call on our elected officials to take bold action to reduce global warming pollution.
The march starts at 2pm at Occidental Park (Occidental Ave S and S Main St) and ends at Myrtle Edwards Park (3130 Alaskan Way W) in Seattle. Apparently, your fearless leader will be dressed in a Ranger Rick costume, so look for the raccoon with the green helium balloons. If you want to skip all that walking and just get to the speechifying, the rally at Myrtle Edwards Park will begin at 4pm, with speakers including Ron Sims, Greg Nickels, Reverend Lisa Domke, and KC Golden of Climate Solutions. Immediately following the rabblerousing until 6pm will be the Solutions Fair, featuring live music, art, and sustainable energy groups. What do you get out of this, besides saving the earth? Hippie chicks are way easy. Hairy, but easy. Seriously, those intense activist dudes are up to their ears in pussy. RSVP here.
After all that do-gooding, you deserve a party, and the Washington Ensemble Theatre's got one for you. It's in celebration of WET's final play of the season, Ellen McLaughlin's Iphigenia in Aulis, opening May 18 and running through June 11. Since Iphigenia replaced the delayed-till-next-season Hedda Gabler, the fête combines the two into one theme: The (not Hedda) Toga Party. So sez WET: "It's going to be a bit of a release party for Iphigenia (hence the togas) and part fundraiser for the company - and ALL PARTY. We're talking music, wine, barefoot grape-crush dancing, and of course toga! toga! toga!" Nuff said. The party's at the Little Theater, starting at 7pm, tickets $10 at the door if you come in a toga, $15 without. Tickets include drinks all night, so it's win-greeking-win.
