Get Out Tonight: People Talking and Singing at Town Hall Seattle
True confessions time: We've never set foot in 826 Seattle. We think we might have seen the building once, at night, while driving somewhere else.
We'd turn in our hipster license, but as Seattlest Jeremy notes, "parenthood remains the antidote to hipness." We've never been all that hip, but we are writers, we (used to) read McSweeney's, and we've been aware of Seattle's hippest educational center, 826 Seattle, since before it opened.
We just chose to support their efforts to teach kids to be film critics and NaNoWrimesteres on the inside. And, more recently, to help our own little word nerd memorize the collected works of Dr. Seuss before she turns two and a half.
No longer: Tonight, we're ditching our own kid and giving back to the community. We're going to the third annual People Talking and Singing fundraiser, and so should you. There will be Dave Eggers, Todd Barry, Sasha Frere-Jones (he reviews music for the New Yorker, another magazine we don't have time to read anymore!), Rosie Thomas, and Geologic of Blue Scholars. They will, we suspect, talk and sing, perhaps not in that order.
You can get in on the action: Tickets are available at the door, and run $35 to $100 (cash or check only). Your admission will help some local 6- to 18-year-old learn to deploy metaphors, drill through writer's block, or overthrow the stylistic tyranny of Strunk & White and get in touch with their authentic voice.
See you there. Doors open at 6:30, show starts at 7:30.
PS: There's a silent auction!
