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The Must List: Georgetown Carnival, Pepe Le Pew Takes Over EMP
What to do in Seattle this weekend
By Seattle magazine staff June 11, 2015
Must Ramble
Georgetown Carnival Hits the Streets
Saturday (6/13, times vary) Head south to the one-of-a-kind Georgetown neighborhood for the annual street festival, featuring live music, food trucks, interactive art, carnival acts and the always thrilling if slightly deranged power tool races.
Must Kill the Wabbit
Bugs, Daffy and Pepe Le Pew at EMP
(6/13 to 1/17/16, times vary) Celebrate EMP’s 15th birthday with the new exhibit What’s Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones, featuring original sketches, films, storyboards and photos from the man behind the thuperbly thilly cartoons.
Must Hike
4 Local Hikes for Beginners
The forecast promises another weekend of stunningly sunny weather—hooray! Consider getting out and taking a hike at one of these easy-to-moderate local trails.
Must Dance
Get Down at the Seattle International Dance Festival
(6/12 to 6/28, 4 to 10 p.m.) Punctuating two performance-packed weeks, the dance festival’s free Art on the Fly event in South Lake Union (6/13) features flash mobs, roving choreography and widespread support for dancing in the streets.
Must Hear
Killer Whales Book Launch and Reading
Tuesday (6/16, 7 p.m.) In David Neiwert’s latest book, Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us, the Seattle journalist and author pulls together 25 years of observation and reporting on those black-and-white beauties that feature heavily in Northwest symbolism and history.
Follow Us
Feeding Ghosts to Free Them
Artist Tessa Hulls creates a revealing graphic novel to help her deal with childhood trauma
Seattle artist Tessa Hulls’ new graphic novel Feeding Ghosts is a deeply stirring narrative of loss, mental illness, and intergenerational trauma. She says that she wrote it to answer this question: What broke my family? Much of the book is about repetition, and how three generations of women in Hulls’ family were emotionally crippled by
