Saturday 6/8
Arts & Mayhem: Sun and Smoke
The weather has finally turned to favor outdoor festivals, and your average gallery show can feel a bit stuffy when it’s so nice outside. Thus the appeal of the Georgetown Art Attack, which is a mostly outdoor affair. Of course there is art, with new local work on view at Calamity Jane’s, Krab Jab Studio, Equinox, Nautilus, and beyond. But the day’s real focus will be on live music (15 bands on three stages), family fun (stilt-walkers, aerialists, tall bikes, and brass bands), beer (with burlesque performers at Georgetown Brewing), and the competitive DIY mayhem of the HazardFactory Powertool Drag Races. To be held in the parking lot behind Jules Maes (980 S. Nebraska St.), these races are always guaranteed to thrill kids (and overgrown kids) with noisy, unreliable Frankenstein contraptions hurtling down the wooden track or—as is often the case—crashing or exploding off the track in a satisfying tangle of metal, sawdust, and burning electrical cords. Besides pure speed, entrants will be judged in the vacuum-cleaner category and other divisions, including “Death Race” and “Sparklepony”; style and destruction count as much as stopwatch times. The vibe is like a tabletop Burning Man, with racers fashioned from old skill saws, belt sanders, eggbeaters, kitchen blenders, and more. For many ingenious entrants, the races are an opportunity to empty the attic or tool shed, a chance to take something already half-broken and finish the job. The races start at noon, as will the ceremonial reopening of the renovated Georgetown Playfield, featuring councilmember Sally Bagshaw and other city dignitaries. Downtown Georgetown (Airport Way S. from Bailey to Lucile), georgetowncarnival.com. Free. Noon–8 p.m.
BRIAN MILLER
Soccer: Roller-Coaster
Who knows which Seattle Sounders will show up for this weekend’s match: the team that opened the MLS season with a five-game winless streak, or the one that followed that with five games without a loss (two of them four-goal blowouts)? The one that beat one of Mexico’s best teams in March, or the one that lost in the single-elimination Open Cup tournament (10 minutes ago, as I write this) to the lower-division Tampa Bay Rowdies? Who can tell? It’s been a gruelingly bipolar season of gobsmacking victories and defeats both. Their record, and the fans’ spirits, look like the stripe on Charlie Brown’s shirt. One thing’s for sure: Winning back the Cascadia Cup, a three-way rivalry among us and our nearest MLS neighbors, is more vital than ever for the club’s pride. A defeat of the Vancouver Whitecaps tonight would start the healing. CenturyLink Field, 800 Occidental Ave. S., soundersfc.com. $25–$115. 7:30 p.m.
GAVIN BORCHERT
Sunday 6/9
Dance: Final Reprise
Whether you’re hoping to revisit a favorite dance or catch up on some of the work you missed this year, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Encore program is an evening of high points, celebrating the end of its 40th-anniversary season. Alongside a generous helping of Balanchine (excerpts from Concerto Barocco, Agon, and Diamonds) and samples from two of PNB’s newest dances by Kiyon Gaines and Paul Gibson, the bill features work by Kent Stowell, Ulysses Dove, and Jean-Christophe Maillot—whose balcony scene from Romeo et Juliette will be excerpted. The company has had an extraordinary year, and this will be a fabulous finale. McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St., 441-2424, pnb.org. $28–$168. 6:30 p.m.
SANDRA KURTZ
Monday 6/10
Film: Trial by Fury
The Passion of Joan of Arc begins the Silent Movie Mondays series with an alternative to the familiar style of American silent moviemaking. Ostensibly a chamber piece dramatizing the French girl soldier’s trial by jury of angry “holy men” (who’re playing politics rather than dealing in faith), this is a silent symphony of faces unlike anything else made at the time. As portrayed by Maria Falconetti (in her only screen appearance), this Joan is a suffering saint, but also a teenage girl spiritually molested by a cabal of scheming clerics. It’s an odd match for organist Jim Riggs, an affable veteran who prefers rollicking improvisation to prepared scores, but Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 film is a thrilling cinematic experience on the big screen. The camera leaps into startling close-ups, rocks like a pendulum as the crowds rise in anger, and lingers on delicate details. The three-film series continues with the quietly introspective Japanese drama Apart From You by Mikio Naruse and the sweeping romantic adventure A Throw of Dice, an exotic adventure that marries German craftsmanship with Indian artistry and lore for a magnificent, bigger-than-life production. (Through June 24.) The Paramount, 911 Pine St., 877-784-4849, stgpresents.org. $5–$10. 7 p.m.
SEAN AXMAKER
