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Unique opportunities for visitors to engage with the museum's collections while enjoying live performances of music, dance, spoken word and more. Our dynamic After Hours programs include Art for All, SAM Remix, Art of Jazz, SAM Word, and My Favorite Things.
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Bringing together some of the most compelling thinkers on a given cultural subject, Pivotal Perspectives is a timely and innovative forum addressing pressing issues in art and society. Participants include artists and designers, critics, curators and scholars, among others.
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The Creatively Speaking series provides a forum for artists to explain the philosophies underlying their work and for audiences to ask the questions they rarely have the opportunity to ask.
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Intimate and personal in nature, SAM Salons present an opportunity to converse with artists and cultural producers as they reflect on specific artwork, mediums and art movements that have informed and influenced their work in some way.
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Taking the Pulse features a wide range of styles, genres and disciplines. Performances are presented at all three SAM locations and are accompanied by discussions among artistic collaborators.
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For more than thirty years, the Seattle Art Museum has been the site for some of the most innovative film programming in the country. In addition to the popular and long-running film noir series, SAM screens films that explore a diverse cross-section of artists and genres.
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Learn more about the world around you by way of SAM’s three museum sites. Each workshop delves into the artistic, practical or quirky processes at work in our daily lives.
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Learn more about SAM’s collections and exhibitions from curators and local experts. From October through June, these morning lectures are scheduled on the first Friday of every month, when seniors age 62 and over are admitted to SAM installations for free and to special exhibitions at a reduced price. Lectures are held in the Plestcheeff Auditorium at SAM Downtown beginning at 11 am and last between 45 minutes and one hour.
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Experience the living art of chado, “the way of tea,” in the superbly crafted teahouse on the Third Floor at SAM Downtown. Hosted by the Urasenke Foundation, tea ceremonies occur twice a month on the second Tuesday at 11 am and the third Sunday at 2:30 pm from October to May. Seating is limited and reservations are required. To reserve your space, please call the SAM Box Office at 206.654.3121.
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Seattle’s oldest arts organization presents an afternoon of classical music performed by club members and special guests. Performances are 60 minutes long and occur on the first Friday of the month at 1 pm at SAM Downtown and on the third Saturday at the Seattle Asian Art Museum from October to May.
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Explore aspects of the Olympic Sculpture Park with local experts. These monthly walks are led by organizations that specialize in the environment, land management, art and architecture, natural and cultural history, and ecology and ecosystems of the Puget Sound area.
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Designed to help visitors make the most of their experiences, these tours and gallery talks are at once insightful and critical. Topics and times for tours and gallery talks vary by site: SAM Downtown, the Seattle Asian Art Museum and the Olympic Sculpture Park.
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