Happy Memorial Day
 

Town Hall's administrative and production offices will be closed on Monday, May 27, in observance of the Memorial Day holiday.

In this benefit for the Charlie Staadecker for Mayor campaign, internationally acclaimed violinist Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg and pianist Kimberly Russ of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra perform a recital introduced by SSO Conductor Emeritus Gerard Schwarz, who also talks with Sonnenberg regarding her repertoire.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013, at 7:30pm. $5.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013, at 2:00pm & 6:00pm. Free.

These free public sessions on the EPA's proposed $305 million cleanup plan for the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund Site begin with an open house followed by a presentation, Q&A, and audience members’ oral comments.

This exploration of the relationship between stable families, growing brains, and a child’s ability to learn features Seattle molecular biologist John Medina, author of the bestselling Brain Rules for Baby; William Bell, president and CEO of Casey Family Programs; and moderator Jack Faris, a member of Seattle Children’s Research Institute Advisory Board.

In this double feature, UW researcher Makrand Sinha explores the P vs. NP question, one of computer science’s biggest unsolved mysteries, which asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified by a computer also can be quickly solved by a computer, and Jingda Wu explains how NCQD could let us print our own solar cells.

Double feature!
Thursday, May 30, 2013, at 7:30pm. $5. 

In explaining why digital efficiencies haven't made us all rich, virtual reality research pioneer Jaron Lanier, author of Who Owns the Future?, presents paths to getting us back on track, advocating revolutionary concepts such as monetizing data now treated as cost-free, an idea that just might save our economy—and our human dignity.

Seattle Peace Chorus’ spring concert features music from Canto General, the epic work for which Chilean poet Pablo Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Seattle Jewish Chorale concerts always present stories of encouragement and signs of hope: This year, the choir sings of travel, and of the courage, persistence, and grace it requires.

Dick Falkenbury, writer of the initiative approved by Seattle voters in 1996 to “build, operate, and maintain” a 40-mile, citywide monorail and author of Rise Above It All, tells the story of the movement behind the failed monorail project.

Monday, June 3, 2013 at 7:30pm.
Free, but reservations suggested.

KUOW Weekday host Steve Scher moderates an in-depth discussion among seven of Seattle’s 2013 mayoral candidates on Seattle’s cultural community, and how its health relates to our city’s economic vitality.

Internationally bestselling author Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns) has worked for six years on his new novel, And the Mountains Echoed—and this time, the writer called “a storyteller of dizzying power” by Evening Standard adds a whole new dimension to his work.

Gallup Senior Scientist Shane Lopez, a leading authority on the psychology of hope and author of Making Hope Happen, shows how to mobilize the power of hope to improve our lives—and our children’s, and our neighbors’.