Our first stop in Seattle is always the MoPOP, even if we’re in town for a concert or baseball game. There’s never too many times you can view Kurt Cobain’s handwritten lyrics and Polaroid snapshots, along with the museums’s other fascinating musical, sci-fi or fantasy exhibits. During the month of February 2019 aka Seattle Museum Month, guests staying at any one of 64 participating downtown Seattle hotels will receive 50% off admission to 40 participating museums.
Seattle Museum Month
MoPOP – Museum of Pop Culture. Photo by Ian Williamson.
There’s a lot to explore, and this is the best time to do so since a family of 4 could see up to a $200 savings throughout a two-day stay during Seattle Museums Month.
Here are some of the participating hotels and museums: * = Free Admission
1. Bainbridge Island Museum of Art*
2. Bellevue Arts Museum
3. Center for Wooden Boats*
4. Chihuly Garden and Glass
5. Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center*
6. Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum
7. Fort Nisqually Living History Museum
8. Frye Art Museum*
9. Henry Art Gallery
10. Job Carr Cabin Museum*
11. Kids Discovery Museum
12. Kitsap History Museum*
13. Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park*
14. LeMay – America’s Car Museum
15. Living Computers: Museum + Labs
16. Museum of Glass
17. Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI)
18. Museum of Pop Culture
19. Nordic Museum
20. Northwest African American Museum
21. Northwest Railway Museum*
22. Olympic Sculpture Park*
23. Pacific Bonsai Museum*
24. Pacific Science Center
25. Puget Sound Navy Museum*
26. Seattle Aquarium
27. Seattle Art Museum
28. Seattle Children’s Museum
29. Seattle Pinball Museum
30. Shoreline Historical Museum*
31. Suquamish Tribal Museum
32. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center*
33. The Museum of Flight
34. The Valentinetti Puppet Museum*
35. US Naval Undersea Museum*
36. USS Turner Joy Museum Ship
37. UW Botanic Gardens Arboretum*
38. W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory*
39. Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
40. Woodland Park Zoo
Enjoy renowned favourites like the Seattle Art Museum, Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI), Museum of Flight, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience and Chihuly Garden and Glass. Discover new one-of-a-kind museums guaranteed to pique your curiosity like the new Nordic Museum in Ballard, the Seattle Children’s Museum, USS Turner Joy Museum Ship, Suquamish Tribal Museum, Northwest African American Museum, Seattle Pinball Museum and the Living Computers: Museum + Labs.
Chihuly Garden and Glass Seattle
Adding to your savings, Lyft is offering 20% off three rides to help you get to participating Seattle Museum Month locations including regional favorites like the eye-popping collection at LeMay: America’s Car Museum in Tacoma, the Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum in Everett or the Bellevue Arts Museum.
These discounts are only valid for guests staying at one of the participating hotels, up to four people, during hotel stay dates. Visitors must present an official Seattle Museum Month guest pass at participating museums to redeem the discounts.
Curated by Barbara Chirinos in partnership with VIFF Vancity Theatre’s Tom Charity, the annual Black History Month film series is a significant contribution to Vancouver’s cultural diversity.
This year’s program includes a free all-ages screening of the animated classic Kirikou and the Sorceress (Saturday, February 2nd at noon); the ground-breaking queer love story Rafiki, a film which had a constitutional impact in its native Kenya (Monday, February 4th), the acclaimed Oscar short-listed documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening(Monday, February 4th); an African superhero movie you need to see, Supa Modo (Monday, February 11th).
The series will also include concert doc Jimi Hendrix – Electric Church(Monday, February 11th); a rousing slam poetry doc – followed by a poetry slam in our atrium! – Don’t Be Nice(Tuesday, February 12th); a film about the first African American woman to run for President of the United States, Chisholm ’72, Unbound and Unbossed(Monday, February 25); Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman (Monday, February 25th); and Afro-futurist classic Sankofa (Tuesday, February 26th).
The 2019-2020 Season will captivate and energize Vancouver audiences with productions of DEAR EVAN HANSEN, RENT, WAITRESS, FINDING NEVERLAND and WICKED.
Jackie Burns as Elphaba in Wicked. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Broadway Across Canada is proud to be Vancouver leading theatrical presenter of Broadway theatre since 1998. For the past 21 years, more than 1,550,000 theatergoers have experienced over 90 Broadway Across Canada productions in the stunning Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
Kicking off the 2019-2020 Broadway Across Canada Season is the return of Jonathan Larson’s Tony Award®-winning masterpiece RENT 20THAnniversary Tour. Next in line, WAITRESS, an empowering and uplifting musical featuring original music and lyrics by 6-time Grammy nominee Sara Bareilles. Followed by DEAR EVAN HANSEN, winner of six 2017 TONY® Awards including Best Musical and the 2018 GRAMMY® Award for Best Musical Theatre Album. Next in line is FINDING NEVERLAND the enchanting Broadway musical set to soar into Vancouver. Finishing off the season with our season option, WICKED the untold true story of the Witches of Oz.
Coming in the 2020/2021 season, HAMILTON. Subscribers from the 2019/2020 season will have first access to HAMILTON when they renew their full subscription for the 2020/2021 season.
Four show Season packages start at $193 and are available today for existing 2018-2019 subscribers and on sale to the general public on January 28thonline or by calling the subscriber hotline at 1-866-542-7469.
It’s CandyGrams time again! You can send a fun, sweet treat to your favourite people while also supporting a very worthy local cause.
CandyGrams are a fun gift idea for anyone you care about from your grandma to your hubby, to your best friend or teacher. They are only $10 and include a Fuzzy Heart Carlton Card, a personalized message of your choice, 2 delicious Purdy’s Chocolates, postage, and exciting gifts.
CandyGrams for A Loving Spoonful
All you have to do is visit the CandyGrams website, select a message, and they’ll do the rest. Here are some important deadlines for sending your CandyGram:
On Sale: Monday January 14th, 2019 East Coast* Deadline: February 6th, 2019 West Coast** Deadline: February 7th, 2019 Metro Vancouver Deadline: February 10th, 2019
A Loving Spoonful is a volunteer-driven, non-partisan society that provides free, nutritious meals to people living with HIV/AIDS in Greater Vancouver. Every year, they sell CandyGrams to raise funds for meal programs that feed and offers services to approximately 100,000 individuals and families who suffer from HIV from the Lower Mainland. They are only 20% government funded so 80% of their donations and support are dependent directly from our fundraising efforts.
Every Candy Gram sold gives 2 or more meals to someone in need.
Follow A Loving Spoonful on Facebook and Twitter (tag: #candygram) for more information.
Tulips, lanterns, poetry, skating, hot chocolate and lights! The holiday season is melding with seasonal festivals and celebrations giving us a fun and eclectic event selection this weekend around Metro Vancouver:
