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SUMMARY:Free First Thursday: Seattle Art Museum
DESCRIPTION:Call your friends and bring the family\, admission is FREE to everyone at t
 he Seattle Art Museum on the first Thursday of every month.\nIn addition to
  our regular hours\, Seattle Art Museum will be open for Free First Thursda
 y evenings from 5–8 pm to provide more opportunities to visit the galleries
  for free! Evening hours will feature extra activities like live music\, dr
 op-in art making\, and in-gallery experiences for visitors.\n4:30-5 pm \nMu
 sic and dance by Anokye Agofomma\n4th floor galleries\nAfter 10 years\, SAM
 ’s African masks have been moved to storage in preparation for a major rein
 stallation of the African Art galleries. Ghanaian drumming group Anokye Ago
 fomma is filling the space with music to celebrate this time of change.\n5–
 8 pm\nMake jewelry inspired by  Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams  w
 ith teaching artist Kulla Jatani\nBrotman Forum\n5:30-7 pm\nMeet SAM Direct
 or Scott Stulen\n3rd floor galleries\n6-6:30 pm \nTour of Lessons from the 
 Institute of Empathy with curator Pam McClusky\n4th floor galleries\n6:30-6
 :50 pm \nSculptor Jai Sallay-Carrington on Diego Cibelli: Fiori dei Miei Ha
 biti / La Montagne Enchantée\nPorcelain Room\, 4th floor\nHybrids: A Queer 
 Landscape of Possibility—Jai Sallay-Carrington (they/them) will speak about
  how the hybrid figures in Diego Cibelli's porcelain sculptures queer our r
 eality by combining different physical traits. Jai will share how they use 
 the mythology and physicality of hybrids in their ceramic figures as a prof
 essional artist. They will also speak about Cibelli’s porcelain sculpting m
 ethods. \n7-7:20 pm \nFarren Rice from Lavender Rights Project on Buddha Gi
 ves Basketball to the Ghetto\nJoyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams gall
 eries\, 4th floor\nFarren Rice\, also known as Diamond Lil\, is an Afro-Lat
 ina artist from the Appalachian mountains of Alabama. By day\, she function
 s as the Outreach Coordinator at Lavender Rights Project\, an organization 
 that uplifts and empowers the Black trans and gender-diverse community. By 
 night\, she performs on stages across the city as Diamond Lil\, dazzling cr
 owds by pairing her sensual athleticism with macabre phantasma. Join Farren
  for a conversation about the symbolism in Joyce Scott's Buddha Gives Baske
 tball to the Ghetto.\n7-7:45 pm\nSpoken word performance by artist Christa 
 Bell\nPlestcheeff auditorium\nJoin Artist Christa Bell as she delivers her 
 monologue-mantra/endurance spell celebrating reproductive and spiritual pow
 er. Through her unique mix of humor\, poetry\, and critique\, Christa’s per
 formance will “sanctify the bodies of womxn and formally reclaim every word
  cast at us . . . as DIVINE.” She will share an excerpt from her newest one
 -womxn show and will end with her chanted mantra.\nContent warning: This pe
 rformance contains profanity\, including slang terms for genitalia. We reco
 mmend that visitors who find this language upsetting choose to forego parti
 cipation. \nFree tickets are available both onsite and online.
LOCATION:Seattle Art Museum\, 1300 1st Ave\, Seattle\, WA 98101
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