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DTSTAMP:20260515T215618Z
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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. In addition to 
 our regular hours\, Seattle Art Museum will be open for Free First Thursday
  evenings from 5–8 pm to provide more opportunities to visit the galleries 
 for free! Evening hours will feature extra activities like live music\, dro
 p-in art making\, and in-gallery experiences for visitors.\nTickets are ava
 ilable both onsite and online.\n11:30 am\, 1:30 pm\, 6 pm | Public Tour: Hi
 ghlights from SAM’s CollectionThese 60-minute tours meet at the top of the 
 3rd floor escalators.\n5–8 pm | Drop-in art activity with Jessie BlackmerBr
 otman Forum\n5–8 pm | Earthcorps Youth Photographers ReceptionSouth Hall\n5
 :30–7:30 pm | Seattle Hall-Of-Fame All-Stars PerformanceSouth HallThis band
  of local Jazz icons has been holding the bar high for decades\, while also
  keeping Jazz visible and vibrant in Seattle. Each shares a direct musical 
 lineage to the musicians of the Jackson Street scene and continues their le
 gacy today by passing it on. Scheduled to appear: Marc Seales\, Phil Sparks
 \, Thomas Marriott\, Jay Thomas\, &amp\; John Bishop. Presented by Seattle 
 Jazz Fellowship to complement Beyond Mysticism: The Modern Northwest.\n5:30
 –6:30 pm | SAM Gallery artist talkSAM Gallery\n6–7 pm |  Beyond Mysticism P
 ublic TourThis tour meets at the 4th floor special exhibition entrance.\n7-
 7:30 pm | Spotlight Talk: Zola Mumford on Washington Hall4th Floor Gallerie
 sJoin historian Zola Mumford for a short talk and Q&amp\;A about the histor
 y of Washington Hall. Learn how you can collect and preserve histories in y
 our community. Zola Mumford is an academic librarian\, researcher\, writer\
 , and Co-Leader of the Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute\, a projec
 t of Wa Na Wari. Her work includes a Washington Hall HistoryLink.org essay 
 and audio recording in "Frequencies"\, a 2026 project of the Henry Art Gall
 ery (Bloomberg Connects). \n 
LOCATION:Seattle Art Museum\, 1300 1st Ave\, Seattle\, WA 98101
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