ever is coming to Washington. Half a year after its theatrical release in Japan,
Demon Slayer: Mugen Train will tour American theaters. Yes! Movie theaters. We can go to those now. The movie is based on
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the wildly popular anime and manga series that follows Tanjiro Kamado, a teen who turned to demon-slaying after a demon killed his entire family and turned his sister, Nezuko, into a demon.
In season one, Tanjiro and a pacified Nezuko comb Japan looking for a way to turn Nezuko human again, fighting a lot of demons along the way. The movie picks up where season 1 left off and acts as a canonical bridge between season 1 and the soon-to-be-released season 2. During just its opening weekend in Japan last year,
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The seal featuring Chief Seattle looked official and, as a visual arts nerd, I wondered whether Seattle really had a citywide design department. (We do not.)
Officially launched in April, the Seattle Department of Design (SDOD) is a project founded by friends and collaborators Ryan Hunt and Nate Hoe that releases mostly wearable merchandise celebrating often-forgot-about graphic designs from Seattle s history. In short, they are trying to make civic pride cool.
The two met while working at a menswear store in Fremont several years ago, bonding over their shared love of art and design history of the city. Collaborating on numerous projects throughout their friendship, the idea for SDOD blossomed a couple of years ago when both Hoe and Hunt wanted to commemorate Seattle s cool-ass design history with something you could wear.
Artists making art right now is truly a blessing: Seattle poet, playwright, performer, and artist Anastacia-Reneé will present
(Don t be Absurd) Alice in Parts at the Frye Art Museum, running from January 30 to April 25. Grounded in the Black feminist and womanist tradition, Anastacia-Reneé explores gentrification and its detrimental effects on the body in the show, through the eyes of her character Alice Metropolis. The immersive installation allows viewers to walk through Alice s home, which we can t quite do just yet due to COVID restrictions. Instead, the Frye will host a virtual celebration and special performance this Saturday from 5-6:30pm. Viewers can expect a virtual tour of the show and a choreopoem inspired by Alice, read by seven artists and poets.