Join the Seattle Art Museum for a screening of this documentary film with director Linda Hoaglund. Edo Avant Garde: How Japan Invented Modern Art (Linda Hoaglund, Japan/USA, 2019)

Reception and poetry reading by Naomi Shihab Nye, followed by conversation with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.

This year's film lineup focuses on the many issues the Southeast Asia region faces today, which may initially seem isolated and disparate. But if we look close enough, we may find that they are deeply connected with each other, as if they were many heads of the same entity. What does it mean to be a woman and refugee at a time of ecological crisis? How does modernity and development impact traditional community practices? Only when we envision the “many-headed” nature of this demon can we deign to start thinking of ways forward.

An original copy of the score of Stravinsky’s “Petrouchka” (inscribed by the composer to legendary dancer Vaclav Nijinsky) is just one of the remarkable treasures from UW Libraries’ Slavic, Baltic and East European collections on display at this open house.

In the early 1970s, Shawn Wong and group of young Asian American writers discovered the novel, "No-No Boy" by John Okada, in a used bookstore for fifty cents. Originally published in 1957, it had not sold out 15 years later. No one had read it and the author had died believing his novel was rejected and forgotten. Wong will share the rediscovery story of "No-No Boy" — how young Asian American writers urged a new audience to recognize the book’s importance and launched its journey from obscurity to canonical work in Asian American literature.

Low Brow/High Culture traces the line of lowbrow art from its origins in hot rod and custom motorcycle culture to the art movement it is today. Showcasing materials from all areas of Special Collections, Low Brow/High Culture focuses on zines, comics, flyers and other methods of DIY culture.

Join us in the Media Arcade as we screen selected films from the Libraries' collections. Curious as to what will be showing? You'll just have to come and see for yourself....

Coinciding with November's first-ever UW Global Month, sponsored by the Office of Global Affairs, this exhibit taps into the UW Libraries' collections surfacing just a sampling of the UW, Seattle, and Northwest-based international initiatives of the past century that have brought our region into productive and often enduring contact with groups, institutions and events throughout the world. Featured connections include Bosnia, Cambodia, China, Korea, India, Japan, Nicaragua, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Spain, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and more.

Labor Archives of Washington and the UW Libraries’ Special Collections present in partnership with Solidarity Centennial, a year-long statewide series of events commemorating the anniversary of the Seattle General Strike and the Centralia Tragedy of 1919.
The exhibit features the work of Walter Bodle and Frank Silva, highlighting a different point of view from the vantage point of individuals and groups that helped shape the city’s ever-evolving labor history.

Japan uses an unique era calendar scheme and the era name changes as the new emperor ascends. Reiwa is the current era of Japan which started on May 1, 2019. This exhibit features the meaning of the Kanji letters used for the new era name, Manyoshu (collection of Japanese waka poetry) which is the source material for the new era name, the past era names, and such.