Recommended events from Viewpoint Magazine

Above: Joiri Minaya’s Container #7 (2020), archival pigment print, is on display at the Praise Shadows Art Gallery in Boston.

Joiri Minaya: To Hell with Hibiscus

at The Henry Art Gallery
Through May 2

Multidisciplinary artist Joiri Minaya challenges misrepresentations that reduce tropical geographies and their inhabitants to imagined fantasies of the colonial imagination. This exhibition features textiles that Minaya has developed to critique the making of a global Tropics. From her storied Aloha shirts to the floral spandex cloths she designed to cloak colonial monuments, the works on view weave new myths and cannibalize worn stereotypes, using Seattle as a touchpoint to imagine shared histories that connect across the Global South.

Janice Carissa

Meany Center for the Performing Arts
Nov. 10

Indonesian pianist Janice Carissa is celebrated for crafting vivid musical narratives that transcend mere virtuosity. Her program spans centuries and styles, opening with Bach’s elegant French Suite No. 5 in G Major, moving to Granados’ passionate Goyescas, “El Amor y la Muerte,” and Ravel’s darkly glittering La valse. The evening also features works by Olivier Messiaen and Indonesian composer Eunike Tanzil, showcasing Carissa’s expressive nuance, lyrical sensitivity and command of both classical and contemporary repertoire.

How to Tell a Great Story on Film with Sterlin Harjo

Town Hall Seattle
Feb. 24

UW Public Lectures presents a program with Seminole/Muscogee filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, creator and showrunner of “The Lowdown,” a Tulsa noir drama led by Ethan Hawke (and also starring Kyle MacLachlan, ’82), and visionary co-creator with Taika Waititi of FX’s award-winning “Reservation Dogs.” He joins UW American Indian Studies professor Chris Teuton for an onstage conversation about craft, culture and what it takes to make a story that changes how people see the world.