MOHAI and the 5th Avenue Theatre are excited to offer a free public performance of Northwest Bookshelf. With witty lyrics and enchanting music, each story comes to life in delightfully entertaining musicals. Take a musical journey, meet zany characters, explore the world from new points of view, and discover the rich history and cultural diversity of the Pacific Northwest.
Join local visual artist and educator Jessica Hoffman as she teaches us how to create one-of-a-kind book art using found imagery and innovative mark-making techniques!
Join three Seattle Storytellers Guild members for an evening of Seattle stories ranging from historic to recent!
Despite its progressive reputation, the Northwest has a long history of discrimination and inequity. Join historian, writer, and educator David J. Jepsen as he wrestles with this legacy in his book Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History.
Join artist, author, and bus driver Nathan Vass as he discusses the world of passenger interaction on Seattle's city buses. Vass will share new stories alongside some of the more notorious moments detailed in his bestselling book, The Lines that Make Us: Stories from Nathan's Bus.
MOHAI and the 5th Avenue Theatre are proud to offer a free public performance of Baseball Saved Us, based on the groundbreaking children's book by Seattle author Ken Mochizuki about the Japanese American incarceration camp experience during World War II.
Join MOHAI, Smithsonian Affiliations, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, and author, photographer, and cultural documentarian Candacy Taylor to explore the legacy of the Green Book, its impact on communities, businesses, and families, and its relevance today. After the program's interview format, participants will have the opportunity to submit questions in the chat.
From Japanese American farmers on Vashon Island to the life of State Senator Rosa Franklin, writer and public historian Tamiko Nimura documents stories of people of color from around our state.
The Negro Motorist Green Book was hailed as the "bible of Black travel". First published from 1936 to 1967 during Jim Crow segregation, it identified state by state the establishments deemed friendly, safe, and willing to serve Black people. Join us at MOHAI as we apply a contemporary lens to segregation, Black migration, and the rise of leisure travel.
From salmon to shellfish to trailing blackberry, the Pacific Northwest coast is rich in local food sources that Indigenous communities have cultivated for millennia. With the violent arrival of colonizers to the region, access and management of these native food resources has been disrupted. Indigenous communities face some of the highest rates of food insecurity in the US and Canada, but activists such as Dr. Charlotte Coté (Tseshaht/Nuu-chah-nulth) argue that this inequity can't be solved simply by shipping more processed foods to grocery store shelves.
Join MOHAI Mercantile as they present a special reading of A Coat Dyed Black: A Novel of the Norwegian Resistance. The novel is filled with thrilling historical details about a corner of Europe often forgotten in the story of WWII, A Coat Dyed Black illuminates the struggles and sacrifices of ordinary people compelled to do the extraordinary.
Meet the creators of the children's book Grow: A Family Guide to Plants and How to Grow Them. Author and horticulturalist Riz Reyes and Illustrator Sara Boccaccini Meadows join us at MOHAI to celebrate the launch of their book and share their knowledge.