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Events & Festivals
Kirkland Annual Easter Egg Hunt
April 1 | 1:30 p.m. | Peter Kirk Park
Ready… Set… Go! Almost 500 pounds of eggs will be scattered around Peter Kirk Park by Kirkland Kiwanis Club members and volunteers from the Life Community Church of Kirkland. Different areas of the park are designated for specific age groups.
Waterway Cruises: Easter Brunch and Lunch Cruises
April 1 | Times Vary | Marina Park | www.waterwayscruises.com/dining-cruises/#specialevents
Cruise the waterways around Seattle and enjoy the sights on a special Easter Brunch Cruise.
Easter at the Woodmark
April 1 | 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. | Woodmark Hotel | https://www.destinationhotels.com/the-woodmark/kirkland-wa-events/easter-at-the-woodmark
Celebrate Easter on Lake Washington. Both Beach Cafe and bin on the lake will be featuring delicious Easter menus from our team of talented chefs.
Arts
Kirkland Arts Center—Topophilia
March 6–April 28 | Opening Reception March 9 | Kirkland Arts Center | www.kirklandartscenter.org
Topophilia: A Sense of Place, A Sense of Feeling explores the significance of place, and is based on the central concept that an individual’s personal perspective of a place shapes their artistic interpretation and expression. The 16 artists in this exhibition use their experiences, memories and imaginations to create places both real and surreal, familiar and fantastic, and to express their feelings about the world around them.
Parklane Gallery in Kirkland Presents Featured Artist Hilda Bordianu and Marius Tunduc
March 4–April 2 | Parklane Gallery | www.parklanegallery.com
Marius Tunduc’s “Balance” reflects water is Life is Love is Life and is Balance. Sometimes I like to let the water to settle, just to see the moon mirrored in, and to balance my dream there. Hilda Bordianu’s “The Earth Laughs in Flowers” portrays that since her childhood, flowers have intrigued her with their unique beauty and enticing scent.
Howard Mandeville Gallery: Three Person Show of New Works
April 7–29 | Howard Mandeville Gallery | www.howardmandville.com
Featuring Richard Boyer, Lindsey Kustusch and David Riedel.
Second Friday Downtown Art Walk
April 13 | Downtown Kirkland | 5 to 8 p.m. | www.kirklandartwalk.com
Join Kirkland's vibrant art experience with an evening of art, music, wine and coffee in downtown Kirkland. Visit more than 20 locations that showcase the creative talents of local artists.
Performance
Kaki King
April 5 | 7 p.m. | Kirkland Performance Center | www.kpcenter.org
Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a genre unto herself,” composer and guitarist Kaki King is a true iconoclast. During the past 13 years the Brooklyn-based artist has released eight extraordinarily diverse and distinctive albums, performed with such icons as Foo Fighters, Timbaland and The Mountain Goats, contributed to a variety of film and TV soundtracks including Golden Globe-nominated work on Sean Penn’s Into The Wild, and played to an increasingly fervent following of music lovers on innumerable world tours.
An Intimate Evening with Noah Gundersen
April 6 | 8 p.m. | Kirkland Performance Center | www.kpcenter.org
Noah has been peddling sincerity and introspection in musical form for almost a decade; songs that give listeners a taste of the emotional nectar in the pit of another human’s gut. He’s been dredging up viscous fistfuls of his own being and shaping them into little waxen votives, candles meant to illuminate the territory between shameless confession and hopeless redemption, for all of the other twenty-somethings who’ve been groping around in that long existential shadow.
Imagination Theater
April 9 | 7:30 p.m. | Kirkland Performance Center | www.kpcenter.org
Imagination Theater is back! Mystery, drama, and laughter abound in America’s leading radio drama series regularly featuring Private Detective Harry Nile and tales of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Recorded live at KPC, America’s leading radio drama series is heard from coast to coast on more than 50 radio stations in North America, including KIXI in Seattle.
Ladies Musical Club Free Concert
April 13 | 7:30 p.m. | St. John’s Episcopal Church | 105 State St. Kirkland
The Ladies Musical Club of Seattle fosters classical music in the community through education, performance and awards. The Public Concert Series is an intimate, one-hour music program that is free and open to the public. Come hear songs, duets and music or flute and piccolo at St John’s Episcopal Church.
Second Saturday Contra Dance
April 14 | 7:30 p.m. | Juanita Community Club | 13027 100th Ave NE
A community dance held every second Saturday at the Juanita Community Club, 13027 100th Ave, Kirkland. Fun evening of contra dances (social dance originally from New England) including a few circle and square dances. Live traditional folk music and dance caller. Walk-through provided for every dance. Attending with a partner is not necessary. Beginner instruction at 7:30 p.m.; dance at 8 p.m. Free ice cream provided during the break!
SRJO: Ellington’s Such Sweet Thunder
April 22 | 2:00 p.m. | Kirkland Performance Center | www.kpcenter.org
A lover of Shakespeare, Duke Ellington composed the “Such Sweet Thunder Suite” as his tribute to the Bard. SRJO teams up with local thespians to present this special suite of works. Each movement—including “Lady Mac,” “Sonnet for Sister Kate,” and “The Star-Crossed Lovers”—evokes favorite Shakespearean characters or quotes. Guest thespians present selections from the plays and sonnets that inspired Ellington to create the musical work. Part of the “Seattle Celebrates Shakespeare Festival” throughout March and April, 2018.
Hari Kondabolu
April 27 | 8 p.m. | Kirkland Performance Center | www.kpcenter.org
Hari Kondabolu is a Brooklyn-based comic who the New York Times has called “one of the most exciting political comics in stand-up today.” He has performed on Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live, CONAN, John Oliver’s New York Standup Show, and has his own Comedy Central Presents special. A regular on the NPR circuit, he has appeared on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, All Things Considered, Studio 360, Morning Edition, The Moth… among many other programs. He is best known for his comedy on subjects such as race, identity and inequity.
Storybook Theater: Rapunzel
April 28, 29 | Times Vary |All seats $15 | Kirkland Performance Center | www.kpcenter.org
Neither long locks of hair nor large locks on towers are enough to keep a rainbow-haired maiden from trying to follow her dreams. Can our hair-oine escape from her tiny room-with-a-view, or will she be trapped in her tower forever?
Food & Drink
Kirkland Wine Walk
April 20 | Downtown Kirkland | 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. | $25 | https://kirklanddowntown.org/kirkland-wine-walk//
The Kirkland Chamber of Commerce, Kirkland Downtown Association and Seattle Uncorked bring you the Kirkland Wine Walks. Stroll through downtown and enjoy various wine tastings throughout popular boutiques.
Recreation
Juanita Bay Park Interpretive Tours
1st Sunday and 3rd Tuesday | Times Vary | Juanita Bay Park | https://eastsideaudubon.org/get-outside/field-trips-and-walks
The Eastside Park Rangers in affiliation with the Eastside Audubon Society offer interpretive tours at Juanita Bay Park. Every season gives nature lovers a chance to spot something new and wonderful.
Upcoming Events
May 12-13 Kirkland Artist Studio Tours Downtown Kirkland
May 13 Mother’s Day ½ Marathon
May 28 7 Hill of Kirkland
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