The Weekend List: The arts and culture guide to Seattle's good life

Installation art: See it now, or don't see it at all. Beckett Fest: options for your Beckett fix. The library pops up. Bike In for free films.

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* Denotes events that are $15 or less

CASCADE: Installation by Ian McMahon *

If youre reading this and you havent yet seen this site-specific work well, youve only got a few more days before it is magnificently destroyed. Two theater curtains made out of plaster have taken hold of the gallery, a pair of architectural sentinels extending floor to ceiling that you can examine ever so closely, every crinkle and fold. Ian McMahons sculptures address the notion of time and permanence both of art and of space. The show closes Friday then, two days later, one of the curtains will come crashing down. The demolition event is open to Suyama Space Friends; in other words, make a donation to the gallery and witness something special. How special? Take a look at a previous demolition below.

A Momentary event with a Sculpture: Bringing down the curtain Phone Clip from Ian McMahon on Vimeo.

If you go:CASCADE: Installation by Ian McMahon,Suyama Space, (Free). F.D.

Life=Play: An Evening of Short Works and Rarities by Samuel Beckett

Seattle Shakespeare Company and Theater Puget Sound along with 15 let me say that again 15! organizations are celebrating the Irish multi-hyphenated Samuel Beckett playwright-novelist-theater director-poet over the next three months. Which means you can get your Beckett fix in myriad ways: radio plays, poetry readings, even European clown movement. The Seattle Beckett Fest kicks off with Life=Play: An Evening of Short Works and Rarities, which features some of my very favorite thespians (Carol Roscoe, Ray Tagavilla and Rachel Delmar). You can keep tabs on the entire festival by goinghere.

If you go:Life=Play: An Evening of Short Works and Rarities by Samuel Beckett,West of Lenin Theatre, through Aug. 24 ($20). The Seattle Beckett Fest continues at various venues in Seattle through November.F.D.

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