Subscriptions and SAL Presents tickets are now on sale for our 2025/26 Season! All remaining single tickets will go on sale July 8 at noon.
Seattle Arts & Lectures presents Ocean Vuong with Thanh Tan at Town Hall Seattle in Seattle, Washington, on Sunday, June 1, 2025.
Every summer, we partner with The Seattle Public Library and King County Library System to create a Summer Book Bingo board as part of our free summer reading program. Adults, teens, and kids play along from May 19 – September 2 to be entered in a chance to win fabulous prizes.
Friday, September 12, 2025 7:30 pm PST
Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own.
John Packman
For the past 30 years, WITS has matched professional local writers with K-12 public schools to support young people as they discover and develop their authentic writing voices. Since our founding in 1994, WITS has inspired over 150,000 students. This year, we will serve 6,000 students at 39 sites in six school districts!
What’s next? We’re centering students who have the least access to arts engagement opportunities through our WITS Rewritten initiative. Learn more about how you can get involved.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025 7:30 pm PST
From the acclaimed environmentalist comes a call to harness solar power and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future. In Here Comes the Sun, world-renowned author Bill McKibben tells the story of our sudden spike in power from the sun and wind.
Paul Richardson
Friday, September 12, 2025
SAL Presents
Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
SAL Presents
From the acclaimed environmentalist comes a call to harness solar power and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Literary Arts
A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Mother Mary Comes to Me traces the complex relationship between Arundhati Roy and her mother, Mary, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Roy’s life both as a woman and a writer. Tickets with “& Book” include a copy of Mother Mary Comes to Me, shipped to your door by our bookstore partner Elliott Bay Book Company.
Friday, September 26, 2025
Encore
From the best-selling author of These Truths comes We the People, a stunning new history of the U.S. Constitution, for a troubling new era.
Monday, October 20, 2025
Colleen Echohawk Presents
In her first nonfiction book in a decade, #1 bestselling writer Elizabeth Gilbert who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free, joining Community Curated Series director Colleen Echohawk in conversation.
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Literary Arts
From On Tyranny to On Freedom, Timothy Snyder has delved into how to resist fascism and where we go from here. Literary Arts Series subscriptions, Create Your Own Series subscriptions and SAL Memberships include a paperback copy of On Freedom, shipped to your door by our bookstore partner Queen Anne Book Company.
Seattle Arts & Lectures cultivates transformative experiences through story and language with readers and writers of all generations.
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Summer Book Bingo 2025 has launched! Every summer, we partner with The Seattle Public Library and King County Library System to create a Summer Book Bingo card as part of our free summer reading program. Adults, teens, and kids play along from May – September to be entered in a chance to win fabulous prizes.
Give the gift of SAL! If you’re looking for a literary-themed gift for loved ones near and far, SAL’s digital gift cards are on sale now for in-person and streaming events.
