#common objects

MARGARET LEE 

Date: Friday, Nov 14, 2025 Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (during Belltown Art Walk -- open house!) Location: Common Objects, 2601 1st Ave, Seattle 98121

Common Area Maintenance (CAM) is excited to present its first ever group show featuring the work of its own very talented artists and writers! Stop by during Belltown Art Walk to enjoy and peruse a wide range of media - from poems and short stories to prints, paintings, and digital pieces. Our artist and writer members span a wide range of talents and interests and we're thrilled to collect their imaginative work all in one place! Come celebrate this creative community and get a glimpse inside the studio where artists, writers and cultural workers intersect, connect and create! Hope to see you there! Free & all ages.

My RUNASAFN / RUNE LIBRARY interactive installation will be remounted as part of this special group show, as well as some Dream Vessel Ceramics (from Jane Wong's amazing Lyric Vessels class), and poems -- along with works by many amazing artists and writers who are part of CAM's growing community.

About the Event: https://www.tixtree.com/e/common-area-member-showcase-e5317f7667b9 More about CAM: https://www.camseattle.org

At long last, the Cephalopod Appreciation Society will meet again!

Sunday, November 30th, 2:00-4:00pm, at Common Objects (2601 1st Ave, Seattle, WA)

Free and All Ages. Bring the whole family!

Poetry, music, film, dance, science, more -- in celebration and wonderment of our fellow thinkers and expressers the octopus, squid, chambered nautilus, and cuttlefish. And with three cheers to Three Hearts: An Anthology of Cephalopod Poetry.

Cephalopod and other sea-creature costumery encouraged but not required. Mini-parade at the end, weather permitting.

Welsh harpist Rhodri Davies first convened Common Objects in 2005, and you could say that it has evolved patiently between then and now. Once unfixed, the group’s line-up has settled upon six musicians (Davies, electric harp; Angharad Davies and Lina Lapelyte, violins; John Butcher, saxophones; Pat Thomas, electronics; Lee Patterson, amplified devices and processes). The players’ collective experience encompasses established and emergent classical music, electroacoustic improvisation, and electric and acoustic jazz. Common Objects’ performances have been freely improvised and guided by various unconventional scores, but the 2016 concert reproduced on this CD is the first time that the score was made up of objects.

A walk downtown almost anywhere can have bits and pieces of interest, like the cavernous entrance to a building, someone’s reading interests in a used bookstore and the decorations of the wall and window of a store, each with its own story for us to make up.