2025 Music & Movies

Last summer's outdoor concerts and movies were a big hit, so we brought them back this summer—now in the new square at U District Station! The theme for this year's series was diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility - celebrating all that Keeps the U District Unique.
AUGUST 5, 2025 - 5:30pm

Garfield Jazz Quartet

Garfield Jazz is part of the nationally recognized Fine Arts Department at Garfield High School, a diverse public school in Seattle, Washington. 
AUGUST 22, 2025 - 6pm

Robert Leslie

Robert Leslie is an indie-folk artist known for performing on streets across Europe, North Africa, and New York city. His alluring voice, soaring melodies, dense poetic imagery, and freewheeling approach to life have garnered him a large and loyal following.
AUGUST 22, 2025 - at Dusk

Smoke Signals (1998)

Smoke Signals is a 1998 coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Chris Eyre from a screenplay by Sherman Alexie, based on Alexie's short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993). The film won several awards and accolades, and was well received at numerous film festivals.
AUGUST 29, 2025 - 6pm

Garfield Jazz Quartet

Garfield Jazz is part of the nationally recognized Fine Arts Department at Garfield High School, a diverse public school in Seattle, Washington. 
AUGUST 29, 2025 - 8pm

Hockey Teeth

Hockey Teeth is a Seattle-based power pop band blending the high energy of modern rock with the catchy melodies of mid-60s pop. Their music offers a fresh and infectious take on the classic power pop sound, drawing comparisons to Phoenix, Elvis Costello, and Wilco. Their full length debut 'Cut Your Teeth' is out now.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2025 - 6pm

Carrie Jennings

Carrie Jennings is a vocalist & flugelhorn player based in Seattle, WA. Her music is powerful and sultry, combining soulful horn lines, potent lyrics, and indie singer-songwriter aesthetics. Her performances are both tender and bold, with spellbinding vocals, lush instrumentals, and endearing stage banter. She is a storyteller and groove maker inviting people together to explore the depths of our human experience through song.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2025 - at Dusk

Minari (2020)

Minari is a 2020 American drama film written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung. A semi-autobiographical take on Chung's upbringing, its plot follows a family of South Korean immigrants who move to rural Arkansas during the 1980s.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2025 - 6pm

Casey Freedom

Seattle Area-based Americana Singer/Songwriter Casey Freedom brings an eclectic catalog of honest originals and lively covers, ranging from 60’s & 70’s Folk Rock to 90’s Alternative. Toting husky guitar chops and a warm, burly voice, he puts a fresh spin on a familiar sound that’s both intimate and fun.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2025 - at Dusk

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)

The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a 2024 political drama film that centers on Iman, an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, who grapples with paranoia as nationwide political protests due to the death of a young woman intensify and his gun mysteriously disappears, making him distrust his wife and daughters.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 - 6pm

REPOSADO

REPOSADO is a 9-piece Funk/Latin/Afro/Dance band from Seattle that plays what they label as 'tequila funk'. Nobody gets the street moving to latin rhythms better and they have been a recurring highlight of past years' concerts.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 - at Dusk

In The Heights (2021)

In the Heights is a musical with concept, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegría Hudes. The story is a romance as well as a celebration of community, culture, and aspirations. It is set over the course of three days, involving characters in the largely Dominican American neighborhood of Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan, New York City. The score blends hip-hop, salsa, merengue, and soul.

Outdoors On The Ave

Last summer's outdoor concerts and movies were a big hit, so we brought them back this summer—now in the new square at U District Station!

The theme for this year's series was diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility - celebrating all that Keeps the U District Unique.

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Hosted by U District Advocates. Free access is supported by 4Culture of King County. Additional funding provided by Amazon. Movies screened by our local Scarecrow Video. Coordinated with U District Partnership.
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