Want to get out and do something interesting? There’s something for everyone in our South King County Fine Arts Roundup column by Amy Robinson.
MUSIC AND DANCE
“A Baritone and a Tenor, What Could Go Wrong?“
John B. Cooper and Robert McPherson, Angelo’s, Burien
Monday, April 6, Doors & Dinner open at 5:30, Show starts at 7 p.m.
“The April Cabaret Show is ‘A Baritone and a Tenor, What Could Go Wrong?‘ featuring local favorite and international performer John B. Cooper, with special guest, metropolitan opera artist, Robert McPherson. Back by popular demand from the 2025 season, these two put on a show full of fun, comedy, and beautiful music!”
A benefit for Burien Actor’s Theatre.
Image and text from their website.
Click here for reservation instructions and more info. $20 recommended donation at door.
“Rhythm & Rhymes”
Auburn Symphony Orchestra
Postmark Center for the Arts, Auburn
Saturday, April 11, 10 a.m.
“A free musical story time for children. Meet an Auburn Symphony musician in person who will teach and demonstrate their instrument in partnership with an Auburn Librarian who will read a storybook aloud. Explore themes like rhythm and dance, or how music can make us feel. Participants will receive a book to take home with them.”
Text and image taken from their website.
Admission is FREE.
“Taylor Swift Tribute”
13 Til Midnight
Green River College Student Affairs Building, Auburn
Saturday, April 11, 7:30 p.m.
“Are you a Swifty? Then we have the show for you! 13 Til Midnight is the Taylor Swift Tribute Band! Performing songs from a wide range of Taylor’s albums and eras, from the hits to fan favorite deep cuts. They have something every Taylor Fan!”
Text and image taken from their calendar listing.
Regular Tickets: $25; Student/Senior Tickets: $22
Click here for tickets and more info.
THEATRE AND STORYTELLING
“Rebellious Women“
Burien Actors Theatre
Kennedy Catholic High School, Burien
April 10 – May 3 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2:00 p.m. Sundays
“When contented housewife Edith accidentally wanders into a suffragette meeting, she has no plans for revolution. But the women there will change her life forever. The harsh treatment of the protesters draws Edith toward the movement’s radical center. Where does she draw the line in the fight for equality? An unsentimental and sharp-witted homage to the suffragettes. ‘Deeds, not words.'”
Text and image taken from their website.
General Admission $25 Seniors $20 Students $5 Special pricing Saturday, 4/11 ($10) and Sunday 4/12 ($7).
Click here for tickets and more info.
VISUAL ARTS
“Nepantla: Painting the Space In Between”
Jake Prendez
Highline Heritage Museum, Burien
April 3 – July 2, Thursday – Sunday, 1 – 5 p.m.
“Nepantla is a Nahuatl (Aztec language) term describing “being in the middle” or “the space in the middle.” Popularized by Chicana writer and scholar Gloria Anzaldúa, the concept often references endangered communities, cultures, and genders who, due to colonialism, marginalization, or historical trauma, develop resistance strategies for survival. Nepantla becomes an alternative space in which to live, heal, function, and create.
In Nepantla: Painting the Space In-Between, Jake Prendez positions his painting as both aesthetic practice and decolonial intervention. Born in San Jacinto/Hemet, Jake grew up going back and forth from California and Washington. He received a Bachelors from UW in American Ethnic Studies and a Masters in Chicana/o Studies from California State University, Northridge. Prendez navigates multiple cultural, geographic, and intellectual terrains. His work reflects this lived in-betweenness, synthesizing Indigenous iconography, social realism, portraiture, and pop cultural references into a visual language grounded in Chicana/o experience
Prendez’s paintings operate as acts of cultural affirmation and resistance. They challenge erasure while centering visibility; they honor ancestral memory while engaging contemporary social justice struggles. Through bold color, symbolic imagery, and figurative representation, he constructs visual spaces where marginalized identities are neither peripheral nor endangered, but sovereign and self-defined.”
Image and text taken from Burien Arts Association Website.
Admission is FREE for gallery exhibit only.
“Play”
Court Burrow, Burien Community Center, Burien
March – May, 2026
“Court Burrow’s ‘Play’, expressive and intuitive art works March 9 – May 2026 at the Burien Community Center.”
Text and image taken from Burien Arts Association website.
Admission is FREE.
“Gabriela Nirino and Umesh Shebe: Entangled Matrix”
Centennial Center Gallery, Kent
April 2 through May 21, 2026
Open Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“Gabriela Nirino is a textile and mixed media artist born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, living in Seattle since 2019. Working primarily through weaving—which she understands as a fundamental act of connection, interrelation, and construction—her practice explores relationships between materials, people, disciplines, and ideas. She is a former professor and researcher at the University of Buenos Aires. As a maker, she works with natural, recycled, and found materials, guided by a sense of responsibility toward the act of bringing new objects into the world.
Born in India and now based in Bellevue, Umesh Shebe is a graduate in Fine Arts. Having explored various styles in pursuit of creating something unique and meaningful, his recent work reflects a deep engagement with the expressive possibilities of paper. Rather than treating paper simply as a surface, Umesh approaches it as a material that conveys human emotion. Each delicate strand becomes like a thread of life, woven into the canvas to form layered compositions that echo the subtle rhythms of feeling, suggesting how personal experiences intertwine to form the broader fabric of life.”
Text and image taken from gallery website.
Admission is FREE.
Burien Temporary Public Art Exhibits
Burien Community Center
The Maverick
Merrill Gardens
Admission to all exhibits is FREE.
Click here for more information.
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