Sunday’s the big 2nd annual Sustainable West Seattle Festival in The Junction (which is sponsoring, and co-sponsored by, WSB) – and that tops another long list of things to do, places to go, etc., with West Seattle Montessori School (WSB sponsor) and Arbor Heights Elementary having rummage sales (get in the spirit for NEXT weekend’s West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day!), marching drummers in The Junction … more than 40 events in the full West Seattle Weekend Lineup, brought to you by Skylark Cafe and Club:

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ALL WEEKEND: Movies (and more) at the Admiral Theater

ALL WEEKEND: Southwest Pool is open! Swim-session schedule here

ALL WEEKEND: West Seattle history on display @ Log House Museum at Alki, Thursdays-Sundays, noon-4 pm

FRIDAY AFTERNOON-EVENING: “The Descent of SockMonkey” art exhibit at ArtsWest gallery, noon-7 pm

FRIDAY AFTERNOON: Zeeks Pizza opens in Morgan Junction, 4 pm

FRIDAY NIGHT: West Seattle Food Bank’s second annual Instruments of Change event

FRIDAY NIGHT: 6 pm to 8 pm, artists invited to the first annual Paint-a-Thon at C & P Coffee House, 5612 California Ave SW. It’s FREE! For our May Bouquets, Bring a branch of May, or any flowers you have begged, bought or stolen for our May bouquets (which we will use for our subjects) , and some chips and dip, if you feel like it. Hopefully, it will be crowded and I won’t bring extra tables, so bring a small drawing or painting board for your papers or canvas (foam core works fine) and your art supplies.

FRIDAY NIGHT: West Seattle Family YMCA (WSB sponsor) presents Family Night, 6:30-8:30 pm @ WS. Play together as a family in the Kids Gym and Swim in the pool. Members: Free non-members bring canned food for the West Seattle food bank or Diapers for WestSide Baby

FRIDAY NIGHT: Family skating at Alki Community Center: “This weekly event at Alki Community Center is suitable for all ages and all abilities! This is a great time to practice your skills and tricks while experiencing a roller-rink atmosphere. You can always look forward to the Limbo, and friendly racing. If you don’t have your own skates, you can borrow a pair of ours!” 6:45-8:45 pm ($3/person)

FRIDAY NIGHT: Dominoes game night at Red Cup Espresso in The Junction, starting at 7 pm

FRIDAY NIGHT: Gutenberg! The Musical continues at ArtsWest, 7:30 pm (online ticket sales here)

FRIDAY NIGHT: At Skylark Cafe and Club (WSB sponsor): Girls Rock! benefit show: Live music with Whiskey Romance, Danielli, Lucy Bland, starts at 9 pm

SATURDAY: Free Comic Book Day nationwide, with Arcane Comics in West Seattle participating (national website here)

SATURDAY: Pigeon Point Neighborhood “Spring Clean”

SATURDAY: Fiscal Fitness Bowling Classic fundraiser, at sites including West Seattle Bowl

SATURDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: West Seattle #18 International Order of the Rainbow for Girls is holding a Car Wash fundraiser this Saturday, the 2nd of May from 8:00 – 2:00 at the Albertsons in White Center – 10616 16th Ave. S.W.. Proceeds will benefit the Worthy Advisor’s service project The Alzheimer’s Foundation and the cost of the members’ annual convention this summer in Yakima. The price of the car wash is on a donation basis. Interested in what Rainbow can do for your daughter? Check us out at www.gorainbow.org. Rainbow gets girls ready for life! Contact Jan Hunter at 206-849-7906 for more information.

SATURDAY MORNING: Admiral Adopt-a-Street cleanup, meet at Metropolitan Market at 9 am, supplies and treats provided!

SATURDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: Community Rummage Sale for West Seattle Montessori School (WSB sponsor), American Legion Hall, 9 am-3 pm

SATURDAY: Arbor Heights PTSA Rummage Sale (more info here)

SATURDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: Furry Faces Plant Sale – Mother’s Day Hanging Basket
Sale Time: 10 am – 4 pm (Sunday too)
Location: Hotwire Online Coffeehouse, 4410 California Ave SW
Design a beautiful hanging basket or select the plants or have a friendly Furry Faces Foundation volunteer put it together for you. For a mere $20 donation per hanging basket you will have all the supplies, equipment and plants at your fingers tips along with expert help from a gardening expert. All proceeds go to animal rescue.

SATURDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: West Duwamish Greenbelt work party at Pigeon Point, 10 am-2 pm (more info here)

SATURDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: Camp Long presents: Solar Hot Water Workshop – FREE. Ages 12 and older. Come learn how to incorporate solar hot water into your home or workplace. This course is presented by NW Sustainable Energy for Economic Development. Location: Lodge. Course 40557 May 2 Sat 10 a.m. * 1 p.m.

SATURDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: Camp Long work party, 10 am-1 pm (more info here)

SATURDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: Barbecue at West Seattle Thriftway! 11 am – 4 pm, all proceeds benefitting the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation!

SATURDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: Garden Center open at South Seattle Community College, 11 am-3 pm (more information here)

SATURDAY AFTERNOON-EVENING: The Body Bar Day Spa in West Seattle will be celebrating its one-year anniversary on Saturday May 2nd , from 4:00 pm-8:00 pm. Ingraham High School’s Drum Line will kick-off the festivities by marching from The Junction North 4 blocks to the Body Bar’s location. Following this booming performance, The Body Bar’s fleet of seven massage therapists will be performing complimentary chair massage on the sidewalk. Inside the spa, estheticians will be busy waxing eyebrows and applying makeup. The first 40 guests through the door will receive a $25 Body Bar gift card. Food and libation will be provided by some of West Seattle’s most renowned restaurants including: West 5, Talarico’s, Seattle Fish Company, The Sugar Rush Baking Company, Hotwire coffee and Silver City Brewing Company. Music will be performed by local artists, Henta and Marias.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON: Mother’s Day Tea Party cooking class at West Seattle PCC, 3 pm (registration information here)

SATURDAY NIGHT: Join the Lions Club of West Seattle for a real old fashioned 1950’s Sock Hop – dancing, contests, food, and more! 50’s attire optional. Seattle Lutheran High School gym. $15 per person; call Doug at 206-850-8939 for tickets or more information. This event is a fundraiser for the Lions Scholarship Fund for local college-bound youth. 6 pm

SATURDAY NIGHT: Live music at C and P Coffee with Happy Campers, 6-8 pm

SATURDAY NIGHT: Holy Family School fundraising auction (more info here)

SATURDAY NIGHT: Gutenberg! The Musical continues at ArtsWest, 7:30 pm (online ticket sales here)

SATURDAY NIGHT: MANIFOLD MOTION PRESENTS: WOOLGATHERER – MAY 2, 8 & 9, 8 PM – MAY 3 & 10, 7 PM – $15 sliding scale. Manifold Motion, Youngstown’s resident dance company, premieres Woolgatherer, a performance that intertwines the craft of aerial performance, contemporary dance and fiber artists with original music and live streaming video. Woolgatherertells the story of an iconoclast who tears down the walls of her oppressive society and discovers a secret, wild world inhabited by extraordinary creatures. To create the miles of material needed for “Woolgatherer,” nearly 20 community members have gathered with Manifold Motion for weekend “yarn-raisings” over the past three months, logging hundreds of hours with yarn and needle in hand. The result is a remarkable multimedia experience that is not to be missed.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Highland Park Improvement Club Tiki Dance, featuring Evan and Charlie Brown, 8 pm-midnight (more info here)

SATURDAY NIGHT: Live music at Skylark Cafe and Club (WSB sponsor) with Magic Mirrors, Voxhaul Broadcast, The Globes, starts at 9 pm

SATURDAY NIGHT: Coldshot at Redline Music and Sports

SATURDAY NIGHT: ROLLING, 9 pm, Admiral Theater, with Q/A afterward: The film centers around a mixed group of 20-something’s living in Los Angeles who attend an underground rave party. A diverse circle- including a teacher, a drug dealer, a lawyer, and a high school senior- search the city from Downtown to the Hollywood Hills looking for their next thrill. This entertaining roller coaster-like experience captures “the giddy highs and crushing lows” (New York Times) of the Ecstasy culture, while exposing the delicate balance of the users’ relationships and responsibilities as they chase this dangerous, drug-induced euphoria known as Rolling! Does the movie advocate drug use? No – in fact it does the exact opposite. Nobody emerges a winner from this film. It shows dramatically how this seemingly “beautiful” drug is actually more like a nightmare – one that comes at a high cost. Although the film is a harsh representation of the drug, it also serves as its own “anti-drug” message. Rolling is an engrossing, provocative, and poignant cinematic manifestation of the journey one has while on the drug. It is a bold and visceral experience that brings to light one of the most prolific drug phenomena of our time. The picture is not rated (NR) but does contain strong language, some sexual content (no nudity) and implied drug use. Director and screenplay writer John Cooney along with Producer Robyn Reiter and cast members will be on hand to conduct an insightful Q&A after the movie

SATURDAY NIGHT: Monthly midnight “Rocky Horror Picture Show” at The Admiral

SUNDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: 2nd annual Sustainable West Seattle Festival (sponsor of, and co-sponsored by, WSB), 10 am-3 pm in The Junction – see the schedule here, the layout here, the official program here; come visit the WSB table and be among the first to get a map for next weekend’s West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day

SUNDAY MIDDAY: West Seattle Farmers’ Market @ The Junction, 10 am-2 pm (remember, it’s year-round!)

SUNDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: Furry Faces Plant Sale – Mother’s Day Hanging Basket
Sale Time: 10 am – 4 pm
Location: Hotwire Online Coffeehouse, 4410 California Ave SW
Design a beautiful hanging basket or select the plants or have a friendly Furry Faces Foundation volunteer put it together for you. For a mere $20 donation per hanging basket you will have all the supplies, equipment and plants at your fingers tips along with expert help from a gardening expert. All proceeds go to animal rescue.

SUNDAY MORNING-AFTERNOON: Skillet Street Food‘s second scheduled appearance in West Seattle, Seattle Lutheran High School lot (41st/Genesee), 11 am-2 pm

SUNDAY AFTERNOON: Highland Park Improvement Club features Vintage Dance, 1 pm lesson, dance till 4 pm (more info here)

SUNDAY AFTERNOON: Live music at C and P Coffee with David Guilbault, 3-5 pm

SUNDAY AFTERNOON: Gutenberg! The Musical continues at ArtsWest, 3 pm (online ticket sales here)

SUNDAY AFTERNOON: For Pete’s Sake! 90th birthday tribute to Pete Seeger, emceed by West Seattle author/historian Clay Eals, featuring a documentary showing at 4 pm and a hootenanny with Tom Colwell and the Southbound Odyssey starting at 7 – ticket info at The Admiral’s website; WSB preview, featuring video interview with emcee and organizer Clay Eals, can be seen here

SUNDAY EVENING: Grouch and Eligh at Easy Street Records in The Junction, 5 pm (free)

SUNDAY NIGHT: West Seattle Neighbors for Peace and Justice will have their monthly meeting on May 3, 2009 at 6 pm at Alki Congregational Church UCC. After the meeting there will be a potluck dinner at 7 pm. www.westseattleneighborsforpeace.org

SUNDAY NIGHT: MANIFOLD MOTION PRESENTS: WOOLGATHERER – 7 PM – $15 sliding scale. Manifold Motion, Youngstown’s resident dance company, premieres Woolgatherer, a performance that intertwines the craft of aerial performance, contemporary dance and fiber artists with original music and live streaming video. Woolgatherertells the story of an iconoclast who tears down the walls of her oppressive society and discovers a secret, wild world inhabited by extraordinary creatures. To create the miles of material needed for “Woolgatherer,” nearly 20 community members have gathered with Manifold Motion for weekend “yarn-raisings” over the past three months, logging hundreds of hours with yarn and needle in hand. The result is a remarkable multimedia experience that is not to be missed.

SUNDAY NIGHT: All-ages live music @ Skylark Cafe and Club (WSB sponsor) with Rachael Teixeira, Shiftless Layabout, starting at 8 pm

Are we missing anything? Let us know! And between weekends, keep an eye on our continuously updated Events page.