Get ready for some traffic impacts this weekend – the Viaduct will be closed most of Saturday (but open in time for the season-opening Sounders game) and Sunday, and both Mercer and 99/Aurora will be impacted by the Hot Chocolate 5K/15K event on Sunday. Those woes aside, there are a lot of great events this weekend for everyone. Book lovers have 2 events – the new Queen Anne Book Company 3-day opening extravaganza and the Queen Anne Library Sunday celebration are both this weekend. Plus, arts, music, parkour, and films!

Traffic Impacts:

• Viaduct: closed in both directions between Denny Way and South Spokane St – 6am-5pm, Saturday, March 2 and 6am-noon on Sunday, March 3
• Hot Chocolate 5K/15K: Sunday, March 3, 10,000 people expected to use Mercer St to get to the Seattle Center (early am hours) and Metro busses will be rerouted including 2 & 13. 5K begins at 6:45am, 15K at 7:40am. The race route includes crossing the Aurora Bridge into Fremont. Expect Aurora/99 closures early in the morning. Course map is here. Update: looks like 99 will be closed 6:15am-11am on Sunday, per an SDOT sign at the 7-way stop.

Multi-Day Events:

• Queen Anne Book Company Opening Weekend, March 1-3
• Emerald City Comicon, WA State Convention Center, March 1-3
• NW Dollhouse and Miniature Show, March 2-3, Seattle Center, NW Rooms
• Polar Science Weekend, Pacific Science Center, Feb 28-Mar3
• La Bohème, Seattle Opera, Feb 23-Mar 10
• Photograph 51, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Feb 1-March 10
• Anna Karenina, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Feb 9-March 13
• The Last Reef 3D, Pacific Science Center IMAX, Jan 11-April 11

Friday, March 1

• Low Hums, Vera Project, 7:30pm
• Parkour Visions Spring Competition – Adults, 6-9pm
• SIFF Uptown New & Continuing Films: Silver Linings Playbook, Dial M for Murder, Searching for Sugar Man, 11 Flowers

Saturday, March 2

• Parkour Visions Spring Competition – Kids, 5-8pm
• Rock & Worship, Key Arena, 6pm
• Sound Off! Finals, EMP, 7pm doors, 8pm show
• Seattle Sounders, CenturyLink, 7:30pm
• Raiders of the Lost Ark Double Feature, SIFF Uptown, 7pm (one-day only)

Sunday, March 3

• Hot Chocolate 5K/15K, Seattle Center, 5K @ 6:45am, 10K @ 7:40am
• March Forth 5K/10K, Green Lake, 9:30am
• Sundays are Special Celebration, Queen Anne Library, 2-3:30pm
• Said the Whale, Vera Project, 7:30pm

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