City Arts Festival’s visual art program features three one night only exhibitions at Fred Wildlife Refuge, with a new opening event each day. Peering through the lenses of three diverse local curators, the exhibits will showcase a wide array of...
Culture Club
New art exhibits installed each morning, featuring 30+ local artists and curators throughout the festival
Conversations and cocktails at 4PM each day
Pie stories, pie contest, country dancing Saturday afternoon
Daniel Barrow's haunting and beautiful live animations on Saturday night
The heart of the Heineken City Arts Fest is found in Culture Club, held at FRED Wildlife Refuge. The multi-purpose venue located in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, will act as our festival hub where pass holders can pick up all access wristbands, rub shoulders with performers, attend Culture Club events that feature visual art exhibitions, music, literary, humanities and performance events.
Culture Club highlights include a series of visual art events and exhibits, a "Pop Up Market" featuring local goods and creations, daily happy hours and humanities activities, and special events and parties like Pie Life storytelling & bakeoff event, Celebrity Karaoke, Factory, and a not-to-miss video/projection presenation by visual artist Daniel Barrow (Montreal).
Thursday
Ever had an inkling to be a rock star? Take your singing out of the shower and put it on the stage. The Celebrity Karaoke party at Culture Club will feature outrageous and heartfelt karaoke performances by over 20 City Arts Fest artists and local...
OCTOBER 20, THURSDAY 4 - 7 PM
Especially for the festival, we are creating an art market of local publications, hand selected goods from collectives in the city and surrounding areas.
Featuring local creations from
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The night will consist of an hour of conversation, followed by an hour of socialization to allow the community to continue the discussion and share their own insights into this exciting topic. Moderated and MCed by Warren Etheredge.
...Friday
City Arts Festival’s visual art program features three one night only exhibitions at Fred Wildlife Refuge, with a new opening event each day. Peering through the lenses of three diverse local curators, the exhibits will showcase a wide array of...
Is the glass half empty or half full? In either case watch it fill up with concoctions by local visual and video artists during City Arts Fest' Happy Hour.
Let the sights nourish your spirit and let the spirits nourish you. Drink it all up...
OCTOBER 21, FRIDAY 4 - 7 PM
Especially for the festival, we are creating an art market of local publications, hand selected goods from collectives in the city and surrounding areas.
Featuring local creations from
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Saturday
City Arts Festival’s visual art program features three one night only exhibitions at Fred Wildlife Refuge, with a new opening event each day. Peering through the lenses of three diverse local curators, the exhibits will showcase a wide array of...
Everyone has a pie story, whether it’s about grandma’s secret recipe, dessert with the president, or a big fat slice of humble pie. Pie Life asks a local politician, writer, food critic, and musician to tell us their favorite pie stories. Once...
Barrow has developed an intimate mode of ‘manual animation’ using the antiquated technology of an overhead projector. From a position amongst the audience he recites live narration while manipulating layers of transparencies in continuous motion...
Who and what is our city? Where are the boundaries of the term ‘Arts’? Why a festival? And how can we activate the intersections of the three to strengthen Seattle's creative community?
Join Arts Leadership Lab, Seattle Arts Commission,...
OCTOBER 22, SATURDAY 1 - 7 PM
Especially for the festival, we are creating an art market of local publications, hand selected goods from collectives in the city and surrounding areas.
Featuring local creations from
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