SeaCompression2008: American Apocalypse
Saturday, Nov 8th, 7p-2a, $15 pre-sale / $25 door, 21+
Sand Point Hangar 30, 7400 Sand Point Way map
11/6 Update:
THERE IS NO WILL CALL, and it is too late to mail tickets.
You may purchase pre-sale tickets at the Brown Paper Tickets office:
220 Nickerson Street, Seattle, WA 98109
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:00pm
Saturday-Sunday 10:00am - 4:00pm
Our annual festival of music, dance, arts, performance,
and installations, all set in a 25,000 square foot blimp hangar.
Want to volunteer?
Want to bring your theme camp / art installation?
Want to spin / play music? (Schedule full!)
Want to perform / spin fire?
Want to park a trailer?
Other questions?
Email: seacomp.producers@ignitionnw.org
The American Apocalypse is upon us! Of course, "apocalypse" is open to many interpretations. Will our way of life come to an end? Will our culture be reborn? These questions and more may not be answered, but nevertheless we invite you to come celebrate (or mourn) the demise of the American way with over 25,000 square feet of theme camps, interactive installations, fire spinners, DJs, live music and performers, dance, art cars...and a 7ft blimp.
SeaCompression is the Seattle area's annual Burning Man decompression party, in which celebrants of many subcultures come together to reminisce about the old year and begin counting the days until they return home to the playa. Whether you've been to Burning Man or not, SeaCompression is a vibrant, exciting celebration, packed with exotic entertainment and smart, funny, beautiful and cleverly dressed celebrants.
About SeaCompression
SeaCompression is our Seattle-area "decompression" celebration - a one night festival of music, arts, performance, and installations in the Burning Man style, produced by Ignition Northwest and the members of the Pacific Northwest arts community. The event has grown in scope every year, and now operates with an approximately $24,000 budget. Profit from the event funds art grants for sister event Critical Massive, a week-long summer camping festival.
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2007 was SeaCompression's sixth year. It was held this year on November 10th, at Sand Point Magnuson Park, in a decomissioned 25,000 square foot Navy blimp hangar. This was our second consecutive year at the Magnuson hangar, and we've really learned the ins and outs of the space. Though it presents a bit of an acoustic challenge, the raw empty space presents the perfect blank canvas on which to paint our event. Thanks to an amazing floorplan by our dedicated placement crew, hundreds of participants came together to build a tiny village inside the hangar, complete with streets and street signs. The "blocks" were populated with a multitude of installations including two 30' geodesic dance domes, a self-contained movie theater with actual theater seating, a 50' parachute suspended above a full service tea lounge, art cars, art buses, a 30' neon rainbow, a life sized unicorn lanter... and the list goes on. The performance lineup included over two dozen DJs, five live bands, burlesque, and several fire performance troups. Attendance for the night ran close to 1,500. Why "unicorns and rainbows?" you may ask. In answer to that... well, it's a long story. Let's just say that we don't like to take ourselves too seriously. |