City Arts Winning Hearts
If there is one thing we have learned in the last two months, it’s that summer is so last year. It’s all about fall, or if you’re one of those people, autumn. We’re going to pretend that August is all one big hazy dream and pray for the rains to come and wrap us in their gray, miserable, damp arms. (In case you can’t tell, we’re from here.)
One of the things that is really driving our passion for the future is the recently announced Heineken City Arts Festival. Featuring over 30 events in 18 different locations this event promises to be the festival Seattle has been waiting for.
The folks over at City Arts have thought beyond the chain link six-block ghetto of Capitol Hill Block Party and the human sardine madness that is Bumbershoot to allow some breathing room and time for an arts festival. They are spreading the events around the city, with performances in such vaulted venues as Benaroya Hall, the Seattle Art Museum, the Sorrento Hotel and Town Hall over four days. The fest runs Wednesday through Saturday, which is totally unusual and I guess shows that City Arts knows we are big kids who can stay out as late on a school night as we damn well please. For art, of course. And Heineken.
And it’s not just your usual fare of indie pop sensations, although mark our words, we are beyond pumped about Belle and Sebastian. They are billing and booking this a cross collaboration between the disciples, and they deliver. Events falls under music, photography, fashion, dance, burlesque, theatre, poetry, film, reading and conversation, all of which get blended and combined with each other. Arts breeding with other arts and creating hybrid art babies. We’re down with that. Something else we are totally down with is the showing of the full unedited Metropolis accompanied by live orchestrations of the Alloy Orchestra. Actually, everything on the slate looks pretty freaking amazing. Just check it out. Tickets are on sale, and high rollers should totes spring for the VIP wristband which guarantees entrance to the mainstage events as well as what will surely be a glitzy affair, the opening night par-tay. Seriously, summer, move it along, we want October.
October 20 - 23 // Various Locations // Wristbands $60 / $125 VIP
