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1. Pure Cirkus @ Heavens
2. Poets needed - 2nd Annual POETRY POLAR BEAR PLUNGE
3. Smash Putt!
4. EtsyRAIN Holiday Show
5. Award winning documentary Between the Folds, Free Showing today!
6. Mods & Rockers Nov. 28th
7. Post-Bellum: Apocalypse of Beauty
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Pure Cirkus @ Heavens

Who doesn’t love a circus? Who doesn’t love freaks? Seattle’s own PURE Cirkus returns with freaks, suspensions, jello wrestlers and fire performers this Wednesday Nov. 25th at Heavens nightclub (the former Catwalk in Pioneer Square).

Advanced tickets and more info on the SST / PURE Cirkus Roadshow

Poets needed - 2nd Annual POETRY POLAR BEAR PLUNGE

POETRY POLAR BEAR CLUB
Noon, Saturday 12 December 2009
Green Lake Bath House Theatre | Seattle

Jump into the lake with a poem & a bikini. Don’t worry, your POETRY will PROTECT you. Yet again, the poets show Seattle what it takes to be one. This is year #2, that’s how traditions are made. Last year we made headline news & had a ton of fun. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008513831_polarpoetry14m.html Join us this year?

CALLING ALL ARTISTS, poets, Alaska-natives and crazies. Looking for 50 hardy individuals to jump into Green Lake this December. It’s simple. Write a poem, put it on a bikini, put your bikini on & come to Green Lake at NOON on Saturday 12 December. We’ll be working up our courage behind the Bath House. Then, at 12:30pm, we’ll drop our fuzzy layers, line up on the water’s edge, read our poems to the massed and staring crowds and plunge on in! This is a quick event. If you’re late, you’ll miss it. Plan to be parked and ready to go at noon. Questions? Contact Mimi mimiallin@gmail.com.

Even if you’re not willing to freeze your pants off, this is a spectacle worth attending. Come enjoy the poetry, sip some cocoa, have a laugh. The POETRY POLAR BEAR swim is the same day as the “Parade of Lights.” Go Green Lake!

ARTISTS: Willing to take a DIP in Green Lake? SHOW UP behind the Bath House at Green Lake, at NOON on Saturday 12 December, in a bathing suit (preferably a bikini, but the rules are lax), with a POEM written somewhere on your suit or body (doesn’t have to be one you wrote, but we’d like it if it were & if it related to the event).

DONATE A POLAR POEM: Don’t want to swim, but want to contribute a poem? That’s cool. Post your poem on a picket & bring it to the lake or e-mail it to mimiallin@gmail.com. See you on 12 December!

WARM A POET FOR THE HOLIDAYS: We need HELPERS on the sidelines to bear witness, hold towels & eyeglasses, hand out coca & take pictures. To lend support, simply arrive at noon and say, “I’m a helper.”

A. K. “Mimi” Allin
http://thepoetessatgreenlake.blogspot.com
“Putting the O back in poetry”

Smash Putt!

Hijinks From HazardFactory

The industrial artists of HazardFactory apply their practiced predilection for mechanized mayhem to the humble sport of miniature golf. Forget everything you expect and be prepared for innovative chaos. Compete with your chums during 21+ evenings.

Will your ball survive the destruction zone? What will you do to score when a hole dodges your perfect putt? Take on tricky mechanisms. Launch balls at moving targets. Levitation. Centripetal Actuators. Accelerator Pads. Ball Bouncers. Secret passages.

Each and every hole is dripping with excitement!
21+ fun gets your balls smashed and your holes trashed late into the night. Bring the family to one of our kid friendly matinees where technical ambassadors will explain the science behind ball levitators, elevators, launchers, and the myriad of other mind blowing tricks that power the course.

Seriously malicious competition is par for the course. The winner in a group of 4+ gets receives a free drink during happy hour. Seattle’s first annual Smash Putt! Brought to you by the same folks that bring you the annual summer Power Tool Races.

Drop it in your calendar pronto, cause you can only tee off during the last 3 weekends of November! 

More Smash Putt! INFO and details?

Check it all out here on their website

 

EtsyRAIN Holiday Show

 

The first 50 people in line each day will receive a swag bag filled with awesome stuff from our EtsyRAIN members.

Award winning documentary Between the Folds, Free Showing today!

Think origami is just paper planes and cranes? Meet a determined group of theoretical scientists and fine artists who have abandoned careers and scoffed at graduate degrees to forge new lives as modern-day paper folders. Together they reinterpret the world in paper, creating a wild mix of sensibilities towards art, science, creativity and meaning.

I guess I’m a paper geek. I’ve always loved the art of paper. That’s why I’ll be at the free showing of Between the Folds at SIFF Cinema at McCaw Hall this Saturday, November 21st, 3:30pm to 5:30pm. The showing is Free, and I believe there will be a Seattle Art Museum representative discussing the film and art of paper. If you miss this presentation, it will be aired on PBS channel KCTS9 beginning December 8,09. - jd

SIFF Cinema at McCaw Hall is located at 321 Mercer St. Seattle WA 98109

Saturday, November 21st, 3:30pm to 5:30pm

Community Cinema and Between the Folds - Green Fuse Films

Mods & Rockers Nov. 28th

Join Local Bands Laguna and The Black Top Demons for a night of motor inspired mayhem!

Featuring DJ Vodka Twist (Studio 66) and DJ Ace Face (West Enders Scooter Club) on dancehall duty.

Inspired by the famous Summer ride for Seattle scooterists and bikers.

Tiger Lounge
412 S. Orcas
No Cover 21+

Post-Bellum: Apocalypse of Beauty

Elizabeth Jameson has always sketched and sculpted dresses, beautiful frocks with beautiful women, lovely ladies in pretty skirts, sometimes just the skirts and dresses themselves, with the ladies long-gone. Using a variety of mediums, charcoal, water-color, fur, metal, wool and sugar, Elizabeth designs a fashion-forward portfolio of trendy garb for the modern age.

These days, her ladies and gentlemen are dressed for the coming Apocalypse. Fashion-forward, yet equipped for a nerve-or-mustard gas attack, her ladies are substantial and ethereal at the same time, anonymous yet familiar in their historic and vintage garb.

After just viewing the DOT viaduct earthquake video and watching previews of the the film 2012, thoughts of the end of the world are reeling in my brain. The Mayan calendar ends on 2012: will we have to deal with volcanoes, typhoons an earthquakes? Will gas masks become de rigeur for the new millennium?

Jameson focuses on what life would belike post war (apocalyptic). She envisions the world of corporations encouraging people to carry on as usual except for the addition of gas masks needed for the new paradigm. Her large 5′ x 7′ drawings are done in her gestural drawing style using heavy charcoal and pastels. A drawing of a crowd wearing gas masks seems beautiful and benign. Life as normal. One is drawn to this work by the strange marriage of pleasing images on first glance later to comprehend the dark reality that is portrayed.

Elizabeth’s show is currently at Fetherston Gallery on Capitol Hill until December 19th.

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