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Friday night, the outcome of an epic battle to build the most amazing Lego spaceships on Capitol Hill (and beyond!) is in your hands:

SBC versus PDL – Lego Spaceship Building Contest

Time: Friday, January 28 · 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Location: Vermillion Gallery

Created By: Vital 5, Greg Lundgren

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On Friday, January 28th the members of SBC (John Sutton, Ben Beres and Zac Culler) go head to head with PDL (Jason Puccinelli, Jed Dunkerley and Greg Lundgren) for the ultimate sculptural face-off.

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At high noon, each of the six artists (if you can call them that) will be handed a box of Legos and relegated to a corner of the gallery. For the next four hours they will construct the coolest, fastest, most kick-ass Lego Spaceships t…hey can imagine, and place them on six unmarked pedestals. At 6:00 pm, the viewing public will be invited to judge these vehicles and vote for their favorite ship, using old poker chips. At 10:00 pm, SBC will gather their collective chips and PDL will gather theirs, and the group with the most chips will WIN the competition.

Set against the backdrop of Jesse Higman’s exhibition, the gallery will be the perfect outer space backdrop for spaceship Lego’s.

In addition to showing off their Lego building chops, organizers note that the ship building competition marks the 25th anniversary of the Challenger explosion. Nothing like the creativity of forming cool things out of piles of multi-color blocks to remind us of the indomitable human spirit.

City Arts Magazine handicaps the event here:

Is SBC’s cool quiet the result of some secret game plan for tomorrow? Or is Dunkerley’s belligerent confidence the result of the dream I had in which the “D” in PDL won the competition? (Which probably just signifies that I work way too much.) Find out for yourself tomorrow at the rivalrous LEGO showdown. 

Vermillion is located at 1508 11th Ave. Public judging commences at 6 PM. Looking for more to do this weekend? Check out these 33 ideas from Capitol Hill and the rest of the city.