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It’s already the first second Thursday of 2025 — Take your first Capitol Hill Art Walk of the year

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Sandbox recently featured the work of Brandon Thomas (Image: Sandbox Seattle)

While the number of participating venues in tonight’s first Capitol Hill Art Walk of the new year falls just short of 25, that is still a hell of a lot of neighborhood art.

Start 2025 off right by checking out a venue or two on this first second Thursday of the year.

There is also a new participant in the Walk. Sandbox Seattle is a new addition to the mix adding a a video and photo studio, co-working space, and lounge at 1417 10th Ave. The studio is hosting a new exhibit from Lucille Groleau “featuring a series of eight oil paintings, six small 8×10 framed paintings and two larger pieces on stretched canvas.” Sandbox is also showcasing a selection of printed photographs from our local studio collective through January.

Learn more and check out a map of all participating venues at capitolhillartwalk.com.

For more neighborhoods things to do, check out the CHS Calendar.

 

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Boost Capitol Hill’s 11th Ave arts scene at On the Block’s HOLIDAY SPECIAL marketplace

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On The Block Seattle’s inaugural HOLIDAY SPECIAL Marketplace & End-of-Year Fundraiser Celebration is Friday

To help the 11th Ave arts scene with your holiday shopping, head to 15th Ave E.

Friday night, the Quality Flea Center is playing host to On the Block Seattle’s HOLIDAY SPECIAL Marketplace & End-of-Year Fundraiser Celebration:

FRIDAY, DEC 13TH 🎉🎁🎄🎅🏾💚 Come join us for our On The Block Seattle’s inaugural HOLIDAY SPECIAL Marketplace & End-of-Year Fundraiser Celebration.🎉🎉🎅🏾🎁🎄Our first INDOORS market at the @qualityfleacenter for the holiday season!! 🙌🏽🎄💚🚧 So much space for 70+ local vendors 🤩🤩 Black Santa photobooth @blacksanta206 , raffles games, food and hot beverages, and so much more!! 💚 Join us for this special celebration!! 🎅🏾🎄🎉

Location: Indoors at @qualityfleacenter – 416 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112
Market hours: 4 pm – 9:30 pm

On the Block is the organizer behind the free street market series that has filled 11th Ave with music, artists, and vendors in recent summers. OTB’s Julie-C has helped make 11th Ave a center of activity with her efforts at Blue Cone Studios, So Below, and The Study at CryBaby. On the Block organizers include Mediums Collective, Throwbacks NW, and Vermillion Art Gallery and Bar.

 

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Happy Hill-a-days: The model train is running in Volunteer Park, the Punk Rock Flea Market is this weekend, and the Capitol Hill Community Council is holding an ugly sweater contest

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Volunteer Park and the Volunteer Park Conservatory were done up in seasonal finery Thursday night for the annual Holiday in the Park event with music, hot chocolate, and cookies. The conservatory’s holiday model train will keep running through December every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

This weekend will bring some good opportunities for the gift giving season to Capitol Hill as the Punk Rock Flea Market hosts its December edition at 15th Ave E’s Quality Flea Center: Continue reading →

Check out ‘Mighty Realer – A Very Queer Art Show’ during tonight’s Capitol Hill Art Walk Pride edition

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Thursday is the Pride edition of the monthly Capitol Hill Art Walk with more than 20 studios, galleries, and venues officially participating — and the rest of the Hill unofficially participating as you enjoy a warm-ish June evening in the neighborhood.

A core to this month’s Art Walk will be on 11th Ave at the Vermillion art bar where the Mighty Realer queer arts showcase follows up on last year’s Mighty Real show.

The 2024 edition features artists including Anouk Rawkson, Jordan Christianson, Kerstin Graudins, David Van Der Linden, Casey Curran, Maybe, Jeff Legere, Tony Barnes, Kelly O, Richard Peacock, Christopher Ando, Julianee Mendoza, and Ruben David.

It is going to be so -er. Continue reading →

A good start to Capitol Hill garage sale season: Gage Academy of Art yard sale

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It is nearly garage sale season. Capitol Hill artists will want to mark their calendars for a good start to the season early next month.

The Gage Academy of Art is holding a yard sale featuring “art supplies, books, easels, costumes, home decor, kitchen items, electronics, and more” April 6th as it prepares to leave its longtime Capitol Hill home:

Later this year, Gage will move into a South Lake Amazon office building where the 35-year-old school will become the ground-floor presence below floors of tech workers above. CHS reported here on the planned move for the school after decades on the St. Mark’s campus as the church prepares for planned housing development on its 10th Ave E property.

 

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On the List | Emerald City Comic Con, Standard Goods Warehouse Sale, Outer Planet Brewing’s 9th, State of Africatown

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With chances of slushy snow this weekend you probably won’t be doing much sledding on Capitol Hill but there are still plenty of things to get out and do around the neighborhood including a big anniversary for a little beer brewer, a big sale from a Pike/Pine retailer, and an important meeting in the Central District. Meanwhile, Emerald City Comic Con will keep things busy downtown and across Capitol Hill. Check out the CHS Calendar for more.

  • Standard Goods Warehouse Sale: After eight years on Capitol Hill, E Pike’s Standard Goods is having their first ever Warehouse Sale. Everything is priced to move so they can make space for 2024. Most everything will be 50% off, with some items going below $10.00.

  • Outer Planet Brewing’s 9th Anniversary: 12th Ave nanobrewery Outer Planet has been celebrating its birthday all week. The party culminates Saturday with a day of beer, music, and Girl Scout cookies.

  • State of Africatown 2024: Africatown is about to open its most ambitious investment yet as the affordable housing development Africatown Plaza completes construction. Saturday, the organization that also runs social and community programs focused on the economic growth and culture in the Central District will hold its 11th annual State of Africatown forum at Langston Hughes.

  • In Search of Truth with Barbara McQuade and Jenny Durkan: We’re not sure what activists from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in her city will think of this. Former Mayor Jenny Durkan is scheduled to appear Sunday at First Hill’s Town Hall for a discussion with MSNBC legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade for a talk on disinformation –“a well-known part of political rhetoric, but it has implications even outside of the sphere of democracy.” While Durkan herself is a former federal prosecutor, her participation in this Town Hall Seattle talk will be interesting, to say the least. Seattle Police infamously deployed disinformation tactics including an “improper ruse” intended to disrupt Capitol Hill demonstrations during the 2020 protests under Durkan’s watch.

 

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On the List | Pre-Valentine’s edition Capitol Hill Art Walk includes a ‘Plotter Party’ with ‘robots that draw’

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Maybe you can ask the robot to draw a crow (Image: CHS Illustration)

You love art. Your sweetie loves art. Next week is Valentine’s Day. Thursday night is the February edition of the Capitol Hill Art Walk. It all adds up.

Go check out the neighborhood creations and buy your sweetie — or yourself — some art to love at studios, galleries, cafes, and more across the Hill.

This month’s highlights include “audiovisual entertainment featuring projections and djing” at the Six of Pikes studio and gallery in the basement at 11th and Pike.

Meanwhile, E Union’s Passable is planning a “Plotter Party” with an “art, tech, and design open house and art show where plotter enthusiasts will share plotter-generated work, and several plotting machines will be running for live-action fun.”

“Think of a robot that draws,” Passable says, if you aren’t familiar with the artful power of a plotter.

You can find information on these events and more of the February art walk lineup at capitolhillartwalk.com.

 

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Start the new year right with Thursday’s first Capitol Hill Art Walk of 2024

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Steve Jensen’s gallery is located at 1424 10th Ave (Image: CHS)

Here is a good resolution for 2024: See more art. Thursday night’s January edition of the Capitol Hill Art Walk is a good start.

Though the listings at capitolhillartwalk.com are a little lighter than usual, there are still lots of area venues participating in this month’s walk. The monthly art walk takes place every second Thursday at studios, galleries, shops, and cafes across the Hill.
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2023 Capitol Hill holiday highlights include 65th annual Julfest, Holiday in the Park, Guilty Holiday Pleasures Party

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While you’re recovering from the Thanksgiving holiday, brace yourself — Capitol Hill is going to be a festive place for the next few weeks. Here are a few Capitol Hill holiday highlights from the CHS Calendar. You can find more events and gatherings here — or add your own.

Sunday, December 3rd brings the 65th annual Julfest to E Pike’s First Covenant Church:

Thursday, December 7th is the date for the annual return of the Holiday in the Park celebration with hundreds of glowing luminaria, music, crafts and games, and treats in Volunteer Park:

Chabad of Capitol Hill & The Central District will also hold its Grand Menorah Lighting and Celebration in Volunteer Park on the 7th:


The Guilty Holiday Pleasures Party returns to Chophouse Row on Thursday, December 14th:

The Local Brilliance market and art exhibition takes place at 19th Ave E’s Ritual House on Saturday, December 16th:

Plus, lots more coming up soon around the Hill:

 

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Capitol Hill Pride Weekend 2023: Trans Pride, PrideFest takes over Broadway and Cal Anderson, and a new path for Seattle Dyke March

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A PrideFest scene from 2022 as Pride returned to its rightful space after years of pandemic cancellations and delays

75 F and mostly sunny. Sounds like it is time for PrideFest. The annual free Pride festival on Broadway and in Cal Anderson returns Saturday as a centerpiece to LGBTQIA+ celebrations across Capitol Hill this weekend. Also check out our news on the important changes for the annual Dyke March. The PrideFest 2023 schedule is below along with the rest of the highlights from the weekend around the Hill. Happy Pride.

2023 CAPITOL HILL PRIDE

  • FRIDAY JUNE 23RD: TRANS PRIDE SEATTLE — Trans Pride Seattle got back on its feet in 2022 — but not in time to be part of celebrations in June. This year, the celebration of transgender freedom continues its new tradition of gathering in Volunteer Park with a Friday night rally and party. Continue reading →