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SeaCompression
SeaCompression is our Seattle-area "decompression" party - 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.
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