Burn Week Art Map
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Killarney’s Full Service Parisian Café
9am-11am, 8/30-9/4
4167 38th Ave S. Seattle, WA 98118
One of the largest stops on lost Route 38 has reappeared – Killarney’s Full Service Parisian Café, Taxidermy and Truck stop. Come in every morning for a self-serve cup of your traditional, greasy spoon diner coffee. It’s self-serve, so our salty wait staff has nothing better to do than check your vaccine cards and make sure you wear a mask when not seated. We care about your caffeination and your safety, too!
Photography allowed? Yes, with permission of any participants who will be in the photos.
COVID-19 Precautions: Vaccines are required to enter the café space. Social distancing has been accounted for in table placement. Masks are required whenever patrons are not seated at their own table, and staff will have a mask full time plus spares on hand.
Mary Cherry’s Ice Cream Wednesday @ Pie Chute
Wednesday 9/1 3pm-6pm
4167 38th Ave St. Seattle, WA 98118
The favorite stop on any stretch of highway is that little ice cream shop! Mary Cherry ice cream has emerged from the space-time vortex for a single day. We are serving homemade, vegan, gluten-free* banana base ice cream in two flavors – banana and blackberry with a variety of toppings to choose from. Bring a spoon with you to help reduce waste!
Photography allowed? Yes, with permission of any participants who will be in the photos.
COVID-19 Precautions: Masks will be worn by servers and patrons. Social distancing and mask usage will be monitored in line by a volunteer, with additional masks available to anyone who needs one. Hand sanitizer will be available, and of course, servers will be appropriately gloved. Vaccines will be required for anyone desiring to enjoy their ice cream in the backyard café space.
Puttquet!
4pm-10pm, 9/01-9/05
14917 16th Ave SW, Burien, WA 98166
Come play PUTTQUET! at the Burien trash fence!
A hybrid of crazy golf and croquet, try your hand navigating the obstacles and traps of this quirky and colorful 100 ft long course.
Created by the Honoraria artists who brought you Odd Jelly Out, uckiood (Missy Douglas & Kim Rask) with Marc Swenson.
Photography allowed? Yes. Please tag @uckiood when uploading to all social media platforms.
COVID safety measures: Outdoors/signage at the entrance of the course will ask participants to socially distance and wear masks if unvaccinated. Hand sanitizer will be available for cleaning mallets and balls.
Harvest Bounty Market
Wednesday 9/1 6pm-8pm
4167 38th Ave S. Seattle, 98118
Pack up your preserves, baked goods and garden, let’s share our bounty!
Join us for a gifting market – come receive wonderful things grown or made by the community, and if you grow or make things, consider bringing some to share.
Whatever you bring is not a swap, but a gift – the same for what you choose to take home. And no gifts of any kind are required to come participate and take some bounty home with you! Gift your excess Seeds, plants, produce, preserves, baked goods, homeraised eggs, honey, fermented foods, starters, cut flowers, bulbs, pickles, etc! Take home up 2-3 things brought by others!
I can give us a good start with last year’s preserves but not enough to make a whole event – and I would love to make this a a robust, exciting experience of gifting culture.
Photography allowed? Yes with permission of participants
COVID-19 Precautions: Mask usage is required to participate and attend. Hand sanitizer will be provided at the door.
LumenAwesome
7pm-10pm, 9/01-9/02
3426 59th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98116
A collection of light and flame art. Fire sculpture by @octo_eyes! Lumenoki neon mushrooms by @yalewolf and @studio.octoeyes! Video projection by @akcrew! Walk-through (steep hill) socially-distanced exploration.
Photography allowed? Yes. Non-commercial with artist attribution.
COVID safety measures: Entirely outdoors. We will have a sign requesting unvaccinated people to mask and requesting groups social distance.
Plants Renew!
Wednesday 2-10 PM
Sunday 9/5 2-6PM
Monday 9/6 All Day
977 20th Ave Seattle WA 98122, cross street Union. Look for plants in the Gold Hours Project
Come get a new plant at The Golden Hours Project! See the new life among our leaves of loss. With plant cuttings from our neighbors, we spread our leaves in new directions. Rooting in our past while looking to the future. This balance is what we are celebrating. A sign of change, plenty of time to slowly grow, a promise of the future. Please stop by, with your mask, see the new green & perhaps take one little bit of hope home with you.
Photography allowed? Yes! Please tag #ArtCompassNW #GoldenHoursProject
COVID-19 Precautions: We ask participants to wear masks when they are engaged with the space, especially when they step up to the open air plant shelf. Signs will be posted. Hand sanitizer nearby.
Shapes of Us
Weekends: 12:00 PM – 12:00 AM, Weekdays: 5:00 PM – 11 PM, Labor Day: 12:00 PM – 11:00 PM
2436 South Irving Street, Seattle, WA 98144
Children of the Abyss presents its latest art collaboration, “Shapes of Us”! This interactive art project was designed and led by a life-long, 10-year-old burner, Crystal Panda, and adult-burner, Mongoose. Shapes of Us encourages all to come paint, color, and draw to create awesomely fun characters using the outline of a pre-drawn form. Here are some guidelines to help everyone interact with this art together:
DO
– Have fun and a “yes, and” attitude
– Engage your creativity
– Be radically inclusive with your art
– Remember that this art is for all ages, please be considerate
DON’T
– Draw more than a few parts per drawing
– Take up all the space with one part
– Deliberately try to ruin any drawings
– Take a finished drawing or art materials away from space
OPTIONAL
– Take pictures of drawings
– Bring your own art supplies to share, e.g., stickers, markers, crayons
Logistics, Accessibility, & Expectations
– Parking – Street parking on both sides
– Entrance – Please enter via the front gate, entrance will be marked
– Accessibility – Need to go up 8 steps to enter yard
– Noise Level – We live in a neighborhood with young kids, please keep voices down after 10 pm
– Other Art – Space is shared with a laser obstacle course, “Optical Course”. Please check them out cuz they’re cool!
Photography allowed? Yes, we allow photography
COVID-19 Precautions – Please follow guidelines, including wearing masks and physical distancing
It’s Not Yard Trash, It’s Art
10a-11:30pm, 8/29-9/06. Lights will only be on when it starts to get dark
Yard full of fun, kitschy stuff and lights
Photography allowed? Yes, with credit.
COVID-19 Precautions: I am not offering human interaction so it will be up to visitors to be safe around each other. It is outside only so that should also make it more safe
Lost Highway
8am-11pm, 8/29-9/6
4167 38th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118
A stretch of Route 38 disappeared in summer of 1959. Now, pieces of it have reappeared, stuffed into a private lot in Mt. Baker – but is something strange about them? Come see these (mostly) classic signs day or night, and check out the event listing for events being held at Lost Highway, which include a Café, The Pie Chute, Ice Cream and a Car Wash!
Photography allowed? Yes, with Credit
COVID-19 Precautions: Please follow guidelines, including wearing masks and physical distancing. Visitors are asked to wear their mask if they are within 6′ of others. These signs can be seen from the street without leaving your car or getting off your bike, and are not interactive. Individual events have various requirements, see event listings.
The Golden Hours Project
8/29-9/6 6AM – 11PM
977 20th Ave, Seattle, WA (cross street Union)
The Golden Hours Project is a space of self expression, in memory of the people & things lost during this pandemic. We invite you to write on a leaf those things that you miss or names people you have lost. Read what others have written, approach the space from different sides & slowly move through it. See the leaves rustle in the wind, day and night. We offer a place to have loss be seen & shared, plus offer love & hope through that expression. This art has changed recently. Come see the new aspects! Created by our community. Designed & hosted by Jeny & Brian Bird.
Radical Inclusion in the time of pandemic – Please help our entire community feel welcome in this space. Including those under 12. Outdoors, with plenty of space for movement, be mindful of others. Please wear a mask when you engage with the project. Follow all guidelines from Art Compass NW.
Photography allowed? Yes! Please share your photos. Tags include #GoldenHoursProject #TheGoldenHoursProject #communityart #artcompassnw
COVID-19 Precautions: The piece is outdoors, made to walk through & around, with ample space for distancing. Signs to wear a mask & follow all guidelines from Art Compass NW. Hand sanitizer by the markers on the writing desk. Some masks provided.
Web of Dreams
24/7, 8/29-9/6. Available for climbing 24 hours a day. Please observe quiet hours from 10:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m.
4416 S 164th St, Tukwila, WA 98188
Web of Dreams is a hand crocheted rope playground. Come climb with us!
Photography allowed? Yes
COVID safety measures: Outdoors/Please wear masks and sanitize or wash hands prior to climbing in. One family group/COVID bubble at a time should be interacting with it. Rope will be periodically sanitized.
Talk to God phone
24/7, 8/29-9/06
Call are answered on zoom at TalkToGodVirtual.com, or by phone at 1 (GOD)-BELL-001
At the Burn almost every year for the last two decades there has been a symbol, a waypoint, an opportunity: to speak with God. There have been laughs, tears, concern and a most unique human interaction…
…in a phone booth.
Illuminated Pathways Mural
Mural is open to visitors all day but is best seen at night when lit with black light. Temple Burn celebration on Sunday 9/5 from 5pm – 11pm.
Mural is 2 houses north of S Trenton on MLK. Sunday Temple Burn in backyard at 8645 44th AVE S Seattle WA 98118. Look for signs with the Man on them.
Illuminated Pathways is a permanent mural in the Rainier Beach Community by local artist Roman Leal. Mural is accessible anytime but is illuminated in black light on special nights and all of Burn week. Join us Sunday 9/5 to celebrate the Temple Burn with chill music and a fire pit in the backyard of the property. Come relax and meet some new and old friends. There is space to social distance and safety gear such as hand sanitizer will be available.
Photography allowed? Yes, Please credit the artist Roman Leal if posted on social media.
COVID-19 Precautions: Please follow guidelines, including wearing masks and physical distancing.
Moon Flowers
8/29-9/6
6601 Carleton Ave S, Seattle, WA 98108
7 foot tall flowers with silver stems and white orb buds that glow at night.
Photography allowed? Yes
COVID safety measures: The art is in a private garden behind a fence with a secure gate, visible from the street.
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