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Seattle Design Festival, Seattle WA | Nearby Businesses


1010 Western Ave
Seattle, WA 98104

(206) 448-4938

Every year, Seattle Design Festival brings together the public, experts, business and city leaders to exchange ideas about the role of design in maintaining and enhancing the quality of life in Seattle.

Arts and Entertainment Near Seattle Design Festival

Seattle Waterfront
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
1301 Alaskan Way
Seattle, WA 98101

(206) 623-8607

Business Closed September 21, 2014 Looking for a new location. We will keep you posted and let you know when and where the new location will open.

Seattle Great Wheel
Distance: 0.3 mi Competitive Analysis
1301 Alaskan Way
Seattle, WA 98101-2013

The Seattle Great Wheel is a giant Ferris wheel at Pier 57 on Elliott Bay in Seattle, Washington. With an overall height of 175ft, it was the tallest Ferris wheel on the West Coast of the United States when it opened on June 29, 2012.Opening dayThe inauguration ceremony and opening to the public was on June 29, 2012. Participants in the ceremony, which took place at 2:30 p.m., included a presentation of colors by the US Coast Guard, a speech by Seattle mayor Michael McGinn, and entertainment by the University of Washington cheerleaders, spirit team, and marching band.Approximately 200 people lined up for the first ride on the wheel. Tickets cost $13 per person, with discounts for children and seniors. One luxury VIP gondola with red leather seats and a glass floor is available and costs $50 per person.Construction and designSeattle was the third city in North America to offer a wheel of this design, following the Niagara SkyWheel at Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls, Canada, which is also 175ft tall, and the larger Myrtle Beach SkyWheel in South Carolina, which is 187ft tall. The Seattle wheel is the only one of the three to be built over water.

Gum Wall
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Unexpected Productions' Market Theater 1428 Post Alley
Seattle, WA 98101

The Market Theater Gum Wall is a brick wall covered in used chewing gum, in an alleyway in downtown Seattle. It is located in Post Alley under Pike Place Market. Similar to Bubblegum Alley in San Luis Obispo, California, the Market Theater Gum Wall is a local landmark. Parts of the wall can be covered several inches thick, 15 feet high for 50 feet.The wall is by the box office for the Market Theater, and the tradition began around 1993 when patrons of Unexpected Productions' Seattle Theatresports stuck gum to the wall and placed coins in the gum blobs. Theater workers scraped the gum away twice, but eventually gave up after market officials deemed the gum wall a tourist attraction around 1999. Some people created small works of art out of gum.It was named one of the top 5 germiest tourist attractions in 2009, second to the Blarney Stone. It is the location of the start of a ghost tour, and it is a popular site with wedding photographers.A scene for the 2009 Jennifer Aniston film Love Happens was shot at the wall in 2008.On November 3, 2015, it was announced by the Pike Place Market Preservation & Development Authority that for the first time in 20 years the gum wall would be receiving a total scrub down for maintenance and steam cleaning, to prevent further erosion of the bricks on the walls from the sugar in the gum. Work began on November 10 and took 130 hours to complete, with over 2,350lbs of gum removed and disposed of. After the cleaning was finished on November 13, gum began to be re-added to the wall; among the first additions were memorials to the November 2015 Paris attacks.

THE GUM WALL PIKE PLACE MARKET
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Unexpected Productions' Market Theater 1428 Post Alley
Seattle, WA 98101

(206) 587-2414

New patrons waiting in line outside of Unexpected Productions’ Market Theater may be startled by what they see on the front wall of the theater: designs made by thousands of pieces of chewed gum. The wall began more respectably. Early 20th century farmers coming to the Market to sell produce shelters their horses in the stable located in the Economy Building. Later the building housed a movie theater. Established improv theater company, Unexpected Productions, began leasing the building 1991. Soon after, a patron waiting in the ticket line to see Theatresports, a popular competition improv comedy show (still running today), stuck a piece of chewed gum to the wall, topping it with a penny. Others followed suit. By the end of 1995, the wall was covered with coin-topped chewed gum offering. One day, someone in need of money to all the coins, but left the gum. The idea stuck. The landlord – Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (PDA) was offend that theatergoers would deface the historic brick building and asked Unexpected Productions to remove the gum. The gum quickly returned, and the PDA asked that the wall be again be scraped clean. 1998, after patrons reconstructed the wall a third time, the Market finally gave up as the tradition was in full swing. The wall continues to grow and evolve. Much like an improv performance, it is different every single day. Since the gum wall’s inception there have been reports of walls of gum created in various communities across the United States. However, none of them has gained the fame (actually infamy) of the Gum Wall in Pike Place Market Creators of the gum wall have taken their time, spelling out their name or their significant other’s name along the wall. Others have posted their hometown or their home country. And a few have even put up messages of hope and peace. Seattleites use the gum wall in a variety of ways, even as an unusual backdrop for wedding photos, something the theater staff sees about twice a month. Photographs of the wall also have graced business brochures. Tour groups visiting the Market stop daily to see it.

Seattle Waterfront Ferris Wheel
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
1301 Alaskan Way
Seattle, WA 98101

(206) 623-8607

The Blarney Stone Pub
Distance: 0.3 mi Competitive Analysis
1416 1st Ave
Seattle, WA 98101

(206) 448-8439

Located in the heart of Downtown Seattle Washington, The Blarney Stone is an Irish Pub serving great drinks, great food and great entertainment. We are conveniently located near many major Seattle attractions, such as Pike's Place Market, the Space Needle, the Seattle Art Museum and more. Make us your next location for drinks, food and fun in Seattle WA.

Underground Seattle/Pioneer Square
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614 1st ave
Seattle, WA 98104

Spooked In Seattle Ghost Tours
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102 Cherry St
Seattle, WA 98104

(425) 954-7701

Since 2004, Spooked in Seattle Tours has been telling the REAL stories of haunted Seattle, taking you inside, and presenting evidence collected on actual paranormal investigations! Join real ghost hunters for an evening of spirited tales within Seattle’s unique neighborhoods, as they take you on a guided tour of some of the cities most haunted sites, including our very own section of Seattle’s famous underground. These 90 minute tours include information about ghosts and offer some of the evidence collected during investigations. Each tour explores the past of some of the oldest buildings in Seattle and will, perhaps, give you the opportunity to encounter some residents whose earthly forms may have departed, but of course, never left. Are ghosts for real or are we haunted by the spectres in our minds? That’s for the curious to find out and see why we are “Spooked In Seattle.”

Miner's Landing at Pier 57 Seattle
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
1301 Alaskan Way
Seattle, WA 98101

(206) 623-8600

Triple Door Seattle
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216 Union St
Seattle, WA 98101

Seattle's Underground City Tour
Distance: 0.3 mi Competitive Analysis
610 1st Ave
Seattle, WA 98104

(206) 682-1511

Easy Joe's American Pub
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
704 1st Ave
Seattle, WA 98104

(206) 623-3440

Easy Joe's is an American Pub with great burgers, cold brews and tasty cocktails served behind a beautiful hand built bar. Located in the heart of historic Pioneer Square, it's the perfect place to meet friends, have lunch, watch the game, enjoy happy hour, order some more food ... you know the drill.

Pier 57
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1301 Alaskan Way
Seattle, WA 98101

Pier 52
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801 Alaskan Way
Seattle, WA 98104

Coleman Dock Ferry
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
801 Alaskan Way
Seattle, WA 98104

Great Wheel, Seattle Waterfront
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1301 Alaskan Way
Seattle, WA 98101

Argosy Cruise to Tillicum Village
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1201 Alaskan Way
Seattle, WA 98101

Seattle Aquarium Society
Distance: 0.3 mi Competitive Analysis
1415 Western Ave
Seattle, WA 98101-2051

(206) 682-3474

Seattle Tower
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1218 3rd Ave
Seattle, WA 98101

'57 Biscayne Artist Studios
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110 Cherry St
Seattle, WA 98104

Upcoming Events: SEMI-ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE 1st Thursday, June 7, 6-9 PM Resident artists open up their studios and the adjoining nooks & crannies of the historic Scheuerman block, exhibiting an exquisite, eclectic array of jewelry, paintings, letterpress cards & posters, photographs, frescos, book arts, encaustics, screenprints & other works on paper. Take home a do-it-yourself letterpress souvenir! Special guests include a site-specific LILIENTHAL|ZAMORA stairwell installation ("The Orange Cube"), music by trombonist Marc Smason with Craig Hoyer & Lamar Lofton; Ken Ewert's one-of-a-kind lamps, and much more! '57 Biscayne is home to: Jane Richlovsky Constellation & Co. Sarah Dillon Studio 10/Angel Ceballos Joey Trimmer/Notion Studios Michelle Goggins/Josh Strickland Peggy Foy/Atomic Metal Dara Solliday/Miles Cheung/The Squared Pixel Savina Mason Libby Bulloff/Exoskeleton Cabaret Alison Warp Doug Hoisington/Douglissimo Fresco

Non-Profit Organization Near Seattle Design Festival

AIA Seattle
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1010 Western Ave
Seattle, WA 98104

(206) 448-4938

Washington State FBLA
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107 Spring St
Seattle, WA 98104

(206) 801-0009

Washington Future Business Leaders of America (WAFBLA) is a student association and provider of career and technical education for students in grade 7-12 interested in careers in leadership, business, and entrepreneurship. Our members are approximately 4000 students in over 180 public and private high schools and middle schools in Washington State--and growing. Our focus is on bringing high quality educational experiences to our wide variety of students around the state, that prepares them to be outstanding next generation business professionals. We see the high need for high school students to be more prepared for work, college, and entrepreneurial endeavors, and our programs are aimed at growing the students as self-confident, well-balanced leaders who know themselves and how to bring value to the companies and organizations they will ultimately join after graduation. Our programs are successful with diverse student populations, and focus on preparing students for the careers they choose--no matter where they live or where they want to go.

Hepatitis Education Project
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
1621 S. Jackson St Suite 201
Seattle, WA 98144

(206) 732-0311

The Hepatitis Education Project was started in 1993 by a group of patients and medical professionals who wanted to provide support and education to others living with chronic hepatitis. Starting as just a single support group, the Hepatitis Education Project formally incorporated in April 1994. From that initial group, HEP began helping other people start their own hepatitis support groups, providing them with technical assistance and support. At the same time the support group meetings were starting, HEP began printing a newsletter, HEPNews. Copies of the newsletter were sent to patients and to physicians who specialized in gastroenterology and infectious diseases. From an initial mailing of 35 or 40 copies, the newsletter mailing grew to over 250 by the end of the first year. Today our quarterly newsletter goes out to about 4,000 people around the U.S. In February of 2000, HEP opened one of the only Hepatitis Resource Centers in the country, a walk-in and telephone support center for hepatitis patients and family members. Staffed almost entirely by volunteers, this center has provided counseling and support to thousands of patients since it opened and continues to provide much needed help today. Some of HEP's other programs include working with local, state and federal legislators and agencies to advocate on behalf of hepatitis patients; offering free hepatitis C testing and vaccination for hepatitis A and B; maintaining a national support hotline; and conducting educational programs for public health, community groups and corrections.

Little Eagles Child Development Center
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
1000 2nd Ave, Ste 204
Seattle, WA 98104

(206) 382-9869

Hispanic Seafair Organization
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811 1st Ave, Ste 340
Seattle, WA 98104

(206) 749-5600

Empowering Latinas through Education, Community Service and Scholarships.

Hispanic Seafair
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811 1st Avenue Suite 340
Seattle, WA 98104

CAIR-Washington State
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Mailing Address: 815 First Avenue, #204
Seattle, WA 98104

(206) 367-4081

Native Action Network
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815 1st Ave, # 113
Seattle, WA 98104

Make-A-Wish Alaska and Washington
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811 1st Ave, Ste 520
Seattle, WA 98104

(206) 623-5300

NARAL Pro-Choice Washington
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811 1st Ave, Ste 675
Seattle, WA 98104

(206) 624-1990

Potlatch Fund
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801 2nd Ave, Ste 304
Seattle, WA 98104

(206) 624-6076

Potlatch Fund is focused on promoting diversity and addressing inequality by educating foundations about Tribal communities, introducing them to Native nonprofits, and holding funder briefings specific to Indian Country. At the same time we are working with casino Tribes to improve their giving practices and increase their own giving to Native projects and their own communities. Concurrently tribes are realizing that they cannot fill all the gaps in their community, and thus we work with Native individuals both on reservations and in metropolitan areas to set up, fund, and manage Native nonprofits. Potlatch Fund has also worked with three cohorts of younger leaders to build a pool of qualified and networked talent to help drive a robust Native nonprofit sector here in the Northwest. We work with Tribal leaderships, Native community, nonprofit leaders and Native artists to bring the idea that, with the help of the money that comes from mainstream philanthropy, they can become the master’s of their own destinies. Our main push is teaching about philanthropy, fundraising and grant writing. We also train groups about financial management, governance, strategic planning, media management and how to start up a nonprofit. Each training focuses on removing the barriers that exist to stop Native applicants receiving grants from mainstream foundations. Our trainings tend to be small, they are culturally appropriate and always occur within Native communities. There are other trainers who provide the same kind of material as Potlatch Fund; however no one else travels to Indian Country. We do this because we are painfully aware that even the cost of gas for some of our participants can prove to be an insurmountable barrier. Potlatch Fund also holds several grant programs: InterTribal Canoe Journey, Community Building, Native Arts, we work with Tribes to purchase old growth cedar trees (for cultural purposes) though our Cedar Tree Fund, and we provide mini grants to first time applicants. Our Intertribal Canoe Journey grants, Community Building grants, Mini grants and a number of our Native Arts grants, serve large numbers of individuals. Many of the participants who attend a Potlatch Fund training go on to write a successful application to one of our grant programs. These grants act as a positive reinforcement of skills learned, and can also be leveraged for further funding from their Tribes and other foundations.

ARCADE
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1201 Alaskan Way, Pier 56, Ste 200
Seattle, WA 98101

(206) 971-5596

ARCADE is a Seattle-based nonprofit that creates opportunities – in print, online, in the community – for sharing ideas about design, culture and the built environment. We publish a quarterly magazine; host events and provide a curated calendar of Northwest design and art happenings. Aiming to strengthen connection between various creative groups and design disciplines, we invite all to participate and collectively add to the greater whole. Founded in 1982 by a group of recent architecture-school graduates, ARCADE now includes two staff people, a dedicated board of trustees, and a cadre of generous and enthusiastic committee members and volunteers. We believe daring, interdisciplinary discussions of design can enact positive change and enrich our world. Looking to find and explore the intersections of design, art and culture, we bring together voices from multiple design disciplines – architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, industrial design, graphic design, etc. – and the arts community. Dedicated to providing a Northwest perspective, we present insight on and review notable regional topics. We also work with contributors from around the world, always examining how what we do in the Northwest fits into the larger picture.

Seattle Symphony Chorale
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200 University St
Seattle, WA 98101

(206) 215-4700

Discovery Institute
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208 Columbia St
Seattle, WA 98104

Discovery Institute Study and Activity Areas: Science and Culture. Scientific research and experimentation have produced staggering advances in our knowledge about the natural world, but they have also led to increasing abuse of science as the so-called “new atheists” have enlisted science to promote a materialistic worldview, to deny human freedom and dignity and to smother free inquiry. Our Center for Science and Culture works to defend free inquiry. It also seeks to counter the materialistic interpretation of science by demonstrating that life and the universe are the products of intelligent design and by challenging the materialistic conception of a self-existent, self-organizing universe and the Darwinian view that life developed through a blind and purposeless process. Economics and Business. Technological innovation has become the engine of economic progress, but it also has attracted new efforts by government to take over areas traditionally handled by private enterprise; at the same time, it has fueled a technocratic mindset that believes morality is somehow irrelevant to wealth creation. Our program on Technology and Democracy examines the destructive consequences of the over-regulation of new technologies, while our Center on Wealth, Poverty, and Morality explores how free enterprise and the Judeo-Christian moral tradition create a culture of entrepreneurship that makes technological innovation, and thus economic prosperity, possible. Center on Human Exceptionalism. New medical technologies have dramatically improved human health and extended human life, yet these same technologies have been misused to efface human dignity. Similarly, while modern discoveries in biology and ecology have given us a greater appreciation for the importance of other creatures, these same discoveries are sometimes misused to promote an extreme vision of “animal rights” that places animal welfare above the welfare of human beings. Our Center on Human Exceptionalism counters pseudo-scientific attacks on human dignity by defending the unique dignity of persons, what we call human exceptionalism, in health care policy and practice, environmental stewardship, and scientific research. International Affairs. The discoveries of science have enabled huge advances in prosperity and freedom around the world. At the same time, they have provided new methods for mass destruction, the abridgement of human dignity and the spread of misinformation and hatred. Our programs on international affairs explore the dynamic role science and technology play in many international issues as well. These programs promote such enduring Western values and institutions as the rule of law, religious liberty, free markets, liberal democracy and non-governmental associations. Local Government and Communities. The invention of the automobile has led to unparalleled freedom of movement for people, goods, and services; but it also has disrupted traditional social and political patterns in ways we are only now beginning to understand. Our Cascadia Center for Regional Development shows how new transportation technologies and building techniques can build more vibrant, human scale communities. Religion and Public Life. The worldview of scientific materialism has been pitted against traditional beliefs in the existence of God, Judeo-Christian ethics and the intrinsic dignity and freedom of man. Because it denies the reality of God, the idea of the Imago Dei in man, and an objective moral order, it also denies the relevance of religion to public life and policy. Our program on Religion and Civic Life defends the continuing relevance of traditional religious faith to public life within a pluralistic democracy. Specifically, it seeks to defend the importance of Judeo-Christian conceptions of the rule of law, the nature of man and the necessity of limiting the power of government. Thus, it also seeks to protect religious liberty, including its public expression in pluralistic democracies. Philosophy: Mind, not matter, is the source and crown of creation, the wellspring of human achievement. Conceived by the ancient Hebrews, Greeks and Christians, and elaborated in the American Founding, Western culture has encouraged creativity, enabled discovery and upheld the uniqueness and dignity of human beings. Linking religious, political, and economic liberty, the Judeo-Christian culture has established the rule of law, codified respect for human rights and conceived constitutional democracy. It has engendered development of science and technology, as well as economic creativity and innovation. In contrast, the contemporary materialistic worldview denies the intrinsic dignity and freedom of human beings and enfeebles scientific creativity and technological innovation. Its vision of a closing circle of human possibilities on a planet of limited horizons summons instead the deadening ideologies of scarcity, conflict, mutual suspicion and despair.

Seattle Art Museum
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1300 1st Ave
Seattle, WA 98101

(206) 654-3210

One great museum. Three awesome locations: Seattle Art Museum, Asian Art Museum & Olympic Sculpture Park. "Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style" opens October 11 at Seattle Art Museum. Tickets on sale now: visitsam.org/ysl. #SAMYSL #SAMIndigo is on view now through October 9 at the Asian Art Museum: visitsam.org/indigo. #TamikoThiel: "Gardens of the Anthropocene" at Olympic Sculpture Park now through September 30: visitsam.org/gardens

Benaroya Hall
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200 University St
Seattle, WA 98101

(206) 215-4747

Benaroya Hall: inspiring connections in our city through music, ideas, laughter and the arts.

Seattle Symphony
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200 University St
Seattle, WA 98101

(206) 215-4747

Welcome to the Seattle Symphony Facebook page! We are committed to ensuring that this is a fun, friendly and respectful community where people can share their love of music. We love hearing from you. But we do reserve the right to remove postings that are abusive, offensive or promotional. Thank you for your cooperation. See you at the Symphony!

Seattle International Foundation
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500 Union St, Ste 801
Seattle, WA 98101

(206) 547-9330

CoCA (Center on Contemporary Art)
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114 3rd Ave S
Seattle, WA 98104

(206) 782-1980

Join us at CoCA in Seattle at two locations before we move into our final location at the Tashiro Kaplan building on Sept. 1. Check back here regularly for current exhibitions and events plus special member news. CoCA PS35 106 Cherry St. Special events on 1st Thursdays, 6-9pm Part of Pioneer Square Art Walk CoCA UN[contained] @ Equinox Studios 6555 Fifth Avenue S Special events on second Saturdays, 6-9p Part of Georgetown Art Attack