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If you’ve crossed the West Seattle Bridge, you’ve seen the location that almost all know as “the old grain silos.” You would possibly even know that a part of the location is now Harbor Island Studios. Later this month, you’ve possibilities to go inside – not a lot to see the studios as to see “History Comes Alive” – true tales, and performances associated to them, as planned by Invisible Histories, a venture of Cari Simson and Elke Hautala, whose podcasts unearth many such tales. Cari met us on the web site on Thursday.
Until they arrange for the performances and projections that can spotlight the excursions 6-10 pm on Thursday and Friday, April 23-24, it’s largely huge and empty inside:
But think about studying tales together with a rum-runner couple, a sabotaged munitions barge, Native life, the battle over the place Seattle’s port can be centered … and extra. That’s simply half of what is going to be featured.
Guided group excursions these two nights will take you again in time, immersively. You’ll meet historic figures in addition to studying about historic locations, from a segregated navy facility to a hen farm – all of which occurred within the neighborhood of Harbor Island (which is a human-made island, filling in tidelands).
The studios additionally comprise gadgets from their very own latest historical past – props left behind by previous productions, plus a dressing up store, and memorabilia of a few of what’s been filmed there.
And behind a closed door, there’s a movie shoot taking place there proper now.
The tour will finish outdoors, alongside the Duwamish River, with one other story from native historical past, Cari advised us.
Once again within the lot, there’ll be causes to hang around and benefit from the night, together with the Muy Macho meals truck. There’ll even be an opportunity so that you can share any Harbor Island historical past of your individual, or your loved ones, at a video sales space that shall be a part of the occasion.
Cari says she and Elke are excited in regards to the studios’ potential as a clean canvas, and hoping the tales and performances will captivate tour-takers. Find out extra here; tickets and time home windows are here.
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