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The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · 7h

You better be NICE to our Editor and come to our event on October 25th called BOOS & BINGO. See you there punk. #evergreenecho #echothearts

The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · 12h

Re-Animator is a dorm room cult classic; it has been a mainstay of young adult watch parties for decades. Not everyone was lucky enough to have an unobservant parent with a massive home VHS. #evergreenecho #echothearts #theecho #arts #pnw #pacificnorthwest #film #music #theatre #community

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The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · 2d

📷 Pink Moment: Horizon (2021). Multiple Screen Looping Video created in Residence at Playa Summer Lake. By Pepper Pepper.

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Pepper Pepper on Pink’s Power: Queerness, Movement, and Magic — The Evergreen Echo

Walking into Pepper Pepper a.k.a. Kaj-Anne Pepper’s show Pink Moment: Collections at Seattle Central’s M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery feels transcendent. Predominantly a new media show with video, sound, and some photography, Pink Moment is an exploration of “pink as queer energy, movement, and magic.”

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The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · 2d

Best described by Pepper Pepper: "that's not computer generated. That's just me holding up a dress and I've used editing tools to take my body out of the frame. And, I think it's very vulvic, very anatomical at times.'"

Interviews: Pepper Pepper on Pink’s Power: Queerness, Movement, and Magic
Written By Nicole Bearden
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Photo still of Pink Moment: Horizon (2021). Multiple Screen Looping Video created in Residence at Playa Summer Lake. By Pepper Pepper.

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The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · 5d

This silent auction will fund operating costs for The Echo for the first half of 2026, allowing us to continue our vital coverage of underrepresented arts and culture in the PNW. To help us achieve our goal, we have secured donations from incredible local businesses to pass on to our community!

The Evergreen Echo Silent Auction
Goes live 10/17 at noon and closes on 10/25 at Boos and Bingo Event
October 25th 5-7pm, Saint Johns Bar and Eatery, Free Entry, Cash Bar.
Powered by Shunpike

Auction Items From:

Emerald City Comic Con, sophisticated, upscale restaurant House of Eve, Crypticon Seattle, Seattle Tall Ships, Seattle Pole Dance, Incredible portrait photographer Vera Pash, HUMP! Film Festival, Waterways Cruises & Events, Geek Girl Con, artist Meghan Thréinfhir, and more!

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The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · 6d

This is a story of the gods. Silent tears fell in thick drops from the corners of her eyes. A baptism of hallucinogenics. #originalstory #column #echothearts

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The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · 7d

We are having our Fall 2025 Fundraiser and Celebration: Boos & BINGO Karaoke Bash at Saint John's Capitol Hill. Costumes encouraged, not required. Come celebrate The Echo and Spooky Season with us!

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The Evergreen Echo
Boos & BINGO Karaoke Bash
Costumes, Karaoke & Silent Auction
Saturday, October 25, 2025
5:00 PM 7:00 PM
Saint John's
719 East Pike Street
Free Entry, Cash Bar

Sponsors include: Seattle Sailing Ship, Crypticon Seattle, HUMP! Film Fest, Seattle Pole Dance, Meghan Thréinfhir Art, Geek Girl Con, Vera Pash Photography, House of Eve, Emerald City Comicon, Waterways Cruises and Events, Whidbey Island Seafoods, Emerald City Trapeze Arts and School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts, and Crystallography Gems

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The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · 8d

Just a quick walk from the Westlake Lightrail Station and a few blocks inland from the bustling Pike Place Market, Fossil & Stone Fine Art Gallery stands still and quiet amongst the normal chaos of downtown Seattle. #echothearts #fossils #coolrocks #artgallery

The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · 9d

Read more about @/ taviarhodesmusic (Insta) in Maxwell's interview ahead of her first album, HER SAY, happening in October.

@/ madame_lous (Insta)

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INTERVIEW:
Local Tavia Rhodes Chats First Album, Inspirations, Musical Journey
By Maxwell Meier
Photo of Tavia Rhodes
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HUMP! Film Festival. @humpfilmfest.bsky.social · 18d

@echothearts.bsky.social came out to our Seattle show at On the Boards and had some great words to say about what HUMP! is like to experience as an audience and community member. Check it out ❤️‍🔥

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HUMP! Redefines Community with Humans’ Most Basic Instinct — The Evergreen Echo

On The Boards hosted the “pervs” of Seattle for part two of its 20th anniversary year. Submissions from all over the world to our backyards were carefully curated down to a selection of erotic short f...

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The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · 25d

Get Film Festival insight from Andre Stackhouse on 4 of the films showing now! 🎥

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Festival from @nwfilmforum
Artwork by @levihastingsart.bsky.social

OVERVIEWS
Local Sightings Film Fest Starts Today!
Written By Andre Stackhouse

2025 festival artwork by Levi Hastings

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The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · 25d

"HUMP! places an emphasis on DIY culture, inclusivity, and resisting commercial porn conventions." - Gray Harrison

Learn more about HUMP! Festival in 3 Seattle locations this fall from our website.

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#echothearts

OVERVIEWS
HUMP! Returns to Seattle for 20th Anniversary Tour
ARTICLE By Gray Harrison
PHOTO from HUMP! "Oui Oiu"
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Hacks & Wonks @hacksandwonks.bsky.social · 29d

We’ve updated our starter packs!

A list of elected officials in WA:

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GeekGirlCon @geekgirlcon.bsky.social · Sep 15

Guess who’s coming to GeekGirlCon 2025!??

Hint # 1:
There will be dungeons!
Hint # 2:
There will be drag queens!!

🔗 dndq.live
🔗 www.GeekGirlCon.com/schedule

#DungeonsAndDragQueens #dnd #LiveShow #SeattleEvents #GeekGirlCon

Three drag queens sit at a table on stage during a live show of Dungeons & Drag Queens.

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The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · Sep 15

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The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · Sep 14

For Colored Boyz Beautifully Presents Black Men in Their Own Words and Worlds — The Evergreen Echo

I attended the West Coast premiere of For Colored Boyz (On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown/When Freedom Ain’t Enuff), written by Bryan-Keyth Wilson with direction by Lynette Winters and Ry Armstrong ...

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The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · Sep 14

READ MORE:

Masterful Morgue Anne Spills Rendezvous Tea, Urges Support for Displaced Performers — The Evergreen Echo

Over the past decade, Morgue Anne has forged a creative home at The Rendezvous, a historic venue in the heart of Belltown, where, until a few weeks ago, you could see everything from live music, to comedy shows, public figure drawing sessions, burlesque performances, and beyond.

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The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · Sep 14

GET ALL THE TEA! (w/ screenshots)

"The message, signed only as “The New Owners,” announced the immediate closure of the century-old venue and cancellation of all shows on the full calendar of the upcoming busiest performing arts season." - @nicobookwitch.bsky.social

📷 @themorgueanne.bsky.social

PICTURED: Morgue Anne on stage
Interviews, Points of View
Masterful Morgue Anne Spills Rendezvous Tea, Urges Support for Displaced Performers
By Nicole Bearden

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The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · Sep 14

"It was a masterpiece with a lot to say—because how can there not be a lot to say. Especially for voices typically silenced." -Raegan Ballard-Gennrich

Produced by: @ underground.theater /insta
Pictured: @ daniel.d.gage /insta
Showings September 13-21

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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Sep 12

Curious about where to see Burlesque in Seattle and wtf is going in with the Rendezvous? @themorgueanne.bsky.social spills the tea in my latest article @echothearts.bsky.social : theevergreenecho.org/echo/morguea...

Masterful Morgue Anne Spills Rendezvous Tea, Urges Support for Displaced Performers — The Evergreen Echo

Over the past decade, Morgue Anne has forged a creative home at The Rendezvous, a historic venue in the heart of Belltown, where, until a few weeks ago, you could see everything from live music, to co...

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The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · Sep 12

📅 Mark your calendar: Join us at Georgetown Liquor Company for our next Public Reading! Have a drink as we present some twisted, strange, unexpected, or unusual creative tales 👻

Free Entry, 21+

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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · Sep 11

My write-up on Seattle's surveillance expansion and the council meeting on Tuesday.

The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · Sep 11

NEW // Seattle Council Greenlights Police Surveillance Expansion, Ignoring Community Objections

By Amy Sundberg

via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/11/s...

Seattle Council Greenlights Police Surveillance Expansion, Ignoring Community Objections » The Urbanist

# This week, the Seattle City Council took a controversial 7-2 vote to greatly expand the Seattle Police Department’s surveillance pilot program, as proposed by Mayor Bruce Harrell. Public comment was overwhelmingly against the idea, and progressive candidates also criticized the move.

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Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · Sep 11

Good morning! The only thing worse than losing a chapter is losing multiple chapters

So back up your work!!!

Photo of a sunny summer beach overlaid with the words "Good morning! The only thing worse than losing a chapter is losing multiple chapters

So back up your work!!!"

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · Sep 11

Purrlease wait till the end 🐈‍⬛🤍

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The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you to those who have come out in support of our writers at the first 2 Public Readings last month with Distant Worlds Coffeehouse and Elliot Bay Book Co.

We will have one more reading at George Town Liquor Co on Sunday, September 21, 4-6pm!

Top Row: Maxwell Meier and Zach Youngs
Lower Row: Parker Dean, Nisha Karanam and Gray Harrison

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(Left to Right) Gray Harrison, Zach Youngs, Maxwell Meier, Nisha Karanam and Izzy Christman

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