LONGEST NIGHT brings the community together

On Saturday, Dec. 21, over 500 community members joined us for LONGEST NIGHT, where King Street Station was transformed in celebration of the longest night of 2024.

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Guests and families of all ages flowed freely between exhibitions, activities, and performances led by BIPOC multidisciplinary artists and Pacific Northwest filmmakers. Activities included movement, collage, watercolor, crystal readings, a sound bath, tea ceremony, live music, and more. "I wish I could be everywhere at once!" shared a visitor.

Participating artists who led activities:

• Shin Yu Pai, Seattle Civic Poet - poetry installation The big dark
• Earthbeam aka JENNGREEN - live ambient music performance
• ilaria ghattas of tea& - self-guided tea ritual
• dayjha - collaging radical dreams for 2025
• Schona Christie - movement, mindfulness, and collective creativity for BIPOC community and crystal readings
• Alicia Mullikin of EL SUEÑO - movement meditation to connect with the land and honor our ancestors
• Tory Trujillo - a sound bath to relax, heal, and amplify your intentions
• Experimental short films by:
  • elijah jamal asani
  • Kamari Bright
  • Patrick Connelly
  • Yixuan Pan
  • Sara Wylie

I have been to many arts and/or community events, and what made Longest Night different and better is that there was an aliveness to the evening, a sense of a space that could hold not only all of us, as members of the community, but all of the many emotions we carried, and have been carrying since November … It is one of the best truly community-centered and community-inspired events I have attended in the past decade. It was extraordinary.

An attendee [Link]The big dark poetry installation by Civic Poet Shin Yu Pai

The space was transformed from the inside out, including a poetry projection on King Street Station's iconic clock tower by Civic Poet Shin Yu Pai. The artist shared that "as a poet, it's amazing to work with public space on a large scale. We poets often deal with the page or if we're lucky, we get to make some video poems that get seen and experienced in a different way. But bring in that aspect of public space and you have an even different elevated experience. Seeing my work on King Street Station clock tower was awesome."

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LONGEST NIGHT was curated by Vee Hua 華婷婷. All photos by Chloe Collyer.

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