SIFF Cinema will be moving from their McCaw Hall location and into the Uptown Theater on Queen Anne Ave. The Grand Re-Opening Celebrations begin October 23–27.
Send them your favorite memories from the 85-year history of the Uptown and based on your submissions, SIFF will select films and show them during the Grand Re-Opening Celebrations. Email your memories by September 26 touptownhistory@siff.net.
So pleased to see that SIFF is getting closer to be fully funded on their capital campaign! Puget Sound Business Journal staff writer Bethany Overland covered Seattle International Film Festival’s move to the Seattle Center on Friday, July 29. Read excerpts from the article below:
Photo: Dan Schlatter From left, SIFF Artistic Director Carl Spence, Managing Director Deborah Person and advisory board member Barbara Malone enjoy the new SIFF space at Seattle Center. The seats are from the old Cinerama Theater.
The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) is close to finishing a $2.8 million capital campaign, and has finally moved into its new residence on the grounds of the Seattle Center — the first time in its 37 years that it has called a location its permanent home.
With neighbors such as the Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Seattle Repertory Theatre, and McCaw Hall (home to the Seattle Opera), the film-focused nonprofit says it has landed in exactly the right spot: the hub of Seattle’s “cultural arts.”
The 12,000 square-foot Alki Room (located at the corner of Republican Street and Warren Avenue North) will house SIFF offices, classrooms and a 100-seat viewing room with state-of-the-art technology. The space will also be the new home of Seattle’s TheFilmSchool, another nonprofit, where many aspiring screenwriters and directors attend programs and lectures with the likes of actor Tom Skerritt and screenwriter Stewart Stern.
SIFF will host grand opening events in late October.
The Seattle International Film Festival starts May 19, and with all the parties, films and celebrity appearances in store for the city, why not experience the festival in W Seattle Style?
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· 2011 Official SIFF Festival Guide and Poster
· Two “Cinema-tinis”
· W Seattle WOW gift
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In celebration of SIFF, 10% will be deducted from The Sixth Avenue Wine Seller bar tabs when your SIFF ticket stubs are presented. Discount is offered Sunday – Thursday during festival dates, May 20 – June 13. This offer extends to all SIFF employees and volunteers for their hard work.