Seattle Twist

The party will start at Ola and end down at Avalon Glassworks 2914 S.W. Avalon Way on Thursday 7/29.

Food will be provided by Luna Park Café (French Fries and Milkshakes)
plus an Elvis Cover Band and the fabulous Mighty Elvis Mobile!

~Ola Salon
~Beer and Wine from OLA Salon
~Live Music- Acoustic Sets by Sid Law and Nathan Adams
~Tarot Readings
~Chair Massage by healing roots
~Complimentary services and products furnished by OLA Salon

~Java Bean will be offering coffee samples
~West Seattle Produce will have organic fruit and veggie samples
~Avalon glassworks will be doing a glassblowing demonstration and offering discounts

Stop by and say hello, have a beer and listen to some great live music in the sun.

If you wait for the weather to be warm and sunny in Seattle, you might miss a lot of fun stuff. So come on down today to the Fremont Fair, ignore the weather, and have a bite to eat, listen to some music and make sure to visit the Seattle art cars in the Burke parking lot.

You can even visit The King at the Elvis Mobile. Look for the Art Cars in the upper parking lot of the Burke Building on 35th.

Come to the Fremont Fair, see the Mighty Elvis Mobile and hear Gillian G. Gaar read from her latest book Return of the King: Elvis Presley’s Great Comeback.

Gillian will make an appearance on Saturday, June 19th at 2pm at the Fremont Fair in the upper parking lot of the Burke Building on N. 35th between Phinney and Evanston.

If you would like to see her in a more traditional environment, she will also be reading at the Elliott Bay Book Company, Sunday June 20th at 4pm.

Return Of The King tells the story of a tumultuous period in the life
of Elvis Presley. By 1967, The King Of Rock & Roll was all but washed-up, thanks to a string of bland movie roles and lackluster records. But within a year he had roused himself, loosened the creative shackles imposed by his grasping manager, “Colonel” Tom Parker, and reconnected with the rock audience through a riveting TV special. There followed a glorious but all too brief artistic flowering, in which he
made some of his most enduring records, including “Suspicious Minds” and “In The Ghetto.” This meticulously researched and elegantly written book, based on a string of new interviews with colleagues, friends, fans, and observers of The King, sheds new light on the events of Elvis’s great comeback.

Seattle’s legendary book store the Elliott Bay Book Company has now
relocated to the Capitol Hill neighborhood at 1521 10th Ave.
(www.elliottbaybook.com). The reading is set for June 20, at 4 pm, and
will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.

Gillian G. Gaar is the author of She’s A Rebel: The History Of Women In
Rock & Roll; Green Day: Rebels With A Cause; Nirvana: In Utero; and The
Rough Guide To Nirvana. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies
and publications. She lives in Seattle.

Oh My God! was the first Art Car created by artist and filmmaker Harrod Blank. At the age of 16, Blank became embarrassed by the blandness of his all-white Volkswagen and painted a rooster on the driver’s door. He never stopped decorating the car, which ultimately served as the springboard to his career in building Art Cars and documenting the Art Car movement.

He is bringing “Oh My God!” all the way from the Art Car World Museum in Douglas AZ to Seattle. The film “Automorphosis” will play Thursday June 17th at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle at 7 and 9 pm where “Oh My God!” and other art cars will be parked outside. Then he will attend the Seattle Art Car Blow Out from the 18th -20th at the Fremont Fair and the film will show again on the 21st at the Central Cinema at 7 pm. The filmmaker and other art car artists will be in attendance.

Both the Seattle Art Car events will feature many great art cars and should be fun for all. Come check out the film and the art cars and enjoy the ride.

This is how we roll

The eleventh annual Seattle Art Car Blow-Out took place last weekend.  Art Cars from across North America decorate the streets of Seattle featuring seventy-five head turning models not available in any showroom, including chewbaru, a denture covered wagon, a tribute to the Space Shuttle, a propeller powered BMW Aerocar, and the dirty car art guy, an artist working in the dust on car windshields.

We had the opening night welcoming party at our home again this year.  It was crazy good fun!   - Jo & Marlow

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- Note – I’ve removed the distracting soundtrack from this video. – JD

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You gotta go to the Fremont Fair this weekend and check out the Art Cars from all over the U.S.. They expect over 60 artists this year, and it should be a blast.   

One car visiting for the first time is the Phone Car. It’s a modified by a 1975 Volkswagen Beetle created by Howard Davis as a way to promote his telephone company, Datel Communications. 

Saturday, June 21 10am-8pm
Sunday, June 22 11am-7pm

www.SeattleArtCars.org

All your favorite things in one deliciously tawdry event: Bowling, Oscars, Drinking, and Dressing like your favorite tart or hunk! How do you beat that?

This is Seattle Art Cars seventh annual and LAST Crossdress Bowling Party at the Sunset. Never again will you get to bowl in fishnets next to the longshoreman’s union league or the local electrician’s union league.

They’ll start bowling at 7pm sharp and go until nine at which point they will retire to the lounge for some awards, some Oscar roundup and some more drinking.

The cost is $20 plus $3 for shoes if you don’t own your own.

The customized trophies will be prominently displayed and artcar books will be available for sale, some of which feature artists who you may have the chance to bowl with!

The Sunset Bowl is being demolished, so this will be one for the History Books.

Should you be unable to attend on February 24th or prefer to just help fund Seattle Art Cars without attending, (tax-deductible, we are a 501 C-3), you can make a donation via this handy SEATTLE ART CARS DONATION LINK.