The Aesthetics of Renewable Energy: Designing for a Post Carbon Culture

Join us as we delve into the beautiful world of renewable energy and discover how art and design can play a vital role in making the clean energy transition inclusive, engaging, and visually inspiring.

Building on the 2025 Georgetown Steam Plant Science Fair theme “Break the System” we're excited to invite you to the first installment of our new series, An Evening at the Steam Plant. On November 13th, 2024 we'll be joined by Elizabeth Monian and Robert Ferry from the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) for a captivating discussion on how "Renewable Energy Can Be Beautiful."

The Land Art Generator Initiative is a powerhouse for creative solutions envisioning a post-carbon 21st century world through the lens of art, and design. Together, let’s explore the fascinating intersection of art and industry, community resilience and creative place-making.

Time: Doors 6pm. Conversations on the Future 7pm-9pm

Location: Georgetown Steam Plant

FREE - Register here!

The Steam Plant is open to the public every second Saturday. Join one of our knowledgeable docents for a free tour or explore the Plant on your own.

Tours are about an hour and leave at 11am and 1pm. Free parking on site.

Join us to explore and celebrate the ethereal installation work by artist Sophia Wheelwright in collaboration with Don Smith. This event is free and open to the public.

Friday, NOV 8
4-7 PM
dress warmly!

As a special treat at 7pm, Janna Wachter will share a sonic embrace of the Steam Plant.

The Steam Plant is open to the public every second Saturday. Join one of our knowledgeable docents for a free tour or explore the Plant on your own.

Tours are about an hour and leave at 11am and 1pm. Free parking on site.

We're excited to announce our first-ever Science Fair! 

Join us for a bazaar-style event where creatives, artists, scientists and thinkers of all kinds are invited to come together to share their insight. 

Our theme: SHTEAM! (Science, History, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics), with a spotlight on circular economy, creative reuse, and the built environment.

Location: Georgetown Steam Plant, 6605 13th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98108

Event dates: September 21 & 22, 2024, from 12PM to 8PM.

More information here, RSVP HERE

We're excited to announce our first-ever Science Fair! 

Join us for a bazaar-style event where creatives, artists, scientists and thinkers of all kinds are invited to come together to share their insight. 

Our theme: SHTEAM! (Science, History, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics), with a spotlight on circular economy, creative reuse, and the built environment.

Location: Georgetown Steam Plant, 6605 13th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98108

Event dates: September 21 & 22, 2024, from 12PM to 8PM.

More information here, RSVP HERE

The Steam Plant is open to the public every second Saturday. Join one of our knowledgeable docents for a free tour or explore the Plant on your own.

Tours are about an hour and leave at 11am and 1pm. Free parking on site.

One Song More is Seattle's only Broadway singalong event with live piano accompaniment! Come sing your favorite showtunes at the Steam Plant, where the music sounds better and travels further than anywhere else. Reserve your spot at the link below, and pay $10 cash or via Venmo at the door!

RSVP HERE

Join us for the return screening of GS8 2024. We will feature films from 2024youth and general participants, will announce award winners, and have a few GS8 surprises. 

Tickets can be purchased here.

Crowdsource Choir and Infinite Spaces present: 

​Crowdsource Choir - "Rainbow Connection" in the Turbine Cathedral

​Join us for a colorful evening at the historic Georgetown Steam Plant featuring another iconic song.

​Step inside the giant machine crafted in the early 1900s where the incredible acoustics enhance every voice, making this harmonious singing experience truly unforgettable.

​While the Steam Plant helped establish the steam turbine as capable of producing large amounts of power more cheaply and efficiently than other generators at the time, we will be powering this experience with our voices. 

​No singing experience required – just come, learn your part, and have fun!

Tickets here

Join us for an evening of sound and light. More event details here.

$10-20 entry fee. Tickets at the door only; cash or Venmo accepted.

Join us for an evening of sound and light. More event details here.

$10-20 entry fee. Tickets at the door only; cash or Venmo accepted.

Industrial Angels is a site specific dance and music performance at Georgetown Steam Plant. Audience members will be transported to a space filled with ethereal dancers and transcendent movement in the backdrop of Seattle’s decommissioned steam plant. Music producer Josh Karnofsky has composed an original score for this work, inspired by the rich details of the space.

This show is presented by SLOWBURN Dance, featuring choreography created by Meredith Pellon and the dancers. Dancing in this work are SLOWBURN artists Elise Meiners, Shayley Timm, and Meredith Pellon, in addition to guest artists Izzy Wroblewski, Samantha Fabrikant, Rose Amlin, and Eva Crystal.

This performance is free but requires registration for a free ticket.

Get it here: LINK

The Steam Plant is open to the public every second Saturday. Join one of our knowledgeable docents for a free tour or explore the Plant on your own.

Tours are about an hour and leave at 11am and 1pm. Free parking on site.

Join us for an evening of classical, improvised, and ambient music in the industiral cathedral-like setting of the Georgetown Steam Plant. Each recital will open with a different musician, responding to the space however they like, and follow with a performance of Antonio Capuzzi’s Concerto for Double Bass and Piano.

Capacity is limited for these performances, capped at 40 guests.

Tickets here

Join us for an evening of classical, improvised, and ambient music in the industiral cathedral-like setting of the Georgetown Steam Plant. Each recital will open with a different musician, responding to the space however they like, and follow with a performance of Antonio Capuzzi’s Concerto for Double Bass and Piano.

Capacity is limited for these performances, capped at 40 guests.

Tickets here

Join us for an evening of classical, improvised, and ambient music in the industiral cathedral-like setting of the Georgetown Steam Plant. Each recital will open with a different musician, responding to the space however they like, and follow with a performance of Antonio Capuzzi’s Concerto for Double Bass and Piano.

Capacity is limited for these performances, capped at 40 guests.

Tickets here

Crowdsource Choir and Infinite Spaces present: 

​Crowdsource Choir - "Rainbow Connection" in the Turbine Cathedral

​Join us for a colorful evening at the historic Georgetown Steam Plant featuring another iconic song.

​Step inside the giant machine crafted in the early 1900s where the incredible acoustics enhance every voice, making this harmonious singing experience truly unforgettable.

​While the Steam Plant helped establish the steam turbine as capable of producing large amounts of power more cheaply and efficiently than other generators at the time, we will be powering this experience with our voices. 

​No singing experience required – just come, learn your part, and have fun!

Tickets here

The Steam Plant is open to the public every second Saturday. Join one of our knowledgeable docents for a free tour or explore the Plant on your own.

Tours are about an hour and leave at 11am and 1pm. Free parking on site.

The Steam Plant is open to the public every second Saturday. Join one of our knowledgeable volunteer docents for a free tour or explore the Plant on your own. Tours are about an hour and leave at 11am and 1pm. Free parking on site.

This exhibition showcases the research and design efforts of three graduate student projects in the UW Landscape Architecture Department advised by Associate Professor Catherine De Almeida. Each project addresses distinct environmental injustices in the Duwamish Valley. 

• Pollution Prevention: Mitigative Strategies for the Duwamish River and its Inhabitants offers Green Stormwater Infrastructure strategies focused on improving the Duwamish River's water quality. Authors: Meaghan O’Connor Lenth, Meredith Grupe, and Kat Golladay

• AirWise: Collection for Clean Air is centered on air quality enhancement, emphasizing the importance of environmental justice and community health disparities. This project asks, “How can design interventions in the  built environment address air quality health inequities, and foster a more equitable urban environment?” Author: Daquan Proctor

• Repairing Waste Relations focuses on Seattle’s solid waste management system and its disproportionate impact on the Duwamish Valley. This research and design aims to make visible systems that are purposefully invisibilized, and create accessible resources for community to apply Just Transition frameworks to further collective efforts towards a Regenerative Economy. Authors: Malka Hoffman and Nat Gregorius

The work exhibited in this event seeks to center and amplify Duwamish Valley communities through design research tools such as mapping, case study analysis, and speculative visioning. We acknowledge that the work and joy that went into this work takes place on the ancestral lands of the past and present Coast Salish peoples, including the Muckleshoot, Suquamish, and Duwamish Tribes. 

FREE — RSVP Here

CHARI presents their new interdisciplinary work, MUTATE, an archival-themed, installation-based, media performance work. This works is partial fulfillment of CHARI's PhD dissertation, sponsored by the Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington. 

Reimagining the Georgetown Steam plant as an enlarged bodily interior, MUTATE uses digital sound, digital visual media, 3D animation and algorithmic architectures to transform the Steam plant into systemic embodied archive. In a solo performance, CHARI meticulously ensures that the archive is running and that the systems are working, before downloading themselves into a new archival form. 

FREE — RSVP Here

The Steam Plant is open to the public every second Saturday. Join one of our knowledgeable volunteer docents for a free tour or explore the Plant on your own. Tours are about an hour and leave at 11am and 1pm. Free parking on site.