Georgetown Steam Plant Open House
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.
A special bonus to this open house is the opportunity to meet our Artist in Residence, Sophia Wheelwright, and explore her audio and visual installation near the horizontal turbine on the second floor. This work was created in collaboration with Marcell Marias and Don Smith.
Seattle Film Club at the Steam Plant [Everyone Welcome!]
The Seattle Film Club is a community organization hosting meetups, photo walks, and overall fun for those interested in photography, film, or portraits.
They’ll be bringing along some lighting to support attendees.
$10 suggested donation, cash or Venmo accepted onsite. No RSVP required.
Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) Renewable Energy Can Be Beautiful
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!
Georgetown Steam Plant Open House
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.
Meet The Steam Plant Artist-in-Residence, Sophia Wheelwright
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.
Cafe Nordo Presents; Ghosts of Nebula: The Missing Six
From the creators of Café Nordo, Seattle’s most unique and beloved immersive theatrical experience, “Ghosts of Nebula” elevates the traditional Halloween event to spine-tingling new heights. Explore the Steam Plant in a guided tour of a mysterious tragedy 103 years old.
Guests wind through interactive performances and the haunted rooms of this historic location as they learn the history of the group of spiritualists who tried to access an alternate dimension called Nebula by harnessing the power of the plant in 1921.
Dates: Performances run from October 18 – November 2, Wednesday – Sunday.
Performance Times: Entry times are on the half-hour, with the full experience lasting 90 minutes.
Beverage Service: Guests will end their experience in a themed bar on the premises.
Georgetown Steam Plant Open House
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.
FRACTURE! A Math Horror Experience
Matheatre, Seattle Universal Math Museum, and MathHappens present FRACTURE! an interactive math horror experience.
Math is breaking, leaving chaos and terror in its wake. The ancient Cult of Pythagoras has broken physics and reality through an arcane incantation, opening a dreaded ArithmeRift in Seattle's Georgetown Steam Plant.The agents of the federal government's Situationally Uncertain Mathematics Mitigation (SUMM) Division are trying to contain the Fracture and save math. But they need help from expendables volunteers. Like you!
The FRACTURE! interactive math horror experience is part haunted house, part live theater, part escape room.
Explorations into the Fracture will commence 10 October and run through 13 October, Thursday - Saturday 7pm - 10pm, Saturday 2pm - 5pm, Sunday 1pm - 5pm.
Warning: evening explorers will experience extreme darkness, flashing lights, loud noises, and sudden frights. Daytime versions are less frightening and family friendly. Groups will enter every fifteen minutes. Some will survive.
Georgetown Haunted History Tour
The Haunted History Tour is BACK! Now in its 21st year, this is an unforgettable Halloween show. Get ready to be entertained with stories from the near and distant past!
Various times, October 3-4-5
SPAM New Media Festival
Join us for SPAM!
SPAM is a free, Seattle-based experimental arts festival taking place at various venues across Seattle. It consists of a program of exhibitions, performances, workshops and discussions rooted in, or emerging from, technology driven art and digital culture.
SPAM is hosting 30 installations and 8 performances over three days at the Steam Plant!
September 27-29
4PM - Late
Find out all the details and get your FREE tickets here!
Georgetown Steam Plant Science Fair
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.
Georgetown Steam Plant Science Fair
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.
Georgetown Steam Plant Open House
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 - Broadway Sing-Along Party
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!
Georgetown Super 8 Screening & Awards
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.
Lateral Litmus: A Dance of Light and Sound
Join us for two nights in the Boiler Room, with touch designer generated visuals and projection mapping by Nicholas Bowen. Audio and Dancing by Kaliane Van.
Crowdsource Choir
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!
Possibilities Expo
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.
Possibilities Expo
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.
Slowburn Dance Presents: Industrial Angels
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
Georgetown Steam Plant Open House
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.
PILE UP by NOELLE WHITAKER
OPEN AUGUST 8th-12th, 12pm-8pm
Soft Opening: August 8th 6pm-9pm
Opening Reception: August 9th 5pm-9pm
CRASH X DUEL DOUBLE FEATURE [RSVP Required]: August 11th 8pm
A. Capuzzi Concerto for Double Bass & Other Sounds
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.
A. Capuzzi Concerto for Double Bass & Other Sounds
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.
A. Capuzzi Concerto for Double Bass & Other Sounds
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.
Crowdsource Choir
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!
Georgetown Steam Plant Open House
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.
Pinhole Photography Science Camp
Two-week Summer Session for 12-16 yr. olds, 10AM-1PM, (M-F).
In contrast to remote-learning, online simulations, digital, and virtual experiences, this will be a hands-on analog experience. This endeavor will engage a wide range of interests at the nexus of science and art.
The Georgetown Steam Plant is a location that can visually inspire students with its photogenic, industrial-age architecture and design which truly represent the original “Steam-Punk,” all in support of education, art, and science learning.
Participants build their own pinhole cameras, learn how to evaluate lighting and exposure time, explore ideas of visual composition, i.e., what makes a “good photo,” and learn how to use the chemistry in a black & white photographic darkroom on site to develop their own photographs.
Students will explore the Georgetown Steam Plant as a scientific, technologic, historic, and creative space.
Instructors: Eric Muhs & Dan Pickard, mostly-retired Seattle Public Schools science teachers with nearly 50 years of science teaching and pinhole photography teaching between them.
Georgetown Steam Plant Open House
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.
Land | Water | Air: Community Design for Equitable Futures in the Duwamish Valley
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
Visiting the Georgetown Steam Plant
Getting here:
The Georgetown Steam Plant is located at 6605 13th Ave. South, Seattle—adjacent to Boeing Field/King County International Airport.
Directions driving south on Interstate 5:
Take Exit 161, Albro Place. Turn right onto S Albro Pl
S Albro Pl turns into Ellis Ave S
Turn left onto S Warsaw St
Note: We recommend not using Google Maps or GPS as they are not accurate for this location.
Metro Bus routes 60 and 124 are the closest stops to the Georgetown Steam Plant.
Keep in mind:
The only access to the second floor is via steep stairs. If you require special assistance, please let us know.
There are no restroom facilities in the building. We have a wheelchair accessible portable toilet on the property.
The Steam Plant is not heated and can get very chilly during the colder months of the year. Please dress warmly!