December Geek About Town!
‘Tis the season! Here’s the last round of Geek About Town for 2016!
Thursday, December 1: MoPOP Campout Cinema: Die Hard
8:00pm (doors open 7:30pm), MoPOP (formerly EMP Museum), 325 5th Avenue N, Seattle, WA
Tickets $12 ($10 for members)
This event is 21+
It’s up to John McClane to save this office holiday party gone wrong in the Campout Cinema screening of Die Hard (1988).
New York City officer John McClane is in town to visit his estranged wife and daughters on Christmas Eve. But when the holiday party his wife’s attending in the exclusive Nakatomi Corporation building is taken over by a group of terrorists, it’s up him to take on the villains and save the hostages from certain death.
Watch the film that launched Bruce Willis’ career as an action hero, and gave Alan Rickman his first starring role as Hans Gruber, the German leader of the group of thieves.
Tickets include admission to Infinite Worlds of Science Fiction, where you can view artifacts from another Bruce Willis-led film: The Fifth Element.
For more ’80s-themed holiday fun (and a place to show off your ugly sweaters!), join us at Yippee-Ki-Yay Happy Hour (21+, free) before the screening for themed cocktails, old-school hip-hop, and clips from classic ’80s holiday films and TV.
Saturday, December 3: Rat City Rollergirls presents: Debutante Brawl
5:30pm-8pm, The Rat’s Nest, 19022 Aurora Ave N, Shoreline, WA
Tickets $20 adults, $15 for kids
Want to meet Rat City’s newest home team skaters? Check them out in the Debutante Brawl, a Rat City tradition where our newly drafted skaters go head to head to show you what they’ve got! This year, we’ll have two mashup teams: Grave Danger and the Sockit Wenches will join forces as the Danger Wenches, while DLF and the Throttle Rockets are combining to become the Rocket Liberation Front!
Doors open at 5:30 with our first whistle at 6pm. There will be a reception/meet and greet in the lobby to follow the bout; maybe you’ll find a new fan favorite!
Tickets are $20 and available online or at the door; kids 6-12 are $15.
Sunday, December 4: 15th Anniversary of Spirited Away
Check your local cinemas for screening times and ticket prices!
Sunday, December 4: Doctor Wholidays
6:30pm-11:30pm, MoPOP (formerly EMP Museum), 325 5th Avenue N. Seattle, WA 98109
Tickets $24 ($18 for members, $9 for kids under 15)
Time Lords big and small are welcome to join us for our annual celebration of BBC’s iconic series, Doctor Who. Don’t miss out on this yearly tradition including the famous holiday-themed TARDIS photo op, plus costume contest, Whovian bingo and trivia, screenings from Doctor Who Christmas specials, festive live music, Doctor dance party, family-friendly holiday activities, and drink specials that are sure to make you wibbly wobbly!
Tickets include admission into MoPOP’s Infinite Worlds of Science Fiction, which features the original Dalek and Cyberman used in the filming of classic Doctor Who episodes from the 1980s.
Tuesday, December 6: All Geeks, All Games at Mox Boarding House!
6:30-9:30pm, Mox Boarding House, 13310 BelRed Rd, Bellevue, WA
Our All Geeks, All Games events are growing in popularity!
Join GeekGirlCon and Mox Boarding House in Bellevue and help us continue to expand our community of diverse and inclusive gamers to the East Side!
Help us fill that beautiful Tournament Room with folks enjoying our favorite games in a safe and accepting atmosphere. Why mess with the headache of traffic when you can come and play games with us instead.
Staff from both organizations will be on hand to help facilitate gameplay for the shy to the extroverted, from the expert strategist to the board game neophyte. With a huge lending library of games on hand, there will be something for everyone!
As an added bonus, if you play a board game from their library and love it, you can buy a fresh copy for 20% off! How cool is that?!
Thursday, December 8: Seattle Human Rights Day: Jose Antonio Vargas
7:30pm (doors open 6:30pm), Thursday, December 8, 2016
Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122
Free!
This Human Rights Day celebration puts a spotlight on local organizations and initiatives who are making waves in the community, and places them in context with broader issues happening across America. This year’s program (the city’s 17th annual event!) features journalist, filmmaker, and immigrants’ rights activist Jose Antonio Vargas (White People) as the keynote speaker. An undocumented immigrant himself, Vargas, who also founded the Define American organization, has worked to elevate the conversation around immigration and citizenship in America.
Friday, December 9: GeekGirlCon Board Game Night at Wayward Coffeehouse!
7:00pm-10:45pm, 6417 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA
Do you love board games and enjoy teaching others how to play? Explore the board/card game hobby and meet folks happy to teach you their favorite board games! Come and play with folks who love playing games. And the best part about the GeekGirlCon game nights with our friends at Wayward? They are absolutely FREE with no cover charge!
Our group is inclusive and totally newbie-friendly. We play a wide range of modern board and card games as well as some classics. You might find Codenames, Love Letter, Splendor, King of Tokyo, Völuspá, slash, Alien Frontiers, Locke & Key, Coup, Tokaido, Superfight, The Resistance, Colt Express, Skull and Roses, Settlers of Catan, 7 Wonders, Toc Toc Woodman, FLUXX and many more!
Bring a game with you or just bring yourself. Join GeekGirlCon staffers, make some new friends, play some games, and enjoy some delicious organic, fair trade, and shade-grown coffee.
Saturday, December 10: The Ada Party
10:00am-5:00pm, The Living Computer Museum, 2245 1st Ave S, Seattle, Washington 98134
Tickets $10
All-ages public event celebrating one of the first influencers in computing history, Ada Lovelace! Join us in our brand new interactive 1st floor space for birthday treats, presentations by leading ladies of the tech world, workshops for all ages, and a film screening of Code: Debugging the Gender Gap!
Saturday, December 10-Sunday, December 11: GeekCraft Expo
11:00pm-6:00pm, Seattle Center Pavilion, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA
GeekCraft Expo is a curated craft market specializing in handmade, “geek”-themed crafts of all kinds; clothing, accessories, toys, home decoration, furniture, art…if it’s geeky and made by hand, it can be found at a GeekCraft Expo. If you’d like to see some examples of what you can find at GeekCraft Expo, visit our photo gallery page.
Tuesday, December 13: Why do we vote the way we do? With Hanna Brooks Olsen
7:30PM, Tuesday, December 13, 2016
The Public Room, Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Ave, Seattle, WA 98101
Free!
Why did you vote the way you did—and who helped you make your decision? Between fake Facebook news, the domination of cable news personalities, and the rapid shrinking of local media outlets, it’s harder than ever to figure out how we even feel about an issue. Often, we turn to trusted sources…like our friends and family. But what does that mean for our ballots?
Join Town Hall Scholar-in-Residence, policy wonk, and Seattlish co-founder Hanna Brooks Olsen for an original talk on the subject of trust and voting, followed by an interactive conversation about the role of the news, social media, and community spaces (like Town Hall!) in politics, both local and national.
Thursday, December 15: Star Wars: Rogue One Premiere: Cinerama
4:00pm-1:00am, Seattle Cinerama, 2100 4th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98121
Garrison Titan and Alpha Base return to entertain fans at The Cinerama!
Thursday, December 15: Star Wars: Rogue One Premiere: PacSci IMAX
4:00pm-1:00am, Pacific Science Center, 200 2nd Ave N, Seattle, Washington 98109
Garrison Titan roams the Pacific Science Center to entertain fans awaiting Rogue One in IMAX!
Wednesday, December 21: The Good Shubzilla Augustus B Heart Sic Ill Almond Roca Tom Hutch
8:00pm-12:00am, Substation, 645 NW 45th St, Seattle, Washington 98107
See GeekGirlCon’s very own merch manager/resident rap superstar, Shubz, in a live gig at Substation!
Friday, December 23: GeekGirlCon Board Game Night at Wayward Coffeehouse!
7:00pm-10:45pm, 6417 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA
Do you love board games and enjoy teaching others how to play? Explore the board/card game hobby and meet folks happy to teach you their favorite board games! Come and play with folks who love playing games. And the best part about the GeekGirlCon game nights with our friends at Wayward? They are absolutely FREE with no cover charge!
Our group is inclusive and totally newbie-friendly. We play a wide range of modern board and card games as well as some classics. You might find Codenames, Love Letter, Splendor, King of Tokyo, Völuspá, slash, Alien Frontiers, Locke & Key, Coup, Tokaido, Superfight, The Resistance, Colt Express, Skull and Roses, Settlers of Catan, 7 Wonders, Toc Toc Woodman, FLUXX and many more!
Bring a game with you or just bring yourself. Join GeekGirlCon staffers, make some new friends, play some games, and enjoy some delicious organic, fair trade, and shade-grown coffee.
Tuesday, December 27: Jessica Bennett with Jeannie Yandel: Welcome to the ‘Feminist Fight Club’
7:30pm (doors open 6:30pm), Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Great Hall, Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101
Tickets $5
It was a fight club—but without the fighting and without the men. Every month the women would gather, sharing tips for how to tackle the ultimate workplace enemy: sexism. The first rule of the club was not to talk about the club—but the time has come to take it public. In her new book, Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual (for a Sexist Workplace), New York Times journalist and Seattle native Jessica Bennett blends research, personal examples, and playful exercises to create a modern-day field guide for navigating pervasive workplace sexism. In conversation with KUOW producer Jeannie Yandel, Bennett will discuss both overt and subtle sexism that persists, how she took inspiration from the trailblazing women who came before her, and the way that modern gender bias plays into everything from the wage gap to our presidential election.
