Pacific Science Center seems like a real shitshow - how have things deteriorated to this extent. Sounds like new leadership / maybe a major shakeup are required if this perennial institution is to be saved.
@3 the 70mm snub is beyond frustrating as SIFF claims the theater still has a Todd-AO 70mm projector (it’s almost like SIFF isn’t interested in the history of cinema). What is it with our local nonprofit arts organizations (they seem hell bent on going belly up).
The land should have gone back to either the City of Seattle or to the State of Washington.
Mayor Wilson? The time to act is now, before this piece, or any part of the Science Center Pavilion, ends up in private hands without conditions about how the future of this space is developed.
Anyone who has stepped foot in the building where the Boeing IMAX Theater has seen that all of the exhibits that were housed there are gone.
The non-profit has obviously failed; whatever remains needs to be preserved for the public good.
Pacific Science Center seems like a real shitshow - how have things deteriorated to this extent. Sounds like new leadership / maybe a major shakeup are required if this perennial institution is to be saved.
Why can't the Grand Illusion move into the Varsity?
There. I've solved that problem. Next?
After they stopped doing 70mm PacSci I mostly stopped going there.
And of course SIFF seems to have abandoned 70mm/Cinerama at the former Cinerama theater.
It's pretty sad that people here travel to Portland to experience 70mm.
@3 the 70mm snub is beyond frustrating as SIFF claims the theater still has a Todd-AO 70mm projector (it’s almost like SIFF isn’t interested in the history of cinema). What is it with our local nonprofit arts organizations (they seem hell bent on going belly up).
The land should have gone back to either the City of Seattle or to the State of Washington.
Mayor Wilson? The time to act is now, before this piece, or any part of the Science Center Pavilion, ends up in private hands without conditions about how the future of this space is developed.
Anyone who has stepped foot in the building where the Boeing IMAX Theater has seen that all of the exhibits that were housed there are gone.
The non-profit has obviously failed; whatever remains needs to be preserved for the public good.
So that means the loss of the Butterfly House and the Planetarium?
What happened to their re-opening that was planned for last October? That failed to happen.