Category: Event

Well, Seattle, you did it again. You made the Ignite Seattle organizers job of selecting 16 talks very difficult. There were 66 talk submissions and any 16 would have made for a great Ignite.  Thanks again to everyone who submitted a talk or encouraged others to do so.

Here is most of the speaker list. As always, order is to be determined.

• Dead 2.0 – Jeremy Dragt
• From Tech to Texas – Jack Timmons
• Sofas Are (not) Scary – Rebecca West
• Embracing Obstacles As Opportunities – Alicia Crank
• The Unusual History of Volunteering – Amy Faulkner
• Leading the Majority Minority – Eugene Hsu
• If You Want to Create Change, Host a Pageant! – Abari Charles
• 4 Signs Your Friend or Loved One Is a Birder – Jeremy Schwartz
• How to Make Seattle Your Own in 10 Easy Steps – Monica Guzman
• How to Stay Calm Around Impossibly Annoying People – Susan Fee
• Disruptive Play: The Trickster in Politics and Culture – Shepherd Siegel
• Doorstops & Bicycles: Why We Humans Keep Making Things – Jeremy Bowen
• Sleeping with Specters — How Designing the Dead Changed My Life – Patrick Blanchard
• Robots are Not Coming for Your Job and We’re All Going to be Okay – Patrick Rauland
• The Proximity Principle (and why you’ll probably become best friends with the person sitting next to you) – Rupi Sureshkumar

We will keep you posted when more talks are confirmed.

Pro Tip: Buy your tickets now we think this one will sell out!

Did you know Town Hall is closing for major renovations? Let’s shut it down with a bang–and some of the best Ignite Seattle speakers we’ve ever heard!

Register for your free tickets

Come together for our final hours in Town Hall’s current building for an evening jam packed with slam poetry, live music, hip-hop tap, a late-night Ignite, live music from local bands, a Great Hall dance party, and more. Concessions will stay open all night, joined by food trucks and photo booths. The night will cap off with a midnight toast to our future!

Schedule of events:
7PM: Performance by three-time world champion spoken word artist Buddy Wakefield
8:15PM: Dance performance by Northwest Tap Connection
9:30PM: Best of Ignite Seattle, including these amazing speakers:

• April Soetarman, Weird Side Projects
• Mark Selander, Commutapult
• Eric Holderman, How To Kill Your Husband (and Other Disaster Preparedness tips)
• Jeffrey Hicks, Welcome to the Psych Ward
• Carly Slater, The Cheater’s Guide to Saying Thank You

10:30PM: Musical performance by The Nines, one of Seattle’s best party bands covering hits from the ‘70s to today.
11:45PM: A reading of the Great Hall poem and a toast to Town Hall’s future.

Get your tickets now before they sell out! Register for your free tickets now!

We are finalizing the speaker list for the next Ignite Seattle very soon.

It is going to be awesomesauce people!

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Here are four of the fantastic talks:

• Baugruppen: communal dwelling sans granola Michael Eliason
• How I got 150 old tires, a 20 foot tall Marky Mark, and an intergalactic BeatMaster in my driveway Roxanne Fonder Reeve
• 8 Things I Wish I’d Known About Polyamory (Before I Tried and Frakked It Up) Cunning Minx
• “You play in the dirt while I’m on the phone.” A dad’s guide to Seattle playgrounds. Ray Dubicki

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Get your tickets now:

http://townhall.strangertickets.com/events/42639039/ignite-seattle

Do you know that 78.9% of people who submit a Ignite Seattle talk are encouraged to do so by a friend? Well if so please share your data because that is a just an estimate based on what we hear 🙂 Seriously, encouragement is sooo critical for many people to tell their story about their passion, a hard lesson, an insight or idea that is important for others to hear.

So…
We encourage you to encourage a friend to submit a talk idea

And…
We encourage YOU to submit a talk idea… that idea floating around in your head wants to be told and we know you are the best person to tell it.
You will be awesome!
The crowd will cheer!
You will be so glad you did it!
We promise.

The next Ignite Seattle is Thursday, May 18th at Town Hall and the talk submission deadline is Friday, April 14th at midnight.
Don’t delay encourage and submit a talk idea today 🙂

Bonus info:
Here is great advice for getting accepted at Seattle Ignite

This Thursday (2/23) at 8:00pm is Ignite Seattle #32 – we’re thrilled to bring you another edition of the largest open submission public speaking event in the Northwest. We’ve sold out many shows in a row, as we consistently deliver a fun, challenging, fast paced evening of ideas, opinions and stories for your pleasure.

If you’ve never come before, or have missed a few, this is a great one to come check out.

Here are ten reasons to come to Ignite 30:

1. We are in Town Hall Seattle’s Great Hall, celebrating their 100th year. It’s one of the best venues for live events in our town (and their cash bar opens at 7pm)
2. Hate fighting with coffee shop wifi? Patrick McCanna will teach you all you need to know.
3. Have too much stuff and not enough space? Beth FitzGibbon will train you in storage hacking.
4. Trying to predict the future? Andrei Borodin will explore his (and our) obsession with causality.
5. Want to grow? Get Uncomfortable! Virginia Emery will explain how and why.
6. Do your kids make you angry? Get mad the right way, as Jenni Pertuset will teach us.
7. Do you have, and/or like, female body parts? Well Lets Talk About Menstruation! says Sara Gentzler.
8. The photobooth will be back – take pictures of friends old and new.
9. Beat the traffic and grab a pre-show snack or drink in the neighborhood – our recommendations.
10. Plus ten more talks on a wide array of challenging, fun and entertaining subjects.

You will hate yourself if you don’t come. I mean, it’s Thursday night – shouldn’t you start your weekend of awesome a day early? We think you deserve it.

Go here to buy tickets ($5).  Doors open at 7:00pm (as does the cash bar). Talks start at 8:00pm, with an  intermission. Full list of speakers and topics.