JUNE 2009
IN THIS ISSUE
Seattle's Venerable Summer Food Festival Cooks-Up Another Year of Foodie Favorites
Seattle's annual Comcast Bite of Seattle festival returns July 17-19, 2009, giving locals and visitors an affordable opportunity to sample dishes from some of the city's top restaurants. A summer tradition since 1982, the festival has grown from an estimated 75,000 attendees its first year to more than 500,000 in 2008. Held at the Seattle Center, the Comcast Bite of Seattle features more than 50 local restaurants, that offer small portions of their most popular dishes, as well as 30 food product booths.
Event highlights this year include The Alley, hosted by Seattle chef and restaurateur Tom Douglas. A $10 admission fee to The Alley offers diners a meal of small samples from a daily lineup of seven local restaurants. The chefs and menu in The Alley change daily, featuring a total of 14 Seattle area restaurants. Proceeds benefit Food Lifeline, a community charity working to end hunger in Western Washington. Local chef Thierry Rautureau will emcee The Bite Cooks!, a cooking demonstration featuring 18 of Seattle's top chefs displaying their skills in a high-energy and interactive show in front of a live studio audience. Attendees at the festival who are 21 and over can sample the area's best beers at the festival's beer gardens or famous Washington wines at the wine tasting room. For the younger ones, the Family Fun Zone features singers, dancers, actors, inflatable bounce rides, interactive games and kids' karaoke. Attendees of all ages will enjoy local and national musical acts on five stages. For more information, visit www.biteofseattle.org.
New Insiders Deal Offers Savings for the 2009 Bumbershoot: Seattle's Music & Arts Festival
North America's largest urban arts festival, Bumbershoot: Seattle's Music & Arts Festival, is offering a new way for festival goers to save money with its "Insider Deal." A limited amount of $25 single day-specific tickets are now available to BumberFans, a $10 discount off advance ticket prices. Anyone can become a BumberFan for free at www.bumbershoot.org. The $25 single day-specific ticket offer to BumberFans is available while supplies last or until July 21, when tickets go on sale to the general public.
Bumbershoot: Seattle's Music & Arts Festival began in 1971 and takes place at the Seattle Center on Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 5-7, 2009. The festival offers a diverse lineup in live music, comedy, theater, dance, film, urban crafts and literary and visual arts. A partial festival lineup can currently be found at www.bumbershoot.org, with the full lineup announced mid-July.
Seattle Art Museum Opens Two New Exhibitions for Summer 2009
The Seattle Art Museum is opening two new and contrasting exhibitions on June 25, 2009. Target Practice: Painting Under Attack: 1949-78 is an international and historical survey of the turmoil that the medium of painting endured in the years following World War II. The exhibit documents why artists felt compelled to deconstruct paintings in order to make their statements heard. Target Practice includes works by well-known artists like Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, as well as lesser known artists who were creating equal works in Europe, Asia, South America and North America. With more than 70 works of art, including documentary photographs and video, Target Practice introduces the breakthroughs made by artists in the years between 1949 and 1978. Target Practice: Painting Under Attack: 1949-78 runs through September 7, 2009.
Different in style from the works in Target Practice, Andrew Wyeth: Remembrance focuses on seven paintings that span the career of Andrew Wyeth and show his favorite subjects: his wife Betsy and the land around their farm in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; his neighbor Karl Kuerner; and Kuerner's nurse Helga Testorf – Wyeth's favorite model and the subject of the famous series of watercolor and tempera portraits known as the "Helga pictures." Andrew Wyeth: Remembrance runs through Oct. 18, 2009. For more information, visit www.seattleartmuseum.org.
Summer Hotel Packages Available Through Seattle Super Saver
This summer is the time to find special hotel packages in Seattle and take advantage of the ease of booking via the Seattle Super Saver hotel booking program.
The Mayflower Park Hotel makes it easy to stay in Seattle prior to an Alaskan cruise. The hotel's "Cruise on Inn" package includes classic or deluxe accommodations, a full American breakfast for two and free valet parking for the night of the stay. If additional parking is needed while cruising, extended parking is available for $15 per night, a 50 percent discount. The package rate with a classic guestroom is $199 plus tax. The package with a deluxe guestroom is $219 plus tax. The "Cruise on Inn" package is valid through October 31, 2009, based on availability.
Hotel 1000 is celebrating baseball season with a "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" package. The package includes overnight accommodations for two in a luxe guestroom, a Seattle Mariners baseball cap and bag of game-ready goodies, two vouchers for specialty cocktails at BOKA Kitchen + Bar and complimentary valet parking. Exclusively for those who book the package with Seattle Super Saver, the hotel is offering 30 minutes of complimentary play time in The Golf Club, a virtual golf center that provides players an opportunity to play some of the world's most noteworthy courses. Package rates start at $239 per night plus tax. The "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" package is valid through Oct. 5, based on availability.
The Seattle Super Saver program is operated year-round by Seattle's Convention and Visitors Bureau, offering dynamic rates from 63 Seattle area properties, as well as periodic rate specials and packages. The program offers a high level of customer service and a rare package of consumer benefits including no booking or hidden fees, no pre-payments and no cancellation fees up to 24 hours before check-in.
Travelers may book these packages through Seattle Super Saver at www.seattlesupersaver.com or by calling toll free within the U.S. and Canada at (800) 535-7071; from outside the U.S. and Canada, the number to call is (206) 461-5882. Reservation lines are open 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. (Pacific Time), Monday through Friday.
New Heritage Guides Offer Visitors a Look at Historic Seattle and King County
History buffs traveling to Seattle and King County now have three new, free destination heritage guides to help with trip planning. The guides highlight the history of the area via the themes of maritime, agriculture and industry and feature more than 70 sites, including historic landmarks, museums, festivals and scenic drives, encouraging visitors to explore the history of the region. Guides contain historical descriptions, addresses and GPS coordinates for featured sites. Additionally, five featured sites per guide have audio clips that are accessible via listed telephone numbers.
The destination heritage guides are available at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the Colman Dock on the Seattle waterfront and at the Seattle Visitor Center and Concierge Services desk, located at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in downtown Seattle. The guides are also downloadable at www.destinationheritage.org.
Journalists are encouraged to contact the following SCVB public relations staff for answers to questions or for more information:
David Blandford, (206) 461-5806
dblandford@visitseattle.org
Heather Bryant, (206) 461-5805
hbryant@visitseattle.org
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