This summer, Occidental Park, as part of the new Artsparks programming, will feature events and site-specific performances inspired by the works of Haruki Murakami. Occidental Park, with its combination of old architecture, mature trees, new and old businesses, alleyways, and varieties of people, was a perfect site to explore his themes of the magical and the mundane, outsider and insider, the spontaneous and the routine, the ephemeral and absurd. These meditations on Murakami will be presented from June through October in a series of events by these five artists and arts organizations: Doug Jeck, dk pan / nko rey, 826 Seattle, Steve and Katie Messick with Orchestra Seattle, and Gina Coffman with Seth Damm and Kristin Ougendal.
[...] mundane, outsider and insider, the spontaneous and the routine, the ephemeral and absurd” [op]), this endurance event features D.K. Pan, NKO, Holly Brown, and an accompanying Elephant Ear [...]