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Film Screening: The Lighthouse (2019)

Oct 29, 2026

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Members: $10
General Admission: $13

2655 NW Market Street, Seattle, WA 98107

206.789.5707

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Get into the Halloween spirit with a screening of The Lighthouse, directed by Robert Eggers.

Watch as two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. This screening is held in conjunction with the special exhibition, A Ballard Story: Pacific Fishermen, which explores the history and evolution of Seattle's maritime industry.

Film Synopsis

As the wavering cry of the foghorn fills the air, the taciturn former lumberjack, Ephraim Winslow, and the grizzled lighthouse keeper, Thomas Wake, set foot in a secluded and perpetually grey islet off the coast of late-19th-century New England.

For the following four weeks of back-breaking work and unfavourable conditions, the tight-lipped men will have no one else for company except for each other, forced to endure irritating idiosyncrasies, bottled-up resentment, and burgeoning hatred. Then, amid bad omens, a furious and unending squall maroons the pale beacon's keepers in the already inhospitable volcanic rock, paving the way for a prolonged period of feral hunger, excruciating agony, manic isolation, and horrible booze-addled visions. Now, the eerie stranglehold of insanity tightens. Is there an escape from the wall-less prison of the mind?

A Ballard Story: Pacific Fishermen

October 9, 2026 — February 28, 2027

A Ballard Story: Pacific Fishermen explores the history, resilience, and ongoing evolution of Seattle’s maritime industries through the story of Pacific Fishermen, Inc. — one of Ballard’s last working shipyards and a living symbol of the neighborhood’s working waterfront.

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