Join filmmaker, BJ Bullert, and Seattle fisherman, Pete Knutson, for a screening of the short documentary, Loki Pete, followed by a post-screening discussion.
About the Film
Pete Knutson recounts his journey as a commercial fisherman, an activist and a teacher. Through flash-backs from decades ago, featuring the 2001 fight to preserve Seattle’s Fisherman’s Terminal, the film highlights the personal and collective resilience needed to maintain a small family business in a tightening economy.
This program is presented concurrently with our special exhibition, A Ballard Story: Pacific Fishermen, on display until February 28th, 2027.
Praise for Loki Pete
“A colorful, compelling on-the-scene portrait of fishing with a conscience, seen through the ethics and heart of an outspoken Seattle original."
—Clay Eals, writer, historian
"Teacher and gill-netter Pete Knutson shaped a generation of protest that kept Fishermen's Terminal as working docks for the North Pacific fishing fleet."
—Kristen Millares Young, author and journalist
A Ballard Story: Pacific Fishermen
October 9, 2026 — February 28, 2027
This program is presented concurrently with our special exhibition, A Ballard Story: Pacific Fishermen.
A Ballard Story 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.
