✨ Opening Night at Starstuff Festival ✨
Tonight we lift off! Join us at the beautifully renovated Reverie Ballroom as we open the very first Starstuff Festival. It’s a weekend of brave storytelling, original music, and solo performance unlike anything else in Seattle.
We’re beyond grateful to our creative partners at Astro Lab Productions for dreaming this into being, and to every artist, technician, volunteer, and collaborator who has poured their heart into bringing this bold idea into being.
Here’s what to expect tonight:
🎭 7:00pm – Doors + Opening Night Celebration
🌟 7:30pm – Kickoff Showcase featuring original solo performances from Naomi Morgan, Xan Herring, CJ Lorentz, Joshua Carter and Kim O’Donnel.
🎶 Into the Night – Music, mingling, and magic in the Grand Ballroom
If you can’t make it tonight—don’t worry! Tickets are still available for Saturday’s three workshops with Joanna Parson, Parker Mills, Chris DeLair, Kim O’Donnel.
2:00 pm
Performances from Ibidunni Ojikutu, Jake Dahms, and Joanna Parson (A Transcriber’s Tale)
3:45 pm
Performances from Joshua Carter, Kyli Lora, and Carmella Riley (Singularities and Safety Pins);
Kim O’Donnel immersive staged reading “Mise en Place” with Live Music by Joshua Carter (with nibbles & beverages)
Saturday Evening Performances and Party in The Grand Ballroom
7:30 pm
Performances from Sarah Burke, Alexa Ray Claps and Parker Mills (The Abnormal Heart), Kim O’Donnel immersive staged reading “Mise en Place” with Live Music by Joshua Carter, followed by a Meet & Mingle Party with the Artists
Join us in celebrating the courage it takes to tell your story. Because in the end, we’re all made of the same starstuff.
🎟️ Tickets + Schedule at www.astrolab.productions/starstuff
When can you see Kim’s “Mise en Place” immersive staged reading? Why, you can join us on Friday night, or Saturday with the 3:45pm Showcase. You can also take her workshop: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Writing a Recipe (But Were Afraid to Ask)
🗓 Saturday, Oct 25 | 12:45–1:45pm
📍 Reverie Ballroom
💸 $25 / Included with your Plus Pass
A recipe is more than a list of instructions—it’s a roadmap, a memory, a story. In this fun, interactive workshop with writer and chef Kim O’Donnel, we’ll explore how recipe writing is both a science and an art. You’ll learn the practical nuts and bolts to make your recipes clear and accurate, then dive into the magic of how a recipe can capture a moment in time—your grandmother’s kitchen, a sunset sorbet in Barbados, or the shorthand text that became a family favorite.
Kim O’Donnel is a writer, chef, and teacher who has spent nearly thirty years using food as her creative lens. She’s the author of three cookbooks, including PNW Veg: The Pacific Northwest Seasonal Vegetarian Cookbook, and has written hundreds of recipes for newspapers, cookbooks, and meal kits. Currently based in Pennsylvania, Kim is at work on a food memoir about the sticky, delicious bits that make up a life.
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Meet Kim O’Donnel — writer, chef, teacher, and storyteller. For nearly thirty years, food has been her language for understanding the world, and now she brings that same heart and flavor to the Starstuff Festival.
Join Kim for her interactive staged reading “Mise en Place” (with nibbles and beverages!)
Friday at 7:30pm and again Saturday in the afternoon showcase.
She’s also teaching “Everything you wanted to know about writing a recipe (but were afraid to ask)” — a hands-on workshop that explores how writing a recipe is another way to tell our stories.
Your Odyssey and Voyager Plus Passes gets you into everything — all performances, workshops, and immersive readings.
🎟️ Learn more and book your tickets on our website (link in bio)
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✨ Early Bird Deal! ✨All the shows. All the workshops. All the creativity. For just $75 you can experience the full weekend of Starstuff Festival — but hurry, this special price is only available through October 4th.
Here’s what’s in store:
Friday, Oct 24 — 7:30pm Performances at the newly renovated Reverie Ballroom, kicking off with short form and long form solo shows, live music, and our Opening Night Party.
Saturday, Oct 25 — A full morning of artist-led creative workshops and an afternoon and evening of solo performances and new music, plus late-night celebration.
Sunday, Oct 26 — Pass-holders only: gather from 12–4pm for a celebratory afternoon of talkbacks, coffee, donuts, and a sneak peek of Signs of Life, Astro Lab's upcoming musical.
Student discounts, VIP dinner packages, swag, and more available on our ticketing site, link in bio
Lock in your Early Bird deal for our Odyssey Plus Pass today — $75 for the whole journey.
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