Join us as we kick off the FAT show with an evening of celebration, community, and creativity!

🖼️ Check out all the amazing FAT art filling our gallery space
🛍 Explore our Fat Vendor Market featuring incredible local makers
🍿 Enjoy some delicious charcuterie
✨ AND check out a preview of Curves in Motion, an all fat pole showcase, at 6:30 PM

Come be in community - learn about the fat liberation movement and experience some fat joy! This is your first chance to see the show, shop from fat artists, and start connecting with this powerful community.

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Made possible by funding from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, this event is open and free to all.

ACCESSIBILITY: Our space is ADA accessible, with a ramp located to the right of the staircase leading down to the venue. We offer a range of seating options, including chairs that are more comfortable for fat folks. We ask that guests be mindful of the privilege their body may hold when it comes to accessing public seating. If you are in an abled and smaller body, please use the smaller white event chairs to help ensure inclusive and accessible seating for everyone.

We're honored to host the legendary Mx. Pucks A’Plenty - burlesque performer, activist, and founder of Fat Con & Fatlesque Fest PNW - for a dynamic talk on Saturday, May 3 from 1–2 PM

Join Mx. Pucks A'Plenty for an empowering evening with "A Body Made in My Image." Through heartfelt stories of embracing fat liberation, self-love, and rejecting diet culture, Mx. Pucks highlights the revolutionary spirit of loving oneself as they are. Discover how challenging societal norms and celebrating body diversity ignite personal and communal empowerment. This talk will inspire you to embrace your true self and join the movement for radical self-acceptance.

About the Speaker:

Mx. Pucks A'Plenty is a Black, Fat, Queer, Nonbinary, Disabled burlesque performer, producer, entrepreneur, sex positive educator, speaker, and community builder based in Seattle, Washington. Pucks is a full time artist and producer in the Seattle burlesque community and is the Executive Director of Puckduction. Pucks has performed all of the US, Canada, and Panama.  They are also the founder co-producer behind What the Funk?! An All POC Burlesque Festival and Fatlesque Fest NW.

They have been ranked in the Top 50 of Most Influential Burlesque Industry Figure for the past four years, as voted for by thousands of burlesque fans and peers worldwide by 21st Century Burlesque Magazine, named 2022 Performer of the Year by Seattle Gay News, and was one of the Seattle Pride Grand Marshals in 2023.

They have been a guest speaker at Brown University, Planned Parenthood of New York, the University of Washington, Seattle Pacific University, Lewis & Clark College, Pacific Lutheran University, and Antioch University. They have been featured in Revry TV's Submission Possible, Seattle Pride Magazine, The Seattle Times, South Seattle Emerald, KUOW, and Seattle Gay News.

A Black and Fat Liberationist, Pucks is one of the founders and Con Director of Fat Con, a three day conference that focuses on body acceptance and community building for people of size. Pucks is also the founder of Fatlesque Fest NW an all plus size burlesque festival based in Seattle, but is a newly minted board member of NAAFA.

They were born and raised in the Seattle area and are a parent to a teenager. They love to write, cook, travel, perform, nap, attend shows and events, music, road trips, and being near the ocean.

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Made possible by funding from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, this event is open and free to all.

However, for this event, we invite you to consider donating to Fat Con - an organization dedicated to improving the lives of Fat Humans through art, health, public policy, and community outreach. Our speaker, Mx. Pucks A’Plenty, is the founder of this incredible convention. All donations will go directly toward supporting them in organizing the next event.

Sliding Scale Suggested Donation: $30, $40, $50[a]

ACCESSIBILITY: Our space is ADA accessible, with a ramp located to the right of the staircase leading down to the venue. We offer a range of seating options, including chairs that are more comfortable for fat folks. We ask that guests be mindful of the privilege their body may hold when it comes to accessing public seating. If you are in an abled and smaller body, please use the smaller white event chairs to help ensure inclusive and accessible seating for everyone.

Let’s move, stretch, and take up space together!

Join Tasheon Chillous, Personal Trainer & Gym Manager at Ascent Fitness, for a joyful and affirming fat movement session.

We’ll explore movement and embodiment in fat bodies, followed by a Q&A and resource share around fitness, the outdoors, and navigating movement as fat people.

Bring your curiosity, your body as it is, and let’s move in community.

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Made possible by funding from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, this event is open and free to all.

ACCESSIBILITY: Our space is ADA accessible, with a ramp located to the right of the staircase leading down to the venue. We offer a range of seating options, including chairs that are more comfortable for fat folks. We ask that guests be mindful of the privilege their body may hold when it comes to accessing public seating. If you are in an abled and smaller body, please use the smaller white event chairs to help ensure inclusive and accessible seating for everyone.

Celebrate fat artistry and expression with an evening of spoken word, poetry, prose, music, and more during the Uptown Art Walk!

All performers welcome - with extra love for stories that center fatness and fat liberation.

Come share your voice, listen with your whole heart, and experience the FAT show in full bloom.

Be sure to check out all the other locations participating in the Uptown Art Walk on their instagram @uptownartwalkseattle.

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Made possible by funding from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, this event is open and free to all.

ACCESSIBILITY: Our space is ADA accessible, with a ramp located to the right of the staircase leading down to the venue. We offer a range of seating options, including chairs that are more comfortable for fat folks. We ask that guests be mindful of the privilege their body may hold when it comes to accessing public seating. If you are in an abled and smaller body, please use the smaller white event chairs to help ensure inclusive and accessible seating for everyone.

Cyanotype is an early photographic printing process that creates beautiful, deep blue prints using UV light. In this beginner-friendly workshop, you'll learn how to use cyanotypes to design your own holiday cards! No prior experience is required—this class is perfect for newcomers, as well as those who have taken my intro courses and want to explore the process further. After a 30-minute demonstration on how cyanotypes work, you'll have 2 hours of open studio time to experiment with various materials and create your own unique cards. All materials, including cyanotype chemicals, card stock, and basic supplies, will be provided. You’re also welcome to bring your own items—such as leaves, flowers, or other objects—to experiment with and make your cards truly one-of-a-kind. Depending on the class size, you can expect to create up to 5 cards during the workshop.

Everyone is encouraged to bring in items they think would be fun to use for composition.

Things to consider bringing!

Bring in objects you would like to experiment compositions with. Remember this process is created by the shadows of objects so color doesn't matter.

Things to consider: fun silhouettes, see through or translucent objects, Playing with scale and fun edges. Things that lay flat are going to print differently than 3D objects. Both are fun to play with!

A donation-based, mutual aid clothing swap celebrating size 18+ bodies. Bring what you can, take what you need.

✨ Find new-to-you pieces
🛍️ Donate items in good condition
❤️ Leftover clothes will go to local community efforts

Want to donate in advance? Fill out our form here

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Made possible by funding from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, this event is open and free to all. 

ACCESSIBILITY: Our space is ADA accessible, with a ramp located to the right of the staircase leading down to the venue. We offer a range of seating options, including chairs that are more comfortable for fat folks. We ask that guests be mindful of the privilege their body may hold when it comes to accessing public seating. If you are in an abled and smaller body, please use the smaller white event chairs to help ensure inclusive and accessible seating for everyone.

This is a space to reconnect with your body through clay. In this hands-on clay workshop, we’ll explore the fat form as a source of inspiration - drawing from lived experience, body memory, and the narratives we carry about ourselves. Rather than focusing solely on representation, we’ll center the creative process as a tool for healing, reflection, and radical self-expression

Artist and facilitator Courtney will guide attendees in thoughtful conversation and creative play, encouraging a shift away from perfectionism and toward self-compassion. Their approach invites participants to engage with clay as a medium for exploring identity, embodiment, and the power of personal story.

All materials provided. Sculptures will be fired and available for pickup approximately 3 weeks after the workshop. Open to all levels - no clay experience necessary.

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Made possible by funding from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, this event is open and free to all. 

However, for this event, we kindly ask that you consider making a donation to help cover the cost of materials and supplies, as our facilitator is generously offering their time at no charge.

Sliding Scale Suggested Donation: $10, $15, $20[b]

ACCESSIBILITY: Our space is ADA accessible, with a ramp located to the right of the staircase leading down to the venue. We offer a range of seating options, including chairs that are more comfortable for fat folks. We ask that guests be mindful of the privilege their body may hold when it comes to accessing public seating. If you are in an abled and smaller body, please use the smaller white event chairs to help ensure inclusive and accessible seating for everyone.

Join us for the final evening of the FAT show. Hear reflections from featured artists, connect in community, and join a group discussion on fatness, liberation, and the way forward.

Whether you’ve come to every event or this is your first, this is a beautiful opportunity to be present with the fullness of this show and this moment.

The evening will also feature Mass Movement: An Overture, a live performance by Body Home Fat Dance, a fat performance group based in Portland (PDX).

This dynamic dance installation invites the audience to intimately witness an embodied collective of fat bodies. Fat dancers move through space with trust in each other and a score as their guide, exploring the unique possibilities of their bodies—not despite fatness, but precisely because of it. Through manipulation of shape, contact and pressure, shared weight, momentum, and balance, layered movements and unexpected moments unfold. You will see the ripples in our skin, the jiggle and momentum of our fat, and the intimacy of bellies pressed together, enveloping, yielding. It is an honest and vulnerable experience shared between dancer and audience—a risk we take together. Additional props, light, and sound contribute to the complexity of the piece, with a custom sound score by Mickey Pollizatto developed in collaboration with the dancers during the rehearsal process.

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Made possible by funding from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, this event is open and free to all. 

ACCESSIBILITY: Our space is ADA accessible, with a ramp located to the right of the staircase leading down to the venue. We offer a range of seating options, including chairs that are more comfortable for fat folks. We ask that guests be mindful of the privilege their body may hold when it comes to accessing public seating. If you are in an abled and smaller body, please use the smaller white event chairs to help ensure inclusive and accessible seating for everyone.