Seattle. The Emerald City. Ask someone that’s not from here what they know about Washington state and they’ll probably tell you one of several things: it and rains too much, most of the famous people from here are dead like Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Lee and Kurt Cobain, and depending on who you ask, “That’s where the Twilight series takes place!”
In addition to Nirvana leading the grunge movement of the 90′s, Bill Gates brought Silicon Valley to Seattle with Microsoft, and Howard Schultz started the caffeinated revolution with Starbucks coffee. Now in 2010, Ryan Reiter of the Red, White & Dead zombie walk in Fremont brings the worlds’ first-ever celebration of the living dead to Seattle, zombie capital of the world, offering a new level of interactive fan experience with zomBcon International.
The city itself is a veritable melting pot of all sorts of people from all sorts of cultures and walks of life and orientations. It’s where economical and green hippie crunchy granola lifestyle meets the cutting microchipped edge. Does it really come as any surprise that Japan’s most well known and well loved pop culture icon is teaming up with a convention of the living dead at the Seattle Center this Halloween? It’s a veritable no-braaaiiinerrr.
Sanrio, the corporation behind Hello Kitty, is celebrating their 50th anniversary with their Small Gift mobile pop-up tour across the United States this fall. The Tour kicks off in mid October with its’ first official stop in Seattle. The tour will feature stops in Las Vegas, New York and Atlanta.
ZomBcon will feature a plethora of special guests including the original godfather of the modern zombie, George Romero, Bruce Campbell, and Malcolm McDowell to name a few. This will not be your usual convention, yes there will be autographs and pictures, but zomBcon is offering the latest ultimate experience in geek fandom with hands-on discussions, panels, film screenings and a full on parade of the living dead.
To top it off, also in attendance at Seattle Center are the Ladies of Faith and they will be singing their songs of praise mashed against the shambling hungry mobs’ moans for warm flesh. Hello Kitty, Zombies and Jesus may seem like strange bedfellows, but it speaks volumes about the vast diversity we have in the city.
Even a few thousand people dressing up like zombies to break a Guinness World record twice isn’t considered out of place. Leave it to the geeks to raise the bar for obsessive fan culture just in time for Halloween.
Join ZomBcon International and get your geek on Friday October 29th to Sunday October 31st at Seattle Center.
