Vanishing Seattle Films: Capitol Hill Arts District

Vanishing Seattle Films presents the fourth in its series of shorts that take a deeper dive into the stories of history, legacy, and resilience behind the #VanishingSeattle hashtag. Each episode of this documentary series focuses on a small business or community space significant to a Seattle neighborhood.
This film shares the stories of artists, nonprofit leaders, and small business owners on Capitol Hill as they struggle to maintain a thriving presence for arts and queer culture in the neighborhood.
Directors & Producers: Angela Bernardoni + Laura Jean Cronin
Executive Producers: Cynthia Brothers + Martin Tran
Director of Photography: Angela Bernardoni
Editor & Sound: Laura Jean Cronin
Additional Camera: Bianca Ramirez
Music:
Cherilynn Brooks & Shawn Brooks - “Silver”
Special Thanks To:
Aleksa Manila
Amos Miller
Cherilynn Brooks
Todd Adams
Wildrose
This film project was supported in part by 4Culture/King County Lodging Tax.
Produced in association with Northwest Film Forum.
Vanishing Seattle is a project that documents displaced and disappearing institutions, small businesses and cultures of Seattle - and celebrates the histories, spaces, and communities that give the city its soul.
More info:
www.vanishings...

[@learninghowtofallintoblues5918]

I have not vanished, I was one of very few families hadmve not been gentrification. Same home approximately 33 years.
I'm still here people!

[@Scratxhin]

Being 13 and living In Capitol Hill since I was 1 and a half, I’ve seen this place go from a very vibrant a light place to a place where people send the tweakers to do all the there heroin and all the drugs they fucking want. It’s very sad. I want my neighbor hood back. We need all the things that were amazing about Capitol Hill are now gone. It’s a ghost town

[@TheFunk79]

The speakers in the video don't reference dates when things started to change. Would really like to know the year(s) that they noticed this shift start to take place so I can conceptualize that better.

[@georgevp]

Maybe about 10-15yrs ago.

[@awesomeferret]

The politics that caused the downfall began about 10-15 years ago. The election of Donald Trump got the ball rolling on the point of no return. It enabled the normalization of bigotry and violent intolerance in Seattle in a dramatic way, and the city council was somehow cheered on as they sat around doing social experiments at the literal expense of the city. Meanwhile, many people who aren't incredibly bigoted got scared and left the city, leaving it to become even more of a political bubble. I used to live in Seattle too. A lot of people there think they have a majority opinion when they simply don't, and when you ask them to actually respect diversity, they claim you're spouting hate speech. People from Seattle often make Republicans look more liberal by comparison. Which is actually more liberal, a "conservative" advocating for free speech for all and a world where nobody is judged by the color of their skin, or a "progressive" advocating to suppress free speech and literally to judge people by the color of their skin (and to literally shame people for not wanting to judge people based on their skin color!!!)? Only in Seattle can you post "don't date a white" signs all over the U district and get away with it. Seattle made racism politically correct, and African Americans suffered the most, all while claiming Republicans who were trying to warn progressives that it would harm African Americans were "racist". Strange times, fellas.