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Seattle International Comedy | NYE Special

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)

Get ready for a night of laughter and hilarity as the top comics from the annual comedy competition come together to end the year on a high note! This popular NYE show sold out quickly last year, earning rave reviews. This year, don't miss the chance to see the incredible Kermet Apio headlining the event!

Tuesday, Dec. 31st | 7:30 PM

Tickets available:
WICA Star: $45

Standard: $30

Kermet Apio was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii and moved to Seattle, Washington to attend college. He has lived there ever since. Comedy began for Kermet at an open mike night in Seattle in 1989. Nearly two years later, he decided to make the leap to full time comedy. Since then he has performed in 47 US states, 7 Canadian provinces, as well as Hong Kong, Israel, and Pakistan. He has also entertained at military bases in Qatar, Bahrain, and Jordan, and across the US. He is a past winner of the Seattle International Comedy Competition and has appeared on television shows such as "Star Search", "Evening at the Improv" and "Comedy Showcase with Louie Anderson.” He has his own special on Dry Bar Comedy and can be heard regularly on Sirius/XM satellite radio. He is a past winner of both the Seattle Comedy Competition and the Great American Comedy Festival. He has showcased at comedy festivals in Aspen, Vancouver, Grand Rapids, Boise and Las Vegas.

Earlier Event: December 22
Let It Snow: by Christopher Stowell
Later Event: January 17
Paper Moon | Whidbey Island Film Festival (In Glorious Black and White)

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.