Showing posts with label multicultural. Show all posts
Showing posts with label multicultural. Show all posts

Stand with the Uyghurs

Monday, February 14, 2022

STAND WITH THE UYGHURS

As the world is watching the Olympic event in China, we want to bring awareness, deep listening, advocacy, and solidarity to stand with our Uyghur neighbors.

Join us on Sunday, February 20, 2022 during the closing ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics to hear stories from the Uyghurs, share a meal, and learn how we can advocate for human dignity.

Listening Event - February 20, 2022 at 5pm - Holy Trinity Edmonds, 657 Daley St, Edmonds WA 98020 Potluck meal - bring a dish to share.

For more information, contact The Practicing Church at www.thepracticingchurch.org or 425-770-6265.

As the 2022 Bejing Olympics began this past week, we are aware of the atrocities that are currently being whitewashed by much of the world. The Uyghurs, an ethnic and predominantly Muslim minority, are victims of a genocide perpetrated by the Chinese regime for their cultural and ethnic identity; and yet the International Olympic Committee has failed to acknowledge these horrific human rights abuses.

Bill and Julie Clark, members of The Practicing Church in Shoreline and Northwest Directors for Peace Catalyst International, have been advocating for justice for the Uyghurs over the past four years. In 2017, the Uyghur diaspora began to notice their relatives in China asking to limit their phone and texting communication, and, finally, stop altogether. The Clarks were greatly distressed to hear credible reports that the Chinese government was interning citizens in (what the government calls) “reeducation” camps.

As many as a million people have been detained in 300 to 400 facilities in Xinjiang province, according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, including “political education” camps (part of a 70-year program of forced cultural assimilation), pretrial detention centers, and prisons. 

Detainees are subjected to torture, cultural and political indoctrination, and forced labor. The U.S. Holocaust Museum says this state-sponsored violence meets the threshold for genocide and crimes against humanity. Friends, family, and colleagues have disappeared.

A recent CNN article states, “The Chinese government's alleged actions in Xinjiang have violated every single provision in the United Nations' Genocide Convention, according to an independent report by more than 50 global experts in international law, genocide, and the China region.


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Shoreline City Staff learn about the Lunar New Year in presentation from Shoreline resident Hua Zhang

Saturday, February 12, 2022

Photo courtesy Hua Zhang

Hua Zhang, well known in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park as a teacher of Mandarin and Chinese culture to students, was invited to share her presentation on the Lunar New Year to a virtual gathering of City of Shoreline staff on Thursday, February 10, 2022.

Photo courtesy Hua Zhang

Hua shared not just information but brought her 'tiger energy' to the Year of the Tiger with costume and dance.

You can see her presentation in this YouTube video here.



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Artist Michelle Kumata creates two exhibits that preserve Japanese American heritage

Friday, February 4, 2022

Michelle Kumata photo by John Pai

By Ron Chew

On February 19, 2022, Seattle artist and illustrator Michelle Kumata again comes face-to-face with her community’s shattered past.

Exactly 80 years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, the infamous federal mandate that authorized the imprisonment of her grandparents in Minidoka War Relocation Camp, Idaho, a desolate concentration camp constructed to hold 13,000 residents deemed security risks by the U.S. government. 

Over 120,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast — two-thirds of whom were American-born citizens — were incarcerated in 10 camps during the duration of World War II, without the benefit of due process.

To mark this anniversary, Kumata has created two riveting art installations which explore the forgotten contributions of Japanese American pioneers before they were unjustly uprooted and forced to part with their treasured possessions, homes, businesses and farms.

One installation is featured at Bonfire, a storefront gallery at 603 S Main, in the heart of what used to be a bustling Nihonmachi or Japantown. The exhibition, titled “Regeneration,” consists of large canvas paintings, 11 small framed paintings, handkerchiefs with quotes painted on the surfaces, and small boxes covered with furoshiki, a traditional Japanese wrapping cloth. 

The portraits were inspired by actual black-and-white stills from Takano Studio, a pre-World War II community business. Kumata sketched the portraits on brown craft paper, using pencil and acrylic paint, setting the images in ordinary vintage frames.

Michelle holds a handkerchief with a quotation painted on it

The second installation, titled “Emerging Radiance: Honoring the Nikkei Farmers of Bellevue” is in the lobby of the Bellevue Arts Museum, on land that was once a fertile expanse of Japanese American farms. 

The installation is a four-sided wooden replica of a farmhouse covered with a large mural and individual portraits. It pays tribute to the 60 forgotten families who grew strawberries, peas and other crops before they were forced from the area during World War II.

“I’m sad because most of those farmers never lived to get the recognition they deserved,” Kumata said.

Jerry Chihara served as architect for this project. Thanks to creative director Tani Ikeda, three of the nine portraits have an “augmented reality” feature, allowing viewers to hear fuller stories from the Densho archives by activating a QR code on their mobile phones.

“I feel like I’ve come full circle,” Kumata said in an interview last week.

Kumata, a native Seattleite, grew up in Mt. Baker. After attending Asa Mercer Middle School, she transferred to the Bush School, a private high school where she felt “different from her classmates” for the first time in her life. Kumata learned very little in school about what had happened during World War II.

“My parents were both born in camp so they didn’t have memories,” she explained. “My paternal grandmother just shared more of the funny or light memories: getting her boots stuck in the mud. My maternal grandparents spoke little English, and we never had real discussions. I had no sense of the gravity of the incarceration.”

As a young person, Kumata struggled to find her identity. She began by joining a Japanese American taiko group. She also began an internship as an illustrator at the International Examiner in her senior year of high school.

“It was powerful to have my work published,” she recalled. “It was empowering to be seen and to think about other people seeing my work and relating to it. That experience helped boost my confidence and pride as an Asian American and a Japanese American.”
Artist Michelle Kumata

This involvement led her to the Wing Luke Museum, where she became a contractor on a major exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of Executive Order 9066. She served as a project co-chair, along with Sally Yamasaki, Harry Fujita, David Takami, Leslie Matsuda and Hannah Yamasaki. 

The exhibition, titled “Executive Order 9066: 50 Years Before and 50 Years After,” featured hundreds of rediscovered photos and artifacts and dozens of stories told in the voices of the second-generation Nisei. It included a recreated barrack from Camp Harmony, the temporary assembly center in Puyallup which housed internees before they were transported to Minidoka.

Kumata headed up the design of the exhibition, which filled the entire Museum gallery. It was a blockbuster, attracting over 10,000 visitors during a six-month run. It received several museum awards and catapulted the Wing into national prominence.

Sally Yamasaki said she worked daily with Kumata, sometimes spending all night at the Museum with her. 

“I was so lucky to get to know Michelle and to see her artistic eye, intelligence, tenderness, humility, integrity and humor,” she remarked. 
“We would often listen to community members who had been incarcerated tell their stories, sometimes for the first time publicly. Michelle, with her open nature, would listen deeply. I would see her at times blinking and dabbing away tears.”

After working on “Executive Order 9066,” Kumata was employed as an illustrator and designer at the Seattle Times from 1995 to 2006. She returned to the Wing Luke Museum as a full-time exhibit developer from 2006 to 2018, stewarding many other community-based exhibitions created in the same spirit as “Executive Order 9066.”

“That experience with ‘Executive Order 9066’ really changed the way I looked at museums and it also helped build my skills in community building,” Kumata said.

In 2018, she left to pursue her independent artistic interests.

“All of my work in the community—participating in taiko, the Examiner, the Wing Luke Museum and the Seattle Times—have had a huge influence on how I approach my art now. Heritage, identity and legacy are my main themes. I integrate family and community stories.

“We’ve lost many of the old places in Nihonmachi, but we can still preserve and remember them. What does it mean to be Japanese American? It doesn’t have to be one thing. The community is evolving. We can transform and make our own identity.”

Regeneration will be at Bonfire February 2 – March 26, 2022. Emerging Radiance will be at Bellevue Arts Museum February – March 13, 2022. The Bellevue Arts Museum is located at 510 Bellevue Way NE in Lincoln Square South.

For more arts, click here

See more of Michelle’s work: www.michellekumata.com Instagram: @michellekumata



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Hua Zhang brings Lunar New Year happiness to kids

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Hua Zhang with dragon headdress

By Diane Hettrick

Hua Zhang is a Shoreline resident who is passionate about sharing her Chinese Mandarin language and culture. She has taught Mandarin classes in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park at all grade levels as before and after school activities. She immerses her students with language, art, music, dance, and food.

She buys the clothes and costumes from China.

Since the pandemic, her primary before/after-school Mandarin program have been closed. Elementary school students need face-to-face, in person language learning and it is hard for them to learn Mandarin on Zoom.

Hua adapted to the small screen instead of a room full of families

Her Shoreline library in-person Chinese story times have been canceled too. 

"I am glad that I can continue to present Mandarin stories for kids online for the King County Library System." 

Last year she gave Chinese Lunar New Year presentations in three different King county libraries for a total audience of 300. This year KCLS invited her to make online presentations.

"Before the pandemic," Hua said "at this time of the year, I usually take dragons and lions to various elementary schools to hold New Year's dragon and lion dance parades with the kids, but now we can't get together to celebrate the Lunar New Year. 
"What I can do for kids’ Lunar New Year celebration? I thought of many ways and tried countless times. I decided to drum and rap the New Year for the children in front of the small computer screen, twist Yangko, dance fans, dance dragons and lions, and bring the Lunar New Year happiness to everyone." 
 

A creative and resourceful person, Hua created a one-woman parade. She practiced every day for three weeks.

"I held the dragon in one hand, danced the colored ball in the other, and practiced repeatedly. Soon my arm was so sore that I couldn't lift it. In order to learn the solo lion dance, I followed the videos on You Tube and danced around with a lion head on my head every day. Although I was tired because of my age, I was very happy.
 
"I imagined that children may like this show very much. On the other hand, dancing has strengthened my physique and changed all kinds of worries and physical discomfort caused by the pandemic." 
Hua and the Dragon

She dedicates this Chinese Lunar New Year event with stories, children's songs, presentation, fan dances, Yangko, dragon and lion dances to all the children.

Mandarin Story Time/中文故事時間.
Come and join us this Thursday, February 3, 2022 at 11:00am! 

Here is the 請在這裡在線註冊: Registration link



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Virtual Black Books Fair to benefit Shoreline Schools' libraries

Monday, January 31, 2022


January 31 – February 13
Virtual Black Books Fair

This year’s Black Books Fair will be held virtually in partnership with Third Place Books. Beginning on January 31, 2022 you can view the Black Books Fair here. Proceeds will benefit school libraries throughout our district. 

Be sure to put “Black Voices” in your purchase notes so our book fair gets credit.

Join us as we kick off our annual (Virtual) Black Books Fair! Every purchase will benefit putting titles in schools. We are thrilled to have Kwame Alexander and Jewell Parker Rhodes join us in discussing their novels, including Alexander's Crossover books and Rhodes's newest title, Paradise on Fire.

Why Black Books?

Though they make up approximately 40% of the US population, less than 10% of children's books released the last 24 years were written by and for people of color. 

Even more, the Cooperative Children's Book Center of the University of Madison-Wisconsin discovered that children's books published in a given year were 3x more likely to feature an animal or other character than a Black character. 

When children see mirrors of themselves or positive windows into the world of another, they are able to better develop empathy, more well-rounded narratives and critical thinking skills needed to talk about matters of identity. (diversebooks.org) 

Lastly, books can communicate JOY! There is much to celebrate about community, and by featuring selected books, it helps change the narrative for everyone.

Please purchase a book, support a local bookstore and help put titles back in schools!

Special thanks to Third Place Books for their partnership on this endeavor, and a special thanks to the Shoreline Equity and Family Engagement Department, Shorelake Arts, Shoreline PTA Council, Jewell Parker Rhodes and Kwame Alexander.

Click here to buy books, beginning on January 31st: https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/black-voices-book-fair

**Please don't forget to put "Black Voices" in the notes so that our Book Fair gets credit!**


Kwame Alexander
Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, publisher, and New York Times Bestselling author of 35 books.

He is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, The Coretta Scott King Author Honor, Three NAACP Image Award Nominations, and the 2017 Inaugural Pat Conroy Legacy Award. 

In 2018, he founded the publishing imprint VERSIFY, and opened the Barbara E. Alexander Memorial Library and Health Clinic in Ghana, as a part of LEAP for Ghana, an international literacy program he co-founded. He is the writer and executive producer of THE CROSSOVER TV series on Disney plus.



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ICHS distributes COVID-19 test kits to community organizations

Saturday, January 29, 2022

From left: Zafu Aragai from the Tigrean Community Center looks on while Ramon Mallari and Caitlin Stougard load boxes of COVID-19 test kits in the trunk of her car outside of the ICHS Shoreline Medical and Dental Clinic. 

On January 28, 2022 International Community Health Services (ICHS) began distributing 5,400 rapid at-home COVID-19 test kits to representatives from 16 community organizations in front of the ICHS Shoreline Medical and Dental Clinic.

This was ICHS’ first concerted effort to deliver COVID-19 at-home test kits to trusted community partners to reach medically underserved communities across the Puget Sound region. Recipients included nonprofit social service organizations as well as places of worship serving first-generation immigrant communities.

Reactions were jubilant. All the representatives shared how difficult it has been for their members and clients to find rapid test kits during the surge of COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant.

“These test kits mean safety”
Sieng Douangdala, community engagement manager at Kandelia, arrived early to pick up their boxes. With a plan in place to put test kits in Kandelia’s weekly food bags given to Seattle World School students, they will find their way to hundreds of families across Seattle.

“This is a great opportunity for us,” said Douangdala. “We know that the federal government is issuing test kits, but there are four [kits] per household, and a lot of our families have five, six, all the way up to 12 people in the household.”

And not only that, but many of their clients have found the English websites completely inaccessible, and due to transportation, internet, or language barriers have been unable to find COVID-19 testing during the Omicron surge.

“These test kits mean safety,” Douangdala added.

Zafu Aragai, from the Tigrean Community Center, drove up from Skyway to pick up test kits from ICHS. She’s heard from church members who have driven for “like five, six hours looking for COVID-19 testing.”

“This Saturday we're gonna work on instructions,” said Aragai. “Write down bullet points, we’re trying to draw little illustrations so people can see. We’re going to do a demonstration so that people know how to go about it and do it properly.”

  Caitlin Stougard, ICHS Patient Navigator Supervisor, loads boxes of COVID-19 test kits in the trunk of Sieng Douangdala's car in front of the ICHS Shoreline Medical and Dental Clinic. 

“These can’t wait”
As part of the Biden administration’s “Path Out of the Pandemic” COVID-19 Action Plan, community health centers like ICHS that serve medically underserved communities will receive at-home self-test kits directly from the federal government to distribute to patients and communities for free.

When a large shipment arrived on Monday, January 24, ICHS quickly leapt into action, said Sherryl Grey, ICHS director of community services.

“These can’t wait,” she added. “People need these now.”

Members of the ICHS community health services team reached out to community partner organizations that ICHS has worked with in the past, nonprofits that make mutual referrals, and community organizations like the Tigrean Community Center that serve as anchors for communities facing barriers to healthcare access.

As a community health center, ICHS’ work has always been to go out into the community and meet people where they are, Grey said. These test kits are only the most recent example of ICHS’ dedication to serving the community.

COVID-19 testing safety and guidelines

If you test positive from an over-the-counter COVID-19 test kit, please report it immediately by calling the Washington state COVID-19 hotline at (800) 525-0127. Language assistance is available. The hotline is open Monday, 6:00am - 10:00pm, and Tuesday-Saturday, 6:00am - 6:00pm.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued warnings that fake COVID-19 test kits are being sold online. Make sure the test you’re buying is authorized by the FDA. Follow these Federal Trade Commission tips if you’re shopping online for COVID test kits and related items.

ICHS administers walk-in COVID-19 vaccines at ICHS pharmacies in Shoreline and Seattle (International District and Holly Park neighborhoods). Non-ICHS patients may walk in Monday through Friday 9:00am - 4:00pm. Visit the ICHS website to learn more.



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2022 ShoreLake Arts Lantern Festival February 1 - 15, 2022

Wednesday, January 26, 2022


2022 ShoreLake Arts Lantern Festival
February 1 - 15, 2022

Celebrate Lunar New Year with us!

Join us at 4pm, February 12, 2022 for a Lion Dance and Kung Fu performance. Enjoy the lanterns, local artwork, grab a craft brew at Monka, and a bite from a food truck, whilst listening to local musicians at Monka.

The full lantern and artwork display will run from February 1st - February 15th at Monka Brewing and Uplift Climbing. Stop by during each of their business hours (Monka) and (Uplift).

Shoreline and Lake Forest Park are vibrant cities, rich in cultural diversity. This event aims to bring people together in honor and recognition of our North King County Asian communities. Stop by and celebrate traditional and contemporary Asian culture, food, art, and music.

Free to attend (all ages) donations greatly appreciated so we can continue to provide cultural events in our community.


WHEN?

Lanterns on display:
1 - 15 February

Lion Dance and Performances:
starts 4pm, 12 February


WHERE?

Monka Brewing and
Uplift Climbing


Vaccine verification is required for all guests/vendors/staff ages 12+.


Celebrate the Lunar New Year by creating your own homemade paper lantern!

ShoreLake Arts and the City of Shoreline teamed up with artist Hua Zhang to create this at-home paper lantern template. They look amazing, are fun to make, and are a great way to learn about a long-standing Lunar New Year tradition. You can make one or tons, all the same or each of them unique. String them up, post them on Instagram, and tag @ShoreLakeArts and @ShorelineWaGov!


What is the Lantern Festival?

The Lantern Festival has been part of the Chinese New Year celebrations since the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 221AD). It is said that the holiday evolved from an ancient Chinese belief that celestial spirits could be seen flying about in the light of the first full moon of the lunar calendar. 

People used torches and eventually lanterns to aid them in spotting the spirits. The lanterns come in all shapes and sizes. Some are created in the form of animals, insects, flowers, people or even machines and buildings. Others depict scenes from popular stories teaching filial piety and traditional values. A favorite subject is the zodiac animal of the year. This year’s zodiac animal is the Tiger!

Discover more about the ShoreLake Arts Lantern Festival!

ShoreLake Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to cultivate creativity and inspire our community through the arts. Established in 1989.


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Celebrate Lunar New Year with Year of the Tiger Crafts

Monday, January 24, 2022

Celebrate Lunar New Year with Year of the Tiger Crafts, online, Saturday January 29, 2022 from 11am-Noon.

Lunar New Year and Spring Festival begin with the first new moon of the lunar calendar on February 1 and end on the first full moon, 15 days later. 

This year ushers in the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese Zodiac. Learn about the background of the holiday and crafts you can do at home. 

Register here. The Zoom link will be sent within 24 hours of the program. 

Download and print out the Tiger Mask Template and Spring Template before the program.



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BIPOC Administrator Virtual Job Fair on January 29 from 1-3pm

Monday, January 17, 2022

BIPOC Administrator Virtual Job Fair on January 29, 2022 from 1-3pm

Are you a strong educational leader looking to join an amazing team and make a difference for kids every day? 

Join us on Saturday, January 29, 2022 at 1:00pm for the Shoreline Public Schools BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) Job Fair for Administrators! 

This virtual event is open to everyone but will have a special focus on our district’s interest in and commitment to diversifying our administrative workforce. This is the first of several job fairs the district will host to attract and recruit staff for the coming 2022-2023 school year.

The two-hour event will feature a panel discussion with our superintendent, district leaders and school board. There will also be an opportunity to meet our Equity and Family Engagement Department, learn about our Ethnic Studies Resolution and staff affinity groups. 

Registration will also be available for upcoming screening interviews and application assistance workshops hosted by our Human Resources Department.

We hope you’ll join us to learn more about how you can make a difference in our schools and programs! Learn more and register to attend the Shoreline Schools BIPOC Job Fair for Administrators at www.shorelineschools.org/jobfair



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Shoreline Schools presents the Black Voices series

Thursday, January 13, 2022


The Shoreline School District presents a series of events which seek to center Black voices, as well as celebrate and affirm our Black students and their families. We recognize that when the lights go off in our buildings, we still live, work and socialize together throughout our community. 

We learn best when we learn alongside one another, and recognize the wealth of knowledge those within our communities offer. As a community, we affirm our commitment to learn from and look out for our neighbors, including those whose voices have been underrepresented in our current systems.  

Learn more and find details about each of the events on our Black Voices webpage.



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School district presents: Windows and Mirrors

Sunday, January 9, 2022

Windows and Mirrors Community Event on January 12

Join Shoreline Schools on Wednesday, January 12, 2022 from 5:30-7:00pm for a special Zoom event hosted by our Equity and Family Engagement Department. 

The Windows and Mirrors Community Event is a family-friendly event that will examine representation in children's books and the stories we share. During the event, families will explore how books can provide us with meaningful opportunities to view different perspectives and reflect on our own experiences in positive and empowering ways.

The event will be held via Zoom and registration is required. Register here. Those participating are asked to bring a book that their family connects with for a special share-out in breakout rooms.



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League of Education Voters webinar Thursday: Honoring and Supporting Native Students

Wednesday, December 8, 2021


Indigenous peoples have had formal systems of education since time immemorial. The establishment of policies and processes which allow federally recognized tribes to grant viable high school credit for enrolled members increases sovereignty, self-determination, and is likely to increase Native student success in the public school system.

In our free webinar this Thursday, December 9 at 12:30 pm, a statewide panel of Native students, educators, and policymakers will discuss how our schools can better serve the educational needs of Native students. We will focus on how the state legislature can support Native students by allowing their tribes to grant them viable high school credits for engaging in cultural curriculum and enrichment activities.

Register here

Panelists include:

This webinar will have Spanish interpretation and live closed captioning in English available.

Moderated by League of Education Voters Director of Field and Community Engagement Eric Holzapfel.

If you are unable to join the LEVinar in real-time, please register anyway and you will be sent a link to a recording that you can watch at your convenience



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Tickets on sale for The Makaha Sons Hawaiian Christmas concert on Dec 11

Thursday, December 2, 2021


Christmas Hawaiian style!

An evening of Aloha Mele Kalikimaka Hawaiian Christmas Concert by one of the top musical iconic traditional award winning groups: The Makaha Sons. They will be debuting their new release "It's Christmas all over the World."

Edmonds Performance Center, Saturday, December 11, 2021. Doors open 4pm for VIP meet and greet. 

Purchase The Makaha Sons Concert Tickets! Here online

  • $99: VIP meet and greet with The Makaha Sons, light refreshments, a gift bag, premier concert seating, and an aloha Market by sponsor Keli's sauces.
  • $35 -- $50 concert only at 6pm  

Makaha Sons headlined at Kalama Heritage Festivals https://www.kalamafestival.com

*Face masks and proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 PCR test are required of ALL patrons attending ECA events. For those unable to be vaccinated, including children under 12, proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test (taken with 72 hours of performance) is required. No exceptions. Learn more about our Covid policies https://bit.ly/ECACovid19Safety



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BIPOC Makers Fair at Sky Nursery December 11-12


Heartful Rootz Makers Fair at Sky Nursery

Saturday December 11th 10-6pm
Sunday December 12th 10-5pm

Please join us for a weekend filled with winter warmth, community, and beautiful BIPOC art and craft offerings.

Visit the Heartfulrootz Instagram



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Native American Heritage Day

Friday, November 26, 2021


November 26 is Native American Heritage Day in the United States, signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2009.

This link brings up a wonderful variety of information about organizations, events, people, and tribes: https://twitter.com/hashtag/NativeAmericanHeritageDay?src=hashtag_click


Locally, we have an exhibit at the Spartan Gym (see previous article)


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American Democracy’s Indigenous Roots and Future

Sunday, November 21, 2021


King County Library System (KCLS) offers American Democracy’s Indigenous Roots and Future 
Saturday, December 4, 2-3pm

History books teach us that the Founding Fathers birthed American democracy, but do not reveal the Indigenous sources of inspiration that guided their vision. Join storyteller Fern Renville as she shares stories, both mythic and personal, that reframe and highlight the history, present and future of Indigenous female power and leadership in America.

Fern Naomi Renville (she/her) is a Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota, Omaha, and Seneca-Cayuga storyteller, theatre director and playwright. She is the great-granddaughter of Melinda Cayuga, a Seneca matriarch who exemplified the loving strength of the clan mothers. Renville lives in Washougal.

Sponsored by Humanities Washington.

Please register hereYou will be sent the Zoom link on the day of the program.

Closed captioning is available for online events. Captioning is auto-generated. Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities is available by request for all events. Contact the library at least seven days before the event if you need accommodation. Send your request to access@kcls.org.



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Native American Indigenous Heritage Month exhibit at Spartan Recreation Center

Tuesday, November 16, 2021


Native American Indigenous Heritage Month exhibit at Spartan Recreation Center features local history of the Duwamish, Native art from across the country, Shoreline’s Indigenous community leaders, and resources for action.

Display cabinet at Spartan Recreation Center

Many thanks to the generous contributions of April Eslami, Jeffrey Hamley, Edie Loyer Nelson, Donna Pipkin, and Sharyne Shiu Thornton for sharing art from their personal collections for the community to enjoy.

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Shoreline Schools recognize and honor Native American Heritage Month

Tuesday, November 9, 2021


Join Shoreline Public Schools in recognizing and honoring Native American Heritage Month throughout the month of November!

Native American Heritage Month offers us the opportunity to celebrate Native/Indigenous people, history, culture, traditions and contributions to society. It is also a time to raise awareness about the challenges and injustices Native/Indigenous people have faced, both historically and in the present.

November was first designated as Native American Heritage Month in 1990 when President George H.W. Bush signed a joint resolution approved by Congress. This followed nearly 100 years of advocacy by Native/Indigenous people for a period of national recognition. You can learn more about Native American Heritage Month at the following resources:




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Haitian-American baritone brings music of Rum and Rebellion to life in Shoreline performance Nov 19

Sunday, November 7, 2021


Acclaimed Haitian-American baritone Jean Bernard Cerin makes his Seattle area debut as Classical Uncorked presents Rum and Rebellion at Black Coffee Northwest in Shoreline.

Experience the music behind the turbulent crossroads of politics, the rum industry, and the transatlantic slave trade in the Caribbean, South America, and Europe. 

Savor a selection of 18th century songs and tunes by Black British writer, abolitionist, and merchant Ignatius Sancho as well as Brazilian composer José Mauricio Nuñes Garcia, grandson of sugar cane plantation slaves. 

The program also features works by Caribbean-born Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint Georges, Haitian composer Justin Elie, and pioneering American song collector Maud Cuney Hare.

Classical Uncorked believes that you don’t have to be Classically trained to enjoy Classical music. 

An artist-driven, audience-funded cooperative, it is dedicated to bringing music from historically excluded musicians and composers to audiences around the Seattle area. Our welcoming and unpretentious events will delight first-time and experienced concertgoers alike. So prepare to have fun, learn a few things, and drink something tasty. 

Rum and Rebellion presented by Classical Uncorked
Jean Bernard Cerin, baritone; Tekla Cunningham, violin; Henry Lebedinsky, piano

Friday, November 19, 2021, 7:30pm

VENUE. Black Coffee Northwest, 16743 Aurora Ave. N; Shoreline, WA 98133

TICKETS: $25, available at http://classicaluncorked.com. A limited number of reduced price tickets are available upon request.

COVID PROTOCOL: In accordance with King County regulations, face coverings and proof of vaccination required for entry.



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Sno-Isle Genealogy Society Wednesday November 3 - the history of Native American schools

Monday, November 1, 2021

November is Native American Heritage Month

Sno-Isle Genealogy Society invites the public to a National Archive virtual presentation on the history of Native American schools.

Wednesday, November 3, 2021 from 12pm-1pm.


To Register: send email to distancelearning@nara.gov with the subject line: Nov 3 Native American Schools

Registration email must be received by November 2nd to receive the link.

Program: Schools for Native American children and youth existed prior to the Revolutionary War, primarily run by religious groups. In this webinar, we will learn about Indian Boarding and Day School records created primarily after 1879 by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and see some samples of class schedules and student work.



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