Showing posts with label multicultural. Show all posts
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Northwest Junior Pipe Band competing in a series of Highland games in Scotland

Sunday, August 7, 2022

Kevin Auld and the NWJPB
From Kevin Auld
Northwest Junior Pipe Band

What a fun day! The band had a great time competing at the North Berwick Highland Games in Scotland. No prizes for us today, but everybody had a blast. 

We got to explore the beautiful seaside village of N Berwick and listen to some incredible pipe bands from Scotland, Australia, Canada and the USA. 

Everyone we met was friendly and welcoming - especially the mayor N Berwick! 

Tomorrow we're off to the Bridge of Allan games for more fun and music

About Northwest Junior Pipe Band

Northwest Junior Pipe Band is a Scottish bagpipe and drum band that provides world-class musical and leadership experience for youth (Ages 8-18) in the Pacific Northwest welcoming all in the pursuit of learning and performing the Celtic musical arts.

Tartan and Uniform
The band wears MacKenzie tartan kilts and a traditional ‘civilian’ style pipe band uniform. We are not associated with the MacKenzie clan, but take pride in our tartan’s association with the Highland Light Infantry, of which our founder Charlie McNeill was a member. More about the band’s history here.

Kevin and NWJPB have strong ties to Shoreline.

Correction: Kevin Auld

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Cultural Dance and Potluck Saturday at Shoreline Community College

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Cultural Dance and Potluck Saturday, July 16, 2022 from 6:00-8:30pm at Shoreline Community College PUB Dining Hall, Bldg #9000, 16101 Greenwood Ave N, Shoreline WA 98133

Free music and dance community event featuring JHP Legacy and Dabuli. 

Dabuli shares arts and cultural heritage of Nepal and the Himalayan region to build strong communities. 

JHP shares traditional African music and dance to bring people together. 

Beginning with a potluck, if you would like to share, bring a dish! 

Sponsored by Shoreline Community College and City of Shoreline. Contact Suni Tolton stolton@shorelinewa.gov or 206-801-2256 with any questions.



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African Fashion Night in Shoreline July 9 - tickets available now

Saturday, June 25, 2022

Shoreline resident and Fashion Designer, Olayinka of AYO COLLECTIONS is hosting her annual African Fashion Night in Shoreline. 

Ayo Fashion Night with the theme (The Celebration of Elegance) will showcase models in African designed Fabrics from the continent of Africa, specifically Nigeria and Ghana.

These fabrics are symbolic and have significant traditional interpretations related to unlimited happiness, smiles, freedom, and moments of life beyond measure. Ms. Olayinka designs these fabrics to tell stories of unity, peace and to grace exciting events like weddings and other life celebrations.

Ayo Fashion Night will experience traditional music and dance to demonstrate the transition of an undesigned print to an artistically designed piece of worth. 

These symbolic fabrics translate without words the different states of an ordinary fabric to an extraordinary, designed cloth purposely intended for freedom and celebrations. There are other designs with western touch that fit any occasion of your choice.

This is a public benefit event to enable Olayinka to extend her skills and expertise to young ones in the Shoreline area who are looking to either design and/or sew African prints/clothes from scratch. 

This is a must attend event to experience live African fabric designs with illumination while experiencing the historical context behind every outfit you see on the runway. 

The three segments to expect are LAS Gidi Vibes, Meet Me At Cococay and A Lux Night in the City.

Date: Saturday, July 9, 2022
Address: 911 N 145th St #6522, Seattle, WA 98133
Time: 6:30-9pm
Fee: $50 (VIP-front row), $30 (Regular)
Dress Code: As you please.

Purchase Ticket online at https://m.bpt.me/event/5445788

Please note that all payments received will be invested into community sewing project that Yinka is developing and designing for young people in Shoreline.



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Shoreline celebrates Juneteenth with a new mural - dedication Sunday

Sunday, June 19, 2022


Earlier this month, the Shoreline City Council declared June 19, 2022, as Juneteenth in the city of Shoreline. 

Juneteenth is the traditional day of celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. In 2021, the Washington State Legislature approved Juneteenth as a state holiday (see article). City Hall will be closed on Monday, June 20 in recognition of Juneteenth.

Artists Myron Curry and Vincent Keele

In partnership with ShoreLake Arts and other community members, the City worked with artists Myron Curry and Vincent Keele to add to the Juneteenth mural north of Shoreline City Hall on Midvale Ave North and 178th. 

Last year, Curry and Cynncear Easley created the first Juneteenth mural at that site. On Sunday, June 19 from 2:00 to 4:00pm, ShoreLake Arts is holding an informal event for people to drop-in and meet the artists.

Journalist Ida B. Wells
The portrait in the mural is of Ida B. Wells, a prominent journalist, educator, and an early civil-rights leader. 

Born into slavery during the Civil War, she went on to become a tireless advocate for the rights of African-Americans and women. In 2020, she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize “for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching."

The symbols on the mural are Adinkra. Adinkra symbols originated in West Africa but are understood across Africa. They are:


Taken together, these symbolize the building blocks of Solidarity.

Also known as Freedom Day, Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas and read General Orders, Number 3 informing the people of Texas that all slaves were free. 

President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in the Confederate States almost three years before. Juneteenth was quickly followed by the ratification of the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery. Juneteenth became a holiday in Texas in 1980 and is celebrated today for the ways in which it shows how far we have come as a nation in the past and how far we have to go in the present

Photos and graphics courtesy City of Shoreline



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qWátÉ™b “Clam Garden” on our shores

Friday, May 20, 2022

David Burge explaining history of clam garden
By Sally Yakasaki

Have you taken a walk on a beach and pondered the history that lay at your feet? 

Local History Field Trip #2 qWátəb : Duwamish Clam Garden, taught me to do just that.

On a beautiful low tide day over 40 people gathered at Carkeek Park to listen and learn from local historian and author David Buerge as he told us about qWátÉ™b: Lushootseed for clam garden. 

On the field trip he also shared other historic information.

David is author of Chief Seattle book
Buerge is the author of the book, “Chief Seattle and the Town that Took His Name.”

According to Buerge, clam gardens at Carkeek Park were tended by the Sheel shol AHBSH (šilšola’bš) the people of Salmon Bay in Ballard.

The gardens were sections of beach where the people removed large and small boulders to provide more space for clams to live, feed and propagate. 

The gardens were developed at the mouths of streams that brought nutrients down to the beach, enriching the clam diet, explained Buerge.

With some clam gardens, in order to provide food and more nutrients, the people would make a line of smaller rocks placed on the seaward side to break up wave action and keep the nutrients in place.

Buerge and group at Carkeek Park
At Carkeek Park, Buerge, pointed along the beach highlighting a line of big boulders that were cleared to make an open space for clam beds. 

These clam gardens enabled people to domesticate mollusks.

In addition to domesticating mollusks, Buerge discussed the domestication of plants. 

Stinging nettles were one example of a plant that was raised.

“They had fields and fields of stinging nettles; a thousand acres of them up on Whidbey Island,” said Buerge. 
“They would raise them because the outer skin of the stems of stinging nettles were very fibrous and strong.” 

The stems of the stinging nettles would then be made into nets.

David Buerge, K Kelly from Knowing Place, and Kenneth Doutt, Director at the Shoreline Historical Museum

Buerge described the duck catching nets that were made and how they were used. 

“They had these big-long nets. There was one at Agate Pass that was 700 feet long. It probably wasn’t the length of the net, but the lines that elevated the net across Agate Pass.”
“They would raise these nets up at nighttime or on foggy days and then scare the birds so that birds would take flight and get caught in the nets and then drop down and the people would pick them up -- thousands of birds around 15 pounds each.” explained Buerge.
“Back then, there were as many birds in this area as there were salmon migrating up in the streams. And this was a source of protein equal to that in fish. Domesticating mollusks and plants back then was a really remarkable engagement with the environment,” Buerge said.

Field trip #2 at Carkeek Park

More field Trips are being planned. If you would like to be notified of the next upcoming fields trips, you can reference the Shoreline Historical Museum at:

If you would like to learn more about the Duwamish tribe, visit: https://www.duwamishtribe.org



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Shoreline Historical Museum exhibit highlights Seattle Japanese American Citizens League with special guest Saturday

Saturday, May 14, 2022

Kenneth Doutt, Shoreline Historical Museum Director (back row) with Gidget Numoto Terpstra (in kimono) and visitors to the museum. Photo by Sally Yamasaki

The month of May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) month-- a time observed in the United States to recognize the contributions and influences of our AAPI American history and achievements.

In honor of this, The Shoreline Historical Museum has an exhibit highlighting the Seattle Japanese American Citizens League’s 100 years of existence which includes the time of WWII and President Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066.

Folded cranes: one of the activities Gidget
guides you to make.
Photo by Sally Yamasaki
This executive order forced from their homes approximately 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry, a majority of whom were American citizens, and relocated them into prison camps.

The exhibit will be at the Shoreline Historical Museum until May 18, 2022. 

Special guest Gidget Numoto Terpstra will be at the museum on Saturday May 14th from 12pm – 4pm to share her internment experience.

The Shoreline Historical Museum is located at 18501 Linden Ave N, Shoreline WA 98133.



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Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066

Monday, May 9, 2022

In honor of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month and the 80th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, please join us for a film screening of Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066, by Jon Osaki. Watch the trailer

Wednesday, May 18, 2022 from 6:30-8:00pm
Shoreline Community College Theater
16101 Greenwood Ave N, Shoreline, WA 98133
Parking is free—follow signs to "Theater"

A short panel discussion by Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Seattle chapter members will follow the film. Event questions? Contact equity@shorelineschools.org

Learn more about Alternative Facts



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New exhibit at the Shoreline Historical Museum: 100 years of the Seattle Japanese Citizens League

Thursday, May 5, 2022

 
The exhibit opens Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at the Shoreline Historical Museum, 18501 Linden Ave N, Shoreline, WA 98133 and runs through May 18.

Please join us to celebrate 100 Years of the Seattle Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)! 

Through a series of nine panels, learn about the activism, community, and leaders supported by the JACL over the course of its history and into the present.

Gidget Terpstra, in person
at the Museum
On three unique days, visit with our special guest and long-time Shoreline resident Gidget Numoto Terpstra as she talks about the experiences of people of Japanese ancestry in the greater Puget Sound area and their forced removal during WWII.

Special guest Gidget Terpstra on: 
  • Wednesday 5-11 
  • Friday 5-13 
  • Saturday 5-14 

This exhibit is a piece of a community-driven project highlighting Asian American and Pacific Islander stories throughout May.


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Field trip #2: Duwamish Clam Garden with historian David Buerge

Saturday, April 30, 2022

Duwamish Clam Garden (Field trip 2)

Let's go look for signs and learn from a local historian about the history of the Duwamish clam garden that was tended here for generations.

Low tide Carkeek Park Beach (map)
Monday May 16th - 11am - 2pm

Everyone's welcome! Feel free to share.

See Facebook page KNOWING PLACE



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Poetry: Stories of Arrival - immigrant teens read their poems

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Hear local refugee and immigrant youth read poems from their new anthology The Voice o My Heart: Unforgettable Memories in an Unforgettable Year.

The program is on Zoon: Register here
 


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Sale of Italian ceramics and linens to benefit sister city association

Saturday, April 16, 2022


DERUTA CERAMICS AND UMBRIAN LINENS

Saturday, April 23, 2022 - 11am - 2pm

LAKE FOREST PARK CIVIC CLUB
17301 BEACH DRIVE NE
LAKE FOREST PARK , WA 98155

HOSTED BY
SEATTLE-PERUGIA SISTER CITY ASSOCIATION

There are hundreds of items for sale including many ceramics that are hand-painted and include sets of dinner plates, salad plates and small bowls, salt and pepper sets, olive oil and vinegar sets, large and small serving bowls, other serving ware and ornamental items.

The linens include kitchen towels, placemats, tablecloths and napkins, table runners, bath towels, and decorative items.

Seattle-Perugia Sister City Association is a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization. All proceeds from the sale will support association programs including artist exchanges, scholarships, and other cultural, educational and social programs. For more information, visit seattle-perugia.org



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Race to be Human film event April 18, 2022

Friday, April 15, 2022



Monday, April 18, 7pm-8:45pm


Documentary on how to have discussions on race and racism in the classroom, the workplace, and home to promote empathy and compassion.

Learn how we can collectively move toward equity with the viewing of the 46-minute film “RACE to be human,” followed by an informative panel discussion with Dr. Tanisha Brandon-Felder, Shoreline School District Equity Director.

Este documental va a tener subtítulos en español y va a haber un intérprete en español para miembros de la audiencia.

Presented by WA Family Engagement.



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Gov. Inslee: Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the Japanese American exclusion on Bainbridge Island

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Inslee and First Spouse Trudi Inslee photographed with Natalie Hayashida Ong, the youngest survivor of the internment camps. Her mother, Fumiko Hayashida, was famously photographed while waiting to board the ferry to the camp. The iconic photo is visible on the governor's phone.

Hundreds of community members gathered Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial for a commemoration ceremony to honor survivors and educate the community about the 276 Japanese residents who were forced from their homes and exiled from Bainbridge Island 80 years ago.

Fumiko Hayashida, holding a sleeping Natalie,
waiting to board the ferry to the camp in 1942.
Photo courtesy the Project Denshõ.

The U.S. government forcibly removed Japanese Americans from their homes and into internment camps during World War II.

"The historical significance of this national failure still resonates today,” Inslee said. 
“After 80 years of healing, we must stay committed to the advancement of anti-racism, justice and democracy for all. 
"In this way, we transform the injustices of the past, into reasons to do good today, for a better future.”

Read more about the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial and view photos from the ceremony.



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April is Diversity Month in Shoreline

Sunday, April 3, 2022

April is Diversity Month, a time to recognize and celebrate all the unique cultures, backgrounds, and rich traditions that make up the Shoreline community. 

We are a community of people that come from a multitude of backgrounds and beliefs, but we all share a desire to feel welcomed and valued. 

Celebrating our diversity creates cultural awareness, which helps create spaces of inclusion and fosters belonging where people feel valued.

What you can do to celebrate diversity this month:

You can also come to City Hall and pick up a “City of Shoreline – A Welcoming Place for All” window cling. They will be available in the City Hall lobby throughout the month. City Hall is located at 17500 Midvale Ave N

--City of Shoreline



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Ramadan begins at sundown Saturday, April 2, 2022

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Photo by Sylwia Bartyzel on unsplash
Ramadan Mubarak to our Muslim friends and neighbors observing Ramadan April 2 - May 2, 2022.

To learn basic information about Ramadan, here’s a three minute video “What is Ramadan?” and an article Everything to Know About Ramadan and How It’s Celebrated.

From the article:

Khan-Mukhtar says that Ramadan is also celebrated as a time for a clean start.

“What I would love for people to know is that Ramadan is a time of hope and renewal and trying to have a fresh start,” she explains. 
“It’s really a time of rejuvenation, where it’s like, ‘I'm going to go through this month and I'm really going to turn to God, and ask for forgiveness and ask for blessings,’ and then you come out of it with a lot of hope for starting all over again on a good foot.”



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Taken from Their Home

Sunday, March 27, 2022

Executive Order 9066
Eighty years ago this week, on March 30, 1942 – one month after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 directing the relocation of all people of Japanese descent on the West Coast – Japanese Americans on Bainbridge Island became the first in the country to be removed, most likely because of the nearness of the Bremerton Navy Yard and other military installations.

Their ties to the Island community were strong. Neighbors offered to care for their farms and protect their homes while they were gone. Some onlookers wept as evacuees sailed away from Eagle Harbor aboard a ferry. 

At the time, Bainbridge Review copublishers Walt Woodward and Milly Woodward editorialized against internment and, when the war ended, helped pave the way for the many of the island's displaced residents to return from the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California.

Japanese internment affected many communities throughout the state, from King County, to the San Juan Islands, to the Yakima Valley, to Spokane, yet the reactions of residents in those areas stand in sharp contrast to the compassion and concern shown by Bainbridge Islanders for their Japanese-American friends. 

Since 1996, many of their oral histories have been chronicled by the Densho Project, which has been documenting and archiving the history of all Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II.

--Republished from HistoryLink.org



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A fascinating Presentation and Walkabout with David Buerge on indigenous history in LFP

Monday, March 21, 2022

David Buerge talks about the history of the Lake Forest Park area

Story and photos by Janet Way

A very well attended talk and walk was presented on Saturday, March 19, 2022 in Lake Forest Park detailing the history of the indigenous tribes and geological history of the Lake Washington region.

The talk started out in the Commons at the Lake Forest Park Town Center and continued in front of City Hall, before moving to the shores of Lake Washington.

Who was Chief Seattle?

David Buerge is a local treasure and incredible historian. He detailed the extensive histories and relationships of the tribes to the land. He has published a book in 2017 entitled "Who Was Chief Seattle?"

Lyon Creek
He related many interesting facts such as the term “Salish” is not actually accurate to apply to the peoples of the Puget Sound, and actually originated in the Montana area with a native dialect there. 

Also, up until about 1903 there was a “Long House” settlement located near the confluence of Lyon and McAleer Creeks. And fascinatingly, about 600 years ago part of Mt Rainier “collapsed” into a massive mudslide that reached Puget Sound.

The native peoples here practiced many agricultural techniques such as burning to reduce weeds and allow for more grazing lands to attract game.

David Buerge is working closely with the Duwamish people on curriculum for schools to teach their cultural history and language.

Ken Workman, a Duwamish elder

As the talk progressed the group of about 35 intrepid Northwesterners wandered in the rain, down to the banks of Lyon Creek where we were met by Ken Workman, a Duwamish Elder. 

He spoke extensively about how he and other Duwamish members feel that the Seattle Area is “in their DNA” and that the connection to the land is very strong. They are "hunter-gatherer" peoples. He was born in West Seattle near the Point Elliot site where the original treaties were signed. (Treaty of Point Elliott — Duwamish Tribe)



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Shoreline Schools: BIPOC Online Job Fair for Teachers and Certificated Staff


Equity and inclusion make our Shoreline school community stronger! If you're interested in joining us as a teacher or other certificated staff member, please register to attend our online job fair.

Saturday, March 26
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Register via FastTrack
(Click to view current job openings / BIPOC Job Fair Registration 2022)

The day's virtual events include:
  • Welcome remarks from Superintendent Susana Reyes
  • Introduction to our Equity and Family Engagement Department
  • Panel discussion with Equity and Instruction leaders, students, and family representatives
  • A review of our ethnic studies resolution, staff affinity groups, and student advisory groups
Following the event, attendees will receive registration information for upcoming screening interviews and our Human Resources Department application workshops.

We are proud to serve and support over 9,000 students, 48 percent of whom are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color). We encourage culturally and linguistically diverse applicants to attend.

Questions? Contact us at job.fair@shorelineschools.org



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Local History Project: Take an in-person field trip Saturday to the Place of Lake People

Thursday, March 17, 2022


This Saturday March 19, 2022 from noon to 3pm: Local History Project Field Trip #1

We have the opportunity to learn some history of the Place of Lake People who inhabited the North Lake Washington, Lake Forest Park area.

Ken Workman, Duwamish Tribal elder and David Buerge, local historian and author will lead us on a Field Trip.

  • Noon to 1pm: gather informally at Third Place Commons, Town Center, intersection Ballinger / Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park to look at maps
  • 1pm: congregate outside LFP City Hall to hear how the lake level fell with the Montlake Cut.
  • 1:20pm: cross SR 522 to gather at Lyon Creek Conservation Park.
  • 1:30pm - 3pm: hear stories of history and place, make maps, share knowledge, and socialize on the lake shore.
More information on Facebook: Knowing Place



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Ethiopian Culture Share online February 27, 2022

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Sunday, February 27, 2022  from 4pm-5pm

Online Zoom (link will be shared on Facebook event page day of event)

Learn about Ethiopian language, calendar, traditions, coffee and food. Presented by Selam Habte, President of Ethiopian-Traditions, a small home-based business in Lynnwood. 


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