Columbia Citizens

Live locally.

Consult your community calendar.

• library events (Wed, Fri, Sat, Mon),
• farmers market (Wed),
• a documentary (Wed),
• BeatWalk (Fri),
• a performance (Fri - Sun),
• Bicycle Saturday,
• a running group (Sat, Tue),
• a work party (Sat),
• a sustainability event (Sat),
• and Citizens post more events all the time!

In the calendar, you can click through to each event's online information. If a local event is missing, please send a Citizen's alert.

We've got a great line-up this Friday with our very special guest, Indian sitar player Padit Debi Prasad Chatterjee who will play at the Columbia City Gallery. We'll have Cuban dancing with Los Supersones at Awash, Brazilian grooves with Urban Oasis at Columbia City Fitness, jazz with Marc Smason and Joanne Klein at the Bookworm, and toe-tappin' folk music with the Wiretappers at Retroactive Kids and Columbia City Cuts.

Hungry for more? Consider having dinner at Kallaloo and listen to Trio Caribe, or Island Soul who'll have Shan Rock.

or, consider having a free dinner at Tutta Bella and volunteer to help us collect cover charges at the venues. To volunteer, contact Joanne at su.ogidniesum|klawtaeb#su.ogidniesum|klawtaeb.

Complete BeatWalk info online at columbiacitybeatwalk.org

Now Showing: Hancock and WALL-E

Coming Soon: The Dark Knight

Be sure to check our website for the most up-to-date movie information! Or, better yet, sign up for our weekly newsletter and get movie times delivered straight to your inbox. See you at the movies.

Children's Story Time: Friday July 11th from 10:30 - 11am. Bring your children from birth to age 8 to enjoy stories, rhymes, songs and fun and meet our new children's librarian, Anna.

Dance Around the World on Saturday July 12th from 2 – 2:45pm. Jennifer Carroll with Thistle Theatre opens a trunk in the middle of the room to reveal costumes and uses music and visual cues to teach the audience about 16th-century English country dance with Lulu the Library Mouse. For ages 3 and up.

Book Arts: Create your own Double-Sided Book Monday July 14th from 4 – 7pm. Create your own hand-made book at this workshop from the Seattle Center for Book Arts. Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring any pictures or text that you'd like to include in your book. For ages 7-14.

All library programs are free and open to the public. No registration is required.

• Wed — live music by Ember Knight in Lounge
  8pm, no cover
• Thu — La Stella Party & Music Jam for Kids
  7pm-12am, must RSVP @ (800) 359-6118
• Thu — Open Mic Night every Thursday with prizes
  signup begins at 7pm, no cover
• Fri — The Comedy Shop with Cocoa Brown
  10:30pm, $10 adv or $15 door
• Fri — The Sol Lounge featuring The As One Band
  8:30pm, no cover
• Sat — Karin Blaine & The Groove Dudes
  8pm, $13.50 adv or $15 door
• Sat — DJ Ry Long in Lounge
  9pm, no cover
• Tue — live music by Pegues Project in Lounge
  8pm, no cover

coming soon Sat, July 17,
Shenandoah Davis CD Release Party

adv = brownpapertickets.com

South Seattle Climate Action Lab

Come to this hands-on event where you and your neighbors work with transportation experts and policy makers for a climate-friendly future.

• Build support for transportation improvements underway in your neighborhood.
• Imagine and plan for an economical and environmentally-friendly transportation future.
• Learn about key climate actions regionally and nationally.
• Learn how to make your voice heard by elected officials and policy makers.

When: July 12 10am-2pm (doors open at 9:30)
Where: New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave S

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Columbia City land use

The City's Department of Planning and Development has published a notice of recommendation for a proposed rezone at the northwest corner of S Alaska & Martin Luther King Jr Way S.

Public hearing: July 11, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. at the Office of the Hearing Examiner

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Help build a new play area at Seward Park!

Attend the second of three public Design Workshop meetings:

Thursday, July 24, 6:30-8:30
Seward Park Environmental & Audubon Center
5902 Lake Washington Blvd. S.
(building adjacent to former play area)

All are welcome!

www.sewardparkplayground.org — email: moc.cam|fipps#moc.cam|fipps

Columbia City in the news

The Beacon Hill News delivers!

• Sustainable South Seattle's Climate Action Lab
• Citizen Garth Stein's NYT bestseller The Art of Racing in the Rain
• an award for a local teacher
• Island Soul
• the farmers market's 10th anniversary

Hillman City Posts

• Citizens have set up pages for four "Night Out" block parties. Take a look and pitch in. If you'd like to start your own, you can use the wiki to help get it going.

• The Columbia librarians have updated their page to include the new children's librarian, Anna Wiggs.

• Across the site, the sidebar now has a recent updates module, which includes new edits, comments, events, and photos.

• Want to help get the word out about the picnic? There's a handy to-do list