Columbia Citizens

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Southeast Seattle's springtime spirit is soaring as Citizens are steppin' out. Simply sublime.

annual Orca rummage sale

Please consider attending our sale, or donating your reusable items. All proceeds benefit the Orca K-8 PTSA which funds programs such as our award winning garden, music, art, and more.

Saturday April 30 and Sunday May 1 from 9am - 2pm.

5215 46th Ave S

BeatWalk returns

Columbia City BeatWalk returns Friday, May 6! 7-10pm, $7 cover gets you into all the venues. Kids are free. Check out some cool new stuff this year, including interactive art activities from the Makery for the whole family at Starbucks, and a student group from Jazz Night School playing at Life Enrichment Bookstore. See the whole line-up.

CAConrad offers workshop, reading at SPLAB

Philadelphia poet CAConrad will offer a Soma(tic) Poetry Workshop from 2-4PM on Saturday, April 30th at SPLAB. Suggested donation $20. He'll be reading at SPLAB on Sunday, May 1 at 7:30pm with local poet Jeremy Halinen. Suggested donation $5. Get the full details at splab.org

call for performing artists

SEEDArts and the Rainier Valley Cultural Center are seeking Performing Artists for Valley Vibes, a new music series focusing on jazz in 2011.

Valley Vibes is an event geared towards bringing together artists and audiences who might not otherwise cross paths. The event will feature a formal concert experience followed by a community conversation involving the performing artists and a featured speaker on a topic related thematically to the performance or performing group. The event artist(s) will perform in the auditorium and also participate in the conversation event after the performance.

Columbia City Farmers Market

The 2011 Farmers Market season opens on Wednesday, April 27th. It runs every Wednesday from 3-7pm till October 19th.

Last year, after more than a decade in the same location, the Columbia City Farmers Market moved out onto Edmunds Street. This year, with the support of the entire market community including farmers, shoppers, neighbors and staff, we'll continue to set up on Edmunds Street …every Wednesday.

community garage sale - Lakewood Seward Park

The Lakewood Seward Park Community Club is hosting a community garage sale on Saturday May 7th. There are 15 - 10'x10' spaces available inside the clubhouse for rent ($20). We'll also distribute a neighborhood map, and if you prefer to have your sale at home you can advertise your sale on the map ($5).

If you're interested in participating as a seller you can download the registration form.

The Lakewood Seward Park Community Club is located at 4916 S Angeline (S Angeline and 50th Ave S across from the Lakewood Playfield).

Earth Day work party at Cheasty Greenspace

Saturday, April 23, 10am-12pm

Meet at 2809 S Alaska Pl (one block west of the Columbia City Light Rail Station)

We're so pleased that St. Dames, our neighborhood pub and eatery, has partnered with us on our upcoming Earth Day work party. Every volunteer will receive a St. Dames coupon for a free drink with an appetizer purchase. You'll get your coupon after the work party, naturally ;)

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Easter celebration at Church of Hope

April 24, 10:30am

The world is springing back to life all around us: flowers, trees, the sun coming through the clouds. New life springs up within us as well. Join with your neighbors on a journey of awakening to the presence of God in ordinary life.

Come as you are, with all your doubts and questions. People of all ages, races, gender identities and sexual orientations, cultures, and classes are welcome here.

We also gather for Holy Week services — see details below.

3818 S Angeline St
www.columbiacityhope.org
Every Sunday at 10:30am

Easter in Seward Park

A neighborhood celebration of life, love, and renewal!

Hosted by Valley & Mountain Fellowship, a new progressive and inclusive spiritual community based in Columbia City where people from diverse perspectives help each other develop spiritual maturity and work for social justice.

Sunday, April 24, Seward Park, Pavilion #1

• 7am — Mystic Sunrise Service: a reading of poems from the great mystics and a short reflection on renewal (feel free, not required, to bring a poem to share)

• 11am — Easter Celebration: An alternative, fluid, dynamic experience.

Coffee and food provided at both gatherings. Details below.

free Southside Booty Camp workout

Try-us-out workout this Friday, April 22. In preparation for the May 2 Session start of Southside Booty Camp join us at 7:15am at Seward Park.

Southside Booty Camp is a holistic fitness program that mixes functional resistance and cardiovascular training outdoors in our beautiful Seattle Parks. Created to help woman feel confident and strong in their bodies, Booty Camp uses a diverse range of modalities designed to keep the heart rate up and build lean muscle. The unique combination of exercises can be adjusted for various fitness levels within a supportive community of women. If you are ready to commit to a fitness lifestyle, Southside Booty Camp is the place to be! RSVP for the free workout and learn more at SouthSidebootyCamp.com

Hawthorne Elementary auction

Join us for Hawthorne Elementary's first fundraising auction ever! Support our efforts to inspire the children of Hawthorne, our Masters of the Future. All proceeds will benefit Hawthorne's arts and technology programs.

Brought to you by the Friends of Hawthorne
Parents + Teachers + Community

Saturday April 30, 6pm - 10pm
Northwest African American Museum

Holy Week services, Columbia Lakewood Church

Columbia Lakewood Church at 5005 S Ferdinand St invites you to join them this Easter for breakfast and worship, starting with an evening service on Good Friday.

• April 22, 7pm Good Friday evening service
• April 24, 9-10am, Easter morning breakfast. Free will offering to be given to the Union Gospel Mission's Women and Children's Shelter
  10:30am, Easter morning worship

For more info, please call 723-9272.

jazz series coordinator

SEEDArts is seeking an individual to coordinate Valley Vibes, a new jazz series at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center.

Work under direction of SEEDArts Director and with Valley Vibes Steering Committee to coordinate and schedule the music series. Provide creativity, artistic vision and efficient coordination to produce high quality, accessible events. The Series will run from June through November, 2011.

Kids' Bike Swap: renewed smiles

Bike Works' 15th annual Bike Swap benefits the local community and the environment!

Bike Works, Columbia City’s nonprofit bike shop and youth bicycle education organization, will hold its 15th annual Kids' Bike Swap on Saturday, May 7, 2011, from 10 am - 4 pm at Genesee Playfield (43rd Ave S and S Genesee St). This annual event is an opportunity for families to trade in a bike their child has outgrown for a larger bike — just in time for the summer riding season.

The Kids' Bike Swap helps to facilitate the flow of affordable bicycles within the community and keeps fully functional bikes out of our local landfills. This year, Bike Works has overhauled over 145 kids' bikes to kick-off the swap!

local author Garth Stein at RVCC April 20

Next up in our popular From Reel to Real live event series is an evening with author Garth Stein who will be reading from his novel, The Art of Racing in the Rain and talking about life as a New York times best selling author.

A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life… as only a dog could tell it.

Joining Garth will be the Cinema's own Paul Doyle, reading from his novel Nioka, Bride of Bigfoot, one woman's eco-adventure set in the Pacific NW rainforest.

Northwest Folklife Festival and two shows with Zoe Muth

We've got three great nights of music happening at Columbia City Theater this weekend: To The Sea's CD Release show Thursday with three great up-and-coming local artists joining them, a night to benefit Northwest Folklife and a preview of this spring's festival, and on Saturday we're celebrating Zoe Muth's gorgeous classic country release with a double header of shows: 6:30 and 9:30pm.

Orca K-8 annual plant sale

Our famous annual plant sale will feature lots of starts for the garden, all planted by the kids, as well as native plants both edible and decorative. Music, food, kid crafts, etc. Come enjoy and support your local Environmental Education Program at Orca and for the community at large. May 14, 10am to 3pm right at the school on 46th and Dawson.

We'll have preorders on native plants including berries, etc.

Seward Park turns 100

The first of the Seward Park Centennial events begin on Saturday April 23 in conjunction with Earth Day. There will be a cherry planting ceremony, a birthday party for the Audubon Center and a number of scheduled walking tours.

Check out SewardParkCentennial.org for a full listing of events.

Saturday's offerings