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Columbia City ArtWalk -- Bohemian Backstreets

Last month, Community Arts Create kicked off the first Columbia City ArtWalk, Bohemian Backstreets. There were art vendors of all kinds, youth marimba groups and steel pan groups, a performance dance group, a puppet performance, specialty ice-cream by Chef Allyss Dillon, art activities by non-profit Social HeARTistry Educators, and a community art project with CleanScapes trashcans.

With activities that anyone can enjoy, young or old, and a variety of art to soak up, Bohemian Backstreets is a fun summer event that everyone can attend. Next month's ArtWalk is June 16 — it will be event better with more artists, performers, and art activities.

Check out our website.

Columbia City Community Chorus spring concert

In the Garden of Belonging: The multi-generational Columbia City Community Chorus, led by Kathleen Tracy, performs music celebrating nature and community in this benefit for the Just Garden Project, a local organization "building and celebrating a thriving, local, just food system for all" by constructing free and subsidized gardens for low income residents of King County.

Tues June 14 7:30pm, Columbia City Church of Hope, 3818 S Angeline St
suggested donation $5-20

Columbia City Farmers Market

This Wednesday, June 8th at your very own Farmers Market:

• Lyall Farms: Cherries! Cherries!
• Maple Elementary School Garden Plant Sale — one day only!
• Kids Tent: Seattle Metropolitan Credit Union playing money related games (& stickers!)
• Music: Pasquale Santos

Eat Out Columbia City

To support Country Doctor Community Health Centers, shop and dine at any of the participating businesses and a portion of your purchase will go to providing health care services to anyone regardless of ability to pay. Come by anytime from 8:30am to 11:30pm, Wednesday June 8.

Here's the list of neighborhood businesses.

Eat, shop, play and buy local on MLK

The free 2011 MLK Business Association Business District Tour is here, September 17th @ Graham 10:30 - 12:00

Sign up for the tour by contacting Sarah Valenta @ 760-4213, emailing @ gro.awthgisemoh|haras#gro.awthgisemoh|haras or by visiting our facebook page.

Register for the 7/30 tour and be entered for a chance to win a $15 gift card to Viet Wah.

FSP meeting: revolution in North Africa

From Egypt to Yemen, dictators are on the run — or already toppled. Learn more about the forces driving the upsurge in North Africa and the Middle East: who are the key players, what kind of labor movement exists in these various countries, and why does the US remain silent about repression in Saudi Arabia while bombing Libya? Join the discussion.

New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave S
Monday, June 13, 7pm free
dinner served at 6:30pm for a $7 donation

Also, get ready for Gay Pride 2011 with a rundown of Seattle's LGBT events on June 25 and 26.

Jazz Night School @ RVCC

Two concerts this week from Jazz Night School ensembles! Thursday June 9: Big Bands and Vocalists and Saturday June 11: Small Ensembles and Vocalists. Only $10 admission and kids are free. Shows start at 7pm.

Join us for good music from people having fun, learning jazz. If you haven't made it out yet, come see what all the fun is about — and if you've come before, you know to come for more.

parents' night out

How would you like four hours of free time with your spouse?

• free child care ages 3-10 years
• sponsored by Columbia Lakewood Community Church — 50th & S Ferdinand
• open 4 to 8pm on 7/15, 7/29, 8/12 and 8/26

There will be team active play, a BBQ dinner, and the evening will be wrapped up with a short devotional and quiet play.

For more information, call Pastor Jeffrey Barker at 723-9272, email moc.nsm|2rekrabj#moc.nsm|2rekrabj or Joan Burdon (425) 641-4802 and pick up a registration form at the church office.

Valley Vibes Jazz series premiere

The Valley Vibes Jazz Concert and Conversation Series opens Friday, June 10, 7pm, with the Marc Seales Group and the Seattle JazzED Intermediate Ensemble at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center (RVCC), 3515 S. Alaska Street, Columbia City. Admission is free or by donation.

For two decades, in-demand pianist, composer, and educator (University of Washington) Marc Seales has served as a mentor to young talent. He is a leading jazz figure in the Northwest and has toured and performed with many jazz greats, including Don Lanphere, Joe Henderson, Art Pepper, and Bobby Hutcherson. Seales performs June 10 at RVCC in his sextet ensemble, which includes bassist Paul Gabrielson, drummer Steve Korn, and percussionist Lary Barilleau.

Young Playwrights Festival

Join us on Wed, June 8 at 3:30 pm and hear professional actors dramatize new plays from South Shore School and Cleveland High School students at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center, 3515 S Alaska St.

The 2011 Young Playwrights Festival features professional actors performing the best student plays chosen from spring classes at Cleveland High School and South Shore School. The plays tackle some of the toughest topics imaginable, in ways that are brutal, funny, moving and smart. A question and answer session with the featured student playwrights follows the performance.