Columbia Citizens

your Wikli-fix: more than a handful

This morning the Wikli has its hands full. Columbia Citizens have their arms outstretched, inviting you to lend a hand, try your hand, clap your hands, or fill them with neighborhood goods. Oh, and this is the last time Columbia Citizens can count on one hand the years we've shared this site: five years and counting.

Columbia City ArtWalk & galleries

For the second month this summer, Columbia City has hosted another successful ArtWalk with great vendors, live music, live artists and fantastic galleries.

The ArtWalk coordinates with 6 businesses & organizations in Columbia City to show art from local artists in south Seattle as well as the greater Seattle area. The galleries include Salon Adidez, Pure Alchemy Salon, Church of Hope, Edward Jones Investments, Stash Quilt Shop, and Geraldine's Counter. Each month these businesses host a new artist for the month, with each ArtWalk being an opportunity for residents and visitors to peruse around the streets and alleys of Columbia City.

The next ArtWalk is Thursday, July 19 from 6-9pm. We hope to see you there as well!

Columbia City Chow Down

Back by popular demand … the second annual Columbia City Chow Down, Tuesday, July 24, 5 to 9pm. Sit, eat, repeat!

Support our great cause while taking a fun-filled culinary tour of Columbia City's fabulous restaurants. Columbia City boasts some of Seattle's newest, hottest food spots, as recently reported in the New York Times.

Buy your "passport" ($50 per person), bring your friends, and prepare to sample scrumptious bites from these restaurants.

Eat, shop, play & buy local on MLK

Eat, Shop, Play and Buy Local on MLK

The free 2012 MLK Business Association business district tour schedule is now available:

• June 9 @ Graham 10:30 -12:00
• July 14 @ Othello 10:30 -12:00
• August 11 @ Graham 10:30 -a12:00
• September TBA @ Othello 10:30 -12:00

Sign-up for 1 or all 4 tours by calling Sarah Valenta @ 760-4213 or emailing gro.awthgisemoh|haras#gro.awthgisemoh|haras or visit our facebook page.

Jazz Night School Jazzathon

Jazz Night School's Jazzathon fundraiser, Saturday July 21, 11am-7pm in Columbia City. Live music. Free admission. Dozens of musicians, oodles of songs!

Join the fun in Columbia City at Tutta Bella Neapolitan Pizzeria, Starbucks,
Jus Bar, Empire Espresso Bar, Lottie's Lounge, and The Royal Room.

Details are here.

Jazz Night School performance @ RVCC

Jazz Night School features two sets of summer session performances and instructor quartet led by Erik Hanson, this Saturday, July 14 at 7pm, at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center.

Come hear singing with jazz trio vocalists and small jazz ensembles — good music from people having fun, learning jazz. Second set features Jazz Night School instructor quartet led by Erik Hanson, playing unique jazz standards and originals.

Making Dances

Making Dances is a weeklong experience of Dance, Yoga, art, nature and girl time! We will spend the week creating a dance of our own and have a simple sharing on the last day. The camp is for girls entering 4th - 6th grade.

August 20-24. We'll jump into the pool of creativity and summer wonder in this joyous and creative camp. Each day we will practice free dance, Nia, Yoga, art, take a mini nature walk and work on our own dance offering. We will meet in the grand and glorious ballroom at the Mt. Baker Community Club. Do join us!

new musical theatre camp

Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! — The Anything is Possible Theatre Company presents a wacky, wild and wondrous exploration of nature through musical theater where kids for kids ages 6 - 12 will learn the core elements of singing, dancing and acting.

August 20 - 24. Teaching the camp will be Laura Ferri (Book-it Theater Company) and Joseph Seserko, seasoned theater professionals with extensive experience teaching, directing and performing in musical theater.

Seattle HypnoBirthing classes, now in Columbia City

Kira and Tracy of Seattle HypnoBirthing® are delighted to offer childbirth education in Seattle Home Maternity Service's comfortable, relaxed atmosphere. If you're expecting, join us to you'll learn how to work with your body during birth, tools for working with your healthcare provider to develop birth preferences, experience and practice hypnosis to help you stay in calm control throughout your birth experience. Our next 5-class series will be held Tuesdays from 6 - 8:30pm, November 20 - December 18.

South End booksale

South End booksale. Great cheap reads — novels, suspense, fantasy, history, sci-fi, ethnic and women's studies. Plus movies, music and more.

Saturday July 28, 10am to 4pm and Sunday July 29, noon to 4 pm. New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S. To benefit Radical Women. For information or to donate books: 722-6057, moc.gnirpsdnim|elttaesWR#moc.gnirpsdnim|elttaesWR.

Unfair to labor: a community discussion

The panel will examine the lessons of the strikes and work stoppages that swept docks in Longview and Seattle last winter and spring and look at what’s next.

Speaker Mike Fuqua, a rank-and-file member of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 21, will be joined by Calvin Borders of the Seattle Port Trucker Association and Annaliza Torres, a member of Office and Professional Employees International Union and the Occupy Seattle Port Solidarity Committee on Saturday July 21 at 7:30pm

Volunteer to help homeless kids

Every fall through Project COOL, Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness members and volunteers make sure that hundreds of homeless children and youth start the school year off right by providing backpacks and school supplies.

Project COOL will be at Columbia City Church of Hope (in the basement) counting, sorting, and organizing supplies to fill backpacks for distribution. Give them a hand for an hour or an afternoon! Groups are welcome, and so are children (with an adult companion).

We need volunteers on August 2, 4, 11, and 14. Shifts are from 9am -noon or 12:30-3:30pm, and we provide lunch.

Please sign up to help — thanks!

Columbia City Church of Hope
3818 South Angeline Street