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Join the Seattle Public Library for an entertaining and insightful preview lecture presented by Seattle Opera Education Department staff. This is a free event. Eeveryone is welcome. Registration is not required.
2012 schedule of previews for Seattle Opera’s upcoming production of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice”:
- Thursday, February 9, 2012 at the Green Lake Branch from 2 – 3pm
- Monday, February 13, 2012 at the West Seattle Branch from 6:30 – 7:30pm
- Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at the Northeast Branch from 6:30 – 7:30pm
- Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at the Ballard Branch from 2 – 3pm
- Thursday, February 23, 2012 at the Central Library from 12 – 1pm
I-5 Colonnade is the first ever urban mountain bike skills park. It’s part of a City of Seattle park, but was funded and constructed by the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance. This new unique park under I-5 opened December 2005 with 7.5 acres of open space on property owned by Washington State Department of Transportation. The park features a novice area–the Tqalu Trail, an intermediate and advanced area–Limestone Loop, a dirt jumping section, pump track, trials area, and more.
Creation of this open space was in the making since the Eastlake community identified it in their 1998 Neighborhood Plan. Find out more about the I-5 Colonnade formerly I-5 Open Space Pro Parks Project Information.
John Roloff is a visual artist who works conceptually with site, process and natural systems. He is known primarily for his outdoor kiln/furnace projects done from the late 1970’s to the early 1990’s as well as other large-scale environmental and gallery installations investigating geologic and natural phenomena.
Youth Eastside Services (YES) is a lifeline for kids and families coping with challenges such as emotional distress, substance abuse, sexual abuse, dating violence, gang activity, and discrimination. Each year, tens of thousands of kids and family members discover the inner strength to overcome emotional problems and painful crises as they learn to make the right decisions that lead them toward happy, healthy lives.
YES provides individual and family counseling; substance abuse education, prevention and treatment; community- and school-based violence prevention, family support, consultation and training. At YES, a family’s inability to pay for services never stands in the way of their finding the help they need.
The Salvation Army Northwest Division offers a wide range of social services in 34 towns and cities in Washington, Montana and northern Idaho. In addition, a large network, Service Extension, makes it possible for people in small communities to access Salvation Army emergency services anywhere in the three state region. The manner in which need for assistance is verified and the spirit in which help is given are at the heart of Army service. The compassion and understanding shown in an emergency may open the way for assistance with deep-seated problems and long-term deprivation. Needs may be revealed for counseling, placement, day care, rehabilitation, referral, or other help.
The Salvation Army is an integral part of each community in which it is located. Along with a network of other organizations and services, The Army exists to meet the needs of the people who live in that community. In more than 100-years of service around the world and here in the Pacific Northwest, The Salvation Army has earned the trust of the communities we are part of and strives to merit continued support.
To find out what is available and how to access services near you please click here.
Atlantic Street Center services seek to improve the lives of those whom they serve, to help children of all ages to flourish and to serve family needs. Each family is unique, but the following are some of the challenges that families who utilize the center’s services may be facing:
- Single parent household or children in foster care
- Household income at or below the federal poverty level
- Limited support system
- Children underachieving academically
- Neighborhood detachment and isolation
- Multicultural identity issues
Atlantic Street Services is one of just a few nonprofit organizations in the Seattle area that serves individuals at every stage of life, from toddlers to grandparents. Their resources focus on low-income children and youth of color in Seattle’s central and southeast neighborhoods. All services are free to participants. Costs are met through public and private grants and donations.
Children in foster care live in an uncertain world. Stability and permanence, things that most children can take for granted, are not guaranteed to foster kids. They can be moved frequently, and with very little notice, leaving with just a plastic trash bag filled with their possessions. Kids get used to parting with favorite toys and stuffed animals, saying goodbye to neighbors and friends, and changing schools time and again. All too often, entering the foster care system means losing a sense of identity and purpose.
Since 1988, Treehouse has filled the gaps for kids in foster care, providing services that no other agency addresses: money for extra-curricular activities and summer camp, professional educational support services, resources to fully participate in the everyday activities of growing up, clothing and supplies to help them fit in at school.
Treehouse offers six core programs to give foster children a real childhood as well as hope for the future.
- Tutoring: helps bridge the educational achievement gap
- Educational Advocacy: works statewide to protect students’ educational rights
- College and Career Planning: gives kids support as they follow their dreams for the future
- Little Wishes: pays for activities and experiences as small as hair care and as big as drivers’ ed
- Summer Camp: sends kids on adventures
- Wearhouse: free store where kids shop for clothing, school supplies, toys, books and other essentials
Treehouse programs offer kids in foster care what all children so desperately need: a safe place to dream.
Big Brothers Big Sisters has been recognized as one of the most effective youth development programs in the United States. The program matches a volunteer Big Brother or Big Sisters with a child who could benefit from a one-to-one relationship with a caring adult.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound serves all children in a five-county service area, which covers King, Pierce, Kitsap, Jefferson, and Clallam Counties. Some of the matches get together to enjoy activities on their own throughout the Puget Sound, and others meet at specific schools or for fun filled agency-planned activities.
The Redmond Youth Partnership presents free summer movies for teens.
Redmond Teen Programs encompasses Redmond Youth Partnership Advisory Committee, Rose Hill & Redmond Junior High After Hours, and Old Fire House Teen Center programs. The Old Fire House Teen Center is a stand-alone teen center located in downtown Redmond with a mission to provide innovative and progressive recreational, educational and social services to all Redmond area youth.
The Washington Council on Economic Education is proud to offer The Stock Market Game™ (SMGP) a free online program for the fall and spring school semesters. Due to the generosity of Merrill Lynch, the Washington Stock Market Game is available to elementary, middle school and high schoole teachers and students at no cost. Find your local SMGP program.
- Teachers have discovered that The Stock Market Game™ program can boost attendance and reduce dropout rates. Students who participate in the program gain confidence, build self-esteem and have fun while they see how classroom lessons apply to the real world.
- Students learn core academic concepts and and essential skills such as critical thinking, decision-making, cooperation, communication and research.
- SMGP uses real research and news, making the simulation a mirror of the real marketplace. Starting with a virtual cash account of $100,000, students strive to create the best-performing portfolio using a live trading simulation.
Experience FREE movies by moonlight at Movies at the Mural on the grounds of Seattle Center. Picnic on the gently sloping Mural Amphitheatre lawn, in front of a state-of-the-art giant screen, with the Space Needle standing sentry in the starry skies above you. Movies at the Mural is an outdoor cinema experience like no other!
2011 Lineup
- Saturday, July 30 – The Princess Bride (PG): In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Wesley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness. Giants, swordsmen, six-fingered counts, murderous princes, Sicilians, pirates, rodents of unusual size and even death cannot stop true love from triumphing.
- Saturday, August 13 – Inception (PG-13): In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, Dom Cobb is the absolute best at extraction and stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious. Cobb’s rare ability has made him a coveted player in the world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime.
- Saturday, August 20 – Raiders of the Lost Ark (PG): Relive this Steven Spielberg adventure on the big screen on its 30th Anniversary. Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.
- Satuday, August 27 – The Incredibles (PG): In this animated adventure, Mr. Incredible (A.K.A. Bob Parr), and his wife Helen (A.K.A. Elastigirl), are the world’s greatest famous crime-fighting superheroes. But they have been forced to adopt civilian identities, retreat to the suburbs and live a “normal life” with their three children Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack. Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment. He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction.
- Sunday, August 28 – O Brother, Where Art Thou? (PG-13): Loosely based on Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ the movie deals with the adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississippi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everett’s home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist, they are confronted by a series of strange characters including sirens, a Cyclops, bank robber George ‘Babyface’ Nelson, a campaigning Governor, a lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that “the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find.”
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