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Education Lecture Series: Introduction to Cultural Landscape Preservation

Dunn Gardens hosts a presentation by Beth Dodrill, Dunn Gardens Board Member/Conservation Committee and Consulting Preservation Specialist.

Tuesday May 6th
10am-12pm
13533 Northshire Rd NW, Seattle, WA

From I-5 North or South:

Take Exit 175 - NE 145th Street (2 exits north of Northgate)

** Go WEST on NE 145th (if coming from the south, turn left; if from the north, turn right); continue across Highway 99 /Aurora Ave and Greenwood Ave N, then you will see the Seattle Golf Course on your right; continue on 145th until you get to a stop sign at 3rd Ave NW

Turn LEFT on 3rd Ave NW

Turn RIGHT on NW 137th

Turn LEFT on Northshire Rd NW, which is the second street on the left

Go past three houses on right, then turn RIGHT into our entrance marked by two brick pillars with an open white gate

Keep LEFT at the first fork, following the small green signs, LEFT at the second fork, then take the next RIGHT which loops in front of our grey two-story cottage.

Drive past the front door and garage and take a LEFT into the parking lot.

In support of their Arts in Nature Festival that takes place every August, a series of posts will be dedicated to funding and volunteering of the Nature Consortium. So really, this is an arts-link… just not until August.

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The Nature Consortium is a small non-profit organization based in West Seattle, committed to the long-term stewardship & restoration of the West Duwamish Greenbelt, the largest remaining contiguous forest in Seattle. Our main goal is reintroducing native conifer species to the greenbelt. We also focus on invasive removal, maintenance, monitoring, & environmental education activities at the site.

We are currently looking for volunteers who can get involved in monthly/weekly restoration work parties and educational workshops Saturdays from 10am-2pm.

Upcoming Dates:

April 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
May 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st

Please RSVP to volunteer@naturec.org if you’ll be attending.
(Please provide your Name, Address, Phone number, Email, Age and Work Party of Interest.)
Tools, gloves, & refreshments are provided.

Further Details/Directions are available at www.naturec.org

Bring a frisbee, a peanut butter (jelly optional) sandwich, and some friends to work on cleaning up Colman Park on Lake Washington before the summer crowds begin to muck it all up again.

Come assist the Urban Forestry staff as they continue the restoration of the forest at Colman Park. Typical activities include removal of invasive plants, trail work, and spreading of mulch.

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ABOUT THE PARK

Colman Park is located just south of the old Lake Washington Floating Bridge. The beach itself is adjacent to Mount Baker Bathing Beach, but is a part of Colman Park.

The beach features grass, big drooping willows, and picnic tables. If you’ve brought along your Frisbee, football, soccer ball, or volleyball, the grass to the north makes a friendly playing ground.

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Start Time: 10:00-2:00
Location: 1800 Lake Washington Blvd.; call contact for more info
Cost: none
Contact: Jillian Weed 206-423-1608
Sponsored by: Seattle Parks Urban Forestry Unit
Email: jillian.weed@seattle.gov

Community Cinema Seattle… engaging communities through film.

King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm.

Like ‘Supersize Me’, ‘Fastfood Nation’, and others, this documentary looks at consumption patterns in the US as well as production information that is usually not available to citizens before documentary film-making and investigative journalism took hold of popular culture.

**Presented by Community Cinema Seattle**

Start Time: 4:00 PM
Location: 1515 12th Ave (@ Pike) 98122
Cost: FREE
Contact: Patrick Baroch 800-930-6060
Sponsored by: ITVS Community Cinema Seattle

Website: http://communitycinemaseattle.org/

Seattle Architecture: A Walking Guide to Downtown -- the long-awaited guidebook has been described as a model of accuracy and comprehensive coverage of downtown Seattle buildings and spaces. More than 400 images are featured in the full-color book. Seattle Architecture Foundation (SAF) worked with author Marueen Elenga and volunteers for more than two years to develop the book, the organization’s first publication. It is the only Seattle guidebook that focuses entirely on downtown Seattle from I-5 to Elliott Bay, Seattle Center, and the southern boundaries of the International District and where it all began, Pioneer Square.   

From a UW Art student’s Art History dissertation project, this book is fully funded by generous donations from Seattle families and companies. Architecture firms released their own images to compile a visually compelling look at Seattle’s urban landscape. The Space Needle isn’t the only cool piece of architecture we have! In fact, we pass innovative architecture each day.

Tour Dates:
Thursday, Mar 20, 7:00 PM
Where:
University Bookstore, 4326 University Way NE, 98105
Cost:
FREE. No registration required.

Magnuson Environmental Stewardship Alliance

Join us! We will be planting native plants in the Natural Areas. This is an effort to keep Seattle green and sustain the sprawling Magnusun Park before the busy summer days.

Start Time: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Location: Magnuson’s Education Pavilion; enter at NE 65th St, drive east to boat launch parking lot
Contact: Lynn Ferguson, Chair, 206-524-8713, e-mail: lynnferg@stanfordalumni.org