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Mt. Hood Meadows Presents “SpringSational” Late Season Events

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Mt. Hood Meadows Presents “SpringSational” Late Season Events

February’s ten feet of snow has given Mt. Hood Meadows one of the deepest snowpacks in North America. With a 176 inch mid-mountain base, Meadows heads into Spring with great conditions and a SpringSational line up of events.

Meadows Spring Season Pass is on sale and provides every day access for the rest of the season. It’s just $149 for adults, $99 for ages 7 – 24 and $139 for ages 65 – 74. Passes can be purchased at SkiHood.com.

“SpringSational” Event Schedule

March 9: Ski to Defeat ALS
Teams take runs to raise money for the Oregon and SW Washington ALS chapter which provides support and resources for people living with ALS, their families, and caregivers.

March 10-11: 30th Annual Oregon Cancer Ski Out
Two-day event for skiers and snowboarders that combines fun, competition and fundraising with a unique racing format designed to let even novice skiers and rider participate in the fight against cancer.

March 16, 23, 30 and April 6: Sunset Snowshoe Tour
Experience the mountain in a way completely unlike the fast pace of skiing and snowboarding. Our guided snowshoe tour will give you another awe-inspiring perspective Meadows! The tour begins at the lodge with a short hike to the bottom of Vista Express Chairlift. There we embark on a scenic lift ride to 6,600 feet where the views of White River Canyon and the South Cascades await. Your downhill snowshoe hike ends at the Alpenstube for a delicious dinner. Reservations required – $75 / person includes snowshoe rentals, guided tour, Vista lift ride and dinner.

March 17: Spring Demo Demo Day
Free demo featuring dozens of ski and snowboard manufacturers with their representatives to help you dial in the perfect gear for you. Arrive early – limited amount of participants available.

March 23: Spring Brew Fest
Craft Brewers from around the NW converge at Meadows for a great day of tasting and toasting on the sun deck (or in Vertical depending on the weather.)

March 23: She Jumps presents Get the Girls Out!
A national campaign to unite women as they support, challenge, mentor and inspire each other in the outdoor sports world. This event cultivates community for women to have fun, connect with new and old friends.

March 25-27 and April 1-3: Three Day Kids, Freestyle and Adult Spring Camps
Our Three Day Camps are a great way to improve your skills and your love for the snow! There are camps for kids (age 4-12), freestyle park riders (age 7-12) and adults. You’ll be amazed at the progress that can be made skiing or riding for three straight days.

March 30: 13th Annual Full Sail Banked Slalom
A roller-coaster of a course that highlights Meadows’ natural terrain, with hand-dug berms and challenging technical features.

April 6: Mazot Fest
Retro themed ski race and party to raise money for the Meadows Avy Dogs at the best spot on the mountain to have fun, drink brews and enjoy the views.

April 7: HRM Appreciation Day
We’re throwing a party at Hood River Meadows to show our appreciation for all our HRM Lodge regulars with music, a beer garden, and raffles to support the Avy Dogs.

April 13: Pride Day
Join us for our first ever Pride Day at Mt. Hood Meadows! This is a day on Mt. Hood to celebrate diversity at Your Mountain Home! Pride Day headquarters will be at the Mazot. Come up for group skiing and snowboarding as well as social hours and dance parties!

April 13: Suits and Boots
$20 lift ticket purchased in advance – but you have to show your bathing suit to redeem it! Fundraiser and party for the Human Access Project to create more public spaces, beaches and access points to the Willamette River.

April 27-28: Toyota reVegetate presented by Ninkasi Brewing
Rail Jam Saturday and a major speed and style mountain course on Sunday featuring some of the best freestyle talent in the Northwest – all to raise funds for the Eagle Creek Fire Restoration Project.

May 4: Sno-Kona Pond Skim and Season’s End Party
Costume-clad competitors cruise across a 90 foot pond in this 12th annual event presented by Kona Brewing.

For more information visit the Mt. Hood Meadows special events page at SkiHood.com/events.

 

19th Annual Soul Beach Music Festival Hosted by Aruba Announces Lineup Headliners John Legend and Charlie Wilson along with Ella Mai and H.E.R. Bringing the Heat Deon Cole to Headline Comedy Night Memorial Day Weekend May 22-27

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Special Guest DJ Jazzy Jeff

COMEDY NIGHT AND LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES BY AN ARRAY OF ARTISTS

LOS ANGELES, March 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Unveiling a star-studded lineup, The 19th Annual Soul Beach Music Festival hosted by Aruba is jam-packed with artistic luminosity which includes musical performances by John Legend, Charlie Wilson, Ella Mai, H.E.R., the comedic brilliance of Deon Cole and special guest DJ Jazzy Jeff bringing the epitome of lit entertainment to the stage Memorial Day weekend, May 22-27, 2019.

Aruba’s undeniable charm reveals the trifecta of a visually breath taking atmosphere, a multifaceted event and the energy that comes with camaraderie of people across the globe who glow up together and bask in the three-in-one experience featuring live music performances, comedy shows and beach parties. Soul Beach Music Festival Hosted by Aruba, previously named #4 by USA Today readers’ choice “10 Best Caribbean Celebrations” and #1 “Caribbean Summer Festival” by Jetsetter Magazine, boasts a truly unique and unforgettable event. It’s no wonder festival goers return year after year to Soul Beach Music Festivals’ mega gathering and the cherished experience of Aruba’s paradise.

For information about ticket sales, accommodations and the latest updates, sign up for CLUB SOUL BEACH by visiting http://www.soulbeach.com. Join the Soul Beach Music Festival, #SBMF19, community: follow us on Twitter and Instagram @SoulBeachMusic and become a fan of the 2019 Soul Beach Music Festival on www.Facebook.com/soulbeachmusic.

Sponsors:

The 2019 Soul Beach Music Festival is sponsored by Aruba Tourism Authority. Other sponsors include Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association, Renaissance Aruba Resort & Casino, Divi Resorts, Tamarijn Aruba All Inclusive, Hyatt Regency Aruba Resort Spa & Casino, Eagle Aruba Resort & Casino, Hilton and Aruba Ports Authority.

Aruba
As one of the most revisited destinations in the Caribbean, Aruba—One Happy Island—is an island of contradictions, where pristine turquoise waters collide against the desert-like terrain of the north shore; where peace and relaxation coexist with wild and rugged adventures; where Dutch influence meets American ease; and where a diverse history parallels a bright future. Nestled in the southern Caribbean outside the fringes of the hurricane belt, the island is just a two-and-a-half-hour flight from Miami, and a four-hour flight from New York City and boasts year-round cooling trade winds with an average 82-degree temperature. Aruba offers beach-lovers, adrenaline junkies, relaxation-seekers, and everyone in between a slice of paradise with breathtaking beaches, a booming culinary scene of over 300 restaurants with 25+ located ideally on the water, world-famous festivals and events, exciting land and water activities, art galleries and museums, sumptuous spas, championship golf, exclusive shopping, and signature experiences such as cooling off in Conchi, Aruba’s natural pool—accessible only by foot or off-road vehicle. With all-inclusive options, boutique properties in charming Eagle Beach, high-rise branded resorts in Palm Beach, and cosmopolitan city hotels in Oranjestad, the island of contradictions provides the perfect getaway for both first-time guests and loyal visitors. As the most “digitally-savvy destination in the Caribbean” and recipient of numerous Adrian awards, including a Platinum in 2015, Arubahas long been recognized as a leader in innovation and creativity. Engage with Aruba on Instagram via @arubatourism and on Twitter via @aruba.

THE TASTE OF TACOMA® RETURNS TO POINT DEFIANCE PARK AS THE ULTIMATE FOOD, BEVERAGE, AND LIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL.

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Title sponsor, Emerald Queen Casino, and presenting sponsor, BECU have teamed up for the 34th annual Taste of Tacoma®. The three day food, beverage and live music festival takes place Friday through Sunday, June 21st-23rd, 2019, at Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, Washington.

Taste of Tacoma 2010 – Festivals Inc.

Located in Pierce County — on the banks of Puget Sound — the Taste of Tacoma® is the perfect festival for guests who prefer to ‘experience’ a wide variety of food and beverages, while listening to live music, amidst beautiful natural settings.

The Taste of Tacoma® will feature over 40 restaurants, and artisan and specialty food booths, which will offer food lovers a variety of sweet and savory ethnic dishes to include Creole, Asian, European, in addition to American classic festival favorites like burgers, corn dogs, and roasted corn.

Taste of Tacoma 2016

The Taste of Tacoma® will also feature local chefs at The Taste Cooks! interactive live cooking show, presented by Albert Lee Appliance, which will take place each day of the festival, in Restaurant Row, and will see some of Tacoma’s best chefs go head-to-head in live cook-off battles, and perform cooking demonstrations of their signature dishes. Thierry Rautureau -The Chef in the Hat- will return for his second year as emcee of The Taste Cooks!

Taste of Tacoma 2010 – Festivals Inc.

Craft Beer & Wine Tasting located in the Rose Garden, inside the Taste of Tacoma®, will feature over 30 local Washington wines and craft beers for purchase as a tasting package, which will include a souvenir tasting glass and five tastings. Additional tasting tickets will be available to purchase onsite. Live music on the Rose Garden stage will entertain guests throughout the tasting.

For craft beer aficionados, the 2019 lineup features IPA’s, lagers, and golden ales from local breweries; Chainline Brewing, Hellbent Brewing Company, Elysian Brewing Company and Bosk Brew Works.

The 2019 wine selection features a diverse range of varietals like Vino Aquino Monkey’s Uncle Blackberry Merlot, Wind Rose Cellars Muscato Sweet White, Wynoochee River Winery Lemon Wine, Long Road Winery Cabernet Sauvignon, and Samson Estates Yakima Valley Riesling.

Live music at the Taste of Tacoma® spreads across three stags and will feature a diverse range of acts, spanning genres like R&B, jazz, Top 40, rock, and more: 2019 lineup to be announced.

Local handcraft and commercial goods vendors will showcase assorted items to include natural body products, artwork, clothing, jewelry, henna designs, and more.

The Taste of Tacoma® is a free-to-attend community festival, and in an effort for attendees to experience the best of the Taste of Tacoma®, we are excited to offer early bird discounted food and beverage options: Experience Taste Package which includes Craft Beer & Wine Tasting + Taste It! Food Tickets, and the new Taste It! Food Only package. Packages are on sale now.

FRIENDS OF WATERFRONT SEATTLE PRESENTS WAKE,  A MAGNIFICENT SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE  BY KINESIS PROJECT SEATTLE WITH MUSIC BY FILTHY FEMCORPS

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What happens on the waterfront after the Viaduct is gone? Friends of Waterfront Seattle invites you to imagine the future park with a special pop-up umbrella performance by Kinesis Project dance theatre at Pier 58 while the public will be strolling on the Viaduct for one last time.

WAKE, a colorful, large-scale, site-specific performance on the waterfront by Kinesis Project dance theatre accompanied by music from Filthy FemCorps, Seattle’s all-female-non-binary street band, will take place Saturday, February 2 at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the pier between the Great Wheel and Seattle Aquarium. Jazzy, joyful, and artful, the performance will celebrate the post Viaduct future when the city is reconnected to its central shoreline via living, dancing, powerfully beautiful art in public spaces.
Community members will line the way toward Pier 58 with breathtaking and bright umbrellas designed by Seattle artist, Celeste Cooning. The pop-up performance will have dual vantage points — waterfront visitors will be able to watch the performance from the Viaduct and the ground

 

 

Friends has been enlivening the existing waterfront since 2015 with cultural events, including live music and performances including the K-Pop Now! Festival, 206 Zulu Beat Masters hip hop beat-making competition, and site-specific dances by Kinesis Project dance theatre. Saturday’s WAKE performance is a taste of things to come with the waterfront park. To learn more about what’s coming to Seattle’s waterfront, visit www.friendsofwaterfrontseattle.org/coming_soon.

“We are thrilled to be celebrating this moment in Seattle’s history with a cultural happening representing the park’s awakening. Seattle’s future Waterfront Park will provide beautiful spaces for people to play, relax, enjoy the views, and have unforgettable experiences,” said Heidi Hughes, Executive Director of Friends of Waterfront Seattle.

Kinesis Projects dance theatre’s Artistic Director and Choreographer Melissa Riker said, “My goal is to create a vibrant and unforgettable impression of colors, music, art, and movement. WAKE will bring the energy of Seattle’s awakening Waterfront Park right before the city’s eyes.”

Friends of Waterfront Seattle is the City of Seattle’s nonprofit partner helping to build the park and ensure its lasting success. Following the public-benefit partnership model, we educate the public about the park and its benefits, raise philanthropic funds to build the park, and will partner with the City to manage and program the park long-term. Our goal is to make the central waterfront a public mixing ground where all communities can share cultural, recreational, and civic experiences in a beautiful environment. Waterfront Seattle / Friends is a founding member of the High Line Network, a movement in cities across the world to reclaim underutilized infrastructure and reimagine it as public space. Explore the future park at our project showroom, Waterfront Space, located at 1400 Western Avenue in Seattle, and open Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

Kinesis Project dance theatre is a non-profit organization that creates site-specific dance performances and facilitates educational programs. The company produces large-scale, space-changing, and unexpectedly intimate dances. Kinesis Project is at the forefront of the international discussion of placemaking, art engagement with diverse communities, and the cultural imperative of art in public spaces.

Civil Rights Exhibition, Events Examines Race in the U.S. January 30-March 16 at CWU Museum of Culture & Environment

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Civil Rights Exhibition, Events Examines Race in the U.S.
January 30-March 16 at CWU Museum of Culture & Environment

In 1955, shortly after 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by white supremacists
in Mississippi, his grieving mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, distributed a gruesome black-and-white
photograph of his mutilated corpse to newspapers and magazines.
The mainstream media rejected the photograph as inappropriate for publication, but Mobley was able
to turn to African-American periodicals for support. Asked why she would do this, Mobley explained that
by witnessing with their own eyes, the brutality of segregation, Americans would be more likely to
support the cause of civil rights.
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, a nationally-touring exhibition
from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEH) on the Road, will be at the CWU Museum of Culture &
Environment (MCE) from January 30 thru March 16, 2019.
Students from the Diversity and Equity Center (DEC) have collaborated with students from the Museum
Studies minor on a companion exhibit, that situates this history within the Pacific Northwest. This
exhibit will be on display from February 1 – 28 in the DEC, located in Black Hall room 105-1.

Through a compelling collection of photographs, television clips, art posters, and historic artifacts, the
exhibit traces how images and media disseminated to the American public transformed the modern civil
rights movement and jolted Americans, both black and white, out of a state of denial or complacency.
Visitors will explore dozens of forceful and persuasive visual images, including photographs from
magazines, such as LIFE, JET, and EBONY; CBS news footage; and TV clips from The Ed Sullivan Show.
Also included are civil rights-era objects that exemplify the range of negative and positive
imagery—from Aunt Jemima syrup dispensers and 1930s produce advertisements to Jackie Robinson
baseball ephemera and 1960s children’s toys with African American portraiture.
For All the World to See is not a history of the civil rights movement, but rather an exploration of the
vast number of powerful images that influenced how Americans perceived race and the struggle for
equality.
Throughout winter quarter, the MCE, in conjunction with CWU’s Africana and Black Studies and the DEC,
is hosting a series of events that address themes from the exhibition to include:

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 Jan. 31, 5 p.m. Opening Celebration – Music, food, and speakers to honor the opening of For

All the World to See

 Feb. 19, 5 p.m. Being Black in Ellensburg – A safe space for CWU’s black students, faculty, and
Wellington Events Ctr staff and Ellensburg community members to share stories.
 Feb. 21, 5 p.m. Un/Belonging: Can People of Color Call Ellensburg “Home”? – A panel featuring
the voices of people of color in our community as they reflect on living in Ellensburg.
 Feb. 28, 5 p.m. Intersectionality and Solidarity: A Roundtable Discussion with Masonya
Bennett, PhD – Join Bennett along with a diverse group of students, faculty,
staff, and community members as they consider new forms of solidarity going
forward.

Also offered are tours of For All the World to See, led by CWU black student leaders from CWU’s Black
Student Union, S.I.S.T.E.R.S., Brother 2 Brother, and Scholars in Action. These tours, called “Walking in
Our Shoes,” are open to the public and will take place:
 Feb. 7, 5 p.m.
 Feb. 14, 3 p.m.
 Feb. 21, 11 a.m.
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights was curated by Maurice Berger,
research professor and chief curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore. It was co-organized by The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture and the
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution.
For All the World to See has been made possible through NEH on the Road, a special initiative of the
NEH. It has been adapted and is being toured by Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA). Founded in 1972,
Mid-America Arts Alliance is the oldest regional nonprofit arts organization in the United States. For
more information about Mid-American Arts Alliance and the NEH On the Road program visit
www.maaa.org and www.nehontheroad.org.
For more information about programs at the CWU Museum of Culture & Environment visit
www.cwu.edu/museum, email museum@cwu.edu, or call the gallery at 509-963-2313. The MCE is free
and open to the public Wednesday through Friday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Parking on CWU campus is free after 4:30 p.m. and on Saturdays.

 “Rise Up, a Hamilton Tribute Band!” February 7th at the University of Puget Sound’s Schneebeck Concert Hall

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The tickets cost a lot less, and audiences come for the same reason – the music of Hamilton. Thursday, February 7, marks Tacoma’s opportunity to witness this phenomenon, when  “Rise Up, a Hamilton Tribute Band!” performs at 730pm at the University of Puget Sound’s Schneebeck Concert Hall.. Having originated in Seattle, Washington, the ensemble is a collective of top vocalists and musicians performing the amazing music from the record-breaking Broadway musical and winner of 11 Tonys including Best Musical. Sweeping the country, Hamilton merges hip hop, R&B and Broadway, and has been sweeping the country by storm.

Rise Up delivers a performance that captures all the sophistication, detail and emotion of the music of “Hamilton”. Rise Up has performed extensively in the Northwest, delighting sold-out audiences at performing arts centers, festivals and clubs.  They are on the web at: facebook.com/RiseUpSeattleBand

Tickets for the concert are $13 general admission, and available at the UPS Information Center, or through tickets.pugetsound.edu.  For more information, call 253-879-3100. Presented by ASUPS Student Programs.

Seattle Arts & Lectures Literary Arts Series A Conversation with Zadie Smith Feb 27, 7:30 PM

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Zadie Smith is one of the world’s preeminent fiction and non-fiction writers. Her novels include White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, and Swing Time, among others; and her many non-fiction works on a range of subjects from pop culture to politics are collected in Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays and 2018’s Feel Free.

 

Novelist Zadie Smith was born in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother. She read English at Cambridge, graduating in 1997.

Her acclaimed first novel, White Teeth (2000), is a vibrant portrait of contemporary multicultural London, told through the story of three ethnically diverse families. The book won a number of awards and prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best First Book). It also won two EMMA (BT Ethnic and Multicultural Media Awards) for Best Book/Novel and Best Female Media Newcomer, and was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Author’s Club First Novel Award. White Teeth has been translated into over twenty languages and was adapted for Channel 4 television in 2002.

Her tenure as Writer in Residence at the Institute of Contemporary Arts resulted in the publication of an anthology of erotic stories entitled Piece of Flesh (2001). She also wrote the introduction for The Burned Children of America (2003), a collection of eighteen short stories by a new generation of young American writers. Zadie Smith’s second novel, The Autograph Man (2002), a story of loss, obsession and the nature of celebrity, won the 2003 Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for Fiction. In 2003 she was nominated by Grantamagazine as one of 20 ‘Best of Young British Novelists’.

Her third novel, On Beauty, was published in 2005, and won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction. She has also published two collections of non-fiction, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (2009) and Feel Free (2018).

Zadie Smith became a tenured professor of fiction at New York University in 2010 and lives between New York City and London. Her most recent novels are NW (2012), set in north west London; and Swing Time(2016), set in London, New York and West Africa.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: THE BURLESQUE ALICE IN WONDERLAND

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Tickets On Sale Now
April 3 – 7 at The Triple Door

Through The Looking Glass: The Burlesque Alice in Wonderland
Lily Verlaine and Jasper McCann have both gone mad… mad as March Hares, that is! In their 11th annual re-imagination of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale of nonsense and fantasy, follow Alice as she discovers what wonders lie beyond the velvet rope at Wonderland’s most exclusive nightclub, The Looking Glass and attempts to best the evil Queen of Hearts to become the next ruler of Wonderland.  Featuring top-notch local dance talent, exciting choreography by the classically-trained Lily Verlaine and the sumptuous costuming of Stephanie Seymour, you’ll see the inhabitants of Wonderland like you’ve never seen them before. And, returning for the second year, Through The Looking The Looking Glass features a psychedelic go-go jazz score by Jasper McCann, Kate Olson, and Michael Owcharuk, played live on stage by our jazz sextet, The Aces & 8’s! The superstars of Seattle’s burlesque A-list take on the roles of Carroll’s famous characters and turn Wonderland’s topsy-turvy world into an ecdysiastic tour-de-force filled with glamour, comedy, dance, striptease, and song.

The Triple Door
216 Union Street, Seattle

April 3 – April 7, 2019
Wednesday/Thursday: 7:30pm
Friday/Saturday: 7:00pm, 10:30pm
Sunday: 5:00pm, 8:00pm
$40 – $65
Box Office: 206-838-4333
Facebook –  /LVJMpresent
Instagram – @LVJMpresent

 

The Black Heritage Society A Tribute to Edwin T. Pratt

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SAVE the DATE
QUARTERLY MEMBERS and FRIENDS MEETING
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2019
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute
104 17th Ave S. Seattle, WA 98144
A Tribute to Edwin T. Pratt
Presentation of the Pratt Legacy Collection
with Special Guests
The Black Heritage Society is honored to be the recipient of this fine collection that archives family photos, letters and speeches. BHS will present selected images from the collection’s digital library.
Pratt Legacy Collection Project
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President Isiaah Crawford KeyNote Speaker at City of Tacoma 31st Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration

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“We’re Better Together” The 31st Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration in Tacoma will once again bring the community together to celebrate Monday, January 21, 2019 as a day on, not a day off.

President Dr. Isiaah Crawford – University of Puget Sound

Event Details

January 21, 2019

10 AM – Doors open for Community Outreach Fair

11 AM – Program begins

Greater Tacoma Convention Center

1500 Commerce Street

Tacoma, WA 98402

Map and Directions

 

Available Parking

There is free holiday on-street parking and free parking at Freighthouse Square (2501 E. D Street). Freighthouse Square is easily accessible via the LINK Light Rail and stops at the Convention Center. There will also be signage directing event attendees to designated complimentary parking stalls that will be made available on a first-come, first-served basis at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center.

 

City Events and Recognition Committee

The Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration program is spearheaded by a City Council-appointed City Events and Recognition Committee. The Committee is comprised of local community leaders from a broad array of backgrounds and areas of expertise.

The City Events and Recognition Committee serves as an advisory and action committee on matters pertaining to City-hosted events and special recognition programs. Members are responsible for planning, reviewing and evaluating events, engaging the community in its fundraising efforts, and soliciting corporate and private sponsorships to leverage funds for City-hosted events such as the Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration and the City of Destiny Awards.

 

About President Dr. Isiaah Crawford – University of Puget Sound

 A distinguished scholar, teacher, and college administrator,Isiaah Crawford became president of University of Puget Sound on July 1, 2016, following an extensive national search. Crawford’s academic work and achievements as a senior administrator are closely aligned with the values and aspirations of Puget Sound, and with the key areas of challenge and opportunity facing higher education today.

Crawford came to Puget Sound following service as provost and chief academic officer of Seattle University (2008–16), where he directed the Division of Academic Affairs and oversaw the university’s schools and colleges, libraries, enrollment, information technology, institutional research, and offices supporting student academic achievement, faculty affairs, and global engagement.

Key areas of focus during his service to Seattle University included strategic planning; strengthening shared governance; securing grants and other gifts in support of fundraising objectives; supporting teaching, research, and service activities of the faculty; and establishing the Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability, the Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture, and the School of New and Continuing Studies, which began operation in academic year 2015–16. Working with university leadership, he participated in the development of more than $200 million in key facilities projects, including renovation of the library and establishment of a learning commons; a new residence hall; a new fitness center and remodeled intramural athletic field; the School of Law annex; an admission and alumni center; and planning for a new science facility.

From 2004 to 2008, Crawford was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago, where he joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology in 1987 as an assistant professor and through the years was tenured and promoted to the rank of professor in 1999. He taught courses in psychology of personality, human sexuality, addictive behavior, human diversity, and minority mental health. He also served as graduate program director of the clinical psychology doctoral program (1994–97), Department of Psychology chair (1997–2003), and interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (2003–04).

A licensed clinical psychologist, Crawford earned his bachelor’s degree from St. Louis University, and master’s and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from DePaul University, where his research focused on personality theory and community psychology. He completed a pre-doctoral clinical psychology internship at the San Francisco VA Medical Center; worked as a clinical specialist at Charter Barclay Hospital and staff therapist at DePaul University Community Mental Health Center; and maintained a private clinical practice in Chicago from 1987 through 2002.

A recipient of national awards, including three from the American Psychological Association, he has been published in numerous scholarly journals over the past 30 years—including, most recently, the Archives of Sexual Behavior, Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Child and Family Studies, AIDS Care, and Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality—on topics including post-traumatic stress, racial inequality, HIV/AIDS, sexual abuse, visual impairment, poverty, depression, and more. Crawford has served on the editorial boards of professional publications, including the International Journal of Sexual Health, Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, and Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention & Education for Adolescents & Children. He serves on the board of directors for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, The Annapolis Group, Independent Colleges of Washington, and the Northwest Conference, as well as the Tacoma Art Museum, Seattle Symphony, Providence St. Joseph Health (chair, Work/Life Committee), Providence Health Plan (chair, Governance Committee) and The ROPA Corporation (St. Louis).

Crawford’s numerous other activities include serving on the board of directors for Swedish Health Services (2010–12), AIDS Foundation of Chicago (1994–08; board president, 2004–06), and Horizons Community Center (1988–92). He is former president of the Clinical Psychologists Licensing and Disciplinary Board of the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, and previously served on the national advisory board of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Institute (2006–08), National Institutes of Health Panel Review–AIDS and Related Research (1999–2002), and various roles with the American Psychological Association.