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FRIENDS OF WATERFRONT SEATTLE RELEASES 2018 HOT SPOT SCHEDULE WITH LIVE MUSIC AND PERFORMANCES ALL SUMMER LONG AT PIER 58

July 14, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

 

 Friends of Waterfront Seattle has announced its 2018 waterfront summer event lineup, featuring free live music, performance, and sports for all ages. Family-friendly performances occur every Saturday and Sunday from July 7 through September 2 at Hot Spot, the event stage on Pier 58, located at 1401 Alaskan Way.

Awesome local bands kick off the Hot Spot season with the third annual KEXP Rocks the Dock concert hosted by KEXP 90.3, Seattle’s non-commercial independent radio station that produces an award-winning, innovative blend of music for a worldwide audience.

Live music by Stas Thee Boss and Nappy Nina, Misundvrstood & Gypsy Temple, Breaks and Swells, and DJ & Emcee OCNotes Summer make up the season kickoff Saturday, July 7 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Other weekend events include reggae and surf music, soccer and music with the Seattle Sounders FC Rave Foundation at the Soccer Octagon, site-specific dance performances, K-Pop music and dance, a hip hop tournament-style competition, Blues music, Central and South American music, dance parties and competitive dance battles, and the Americana Festival. For details on the full Hot Spot schedule of waterfront events this summer, visit www.friendsofwaterfrontseattle.org/events.

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.

Filed Under: Artist Spotlight, Arts, Community, Community News, Entertainment, Events, Featured Stories, Front Page Slider, Music, Music Videos, New Releases, Nightclubs, People, Reviews

Seattle Parks and Recreation welcomes all to enjoy the annual Big Day of Play

June 13, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

Seattle Parks and Recreation welcomes all to enjoy the annual Big Day of Play

Free event Aug. 18 at Rainier Community Center and Playfield; water activities at Mount Baker Rowing and Sailing Center

Big Day of Play is a celebration of our city’s diversity, and it encourages neighbors, communities and families to have fun, build relationships and be active together. Big Day of Play will be held on Saturday, August 18 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Rainier Playfield and Rainier Community Center in southeast Seattle (3700 S. Alaska St.). The event is completely free and includes activities for all ages and abilities.

“Big Day of Play is our signature event at Seattle Parks and Recreation,” said Christopher Williams, Interim Superintendent. “This free event supports community members in enjoying the health benefits—both physical and mental—of connecting with others through active recreation, and it helps show adults and kids how much fun there is to be had in our parks and open spaces.”

The event will showcase active recreation booths and activities, including basketball, wheelchair rugby, goal ball, adaptive play equipment, rainbow bingo and much more. Community members can also enjoy cultural music and dance presentations throughout the day. Discover your inner athlete while enjoying the sounds, smells and foods from a range of communities.

Additionally, we are inviting everyone to hop down to Mt. Baker Rowing and Sailing Center to try out sailing, rowing and stand-up paddle boarding.

The Big Day of Play is presented by Seattle Parks and Recreation’s Get Moving Initiative, which supports local groups in offering innovative and culturally relevant events and projects to increase participation in community sports, recreation and physical fitness activities that serve under-resourced communities. Funding for the Get Moving Initiative is provided by the Seattle Park District.

This year’s Big Day of Play sponsors include Kaiser Permanente, City of Seattle, the Associated Recreation Council, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Bartell Drugs, 4Culture, Lowe’s and Cedar Grove.

If you’re interested in volunteering or participating as a vendor at Big Day of Play, please visit www.bigdayofplay.com.

Free transportation is available – more information here.

More information can be found at bigdayofplay.com and on the event’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/bigdayofplay/.

Filed Under: Community, Entertainment, Events, Featured Stories, Food, Front Page Slider, Music

May is Mental Health Awareness Month

May 12, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, an annual observance designed to increase awareness about mental health and mental illness. According to Mental Health America (MHA), the 2018 theme is Fitness#4Mind4Body. The theme “is a call to pay attention to both your physical health and your mental health, which can help achieve overall wellness…”

Good mental health is essential to overall health and personal well-being. It also contributes to the ability to lead a healthy, balance and productive life. Emotional problems can impair a person’s thinking, feelings, and behavior and, overtime, can become increasingly serious and disabling. Unfortunately, many people do not seek treatment for mental health issues for a number of reasons. They may not be completely aware of the extent of their problem, they may be hesitant to make contact with a mental health professional because they fear they will be stigmatized, or they may not know how to access services. Yet, overall the quality of life is greatly improved when a person with a mental health concern or problem seeks help and receives appropriate treatment from a qualified professional.

Numerous suicides and suicide attempts have been attributed to undiagnosed and/or under treated mental illness.  For this reason, The Jason Foundation supports the efforts of Mental Health America and Mental Health Awareness Month.  The Jason Foundation, Inc. (JFI) is a nationally recognized leader in youth suicide prevention and awareness and provides programs to all 50 states at no cost through their National Network of Affiliate Offices.  The programs are designed to help the public recognize when a young person is struggling with thoughts of suicide and where they can go for help.  To find your local JFI affiliate office, go to: http://jasonfoundation.com/about-us/locations/ .

Filed Under: Featured Stories, Front Page Slider, Music

It’s Hayday in Tacoma

May 9, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

by Josh Rizeberg

In Tacoma things are growing. This Growth is also occurring in the music and art scene, including in the
Hip-Hop community. Many local Hip-Hop Artists are now successful enough to start opening actual brick
and mortar establishments. Sky Creative now has a large location in downtown Tacoma right next to the
Hip-Hop oriented clothing store ETC Tacoma. Both these businesses are cornerstones of the Tacoma
Hip-Hop community. Thankfully, Tacoma gets to add one more new home to our neighborhood. Antoine
Hayden, a 31 year old artist and entrepreneur, is opening a location at 6323 E McKinley Ave, Tacoma,
WA 98404 – right in the heart of the eastside.
Antoine goes by the name of Hayday. He is a professional graphic-designer, photographer,
videographer, and music-producer. Like many artists he is mostly self-taught. He has gone to art school
however to get the essential credentials and certificates he needs to flourish in the professional world.
Along the way he has been taught and mentored by well-known Seattle artist, Eric Keith, who showed
him the ins and outs of graphic-design and how to price and market his talents.
Hayday has been a photographer for over twenty years. He has professional certification from the
Clover Park Media Production Program. Even back in school at Clover Park, Antoine Hayden’s talents
were evident. His senior photography project still is up on the walls of Clover Park Technical Institute to
this day. To stay sharp Hayden also makes sure to keep learning new tricks of the trade from YouTube
videos, photography tutorials, and he is currently enrolled in the Full Scale University Film School
program. Hayday has also had some early accomplishments in the Hip-Hop world as well. He has
production credits for King Leez, L ROC, and Prep Chambers, all three top-notch MC’s representing
Tacoma.
One of the main things that sets apart Antoine from other artists is that he fosters a sense of
community. Hayday throws large events, shows, beat-battles, and even cyphers that showcase Tacoma
area talent. The spotlight is never on him. He always shines it bright on others. This can be seen in the
relationships he has with some of the MC’s he has worked with. Hayday did not just produce beats for L
ROC and Prep Chambers, he cultivated their careers and brands and helped them explode onto the local
scene instantly making them well respected local artists. Hayday says his motto is, “I want to make you
not break you.”
This special sense of community comes from the relationship Hayday had with his older brother named
Marquis Hayden. Marquis passed-away when Antoine was 26. Marquis was Hayday’s main motivator
and supporter. Hip-Hop was something Marquis and Antoine shared and bonded together over. Their
relationship was so close and Hip-Hop was so much a part of it that it helped give Hayday a special love
for the culture of Hip-Hop. So now to pay homage to his brother, Hayday puts Love back into the local
Hip-Hop scene. It is his way of honoring Marquis.
Antoine shows love and he gets it back. His girlfriend and mother have now become his main supporters
after Marquis’s passing. Amanda Loveland, his girlfriend, even helped him with the funding to get the
building for Hayday Studios.
Hayday studios is the ultimate manifestation of Hayday and Marquis’s vision. This will be a one-stop
shop for local artists and media-people. It will be a multi-media hub. Hayday says it will be a,
“Professional place for podcasts, radio-shows, photography and video studios, and even a recording

studio. I want a professional looking place where people can bring artists from out-of- town to do
podcasts and radio-shows.”

To see Hayday’s video work check him out at iamhayday studios on YouTube.

Filed Under: Artist Spotlight, Arts, Entertainment, Featured Stories, Music, People

Seattle Parks and Recreation strengthens commitment to Teen Summer Musical Auditions to 2018 program to be held May 5,6

May 3, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

Seattle Parks and Recreation strengthens commitment to Teen Summer Musical
Auditions to 2018 program to be held May 5,6

Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR) is proud to continue its unwavering support of the annual Teen Summer Musical (TSM) and looks forward to strengthening this invaluable program in 2018 and for years to come.

Early in 2018, SPR decided that the 2018 musical would include only youth aged 13-18. However, the department is pleased to announce that this year’s production will now include 10 younger children, aged 8-12. To accommodate this change, SPR will add a staff member to the TSM program, which will allow the department to meet its standard supervisory ratio for young children of 1 adult to 10 kids. This will provide enough adult supervision to keep the younger children safe, engaged, interested, and having a good time.

“We remain committed to the Teen Summer Musical, which has become a Seattle summer tradition,” says Christopher Williams, Interim Superintendent, Seattle Parks and Recreation. “We understand there has been some misinformation that the program would be cancelled or that it lacked the support of the department. This couldn’t be further from the truth. The Teen Summer Musical is here to stay – and it will be stronger than ever.”

The Teen Summer Musical (TSM) provides opportunities for local youth to build self-confidence, new friendships, and new talents through theater arts. This 9-week long summer program involves dozens of teens of color, and each year, the program features a musical production that celebrates African American culture. After a whole summer of rehearsal and mentorship, TSM performers share their talents and hard work with the community in several spectacular performances.

This year, TSM auditions will occur at Rainier Beach Community Center on May 5 from 12 to 3 p.m. and on May 6 from 2 to 5 p.m. 2018 TSM performances will take place on August 24, 25, and 26. The venue for performances is yet to be determined as SPR continues to search for a high-quality location that suits the needs of the production. We are also exploring sponsorship and partnership opportunities to defer venue cost. For more information on how to participate in the 2018 TSM, contact Keisha Cannon at (206) 233-1508 or Kiesha.Cannon@seattle.gov.

Moving forward, SPR wants to have a conversation with the community about the future of the Teen Summer Musical and looks forward to providing opportunities for public input.

Filed Under: African American, Arts, Community, Entertainment, Featured Stories, Front Page Slider, Music, Northwest, Theatre, Uncategorized

Teatro ZinZanni announces ‘world headquarters’ at former Red Hook brewery

April 29, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

Teatro ZinZanni—whose mix of cabaret, comedy, cirque and fine dining has drawn sold-out crowds in the Puget Sound region for 20 years—today announced it has secured a 10-year lease, with two 10-year options, at the former Red Hook Brewery in Woodinville, Wash.

The company will mount a new show there for the holiday season in its famed spiegeltent beginning in November, with James Beard Award-winning chef Jason Wilson returning to design the menu.

The new location will for the first time consolidate all of Teatro ZinZanni’s operations in one space, including scene shop, costume shop and administrative offices. The move opens the door to additional opportunities, including an on-site training studio for circus arts and a return of family and education programs. Teatro ZinZanni will also continue the tradition of food and drink at what was the Red Hook pub; an announcement on those plans is expected in coming months.

 

Teatro ZinZanni finishes a six-month engagement at Redmond’s Marymoor Park April 29.

 

“The Eastside embraced us during our recent stay, and we’re thrilled to make an ongoing home there,” said Norm Langill, Teatro ZinZanni’s founder and artistic director. “As we expand, Woodinville will be the production home for everything ZinZanni and be the launch pad for the expansion of our brand. We humbly refer to it as ‘world headquarters.’”

 

Teatro ZinZanni is mapping plans to expand beyond the Pacific Northwest. It has already announced a return to San Francisco in a new home on the Embarcadero, and is currently developing plans for a tent in a third market.

 

“A consolidated home base allows us the flexibility to not only do shows in Woodinville, but also additional places across the region and beyond as opportunities arise,” Langill said.

 

The move to Woodinville puts Teatro ZinZanni at the heart of the Hollywood District of Woodinville Wine Country, home to the Herbfarm, Chateau Ste. Michelle and more than 40 other wineries and tasting rooms.

 

Inquiries about group sales for Teatro ZinZanni’s upcoming show can be made at zinzanni.com.

 

Filed Under: Entertainment, Events, Featured Stories, Front Page Slider, Music, Theatre

How a Children’s Book is Fighting the Gender Pay Gap

April 28, 2018 by NWFacts 1 Comment

Melanie MazzaWhen Emily Kim graduated from law school in 2011, the job market was bleak. She was thrilled when she landed her first position and she took the salary offered, fearing that negotiation might cost her the job.

A while later, Emily assumed a role managing the office’s budget. In comparing past years’ payroll expenditures, Emily saw something that shocked her. The man who had previously occupied the position had been paid $10,000 more.
“We had the exact same qualifications,” she said. “We graduated law school in the same year.”
Emily couldn’t believe the discrepancy. “That really amped me up, and made me hyper-aware moving forward to think about salaries and what you’re worth.”

In recent years, Emily has been active in the fight for Equal Pay. Emily worked for Councilmember Jean Godden and joined Seattle’s Gender Equity in Pay Taskforce, where she focused on passing a paid parental leave policy. To generate more conversation about gender equality, Emily wrote a children’s book, “Sabrina for Student Council”, and has launched a Kickstarter to help fund it. She was “inspired to write a story to empower little girls, and especially little girls of color, to stand up for what is right and to engage in public office.”

The book tells the story of Sabrina, a young girl who speaks out against gender discrimination. At her school, the boys always get bigger cookies than the girls at snack-time. Sabrina’s teacher explains that “it’s just the way it is.” Dissatisfied with this answer, Sabrina launches a student council campaign and advocates for gender equality. The book follows her as she partners with student associations, negotiates with unions, and fights for policy change.By exposing children to concepts of equality, discrimination, and the political process, Emily hopes that “Sabrina for Student Council” empowers young readers to engage in politics and fight injustice.

Emily is thrilled about Washington’s Equal Pay and Opportunity Act (HB 1507) that passed through the legislature this year. By ending employer pay secrecy policies, requiring provision of job-related reasons for differences in pay and opportunities, and strengthening workers’ rights to inquire about their pay, this bill protects women from the pay discrimination that Emily experienced.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Front Page Slider, People, Reviews

“THINK THE UN-THINKABLE, DARE TO DREAM, THE WINDS OF CHANGE ARE UPON US AND EVOLUTION WILL PREVAIL.”

April 14, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

THE CURL

A novel by RAYMOND GEORGE WARD

Whilst writing this book I came across a magazine article, about a famous performer and his Net Worth. I was quite astonished at the sum total. But it forced me to ask myself, what’s my Net Worth, and that of my Slave Ancestors? Surely their net worth is priceless.

I then asked myself, what’s our net worth, as a collective, here in the United Kingdom? That single question drove me on. The book reminds us just where we’re coming from, and in order to move forward, we’ll have to re-visit our past and take that monetary aspect, or saving scheme, in every part of the Caribbean, which formed a part of our parents, and our own 2nd generation everyday life while growing up. It has become part of our DNA, and to somehow re-build it here in England, as an above the board financial institution, and use that to change our situation and elevate our status here, where we still seem to be at the behest of everyone else’s negative assumptions, and the like, which some of us still eagerly live up to.

The Curl is about us. Black People, and our potential. Every migrant, wherever they’re from, and decide to finally settle, brings with them a part of their culture, be it food, clothing, customs etc. They then utilise it to their betterment. We are no different, but we’re severely lacking here financially, and the need to look to ourselves for a solution to something which we’ve always had, in every part of Africa and especially the Caribbean, to take us forward into the 22nd Century. I can’t thank my parents, enough, God bless them. I can’t even begin to imagine what they had to go through, but they did their utmost best. Don’t get me wrong, plenty are moving forward in leaps and bounds, already, but it’s about us, our excuses, our laziness, and our comfort zones.

 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Raymond George Ward, 57, married to my lovely Pam. I’m from the Old School. I’ve been a Dustman, Labourer, Driver and a Carer. I feel privileged to have a Mum and Dad. Discipline and Good Manners were the order of the day. I left school with no qualifications. Mum would give you her last. She taught me my life skills. There was nothing that I couldn’t do as a man child. Work and save, she drummed into me, and it stuck and made sense. I’ll bring my children up the exact same way.

 

 

This book is published by Raymond George Publishing in conjunction with WRITERSWORLD, and is produced entirely in the UK. It is available to order from most bookshops in the United Kingdom, and is also globally available via UK-based Internet book retailers.

 

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Local Rapper “Juice The God” Killed. Trevon McKoy his life ended too soon, but his legacy will live on through his music.

April 5, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

Trevon McKoy, a local rapper known by fans as JuiceTheGod.

Police are asking for the public’s help to identify the killer who shot local rapper Trevon McKoy, 21, in the head following a performance at Seattle Center early Sunday morning. McKoy’s rapper name was Juice The God.

 

 

 

https://youtu.be/knpX4Yc1inM

“He was a black man living his dream,” said McKoy’s aunt, Michelle Carter.
His dreams were cut short early Sunday when McKoy was shot in the head outside the Vera Project at Seattle Center after finishing a performance.
“Not any of us will ever be the same, ever again,” said Carter, tearing up about the loss of McKoy.
McKoy’s family is distraught over his death, especially his great-grandmother who raised McKoy.
“Oh my baby, he was just a wonderful kid,” said Dorothy Moody.
Family members say McKoy was an up-and-coming rap star from West Seattle who loved basketball, his family and was studying business management at Bellevue College.
“It hurts me that I’m even here today because he should be in class today, making music tomorrow and being with his family on Friday,” said Carter. The lyrics of his rap songs talk about life on the streets of West Seattle.
“When he says, he grew up on the street, he wasn’t a gangster, that’s not the street what he meant. We grew up on 24th Street, he and I on 24th Street, playing in the creek, riding our bikes,” said Carter.

JuiceTheGod.

McKoy raps about 24th and SW Kenyon Street in West Seattle where he grew up. It’s where his music career also started and on Monday it turned into the place where he was being remembered with flowers, candles and balloons tied to the street sign.
The street corner is where McKoy filmed one of his music videos. His cousin Marquis spent the afternoon on the curb listening to McKoy’s music and remembering the memories they shared together. “We was born and raised right here, since we were shorties. He (had) great energy, he loved basketball. I looked up to him, I still look up to him, that’s my right-hand man,” said Marquis. He said McKoy was always smiling, fill of energy and a lovable person.
“His death just breaks my heart,” said Marquis. The two cousins were in a music video together filmed on a basketball court. “We’re just getting started,” said Marquis.

McKoy’s family says his life ended too soon, but his legacy will live on through his music.
Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound is offering a $1,000 reward for any tips leading to an arrest in the case. Call 1-800-222-TIPS or use the P3 Tips App on your phone if you have any information that can help solve his case.

Filed Under: African American, Artist Spotlight, Featured Stories, Front Page Slider, News, Northwest, People

What it Means to be a Woman of Color at the Dawn of the 21st Century

March 29, 2018 by NWFacts Leave a Comment

Deborah Santana Empowers Underrepresented Voices in All the Women in My Family Sing

When it comes to gender equality and feminism, women of color are often left out of the conversation. Deborah Santana is on a mission to empower these underrepresented voices by giving access to a symphony of experiences that women of color have in today’s world.

Her new book, All the Women in My Family Sing highlights how important the inclusion of all women’s voices is to healing our world.The anthology includes essays by 69 women from ages 16 to 77. African American, Native American, Asian American, Muslim, Cameroonian, Kenyan, Liberian, Mexican American, Korean, Chinese American and LGBTQI women are represented in the collection.
“There has rarely been a day in my life that I have not been aware of my identity as a biracial woman of color, but ultimately, our similarities outweigh our differences,”
…says Santana who hopes to broaden cross-cultural understanding by showing people how very alike we are no matter our skin color, ethnic heritage, or place we live.

 

ABOUT THE BOOK:

This new book from Nothing But The Truth Publishing, LLC is an anthology documenting the experiences of women of color at the dawn of the twenty-first century. It is a vital collection of prose and poetry whose topics range from the pressures of being the vice-president of a Fortune 500 Company to escaping the killing fields of Cambodia, to the struggles inside immigration, identity, romance, and self-worth.
Contributors include America Ferrera, Samina Ali, Natalie Baszile (Queen Sugar), Porochista Khakpour (Sons and Other Flammable Objects), Lalita Tademy (Cane River), Mila Jam, Marian Wright Edelman (Children’s Defense Fund), and many more.

“In their common pursuits of acceptance, friendship and social justice, these writers demonstrate that there are truths and desires that transcend lines of color, sexuality and class. In sounding common chords of humanity, their voices, together, create a mighty chorus.”

ABOUT DEBORAH SANTANA:

Deborah Santana

Deborah Santana is an author, business manager, and activist for peace and social justice. Her non-profit, Do A Little, serves women and girls in the areas of health, education, and happiness. With a passion to provide educational opportunities for girls and women, Ms. Santana collaborates with organizations that work to prevent and heal relationship and sexual violence, improve the lives of America’s abused and neglected children, and a worldwide community of artists and allies who work for empowerment, opportunity, and visibility for women artists.

For More Information Visit:                                 https://www.deborahsantana.com/

Filed Under: Arts, Entertainment, Featured Stories, Front Page Slider, LifeStyle, People, Reviews

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