Beacon Hill’s own Blue Scholars made a couple of Beacon-centric snow videos the last couple of times it snowed. Will there be a third? We don’t know, but enjoy these videos from the 2008 and 2010 snows:
Category Archives: Arts
Local events awarded funding
The Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs announced funding awards totaling $46,800 to 39 neighborhood arts festivals and events yesterday through the Neighborhood and Community Arts (NCA) program.
Each organization received a $1,200 award. Two Beacon Hill-related events received grants: Cinco de Mayo, a Fifth of May celebration with music and dance presented by El Centro de la Raza, and the NEPO 5k (will it be a run this year instead of a walk-don’t-run?), in which eighty local artists will present site-specific installations and performances along of Seattle streets, presented by NEPO House.
Other nearby events include Columbia City’s Beatwalk; Celebrate Little Saigon, a Vietnamese cultural festival and night market; Word Expressed, readings by Filipino artists and writers; Honk! Fest West, a roving marching band festival; and the Georgetown Carnival.
For the complete list of events receiving funding, go here.
Benders opens Saturday at NEPO House
This Saturday from 6-9 p.m. another Little Treats art show opens at NEPO House (1723 S. Lander St.). The show, Benders, is an exhibition curated by Zack and Gala Bent, featuring the work of local and national artists Calvin Ross Carl, Lee Piechocki, Maria Gamboa, Molly Epstein, and Nathaniel Russell.
According to the folks at NEPO, the show will bring together “works that toy with the perception of space or the limits of matter,” along with Bent household artifacts, homemade pretzels, and an essay by Gala Bent.
Before the opening on Saturday, guests are invited to join Zack Bent at 4 p.m. in “an exercise of chemistry and bending, making handmade lye dipped pretzels.”
Benders will run from January 7-21.
Youth Arts program seeks artists, organizations
Artists, organizations, and youth-service agencies: The Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs is seeking project applications for the 2012-2013 Youth Arts program, an annual funding program that supports arts training opportunities for middle and high school youth.
Funding of up to $10,000 may be granted to individual artists, artist teams, arts and cultural organizations, and youth-service agencies. Youth Arts prioritizes youth or communities with limited or no access to the arts. Previous grants may be seen here. The projects in the last round of funding are estimated to serve 8,697 kids in about 44,000 hours of after-school arts training from September 2011 through September 2012.
An upcoming informational workshop for interested funding applicants is planned for Monday, January 9 at the Beacon Hill Library, 2821 Beacon Ave. S., from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Attendees will learn about the program and the application process, as well as meet and get advice from previous award recipients. No registration is required for the workshop.
Guidelines for the application are here. You can complete an online application here. The application deadline is 11 p.m., Wednesday, February 15.
Tuesday Folk Club celebrates a year of music on Tuesday, 12/27
The Tuesday Folk Club at ROCKiT Space has been happening for a year now. To celebrate this year of folk music and community participation, there will be a holiday/anniversary party on Tuesday, December 27 at 7 p.m. The site is the Garden House, 2336 15th Ave. S.
The party starts with a casual open mic, followed by a barn dance, complete with callers. There will be light refreshments, and drawings for ROCKiT gear. ROCKiT Space and Beacon Rocks! t-shirts will also be available for sale.
Admission is $5; ROCKiT members and kids under 12 get in for free. Donations for food and drink are welcome. For more information, see the ROCKiT Space website.
Skin Deep Dance invites you to celebrate the season
There will be performances by Bollywood Bliss (adult Bollywood students), Bollywood Dolls (kid Bollywood students), Egle (guest belly dancer – wings of Isis), J9 Fierce (guest belly dancer), Jen Cerdena (guest belly dancer – double sword), Katrina McCoy (flamenco), Maysun (guest belly dancer), Nomaditude (guest student dance troupe – tribal improv), Sierra Bloom (guest belly dancer – fusion style), Tales From the Hip (advanced ATS belly dance students), Verbena (guest belly dance troupe).
Skin Deep Dance Boutique and Pharoah’s Treasures will also be there to sell holiday gifts.
For more information, see the Facebook event page or Skin Deep’s main Facebook page.
Erotic art exhibit opens tonight at Quetzalcoatl Gallery
An Erotic Art exhibition opens tonight as the last hurrah at the soon-to-close Quetzalcoatl Gallery (3209 Beacon Ave. S.) with an artists’ reception at 8 p.m. Artists featured in the exhibit, which continues through December 31, include Cecilia C. Alvarez, Eric Todd, Jen Etsitty, Keven Furiya, Mark Mueller, Andie deRoux, Cariña Booyens, Paul Dahlquist, Travis Hughes, Almendra Sandoval, Sienna, Eduardo Tillman and Brett Austin.
Works will be for sale, and the gallery promises they will be “priced affordably for holiday gift-giving.”
Over the next few weeks there will be a variety of performances at the gallery as well, including:
- Friday, December 16: Choroloco at 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, December 17: Tradicional Posada Mexicana Fandango Project at 7 p.m. and Barry Bremer Jazz Experiment at 8 p.m.
- Thursday, December 22: Lili Delight Burlesque at 9 p.m.
- Friday, December 23: Barry Bremer Jazz Experiment at 8 p.m.
- Thursday, December 29: Jaque Larrainzar at 8 p.m.
- Friday, December 30: DJ Liability at 9 p.m.
On New Year’s Eve, you can ring in the New Year right here on Beacon Avenue at Quetzalcoatl’s Closing Gallery and Exhibition Party at 9 p.m. RSVPs are required for this one at 206-334-0749. Tickets are $50 including appetizers and champagne.
For more information, please see the Quetzalcoatl Gallery website.
Gravity-defying dance performance returns next month
Choreographer Freya Wormus is returning to Beacon Hill next month to present a new version of her work hold on anyway at Yoga on Beacon, 3013 Beacon Ave S. The performance includes five dancers who swing and launch themselves from walls using gravity-defying rigging, and according to Wormus, the work “challenges the dancers’ perceived relationship to the floor and to gravity itself.” (Here is what the Seattle Weekly had to say about last year’s version.)
The dancers, Laura Aschoff, Victoria Jacobs, Alex Martin, Sarah Shira and Freya Wormus, will perform alongside the band Estocar (hear them on their website).
The performances will be on Friday and Saturday evenings, as well as Sunday matinees, from January 13-29. Tickets, $15 for adults and $10 for students and children, are available at Brown Paper Tickets.
Las Posadas event with music, tree lighting, art chairs tonight
As reported earlier, tonight at 6 p.m. is the free Las Posadas event at El Centro de la Raza. The event will include a Christmas tree lighting, free holiday food, $5 photos with Santa, and performances by the Seattle Fandango Project, the Beaconettes, the Danza de Negritos Troupe, and A La Carte.
Additionally, ROCKiT Space volunteers have been working hard putting the finishing touches on a fleet of 45 community art chairs. Volunteers have been working on “artifying” these chairs for a few months. The chairs will be gifted to the community tonight and used at the Las Posadas event.
El Centro de la Raza is located at 2524 16th Ave. S. For more information about Las Posadas, call 206-957-4605.
El Centro to host Las Posadas holiday event 12/12
All are invited to El Centro de la Raza’s free Las Posadas celebration on Monday, December 12, at 6 p.m. The event will include Las Posadas led by the children and teachers of El Centro, but that’s not all. There will also be a Christmas tree lighting, free holiday food, $5 photos with Santa, and performances by the Seattle Fandango Project, the Beaconettes, the Danza de Negritos Troupe, and A La Carte.
Earlier in the afternoon, Seattle Fandango Project will host a free La Rama workshop from 4 to 6 p.m.
El Centro de la Raza is located at 2524 16th Ave. S. For more information about the event, call 206-957-4605.
