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Arts, Local Events

Los Flacos bring sounds from Latin America to the Garden House

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Los Flacos (courtesy of flacosmusic.com).

The monthly Sunday Folk Club brings Los Flacos and The Lentils to the Garden House (2336 15th Ave. S.) this Sunday, December 2, at 7 p.m.

Headliners Los Flacos (Juan Sérbulo, Tim Wetmiller, Abel Rocha, and Diego Coy) use a variety of instruments to create their own acoustic versions of songs from Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean.

Opening band The Lentils features Jill Friedberg and Carlo Cennamo on accordion and saxophone playing a short set of Latin-flavored waltzes.

The Garden House opens for Beacon Bento (dinner delivered to your table from Inay’s Kitchen and Travelers Thali House) at 6 p.m., and the music starts around 7. Tickets are $7 at the door, free for kids under 12.

Upcoming Folk Club performers this winter include La Famille Leger and Peckin’ Out Dough on January 6, Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifters and Stefanie Robbins on February 3, and Fasten With Pins and Jo Miller on March 3.

Local Events

St. George’s Holiday Bazaar offers food, music, and local shopping

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There is a chance to shop locally right here on Beacon Hill next weekend at the St. George School Holiday Bazaar on Sunday, December 2 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the school’s Gathering Hall, 5117 13th Ave. S.

The bazaar will feature 30 vendors, including A Clean Sweep, Choice Organic Tea, Cookie Lee, Cupcakery, D’s Organic Concepts, Italia Imports, It Works! Body Wraps, Magpie Design Shop, Miche Bags, Pampered Chef, PartyLite, Pearl in Oysters, Rosso Gardens fresh wreaths, Sam’s Club, Scentsy, St. George Parish Fil-Am Association, St. George Parish Seniors, Tastefully Simple, Tupperware, and others.

All ages are welcome. Activities for children include a craft table and cookie decorating. Eighth grade students are hosting a Santa booth. Breakfast and lunch food will be served all day, including biscuits and gravy, pastries, Ivar’s clam chowder, spring rolls, Spam musubi, and more.

Performers will be on hand to entertain shoppers: Traci Hoveskeland at noon, and the St. George School Choir at 1 p.m.

Admission to the bazaar is free.

Local Business, Local Events

Beacon Hill business people to meet for lunch tomorrow

Beacon Hill business members and home-based businesses are invited to the first Beacon Hill Merchants Association Networking Luncheon, tomorrow (Tuesday), November 20, from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the Tippe and Drague, 3315 Beacon Ave. S. This is the first of a planned monthly event, scheduled for the third Tuesday of each month.

Cost is $15 for the lunch. RSVPs are requested since space is limited; contact Sandra Burr at 206-255-6500 or sandra@slimdowntoneup.com. Carpooling is suggested since available parking is limited to on-street parking.

Here’s how the Merchants Association describes the event:

Join us in making local business connections, building relationships that
lead to new friendships, endless referrals, and powerful advocates!
Meet, Mingle and Connect with like-minded Entrepreneurs in a Fun and
Festive Environment

  • Enjoy a fabulous lunch, network, meet new friends, and nurture new business relationships
  • Learn how to promote, showcase, and network your business
  • Hear a variety of 60-second commercials about each other’s businesses and services
  • Door Prizes!
  • Free 2 hour on-street parking

What Do You Need To Bring?

Your smile, 25+ business cards, and be prepared to give a 60-second commercial about your business.

Let’s powerfully step into the third quarter of this year meeting some new friends, making some excellent connections, and expanding our businesses now and into 2013.

Arts, Local Events

Tonight: Garden House Blues with Bonnie McCoy and Mary Flower

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Tonight, another Garden House Blues night comes to the Garden House (2336 15th Avenue S.), featuring Bonnie McCoy and Mary Flower.

Bonnie McCoy, the niece of Memphis Minnie, is making her West Coast debut. Having grown up with the blues, she took time to raise a family, but now she is reaching for her dream of continuing the family blues tradition. Hear a clip of Bonnie McCoy here.

Guitarist and lap slide player Mary Flower specializes in “the intricate, harmonically subtle Piedmont style, with its good-timey, ragtime feel.” She was nominated for both “Best Acoustic Artist” and “Best Acoustic Album” in the 2012 Blues Music Awards in Memphis. See a clip of Mary Flower here.

All ages are welcome. The music starts at 8 p.m., with doors opening at 7 p.m. so you can come early and order dinners under $10 delivered to your table from Inay’s Kitchen and Travelers Thali House. Online ticket sales from Brown Paper Tickets are closed, but you can still buy tickets at the door with cash or check.

Arts, Local Events

Local poets reading at The Station Wednesday night

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Kelli Russell Agodon
The Beacon Bards poetry series returns to The Station coffee house this Wednesday, November 14 at 7 p.m. with a reading by two local women poets, Kelli Russell Agodon and Annette Spaulding-Convy.

Agodon is the author of Letters From the Emily Dickinson Room, winner of the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Prize in Poetry, and a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Her other credits include Small Knots, Geography, and co-editing Fire On Her Tongue: an eBook Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry. Kelli is a co-editor of the Seattle literary journal Crab Creek Review, and the co-founder of Two Sylvias Press.

Annette Spaulding-Convy.
Annette Spaulding-Convy‘s collection In Broken Latin is a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. She previously wrote the chapbook In The Convent We Become Clouds, which won the 2006 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Along with Kelli Russell Agodon she is a co-editor of Crab Creek Review, co-founder and co-editor of Two Sylvias Press, and co-editor of the Fire On Her Tongue anthology.

Health and Safety, Local Events

Breakthrough Research: Dr. Rachel Ceballos at Beacon Hill Library

Dr. Rachel Ceballos.

Dr. Rachel Ceballos of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will visit the Beacon Hill Library (2821 Beacon Ave. S.) on Tuesday, November 13, for “Breakthrough Research,” a Science in the Community event to discuss what can be done in our communities to ensure the best possible quality of life for everyone while minimizing cancer health disparities.

Dr. Ceballos uses her expertise in stress and health-related outcomes to work with community partners to address distress in cancer survivors. Cancer survivors need effective physical and psychological interventions to ensure a high quality of life, and such interventions may be affected by cultural factors.

To RSVP for this event, contact Juan Cotto, 206-667-1246 or jcotto@fhcrc.org.

Arts, Local Events

String comes to the Garden House to entertain, challenge preschoolers

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String, a dance and object theatre show for children ages 2-6, will come to Beacon Hill next week for five showings at 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, November 14 and 15, and at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, November 16. The 35-minute show will be followed by a Q&A session with performer Mary Margaret Moore.

The show’s website describes String thusly:

“Every time that we witness 40 children focusing on the noise of a paper bag, we are deeply touched. Their deep concentration is truly magical.

“To create for children is to challenge them. In String, we stretch their capacity to decipher emotions. Small details, a raised eyebrow, a pinky movement, is enough to convey an emotion.”

Preschool classes from Beacon Hill’s Denise Louie Education Center and José Martí Child Development Center will attend the shows, but there are seats open to the public at each performance. Tickets are free, however, you must reserve a seat through Brown Paper Tickets.

If you can’t attend next week’s show, mark December 27 and 30 on your calendar, when the show will return to the Garden House. Watch the String website for details.

Arts, Local Events

Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind book release party tonight

Tonight at 7 p.m., ROCKiT is co-hosting a free book release event for Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities, edited by Victoria Law and China Martens.

Victoria and local contributors Andrea Givens and Simon Knaphus will be at the Garden House tonight for a reading, discussion, and celebration of the book, billed as “a collection of concrete tips, suggestions, and narratives on ways that non-parents can support parents, children, and caregivers in their communities, social movements, and collective processes.”

All ages are invited and welcome to attend. The Garden House is located at 2336 15th Ave. S.

Local Events, News, Urban Planning

Findlay Street Christian Church project moving forward

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This is a Lego version of the proposed Findlay Street Christian Church development project. Photo courtesy of Findlay Street Christian Church.

The long-delayed Findlay Street Christian Church project at South Bayview Street and 14th Avenue South on North Beacon Hill may be moving forward after all, so they are hosting a benefit concert to celebrate and raise funds for the project.

The church, previously located in Hillman City, sold its property some years ago, planning to move to Beacon Hill and develop what they have described as “an ambitious, forward-looking, mixed-use building that included worship space and multi-unit affordable housing.” But in January of this year, a church statement said “Unfortunately, we have run into a number of unforeseen setbacks and have so far been unable to get the project off the ground.”

Now that things are moving forward, they plan to celebrate (and raise funds) this Friday, November 9, with a concert featuring two a cappella groups, 545 Express and Shot in the Dark. Along with the music, guests will be able to see a large Lego rendering of the planned building, created by one of Findlay Street’s youth members.

The concert is at 7 p.m. this Friday, November 9, at Mt. Baker Park Presbyterian Church, 3201 Hunter Blvd. S. The suggested donation is $10.

Local Events, Volunteering and Giving

Ref. 74 supporters seek others to help wave signs

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Neighbor Eric writes:

I am organizing a group of neighbors and friends to support Marriage Equality and wave Approve Ref. 74 signs on Election Day.

Event Details. 7:00am-8:30am on Election Day (Tuesday, Nov. 6) @ MLK & Rainier Ave. S

  • ~ Wear appropriate clothes in case it rains.
  • ~ Take the light rail or park on any side street and meet us at the big intersection of MLK & Rainier Ave. S in front of Franklin High School and across from Starbucks.
  • ~ Bring your Approve Ref. 74 yard sign or borrow one of ours.

Please call Eric @ 206.387.6255 if you have questions.

If anyone else on Beacon Hill is planning election-related activities for Tuesday that the neighborhood should know about, let me know and I will compile them into a post that will go up on Monday.