The second Beacon Rocks! music event happened yesterday at the Lander Festival Street. Here are some of the images of the day:
Last but not least, here’s a brief video clip Jason made of the Screaming Starts. It’s a bit rough, but it gives you a taste of the event. (The video quality improves about halfway through.) If anyone recorded any of the other acts, please let us know so we can link to them too..
The other day, we mentioned Happenin’ on the Hill, a celebration at the Maple School Natural Area this Saturday. The event hosts are seeking a “talented busker” who will play at the event to keep it festive. They say they have some money left in the budget to pay, so if you’re a local musician who can “play the stuff that you love” with an acoustic setup, you might want to contact them. See their Craigslist ad for info.
This week’s performers include The Students of Skin Deep Dance, Seattle Fandango Project, Autumn Electric, JJ DelSerra, Beaconettes, Jack Lenoir and friends, and the Screaming Starts.
Volunteers are still needed for the event, including help with organizing, fundraising, publicity, managing T-shirts, talking with neighbors and businesses, event set-up, and clean-up. Email beaconrocks@gmail.com if you would like to volunteer.
Live music and comedy are coming to North Beacon Hill this Friday, June 9. The Music with Purpose show at ROCKiT space (3315 Beacon Avenue South) will feature The Black International, Charles Kyd, and Timothy Truth, and will be hosted by Brent Flyberg. The show is open to all ages and starts at 8:00 pm (doors open at 7:30). Tickets are $10 at the door.
Beacon Hill writers will also find a home at ROCKiT space on July 20 at 6:30 pm, when they gather for the first meeting of a new writers’ group. J.P. Kemmick is helping put the group together: “We’d like as many people to attend in order to help us shape what the group will look like. Hope to see you all there.” More info at the website.
Adding to our previous run-down of places to go and things to do:
Tonight, April 28:
Friday, April 30:
Saturday, May 1:
Tuesday, May 4:
Wednesday, May 5:
Monday, May 22:
Don’t forget about the Beacon Hill Music/Beacon Rocks! fundraisers and Beacon Idol tryouts, along with numerous other still-upcoming events, mentioned in the last roundup!
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Some Beaconians might be curious about what happened to former Culinary Communion operator Gabriel Claycamp and his pork emporium, The Swinery, after Claycamp decamped from Beacon Hill back to West Seattle last year. It turns out the road has not been entirely smooth (some of the comments on that post are interesting, to say the least), but Claycamp and the Swinery did get a positive write-up from the New York Times’ T Magazine Blog recently.
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Elliott Jones of El Centro writes with more news about tasty tamales:
Have you been one of the lucky attendees of El Centro de la Raza’s tamale classes? Chances are, you haven’t – they have been wildly popular and have been selling out quick! Here’s a link to sign up for the next one, on May 15th (they are every 3rd Saturday, by the way).
Our April class is this Saturday, so that means that even though you might not be able to learn how to make them yourself, this month, you can still purchase some! Tamales are $12/dozen and you must order by Wednesday at 5pm.
To order, call Ashley Haugen at 206-957-4611 or e-mail development@elcentrodelaraza.org.
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The Dana Lupinacci Band is playing blues and jazz on Thursday night at the Beacon Pub, 3057 Beacon Avenue South. Show is at 8:00, and there is no cover charge.
Also in musical news on the Hill: We neglected to mention that Beacon Hill’s own Blue Scholars were featured in The Stranger a couple of weeks ago.
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Some lowlife stole a couple of kids’ bikes right off their front porch. “1 royal blue/silver/black 20″ mongoose, BMX style with pegs. Right handbrake is cracked. 1 lime green/silver 20″ Next, BMX style with pegs.” If you’ve seen them, please contact the parents.
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Denise Louie Education Center is holding their Fifth Annual Children and Families Festival on Saturday, May 22 from 1:00 – 4:00 pm at their Beacon Hill location, 3327 Beacon Avenue South. The event is free and open to the public, and will feature food, music, crafts, and community resources. Volunteers are needed. For more information or if you are interested in volunteering, please contact Frances Lin at 206-792-9771 or email flin@deniselouie.org.
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The Rainier Valley Cooperative Preschool is hosting a rummage sale this Saturday, April 24.  The school is located at the Beacon Lutheran Church, 1720 South Forest Street (just across Beacon from the library).
There are a lot of events and meetings coming up soon that we want you to know about. Updated with late-arriving reminders of ROCKiTspace events and El Centro’s Cinco de Mayo celebration. Here goes:
Sunday, April 18:
Monday, April 19:
Saturday, April 24:
Wednesday, April 28:
Sunday, May 2:
Thursday, May 6:
Saturday, May 8:
Thursday, May 13:
Friday, May 14:
Sunday, May 16:
Monday, May 17:
Saturday, May 22:
Wednesday, May 26:
Saturday, May 29:
Thursday, June 3:
Saturday, June 5:
Sunday, June 13:
Thursday, June 17:
Monday, June 21:
Saturday, July 17:
Big thanks to Frederica Merrell for assembling many of these meeting times and locations in a handout from the April NBHC meeting.
Monday night at the Beacon Hill Library, the first meeting was held to organize a Beacon Arts Council. Jessie McKenna of ROCKiT Space reports:
“A group of artists, neighbors and artist-neighbors gathered (Monday) at the Beacon Hill branch of the library and discussed organizing something of a Beacon Arts Council. A few of us volunteered to be on the steering committee for such an organization. We secured a web domain name and a Ning site (a social networking site like the one ROCKiT space uses) and began the process of building an online presence as well as a physical presence. The next meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 5th, 6:30-9:30pm at ROCKiT space (3315 Beacon Avenue South) and is open to all interested parties.
For now, you can find us at http://beaconarts.ning.com/.”
Speaking of the ROCKiT website, if you go there you can find information on the Beacon Rocks! music festival currently planned for the Lander Festival Street on June 13, July 11, August 8, and August 29. Interested in volunteering? Glad you asked!
In the visual art realm, Beacon Hill may not have any traditional art galleries, but it’s home to one very cool non-traditional one, home_page.project. Artist (and neighbor) Klara Glosova occasionally turns her home into a venue for art. On Saturday she hosted a show called “Nepo” (it’s “open,” backwards), in which the whole house—one lived in by Glosova’s whole family—was filled with art, including sculpture, painting, video, and music: “a visual experience perched on the threshold of spontaneous creative experience and perfected mastery.” There’s even art in the bathroom and the bedroom closet! If you missed Saturday’s show, you can still see it today, March 6, from 4:00-6:00 pm, at 1723 South Lander Street, just a block east of Beacon Hill Station.
If you can’t make it, you can see an overview of the show on Glosova’s website, or check out the review on the Slog. (We previously wrote about the home_page.project in January.)
Saturday, February 20th, 2 to 4pm: Camp Long at Jose Rizal Park
Monday, February 22nd, 7pm: Beacon Hill Music organizational meeting. From Paul Ray:
Jessie at ROCKiT space has again generously offered to host this meeting about organizing a Beacon Hill music series at ROCKiT Space (3315 Beacon Ave S., Seattle), on Monday Feb. 22nd at 7pm.
Things are starting to move along in our efforts to try and organize a series of 4 music events over the summer of 2010, performed at the Festival Street next to the Beacon Hill Link Rail station. This series would feature musicians who live, work or attend school on Beacon Hill or groups that contain members that fit that criteria.
Our permits were approved for 4 events, spread out over 4 Sunday afternoons, June 13th, July 11th, August 8th, August 29th, YEAH!
With the dates approved we are at the stage to start taking the steps to make this happen. The next hurdles are paying for the permits and the event insurance (and determining exactly how much the insurance will cost) and getting electricity to the site. But with the dates approved we are ready to start organizing the production of the events, including musician selection, communications and publicity, community outreach, and making plans for the staging on event days, etc. One of our goals at this meeting is to assign some actual tasks to some actual volunteers.
Anyone interested in this project is encouraged to attend.
Wednesday, February 24th, 10am to 4pm: Hanford Steps clean-up. From Jorji Knickrehm:
It’s been a long time since we worked together on the Hanford Steps! Let’s put a little work in, to make sure it looks good and is safe this spring. The weather is lovely and we’ve scheduled a work party. It’s during the week because the Larson Casteel Landscape company has graciously agreed to help us dig out blackberry, and they need to set the schedule (they owed us a little more time from our last grant). We’d love all of you to join in if you’re home from work and have an extra shovel.
The plants we put in last year are doing well for the most part, but blackberry and morning glory are trying to take over again. We need to dig out these invasive weeds while they’re young and weak. The more we dig them out, the weaker they will return. Weeding will be the main task of the work party.
Clean-up is weather-permitting. Jorji is bringing treats! You bring a shovel and/or pick, gloves, a treat for sharing if you can.
Wednesday, February 24th, 5pm: Airplane noise workshop, from Marco Milanese, Community Relations Manager at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, (206) 787-7734:
Part 150 Noise Study Public Workshop Set for February 24th in Des Moines
The first in a series of public workshops for Sea-Tac Airport’s Part 150 Noise Study is scheduled for February 24th at Mount Rainier High School (22450 19th Ave. S.) in Des Moines. Doors open at 5 PM, with the program beginning at 5:15 PM. The Part 150 Study will look at ways to reduce aircraft noise impacts on communities. Throughout the study, the public is invited to participate in the solution and recommendation process through active engagement in a series of topical workshops.
The February 24th workshop will include a brief presentation followed by facilitator-led, small-group working sessions designed to gather the public’s input on refining the scope for the Part 150 Study. So, please review the meeting agenda and come prepared with ideas.
February 24th, 6:30 to 8pm: Via Steve Louie, the Greater Duwamish council meeting at Georgetown City Hall. Agenda:
6:30 to 6:40pm — Introductions, Judith Edwards, GDDC -Chair
6:40 to 6:50pm — Councilmember Sally Bagshaw
6:50 pm-7:00 pm — Councilmember Mike O’Brien, Parks, Seattle Center, and Waterfront Planning, Seattle Public Utilities and Neighborhoods
7 to 7:30pm — Q&A
7:30 to 7:45pm — Neighborhood Projects Fund, Judith/Steve
7:45 to 8pm —AnnouncementsPark Safety/Rangers, Brock Milliern
Open
Updated 2/23 with revised agenda from Steve Louie.
Saturday, February 27th, 9am to 4pm: Credit Smart and First-Time Home Buyers seminar at El Centro
Saturday, February 27th, 6 to 10pm: Nepo (A humorous approach to the serious art of living)
Paul Ray reports on last Monday’s organizing meeting for a music series at the new Lander Festival Street:Â
We have decided to apply for permits for afternoon concerts on four Sundays, June 13, July 11, August 8, and August 29, for afternoon concerts. The Special Events Permit Committee meets early in February so we should find out soon if those dates are approved.
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Partly due to comments made (and the points in those comments) on the Beacon Hill Blog about our meeting announcement, we decided to name the group “Beacon Hill Music” because for some people the term “BeHi” just rubs them the wrong way and others may not automatically realize it stands for Beacon Hill. But we reserve the right to still use “BeHi Music” for some purposes, such as cool t-shirts.
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The music series itself will be called “Beacon Rocks” but with a tagline something like “and swings, raps, jams, sings, strums, etc.” to be clear about the diversity of musical styles we intend to include.
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Thanks for everyone’s interest and as we reach any milestones (such as getting permits approved, starting to seek out musicians, etc.) we will definitely keep the community informed.