Dargarth Battle Day at Volunteer Park

Dargarth is a Live Action Wargame. Players engage in medieval fantasy combat and roleplay with full garb and padded weapons.

SAM Downtown – Saturday University Lecture Series

19725|https://volunteerparktrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/SAM-sat-u-630px-1.jpg|full Saturday University: China's Belt and Road Initiative Jan 18 2020 Seattle Art Museum Plestcheeff Auditorium 10 AM – 11:30 AM Get Tickets The 21st Century Silk Road: China’s Belt and Road InitiativeDavid Bachman, University of Washington China’s Belt and Road Initiative marks a major expansion in China’s growing world in international affairs. It now...

Dargarth Battle Day at Volunteer Park

Dargarth is a Live Action Wargame. Players engage in medieval fantasy combat and roleplay with full garb and padded weapons.

Second Saturday Work Party

Come meet your neighbors and friends, and enjoy gardening in Volunteer Park at our monthly 2nd Saturdays Stewardship event, 10 AM to Noon. Look for the sign at the Black Sun sculpture across from Seattle Asian Art Museum to tell you where we’ll be in the park. We clean garden beds, weed, mulch, and remove invasive plants to keep our park beautiful....

SAM Downtown – Saturday University Lecture Series

19725|https://volunteerparktrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/SAM-sat-u-630px-1.jpg|full Rarities fit for kings: ephemeral and tangible precious goods in Sultanate India Emma Flatt / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Emma Flatt introduces our series theme "What is Precious?" through court life in medieval sultanates in the Deccan Plateau (western and southern India). She will discuss their valued jewelry, swords, carpets, textiles,...

SAM Downtown – Saturday University Lecture Series

19725|https://volunteerparktrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/SAM-sat-u-630px-1.jpg|full Woodwork and the Arts of Japan Yukio Lippit / Harvard University Although Japanese artistic traditions are often associated with rare and precious materials, including gold, silver, brocade silk, lacquer, and other materials, this lecture proposes that nothing is more valuable to these traditions than wood. Despite its humble and ubiquitous nature, wood in the...

Seattle Asian Art Museum REOPENING Weekend – SOLD OUT

All 10,000 free tickets for this event have been taken. Welcome the return of our acclaimed art collection at the grand reopening of today’s Asian Art Museum! Join us for a free weekend-long community celebration, February 8 and 9, 9 am–9 pm. Now that the major renovation to the museum has been completed, performances, art...

SAM Downtown – Saturday University Lecture Series

19725|https://volunteerparktrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/SAM-sat-u-630px-1.jpg|full Saturday University: Silk and Fashion in Tang China Jan 11 2020 Seattle Art Museum Plestcheeff Auditorium 10 AM – 11:30 AM Get Tickets Silk and the Logics of Cosmopolitan Empire in Tang ChinaBuYun Chen, Swarthmore College Commonly regarded as the golden age of Chinese history, the Tang dynastywas marked by impressive economic growth, political...

SAM Downtown – Saturday University Lecture Series

19725|https://volunteerparktrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/SAM-sat-u-630px-1.jpg|full The Dragon and the Pearl: Explorations of a Eurasian Motif Joel Walker / University of Washington The art and literature of medieval Eurasia abound with stories of precious jewels guarded by monstrous serpents or dragons. This presentation will investigate iterations of this motif in the Syrian Christian tradition, including a famous stele from the...

Saturday University: The Castaway Princess and Other Stories

Delve into new themes every season with a different speaker each week. Challenging, thought-provoking, and sometimes surprising, this long-running and always popular lecture series incorporates audience discussion as experts from around the world join us to share their insights on Asia throughout time. Find complete details for this event at the SAAM website.