A $5 gift from YOU could be matched up to 2000%!!! Two THOUSAND percent — we're not kidding!On Giving Tuesday, our first seven gifts at $5 or more from NEW DONORS will be matched with $100 from Seattle Parks Foundation. Of course, all gifts are welcome and needed - but if you've been thinking about...
Join us for our annual free holiday outdoor festival of lights: Walk the Volunteer Park pathways beautifully lit by hundreds of luminarias creating a magical wonderland! Listen to live joyful music from local choral ensembles: 6:00 Strum: Seattle's Totally Relaxed Ukulele Musicians 6:30 Emerald City Women’s Chorus 7:00 Seatown Sound 7:30 The Beaconettes! Warm up with free...
Seattle Art Museum - DOWNTOWN SEATTLE Zoroastrian and Manichean Arts of the Silk Roads Zsuzsanna Gulasci, Northern Arizona University Zsuzsanna Gulasci is a historian of religious arts of pan-Asiatic religions. Her talk introduces two of the religions that spread from Mesopotamia and Persia into Central Asia and China during the Silk Roads era, as well...
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....
Dargarth is a Live Action Wargame. Players engage in medieval fantasy combat and roleplay with full garb and padded weapons.
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 is a Live Action Wargame. Players engage in medieval fantasy combat and roleplay with full garb and padded weapons.
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....
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,...
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...
