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....
THIS EVENT IS CANCELED We hope to be back in the park soon.Thank you! 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...
For everyone’s safety, all events through Seattle Parks & Recreation have been canceled by the City of Seattle Mayor’s Office until at least April 13 , so there will be no 2nd Saturday Work Party on April 11. Thank you, and stay safe out there!
For everyone’s safety, all events through Seattle Parks & Recreation have been canceled by the City of Seattle Mayor’s Office until at least April 13 , so there will be no 2nd Saturday Work Party in March or on April 11. Thank you, and stay safe out there!
Our November newsletter has the latest updates on the Amphitheater and coming events to Volunteer Park.
Seattle Art Museum – DOWNTOWN SEATTLE The 21st Century Silk Road: China’s Belt and Road Initiative David Bachman, University of Washington China’s Belt and Road Initiative marks a major expansion in China’s growing world in international affairs. It now includes land and maritime silk roads, an arctic silk road and a digital silk road. Much...
Seattle Art Museum – DOWNTOWN SEATTLE Silk and the Logics of Cosmopolitan Empire in Tang China BuYun Chen, Swarthmore College Commonly regarded as the golden age of Chinese history, the Tang dynasty was marked by impressive economic growth, political innovations, the flourishing of art and literature, and increased contact with the outside world. From the...
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...
Seattle Art Museum – DOWNTOWN SEATTLE Authenticity and the Reproduction of Buddhist Art and Artifacts in Medieval China Hsueh-Man Shen, New York University As Buddhism was transmitted to China, sacred objects were duplicated and replicated to satisfy the needs of local communities. Yet the replications pose a series of questions about authenticity. This lecture shows...
