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Open Position: AmeriCorps VISTA with DNDA
We’re seeking an AmeriCorps VISTA member to join the DNDA team! Read more about this position below, and submit your application here. Apply today! This position begins on Monday, March 16. AmeriCorps VISTA: DNDA Community Engagement & Development Specialist This position is made available through AmeriCorps and United Way of King County. Member Duties: The VISTA…
Celebrating MLK Day with DNDA
DNDA, in partnership with United Way King County, celebrated Martin Luther King Day of Service this year by hosting a volunteer restoration event in the West Duwamish Greenbelt. The event focused largely on social and environmental justice through forest restoration, with a lunchtime EcoArts activity that highlighted and honored the work of several local activists.…
Introducing the Wetland Workshop Series
The Delridge Wetland Park Project is creating space for increased community use in addition to restoring a unique urban greenspace in the Longfellow Creek watershed. DNDA’s Wetland Workshop Series offers a variety of free events designed to facilitate a re-introduction between our communities and the Delridge Wetland. The goal for the workshop series is to…
A *Flurry* of Holiday Crafts at Croft
It’s almost the end of 2019—and what better way to celebrate than with a series of holiday craft-making classes! To round out this year’s programming at Croft Place Townhomes, teaching artist Molly Duttry and the EcoArts Program Coordinator Madison Bristol facilitated art classes centered around the season, which included canvas painting, block printing cards of gratitude, making…
Meet DNDA’s EcoArts Program Coordinator!
Imagine you are in a forest grove underneath a tunnel of intertwining branches. The afternoon light is trickling in through the leaves, highlighting the forest bed—if this autumn had been any wetter, this clearing could in fact be a stream. Now, insert children’s laughter, tables full of art supplies, cut-out paper salmon, and an atmosphere…
OPEN ARTIST CALL: Arts in Nature Festival
Our festival artist call is now open! We’re seeking artists of all disciplines to apply for the 2020 Arts in Nature Festival. Learn more and submit your application here. Next year’s festival will take place on June 20-21 at Camp Long in West Seattle. We’re excited to announce the festival theme Eternal Sunshine, in honor…
Spooky Masks and Seasonal Crafts: Arts Classes at Croft
We hear a knock on the door, and turn around to see small shadows behind the glass waiting to be let in. It’s 4pm, and as expected, the kids of Croft are itching to create. This fall, the DNDA Arts Program hosted three art-making classes inspired by the month of October at DNDA’s Croft Place Townhomes. No matter the project,…
Join our Volunteer Appreciation Potluck!
10 parks. 1,624 volunteers. 5,455 hours worked. 277,669 square feet of invasive plants removed. 2,344 native plants installed. This is what our volunteers are capable of. All of this work was accomplished by our volunteers in just 10 months. Without their help, our forested parks would still be ravaged by Himalayan blackberry, English ivy and…
Play Your* Part Seattle: The Originals
The Originals – A World Premiere Play by Brandon Force tells the story of three prep-school boys who are accused of plagiarism, having turned in identical essays word for word, semicolon for semicolon. Two upperclassmen are assigned the task of sussing out the truth, leading all five to decide for themselves what is more valuable…