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Recap: Let’s Talk Race Series: American Education System
Check out these photos from The American Education System workshop! If you couldn’t make it this past weekend, here’s what you missed: This past Saturday, the second-to-last Let’s Talk Race Series event, The American Education System, was held in Youngstown Cultural Arts Center. Exploring our personal experiences with the American education system, participants were led…
Recap: Let’s Talk Race Series: 13th and U.S. Policies
This past Saturday community members gathered in the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center Theater for the 13th and U.S. Policies workshop as part of DNDA’s Let’s Talk Race Series 2018. The workshop analyzed the history of institutionalized racism in the United States through a walkthrough timeline activity and Ava DuVernay’s documentary “13th.” To start the event, participants were led…
Volunteers Wanted to Plant Trees in West Seattle
Did you know that Seattle’s largest remaining forest, the West Duwamish Greenbelt, happens to be next to one of the most polluted rivers in the country? Extending over 500 acres in West Seattle, the greenbelt plays a critical role in filtering the air and water pollution in the Duwamish River created by urban runoff and…
Delridge Business Safety Meeting
What steps can you take to protect your customers, employees, and the greater community at large? Join DNDA Thursday, October 4, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center – Room 111: Jake Hellenkamp of Seattle Neighborhood Group will walk business owners and community members through proven strategies that deter crimes and…
RECAP: Arts in Nature Festival
When Art, Nature and Neighborhood converge, beautiful moments happen. The 19th annual Arts in Nature Festival has come and gone, but not without offering a treasured memory of a weekend-long community celebration in such a unique space in our city. Following the theme of convergence— the act of meeting at a common point– artists and…
SYP Year 2 – Bigger & Better!
From early July to late August DNDA hosted the annual Summer Youth Program at High Point and NewHolly. SYP is a DNDA neighborhood-based project that provide underserved youth access to various summer activities inaccessible to families residing in underserved communities. Designed by Yeggy Michael, DNDA’s Arts Program Director, the program provides youth access to over 15…
Race Series: Nurturing the Environment and Food Access RECAP
On Saturday, June 16, about 60 community members gathered at West Seattle’s beautiful Camp Long for DNDA’s 5th event of the Let’s Talk Race Series: Nurturing the Environment and Food Access. The day began as guests walked through a timeline path that demonstrated how colonialism, slavery, the Doctrine of Discovery, and other historic events have…
More edible nature in Seattle: Thimbleberry edition
Note: We recently re-posted a blog item from 2011 about the native and edible salmonberry. The popularity of that post gave us the idea to do similar profiles for many of the common native plants, edible or not, that we use in our restoration program. Today is Part 2 of that effort, profiling thimbleberry. The headlines…
Edible nature in Seattle’s forests: Salmonberries are here!
Note: Even after seven years, one of the most popular blog posts we’ve ever written continues to be this one about the native (and delicious) salmonberry. It’s nearly salmonberry season again so we’re reposting it today. Get out there and enjoy these native treats! -The Restoration Team The salmonberries in the greenbelt are nearly ripe…