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Reflecting on a Day of Service
All around the King County, people came together to spend one day giving back to their communities. Last Friday Nature Consortium hosted 85 volunteers from Microsoft in honor of United Way’s Day of Caring. As the single largest day of service in Washington State, Day of Caring is always a big day for us. It…
Local nonprofit celebrates National Public Lands Day with hike, forest restoration
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release: Sept 20, 2011 SEATTLE – Eco-art nonprofit Nature Consortium will celebrate National Public Lands Day this weekend with a guided hike and forest restoration event in Seattle’s largest forest, the West Duwamish Greenbelt. The hike will take place on Friday 9/23, and the restoration event the following day on Saturday…
Featured Fest Artist: The Cabiri
Seattle dance troupe The Cabiri uses dance, aerial arts, fire performance, and theater to tell the stories of ancient myths and folk tales. A well-known Arts in Nature Fest favorite, we are pleased to have them back again this year! The troupe will be performing several different short performances each day, with a stunning fire…
Featured Fest Artist: The Moondoggies
We’re so excited to have Seattle locals The Moondoggies headlining the Arts in Nature Festival on Saturday night! They bring warm three-part harmonies, a gothic Rhodes organ, and wanderlust guitar mark a sound rooted in boogie blues and cosmic country; whip-smart songwriting leads to hook-heavy tunes that bristle with originality. This show will be an exclusive…
Ten, Ten, Ten!
We give our Clips of Faith event a 10 out of 10 for being a smashing success! Thank you to everyone who came out and made this possible, especially New Belgium Brewing for giving us the opportunity. We had lots of fun! Some Stats: About 50 volunteers set up the event, served beer, checked IDs, sold…
Bikes and brews! A few of our favorites:
It’s beer week at Nature Consortium! We’re gearing up for Clips of Faith (this Friday!), and we’ve got bikes and beer on the brain. New Belgium is set to have 14 of their finest brews on tap, including our staff favorite Ranger IPA. We’re also raffling off a “Fat Tire” cruiser bike (must be present…
Calling all volunteers: We need you!
Like beer and movies? Volunteers needed at Clips of Faith, our beer and film festival with New Belgium Brewing. The event will be held at Gas Works Park on Friday July 29th, and we need your help to make it great! We had a great weekend at the West Seattle Summer Fest. The weather was beautiful,…
Wine in the Woods
Photos Are Here! Our second annual Wine in the Woods fundraiser on June 30th was a great success! We had a great time out in the West Duwamish Greenbelt listening to live music and enjoying delicious wine and treats. All of us at Nature Consortium would like to thank everyone who helped make this possible: 12th…
Edible nature in Seattle's forests: Salmonberries are here!
The salmonberries in the greenbelt are nearly ripe and ready to eat! These native treats look like raspberries but have an orange-pink (or sometimes bright red) color. They are in the same family as non-native pest Himalayan blackberry and make a great substitute when you want to remove the invasive blackberry. Salmonberries are an important…