Des Moines’ newest arts event is the Poverty Bay Arts Festival, which will happen Saturday, Setp. 25th from 10am – 4pm around the Marina District, and the festival committee has issued an official Call For Entries for Artists and their Artwork.
Sponsored by the Des Moines Arts Commission and the Associated Students of Highline Community College, the one-day arts festival will be held throughout the downtown Des Moines Marina District. It will showcase the incredible pool of local talent and feature the works of professional, college, secondary school and elementary school artists. Art will be displayed at various businesses and special venues.
Also scheduled are street performances and a Poetry Slam.
Anyone interested in participating should visit the festival website at www.povertybayartsfestival.com for more details and download the Call for Entries application (direct link here, PDF file).
The deadline for entries is Friday, July 23rd.
For further information, contact Cora Morrison at desmoinesflorist@gmail.com or Vickie Bergquist at Vickie@vickieinsurance.com.
Our friends at White Center for the Arts recently sent out a letter seeking donations and volunteers, with a specific goal of raising around $28,000 to help procure a gallery space at 9640-A 16th Ave SW.
WCFTA is close to getting the space, but needs more. They’re also looking for arts/business-minded people to sit on their Board of Directors.
Read the letter for full details, including how you can help:
Hello friends and supporters of having a community gallery in White Center,
White Center for the Arts must make a decision this weekend as to whether or not to continue pursuing the very fabulous space at 9640A 16th Ave SW for DREAM Community Gallery. We have the deposit money, and some grant money coming. However, it is not enough to responsibly continue with the project at this time without having $28,000.00 more. The landlord is understandably tired of waiting, and wants to move on. We have seen a vision of the future, and this space is what is needed, and desired, by many of the artists in the area.
DREAM: Community Gallery has a solid business plan. We have a great person, Lance McIntosh, who is managing the project, and who has crunched the numbers. We have a solid team of volunteers who will help with the build-out, and plenty of artists who are ready to exhibit, and performers ready to bring their art to you. We will be providing a resource library, a computer that is free to use, free wi-fi, and art materials for those who want to use them while they are at the gallery. In the gallery, as a way of avoiding having to apply for the endless parade of grants, we will have a small coffee bar. There will be plenty of comfy seating, and snacks. This space will be the central point from which White Center for the Arts conducts it’s arts programming.
We are a community organization. We are reaching out right now to the community for a show of support. Please support this beautiful project with a tax-deductible donation of any size.
We are also looking for arts/business-minded people to sit on the Board of Directors. We need a solid infrastructure directed by people from the community.
WCFTA is here with a vision of healthy community, and a goal of being a part of a healthy White Center. We are partnering with other organizations in the area to help realize this vision. Will you be a part of this?
If you have any questions, want to volunteer ( a list of opportunities is ready to be put up on the site), and/or want to donate, please contact me:
- Shelli Park
crimsonpark@whitecenterforthearts.orgThank you so much for your support! ART TO THE PEOPLE!!!!
| Mar |
| 5 |
| 7:30 pm |
| Mar |
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| 12:00 pm |
| Mar |
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| 12:00 pm |
The Rotary Club of Des Moines has announced that their Sixth Annual Poverty Bay Wine Festival will be held on Saturday, March 6th, from Noon– 7pm, and Sunday, March 7th from Noon – 5pm at the historic Landmark Event Center (formerly Landmark on the Sound) just down the road in Des Moines.
The opening night gala will be held Friday night, Mar. 5th, beginning at 7:30pm.
This festival is a must for anyone who loves wine, as well as for anyone who wants to support the work of Rotary, which supports schools and families in our community and around the world or anyone who enjoys an afternoon of good food, good wine and great music.
“The wine festival is an opportunity for wine-lovers to come taste samples from 20 Northwest wineries,” said Rotary spokesperson Catherine Carbone-Rogers. “All of the wineries typically offer two, three, or four different wines. Each winery will have wine by the bottle for sale. The festival is also a great opportunity to see the newly-restored Landmark Event Center, a unique architectural gem of the Des Moines community. Many people have driven by for years but have never had the opportunity to see the interior.”
What can participants expect while at the event? Besides the wine tasting from 20 Northwest wineries, there will also be a sampling of food from local restaurants, along with numerous musical guests throughout the festival. Here’s the preliminary lineup:
Friday, March 5 (Gala):
Saturday, March 6:
Sunday, March 7:
Double your pleasure – this year the $20 ticket price includes twice as many tasting tokens as before. For just $20, participants receive a souvenir wine glass and ten tokens, a sampling of delicious foods, and live music. What if you run out? Don’t worry, there’ll be tokens for sale at the event.
Major sponsors are Anthony’s HomePort, 98.9 KWJZ, Landmark Event Center, Fred Meyers, Powell Brothers Custom Homes, Highline Times/Des Moines News, Kent Reporter and The Waterland Blog and its sister sites.
The opening night Gala will be Friday, March 5th at 7:30pm at the Landmark Event Center. The theme is A Night in the Vineyard. A lavish buffet will be provided by Anthony’s HomePort. Tickets for the gala are $75 in advance, $85 at the door. The ticket price includes food, entertainment, and wine.
Wine Fesival tickets are priced at $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Tickets for the Wine Festival and Gala are available at Corky Cellars, located at 22511 Marine View Drive in Des Moines (206-824-9462); or online at www.dmrotary.org.
Poverty Bay Wine Festival is the major annual fundraiser for the Rotary Club of Des Moines. Lisa Meineke is the club President and Brian Snure is chair of the wine festival.
The main purpose is to raise funds for the charitable projects of the Rotary Club of Des Moines that include:
- Financial and volunteer support of Des Moines Food Bank
- Financial and volunteer support for Fireworks Over Des Moines on the Fourth of July annually
- “Dictionaries by the Dozens”: Rotary provides a new children’s dictionary to every third grade student in Des Moines
- Mini-grants of up to $1000 to schools or teachers in Des Moines for special projects
- College scholarship of $2,500 to a Highline Community College student
- Pacific Middle School essay contest
- Funding for after school program at Pacific Middle school
- Financial support to Highline Schools Foundation for Excellence, a non-profit benefiting Highline Public Schools
- Financial support for a women’s shelter in South Africa
- Purchase of sewing machines for women in Peru so they can generate income
“We hope to have more attendees than ever this year,” Carbone-Rogers added. “Each year, we have taken the wine festival up a notch with the number of wineries, the entertainment, and the food. The gala is classier every year, and the Landmark Event Center is an amazing venue. We also hope that people coming to the event will get interested in Rotary and join us in our work to support community causes and families,” she added.
For more information on the Des Moines Rotary, please click here: http://dmrotary.org/aboutrotary.php.
Our friends at White Center for the Arts (WCFTA) tell us that they’re trying to develop a local Art Gallery/Coffee House that could be used as a “home” of sorts for our community’s culture and arts.
WCFTA will be celebrating its one-year anniversary on Feb. 20th, and over its short lifespan has provided monthly art walks, after-school art programs, galleries for local artists and much more.
They’re looking for donations, starting at just $10 and continuing up to whatever you can give – here’s a link to their website where you can safely and securely donate online. Some employers will even match your gift donations.
And here’s an email sent out by WCFTA Chair Shelli Park:
Dear Lovers of Art in White Center,
White Center for the Arts (WCFTA) believes that the White Center community’s rich tapestry of culture and local arts should be shared with everyone. Our work to establish a permanent home for the arts in the neighborhood is off to a great start! In the past six months we:
- Established an after-school art program in the local Highline District Middle and High School
- Established the Third Saturday Art Walk, exhibiting more than 25 local artists in 9 months time.
- Are hosting Community Artists Meetings to open the lines of communication
- Established a working relationship with local, county, and state arts organizations and continue to identify and foster new partnerships within the community to create a web of services and support for artists and youth.
- Partnered with the YWCA at Greenbridge to showcase local artists in the lobby on a quarterly basis, and are working with Youth Media Institute and the Highline School District to implement non-violent extracurricular creative youth activities in the schools and in the White Center Downtown Business District.
But we have more work to do, and we are in urgent need of your support so that we can create the anchor of our vision and visiability, DREAM Community Gallery. We are asking for a small donation of $10.00 from 100 people, a $15.00 donation from 55 people, and 10 $100.00 donations. You will be supporting the entire White Center Cultural Community, helping to give visibility to local artists in all media, ages, and neighborhoods. A gift right now will assure that WCFTA can continue on our mission to be a catalyst for the coming together of the arts and cultural community of White Center. The time has come for a permanent home for the arts in White Center. Our current projects are:
DREAM, a Community Gallery sustained by an in-house Coffee House, providing un-juried exhibition space for local artists and performers, and providing a safe gathering place, and empowering activities, for youth
Development of our arts education programming
Collection of oral histories and artifacts for a permanent local history collection
Facilitating cross medium and cross cultural collaborations, and continuing to bring positive business to White Center through the Art Walk
We appreciate gifts of any amount, and in return WCFTA is working hard to promote art and culture in the daily life of White Center residents. We are to receive a $5,000 grant. We need more to open our Community Gallery by February 20th, the first anniversary of White Center for the Arts. We have scheduled two dance performances, a musician, and two artists for the evening of February 20th, and they are counting on your gift to help make this happen. When combined with the work of our dedicated volunteers, established, emerging, and students artists, the community as a whole will benefit from seeing our mission to bring art, and the celebration of culture and heritage to all of White Center and its neighbors, succeed.
To give a tax deductible donation, visit our website: www.whitecenterforthearts.org.
Sincerely,
Shelli Park
Chair, White Center for the ArtsP.S. You may be fortunate enough to have an employer that will match your gift. This is a great opportunity to give maximum impact with your gift to White Center for the Arts.
Dubsea Coffee, White Center’s hip, new and artsy coffeeshop (located at 9910 8th Ave SW in Greenbridge), has put out the following “call for artists”:
Call to ArtistsDubsea Coffee Art Submissions
Guidelines for All Artists
Dubsea Coffee is a new café and public art space located in White Center, nestled in the heart of the Greenbridge community. We are dedicated to bringing quality art and progressive content to the public. Our intent is to work with artists (of a variety of mediums), willing to share their work in a café/community setting. Our supreme hope is to share art that provokes positive energy and pride in the neighborhood. With this intent and these hopes it is possible for us to work with artists and be a catalyst for thought and positive creativity within our community.
<> We request that you send color copies, transparencies, digital files, or links to your website. Please do not send original work.
<> To make the nicest impression, you may want to send a cover letter and/or biographical content when submitting your art work. (OPTIONAL)
<> If you are mailing your submission please send an enclosed self addressed stamped envelope in a suitable size for the safe return of your art submission.
<> Send your submission to:Dubsea Coffee
c/o Joerael Elliott
9910 8th Ave SW
Seattle WA 98106
* if you are emailing your submission please send to [ joerael@dubseacoffee.com ]
| Nov ’09 |
| 21 |
| 6:00 pm |
White Center for the Arts‘ next event is an “Art Walk” this Saturday, Nov. 21st, from 6pm to 9pm.
Here are the details:
WHAT: White Center For the Arts 3rd Saturday Art Walk
WHEN: Saturday, Nov. 21st, 6pm to 9pm
WHERE: Here’s what’s going on:
- SALVADORIAN BAKERY: RANDY NICHOLS – 1719 SW. ROXBURY ST.
- FULL TILT ICE CREAM: JILLIAN INGRAM AND DAVE RYAN – 9629 16TH AVE S
- PROLETARIAT PIZZA: MIKE MULLINS - 9622 16TH AVE SW
- CAFE ROZELLA: VICTORIA HEUMAN – 9434 DELRIDGE WAY SW
- BIG AL BREWING: BRIAN BARR – 9832 14TH AVE SW
- RANDOM STORE FRONT ON 16TH: STUDENT SHORT FILMS
- COME SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING IN WHITE CENTER…
INFO: More info available at their website: www.whitecenterforthearts.org
| Oct ’09 |
| 29 |
| 7:00 pm |
Our friends at White Center for the Arts want to be sure that everyone knows about a Community Artist Meeting that will be held this Thursday, Oct. 29th at 7pm at Full Tilt Ice Cream (at 9629 16th SW).
Here are the details:
WHAT: Community Artist Meeting, facilitated by White Center for the Arts
WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 29th at 7:00 PM
WHERE: Full Tilt Ice Cream Shop Extraordinaire, located 9629 16th Ave SW, Seattle (206-767-4811)
INFO: Who is invited? Artists who live in and those who love the GREATER White Center Area/ Unincorporated King County, and a little bit outside that line. That means ALL artists. Music, dance, film, theatre, visual, 3-D, photography, written, mixed-media, young, old, in-between, student, emerging, established, etc.
What is this about? This is about creating your opportunities. What do you want/need from your community in order to further your work/goals? What can you give to your community to help strengthen it? White Center for the Arts is opening the line of communication. This is not a formal, stuffy meeting, but the first meeting of many where your voice can be heard, new alliances can be created, and we can figure out how to best accommodate you, the artist, in our own neighborhood.
If you can, please RSVP to Shelli (crimsonpark@whitecenterforthearts.org) so that Justin knows how many people will be taking over his shop!
| Sep ’09 |
| 19 |
| 7:00 pm |
White Center for the Arts‘ next event is coming Saturday, Sept. 19th, this time at a new venue – Big Al Brewery, located at 9832 14th Ave SW.
Here are the details:
WHAT: White Center For the Arts 3rd Saturday Art Event, featuring:
- Photography exhibit by Alexander Meas and Ken Champoux
- Live bands, Proletariat Pizza, Full Tilt Ice Cream, Big Al’s Beer and “fun surprises”
WHEN: Saturday, Sept. 19th , 7pm to 10pm
WHERE: Big Al Brewery, located at 9832 14th Ave SW, Seattle; – (206) 453-4487
INFO: Lots of art, artists, live music, pizza and microbrew, with a portion of the night’s take going towards funding WCFTA’s Community Gallery/Coffeehouse, and After-School Arts Education program.
Here’s more from their press release:
And now for something completely different…
At least the venue is different.
White Center for the Arts September Third Saturday Art Event is being hosted by Big Al Brewery!!
September 19th, 7PM until 10PM.
Come enjoy Art, Music, Food, Beverage, and Prizes; a rockin’ Saturday night, and help WCFTA reach it’s funding goal.
Please pass this along to all of your friends and make it a party!
Here are some photos courtesy Shelli Park of White Center for the Arts of this last weekend’s Jubilee Days:
| Jul ’09 |
| 18 |
| 5:00 pm |
Our friends at White Center for the Arts will be heavily represented at Jubilee Days this coming weekend (Saturday, July 18th and Sunday, July 19th).
For both days of the event, White Center for the Arts will have a booth in the community area where everyone can participate in a future public art project. This will be the first of many community art projects that they’ll host, and will consist of a clay mosaic.
“Do what you want with your piece of clay, sign your name or initials, and we will make sure that your piece is placed in the finished mosaic,” they say in a press release. “Fun for one and all. And you’ll be a famous artist!”
White Center for the Arts will also have a float in the parade, which starts at 1pm at the McDonalds on 16th Ave SW near 114th. They’ll be handing out candy and flyers as they float towards downtown White Center on 16th Ave SW with the rest of the crew.
“You’ve got to see what we are making this time!” adds the press release with more than just a hint of intrigue.
White Center for the Arts is hosting another Art Event this coming weekend in conjunction with Jubilee Days in the parking lot of the Skate Building on 17th Ave SW. They’ll be active for their regular hours of Saturday night from 5pm to 10pm, and encourage fairgoers to enjoy the nearby Beer Gardens, and the music flowing from the stage while you watch art in action!
For more information, visit their website here.
by Adam Hanes
Half of the band is drinking in the parking lot before the show and the other half shows up minutes before they go on stage – the night is off to a perfect start for a punk rock concert.
The four member punk band Rat City Ruckus played recently at Studio 7 with the headlining The Blanx from Renton in a show put on by Local Chaos Productions. Their hard and hilarious songs about partying and boasting self destruction also add a sense of hometown pride by including local landmarks in the lyrics in such songs as “Rat City” and “South Park Slam” from their first album Quartres put out by Rockin’ Stan Records. On stage antics and perform instrumental dynamics possessed by a seasoned nationally touring band gets the small but loyal crowd pumped up.
White Center has the punk band that has it all.
Brett, bass and vocals, pounds rhythm like Matt Freeman of Rancid and has a rebelliously adolescent mind of a young Fat Mike of NOFX and yes, this is a good thing. Dustin, the quiet drummer, looks as though he barely moves his arms yet Dustin hits harder and faster on the skins than I have seen in long time. Tony on guitar and bad pirate jokes according to the liner notes in Quartres, can hammer out on the six string without missing a beat and at the same time bring comedy by blowing in Brett’s ear when singing, challenging him to not botch the song. Lead guitarist and vocals, Phil screams lyrics with classic punk style and plucks his guitar that would make anyone want to join in the mosh pit.
If there is anyone looking out for a new sound, wanting to add more to their punk rock library or have the need to get rid of some angst I implore you to go see Rat City Ruckus. The band’s sophomore album, Mustard Shot, is due out by the end of June. You can see Rat City Ruckus tearing it up next at The Comet 6/11, Blue Moon 7/2 and Full Tilt 7/18 for Jubilee Days.
Here’s a track called “Out On The Streets” to whet your eardrums with:
Visit them at www.myspace.com/ratcityruckus.
[Are you an artist of any style or know someone who is from the Burien, White Center, Des Moines or Normandy Park area? Contact me if there is something you would like our community to be in the loop about what you are doing!]
| May ’09 |
| 16 |
| 5:00 pm |
This Saturday (May 16th) is the next White Center for the Arts Open Studio Art Tour, from 5pm to 10pm, at 9639 16th SW (map below), and here are the details:
Once again, it is time for the White Center for the Arts Open Studio Tour
This coming Saturday, May 16th, 2009 5 PM until 10 PM
Please join us as we present seven artists’ new work.
A wine and cheese event.
White Center for the Arts Building at 9639 16th Ave SW, White Center, WA
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The White Center for the Arts group, which holds Open Studio Tours as well as the Rat City Rummage Sales in the historic former Southgate Skate Rink building, is seeking donations to help save the building.
According to a statement posted on their website, they need $300,000 by May 31st to save the building.
Here’s the statement:
Please Help!!!
We need your donation to help save our building.
We need to come up with $300,000 by May 31st so that the White Center for the Arts Building will remain in the hands of the COMMUNITY!.
Please contact us with any questions, or suggestions for finding this money.
Thank you.
To donate or suggest ideas, please email them at: crimsonpark@whitecenterforthearts.org
The group’s next Open Studio Tour event will be Saturday May 16th, from 5pm to 10pm at the building, which is located at 9639 16th Ave SW in White Center.
Tonight (Saturday, April 18th) is the next White Center for the Arts Open Studio Art Tour, from 5pm to 10pm, at 9639 16th SW (map below), and here are the details:
Come one, come all! White Center for the Arts Open Studio Tour is on Saturday, April 18th, 2009.
Enjoy art and the usual accoutrements, and support your local, hard-working artists.
It has been a very fun night for the last two months.
Isn’t it time you tried it?
Featuring:
- Carlos Espinoza
- Kim McCarthy
- Michelle Smith-Lewis
- Tina Routt
- Shelli Park
- Eleanor Pigman
- Brian Forrest, and
- Raina Anderson
More info at their website: www.whitecenterforthearts.org
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| Apr ’09 |
| 18 |
| 5:00 pm |
White Center for the Arts, the non-profit arts organization behind the Rat City Rummage Sale and open studio tours, just launched their website, which can be found at www.whitecenterforthearts.org.
Their next event is on Saturday, April 18th from 5pm to 10pm at the White Center for the Arts Building, which is located at 9639 16th Ave SW (map below) right here in the Dub-C:
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| Mar ’09 |
| 21 |
| 5:00 pm |
| Mar ’09 |
| 28 |
| 12:00 pm |
White Center for the Arts is holding two big events this month on two Saturdays at the Southgate Event Center: March 21st and March 28th, and here are the details:
SATURDAY, MARCH 21st:
Open Studio Tour from 5pm-10pm at the Southgate Event Center (formerly the Southgate Skate Rink), located at 9639 16th Ave SW (map below – just be sure to enter on the 16th SW side).
SATURDAY, MARCH 28th:
Rat City Rummage sale from Noon – 6pm at the Southgate Event Center.
Rat City Rummage is an art event/swap meet, and vending is open to handmade arts and crafts, baked goods, non-handmade goods such as household items, furniture, clothing, CDs, bicycles, small electronics, dishware, etc.
White Center for the Arts is a group of six artists with diverse backgrounds who have come together to form a non-profit organization focused on supporting the arts in White Center.
Our desire is to offer space where local artists can show their work, and to provide a place to learn learn about art.
We want to provide classes to young and old in many media, bringing out the rich diversity of culture that can be found in White Center.
And we want to have fun!
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