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The Office of Arts &
Cultural Affairs is accepting
nominations for the 2011
Mayor’s Arts Awards. The
awards
recognize
the
accomplishments of artists,
arts and cultural organiza-
tions and community mem-
bers committed to enriching
their communities through
the arts.
The
Seattle
Arts
Commission will review
public nominations and rec-
ommend recipients to the
mayor for final selection.
The awards, which are non-
monetary, are presented
annually. This is the ninth
year of the awards.
As the goal of the awards
is to reflect the diversity of
artistic
achievement
throughout the city, there
are no preset award cate-
gories. This year marks the
40th anniversary of the
Seattle Arts Commission
and the Seattle Office of
Arts & Cultural Affairs.
Nominators are encouraged
to mark the milestone by
putting forward people or
organizations that have
made a significant impact in
the arts in Seattle during the
last four decades.
McGinn will honor recipi-
ents of the 2011 Mayor’s
Arts Awards at a public cer-
emony on at Seattle Center,
4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 1.
He will also open the
Bumbershoot Visual Arts
Exhibits for a free public
preview that day.
The nomination deadline
is 5 p.m., Thursday, May 5.
The nomination form is
available
online
at
www.seattle.gov/arts. For a
print version of the form,
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Sponsors Needed for
Summer Arts in the Park
Seattle
Parks
and
Recreation is seeking pro-
posals from individuals,
groups, or organizations to
provide culturally relevant,
safe, and reliable programs
to the community through
the Summer Art in the Park
Program.
This program is designed
to offer elements of aca-
demic alignment to help
reduce summer learning
loss, build self esteem, pro-
mote cross-cultural experi-
ences, build ongoing partic-
ipation, welcome drop-in
participants, and support the
Mayor’s Youth and Families
Initiative. Parks can allocate
a maximum of $8,400 for
each of five parks for the
season.
The Summer Art in the
Park Program takes place at
these Parks locations:
Othello Playground, Powell
Barnett Playground, Little
Brook
Park,
Judkins
Playfield, and Maplewood
Playfield. The purpose of
this program is to provide
fun, innovative, curriculum
based visual and performing
arts.
The deadline for submit-
ting a proposal is Friday,
May 6, 2011.
For more information, call
Daisy Catague at 206-615-
0303. The RFP and associ-
ated materials are available
online at http://www.seat-
tle.gov/parks/partnerships/r
fp.htm.
Annual
Naturalization
Ceremony
The Seattle Public Library
o
m
m
u
will host a naturalization
ceremony during which 80
people from around the
world will be sworn in as
citizens of the U.S. from 11
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday,
April 12 at the Central
Library, 1000 Fourth Ave.,
Level
1,
Microsoft
Auditorium.
The ceremony is free and
open to the public.
Registration is not required.
Parking is available in the
Central Library garage at
the regular rates.
The
ceremony
will
include keynote speeches
from Eric Liu, Guiding
Lights founder and member
of The Seattle Public
Library board of trustees,
and Diane Douglas, execu-
tive director of CityClub. A
presentation will be given
by the United States
Citizenship
and
Immigration Service, and a
recorded
address
by
President Barack Obama
will be played.
For more information call
the Library at 206-386-
4636.
earth Day river
restoration
Environmental forces will
join together at the semi-
annual Duwamish Alive!
Earth Day river restoration
event on Saturday, April 16.
Starting at 10:00am volun-
teers will roll up their
sleeves at multiple sites
along Seattle’s industrial-
ized watershed to perform
cleanup and restoration
work in the ongoing effort
to keep Seattle’s only river
alive.
Duwamish Alive! brings
together over 30 conserva-
tion groups, businesses, and
government entities, organ-
izing hundreds of volun-
teers to work at 13 work
n
I
t
winning Businesses
PHoTo BY susan frIed
mayor’s Art
Awards:
Nominations
Open
millerCoors announced the winners of its 2010-11 urban entrepreneurs
Series and Business plan Competition this week. recipients won business
grants totaling $150,000 at a special reception held at the millerCoors
corporate headquarters in Chicago. This year's grand prize winner, Back
to the roots, received a $100,000 business grant, with the four runners-up
each receiving grants of $25,000 to contribute to their company's start-up
capital, or to expand their existing businesses. pictured above are (back
row from left ) Jerome Young, mBA power Attract Jobs Now; randal pinkett,
keynote speaker; Nikhil Arora and Alex Velez, Back To The roots; (front row
from left) Jesse Cerda and Nancy Nkansah, Ncapsul; Terethia waller, The
Benson mills group; Christie Blackwell and Quiana Corde, Barazzo; and
Joanne Tabellija-murphy and Larry waters, millerCoors. For more
information about the upcoming 2011-12 mueS competition, visit:
www.millercoorsmues.com.
sites in the river’s lower
watershed.
Work sites include a river
cleanup by kayak and
canoe, shoreline salmon
restoration, and native for-
est revitalization. Families,
company groups, clubs,
individuals, schools, frater-
nities and sororities are
encouraged to participate,
and no experience is neces-
sary.
These volunteer restora-
tion projects complement
government efforts to clean
y
c
a
l
up the contaminated sedi-
ments at the bottom of the
Duwamish
River.
Improvements in the health
of the river will benefit peo-
ple, wildlife, and runs of
threatened salmon on the
Green/Duwamish River.
At Codiga Park, volun-
teers will remove invasive
plants and spread mulch to
protect recent native plant-
ings. Leading the work at
the Codiga Park Site are
People For Puget Sound and
Tukwila
Parks
and
e
n
d
a
Recreation.
“The restoration of the
Duwamish depends on
community,
non-profit,
government and corporate
partners working together to
restore the urbanized envi-
ronment,”
said
Dhira
Brown, restoration ecologist
for People For Puget Sound.
According to Brown, the
Duwamish River Estuary
has less than three percent
of its original habitat
remaining.
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S eattle a pril 2011
B ulletIn B oard
on the way we work and live. This event is free
and a great place to network. 6 – 8 p.m. North
plaza at uw Tower 4333 Brooklyn Ave. Ne.
saturday april 9
If you have an event you want to share
with the community, email it two weeks
in advance to The Skanner at
info@theskanner.com
SOuTh kiNg COuNTY weDDiNg ShOw! highline
Community College’s second annual wedding
show features everything the happy couple
needs to plan their special day! 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
2400 South 240th St. Seattle This event is free and
open to the public.
Wednesday april 13
Thursday april 7
reTOOLiNg FOr A greeN FuTure: uw open house
& panel: Listen to panelists discuss the growing
impact the environment and sustainability have
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The LADieS muSiCAL CLuB wiLL hAVe A Free
perFOrmANCe! The program is free and open to
all no registration is required. 12:10 – 1:10 p.m.
The Seattle Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave,
microsoft Auditorium, level 1
friday april 15
TAX DAY FuN DAY! You have been stressed and
had to rush to get your taxes completed, now
come relax with your favorite little people at
ravenna. $1.00 per person: 6:30 – 8 p.m.
ravenna – eckstein Community Center 6535
ravenna Ave. Ne.
saturday & sunday april 16 & 17
BOOk ON OVer TO wArreN g. mAgNuSON pArk:
Friends of the Seattle public Library spring book
sale: more than 250,000 books, CDs, DVDs and
much more. Saturday hours 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sunday hours 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. 7400 Sand point
way Ne Building No. 30