Mailbag: Hall, Tutu, Braver Angels give hope gazettetimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazettetimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
by Jasmyne Keimig • Feb 18, 2021 at 3:30 pm
Can t wait to hop onto the light rail to go from the Capitol Hill Arts & Cultural District to the Rainier Valley Creative District. BEN HORAKAfua Kouyate, executive director of ADEFUA Cultural Education Workshop, is leading an effort to designate southeast Seattle as a creative district under the state s Creative District (CD) program. Having situated her arts organization within the community for over three decades, Kouyate sees the move as a way of remembering what Rainier Valley is about and who we are.
The proposed CD s boundaries would stretch from John Muir Elementary School in the north to Rainier Beach High School in the south and get boxed in by the blocks surrounding Rainier Avenue. If approved, the Rainier Valley Creative District would be the ninth state-approved CD and the first situated within Seattle s borders. (The Capitol Hill, Uptown, Columbia City and Hillman City, and Cent
Freeride World Tour 2021 : Ordino Arcalís, c est parti ! skipass.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from skipass.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In the ensuing five years, a growing collective of artists and community members came on to invest funding, sweat equity or both in a vacant historic theater. This December, the collective now a total of 33 community partners received city funding to buy the building outright. By the end of 2021, they hope, Black and Tan Hall will open as the community hub they originally envisioned.
“We’ve put a lot of sweat and dreaming into the 5608 property,” says Black and Tan partner Joe Seamons, referring to the venue’s address at 5608 Rainier Avenue South. “I’m excited about walking into our building and there’s a whole slew of programs an after school program, followed by a dinner theater event with food cooked by local chefs, and after that there’s a proper dance, and then there’s a late-night hour,” he adds. “All those things we can make happen in a single night.”