Events new or changed since the previous version are marked with (**), since the version before that with (*).
Return to Top of PageNOVEMBER is National AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE Month
SAT NOV 7, 10 am - noon, at 21 Acres, 13701 NE 171st Street, near Woodinville; The Sustainable Saturday Series at 21 Acres presents an opportunity to the community to learn and participate in a variety of activities showcasing and demonstrating SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP. Farm and garden demonstrations and volunteer work projects are planned between 10 a.m. and Noon, along with an official Farm Tour at 11 a.m. Volunteer tasks could include brush clearing, trail maintenance, light building maintenance and general garden tasks. Participate in a farm task, walk the trails, chat with a Community Gardener or just meander through the wildlife corridor. Find out what's growing in your community, when you visit 21 Acres. Educational programs and classes will continue to be added to the Sustainable Saturday Series each month. 21 Acres is a non-profit organization with the mission to cultivate, demonstrate and advance systems supporting sustainable agriculture. Along with the Community Garden, the land supports a community farm growing food for families, markets, schools and hunger relief. Free and open to the public. info 206-442-2061 or http://www.21acres.org
SUN NOV 8, 5 pm, at 1423 10th Ave in the basement, Seattle; ANSWER film series. Battleship Potemkin, Soviet silent classic about SAILORS' UPRISING DURING 1905 REVOLUTION. Film showing is free; donations will be accepted. Please confirm details at http://www.answerseattle.org
NOV 12 - DEC 9, in US, Canada, and Central America; Join the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization IFCO/Pastors for Peace Caravan to HONDURAS & NICARAGUA, an historic SOLIDARITY AND HUMANITARIAN AID CARAVAN. It will be in support of communities and non-governmental organizations that are working for social and economic justice. We will stand with these organizations as they work to create social and economic alternatives based on the principle of peace with justice and dignity for all human beings. Nov 12 - 22 Caravan routes - educational events and aid collections in the US and Canada. Nov 23 - 24 Orientation. Nov 25 - Dec 1 Border crossing and travel to Central America. Dec 2 - 9 Educational and cultural program in Honduras & Nicaragua. info Manolo E. De Los Santos 212-926-5757 or p4p@igc.org or http://www.IFCOnews.org
**FRI NOV 13, 6:30 - 8 pm, at the Wing Luke Asian Museum, 719 South King Street in Seattle's Chinatown/ International District; Panel Discussion: Art and Identity. Artist and historian Susan Kunimatsu moderates a discussion on the intersection of ART AND IDENTITY BY ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN ARTISTS. Panelists include Karen Higa, adjunct senior curator of art of Japanese American National Museum; Ken Matsudaira, curator of M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery at Seattle Central Community College; Cora Edmonds, director of ArtXchange; and Tracey Fugami, curator of 'Parallel Lines' exhibit at the Wing Luke Asian Museum. info and tickets 206-623-5124, info http://www.wingluke.org
*WEDS NOV 18, The GLOBAL SOCIAL SERIES IS A NETWORKING EVENT run every 3rd Wednesday by Global Washington. Each month a different region is targeted. this month topic: Convening SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN. info melissa@globalwa.org or 206-547-9330
NOV 20, National TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE is held to honor those murdered - at least one a month in the United States alone - for transgressing the rigid gender expectations of the society in which they live. http://www.gender.org/remember/day/
NOV 20, Universal CHILDREN'S DAY
NOV 25, United Nations International Day for the ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN.
FRI NOV 27, BUY NOTHING DAY, traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year. Get together and take a stand against the chronic overconsumption that is the mother of all our ecological, psychological and political problems. Don't succumb to the advertising! Don't buy worthless gifts! an annual celebration of non-consumerism, info http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd
NOV 28 - DEC 3, Vancouver BC, Bellingham, Seattle, Portland, Eugene, and other places; Pacific Northwest convergence march into the WORLD MARCH FOR PEACE AND NONVIOLENCE. Organizers needed, info 253-627-3007 or parkeburgess@gmail.com or http://www.ourtragicflaw.com
NOV 4 - 7, 2010, in Chicago, Illinois; Critical Mixed Race Studies Association First conference "Emerging Paradigms in Critical MIXED RACE STUDIES". It is our mission to advance Critical Mixed Race Studies [CMRS] as an academic discipline and a professional field committed to excellence in teaching, research and service to the community. It is our goal to develop curriculum at all grade levels; to develop resources with community organizations; to increase and disperse knowledge through conferences, summer institutes, workshops, professional contacts, reports, papers, discussions, and publications; and to support an anti-racist mixed heritage movement. info Wei Ming Dariotis dariotis@sfsu.edu or 925-864-1610 or Michele Peake mpeake@u.washington.edu
THROUGH NOV 29, at the Wing Luke Asian Museum, 719 South King Street in Seattle's Chinatown/ International District; The Wing Luke Asian Museum presents "Parallel Lines: 8 Contemporary Seattle Artists". info 206-623-5124 ext. 106 or jaquino@wingluke.org or http://www.wingluke.org
Updated on Sunday, June 28, 2009