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Seattle Community Network |
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May 20, 2000 |
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May 20
The "concert will be sung by the choir members who reside near Seattle, augmented by guest choir members from all over North America ... This 'community choir that spans a continent' ... stretches across a century ... from Welsh hymns and folk songs to commissioned new music from leading Welsh and Welsh-North American composers and writers."
Sat May 20 - Seattle Branch May Ball. Congregational Church of Mercer Island, 4545 Island Crest Way. Information: Susan shufflestep@hotmail.com Tue May 23 - Seattle Branch Annual General Meeting & Dance. Kirkland Women's Club, Kirkland, WA. 7:30 pm. Sat May 27 - Northwest Folklife Festival at Seattle Center. 11:00 - 11:30 am, SCD demonstration followed by dance workshop 11:30 - 12:20, Center House Court.
"Join us! Enzian Schuhplattler is currently seeking new members. If you are interested in Bavarian and Tirolean folk dancing, please join us. Previous dance experience is great, but not required." May 20 - Austria Club Tacoma Maifest. Festival begins with dinner at 6:00 p.m., performance 7:30 p.m. Info: (253) 584-8839 May 21 - Ethnic Fest, St. Louise Catholic Church. 141 156th Ave SE, Bellevue. Festival Hours: 1:00 - 5:30 p.m., performance 2:20 - 2:45 p.m. Info: (425) 747-4450 May 28 - NW Folklife Festival, 2:30 - 2:55 p.m. at Eve Alford Theater, Seattle Center
"Prosthetics Outreach Foundation helps communities to serve their amputees by establishing clinics to create and fit artificial limbs and workshops to manufacture prosthetic components with local materials."
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May 14 - May 20
Seattle Sites of the Week: 
Shaping the Network Society
"There is more to the Internet than e-commerce! Join Veran Matic, Bill Joy, Howard Rheingold, Nancy Kranich and many others from around the world in an exciting and historic exploration of how people can influence the directions of communication technology. Shaping the Network Society: The Future of the Public Sphere in Cyberspace. University of Washington HUB."
May 18 - "The critical importance of CPSR's Shaping the Network
Society symposium was underscored by the seizure of B292
broadcasting equipment by security forces in the former Yugoslavia.
Station manager Veran Matic who was scheduled to discuss the importance
of a 'public sphere' to 500 attendees at CPSR's Seattle symposium was
compelled to remain at home after the seizure. Matic and other B292
employees are currently working to keep the news flowing using Internet
streaming technology. Veran Matic's name card will still be displayed
at the symposium in front of his empty chair. A statement from Matic
will be read at the symposium and symposium organizers are exploring
other ways of ensuring that his important message will not be
silenced."
"The essence of netwar is ... one or more of the major participants consist of networks, rather than institutions. The central feature... is the struggle for understanding and knowledge, as opposed to more traditional conflicts which focus on controlling territories or resources." "In the case of the Direct Action Network, the central prize consisted of the understanding that the WTO multi-lateral trade agreements are intensely corrosive to democracy, at least that form of democracy which entails a knowledgeable public participating in policy formation in meaningful ways." ... "By Monday evening, November 30, the forces had aligned themselves. ... What would happen next was anybody's guess, but the best guessers would win and the others would lose." ... "Floating above the tear gas was a pulsing infosphere of enormous bandwidth, reaching around the planet via the internet." ... |
