May 30
Seattle Sites of the Day:

Northwest Stone Sculptors Association

"The membership (over 200) is comprised of artists mainly from western Canada and the USA." ...

"The members represent a wide variety of education and experience, giving the 'association' an incredible blend of masters and students, who offer support and friendship..."

NWSSA's summer membership meeting is Tuesday, June 20 at 7:00 pm at the Shoreline Center.

The International Sculptors Symposium at Camp Brotherhood in Mt. Vernon, Washington will take place July 14 - 23. Sculptors from China, Peru and Canada will be there to teach and participate in the symposia.

Northwest Opera Schedules

Northwest Opera Schedules is a starting point to find out about sixteen opera companies in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia and dozens more further afield. Seattle Opera, Seattle Comic Opera and UW Opera perform in Seattle, and opera companies sing in Bellevue, Bremerton, Richland, Spokane and Tacoma.

Olympia Poly-Intimacy Network

OPIN "is an Olympia, Washington based organization of and for people open to the possibility of ethical, intimate relationships with more than one person." ...

"'Poly-Intimacy' is a new inclusive term we use to describe folks who believe that it is natural and life-enriching for people to be open to more than one intimate relationship in their lives."

OPIN meets regularly on the second Wednesday evening in Olympia.

International Bicycle Fund
   Ethnic Bibliography of the Northwest

IBF is a nonprofit organization active in "non-motorized urban planning, economic development, bike safety education, responsible travel and cycle tourism, and cross-cultural, educational programs."

David Mozer's ethnic bibliography includes many references to the history of the Chinook Indians in western Washington, and to Afro-American, Asian American, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino and Jewish history in the Seattle area.

"Concerned parents and community members, realizing that there had already been substantial commercial intrusion into the schools, decided that it was time to put a stop to these attempts to turn students into a captive consumer market.

"In response to public outcry, the School Board rescinded its policy on advertising and initiated a process to formulate a new policy based upon community concerns. However, the School Board has still not adopted a new policy on commercialism in schools.

"In the absence of such a policy, commercial intrusion continues as before, and the Seattle School District even signed an exclusive contract with Coca-Cola, putting the schools in the position of having a financial interest in promoting the sale of junk food to their students.

"CCCS is working to convince the Seattle School Board of the necessity of instituting a policy that protects the educational environment of our schools, and protects students from commercial sales pitches that have no relation to education.

"CCCS is also focusing on the elimination of 'Channel One' (a daily televised advertisement / infotainment program) from Seattle schools.

"Other goals include the elimination of biased, commercially-produced curriculum materials, preventing the introduction of computer advertising schemes (such as 'Zap Me!'), and generally enhancing public awareness of commercialism in schools."

- Joel Bradbury

Wah Mee

Todd Matthews' online book takes a journey into a Seattle that most people didn't see behind the headlines of the 1983 gambling club murders. The stories of these events in Chinatown touch the realities of life in the neighborhoods whose family members were killed. Matthews' years of digging have produced an understanding of history and ways of life that unfolds in a portrait of what happened at the Wah Mee club and of the Seattle of that era.