Kolotol: Welcome Back Seattle, Free events, August 2022 - Parkways

Title of Event(s): Blessed Hearts Fitness
Organizer or Agency: Noel Montgomery
Date(s) and Time(s): Tuesdays 5:30-6:30PM & Thursdays 6-7PM
Tuesdays, August 2,9,16,23,30,Thursdays: August 4,11,18,25
Event Location(s): Garfield community center, Tuesdays & Rainier Beach community center, Thursdays
Event Description: Blessed Hearts Fitness is to educate, demonstrate and motivate healthier options and productive movement.
Event Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/835254086570267/
Event Website: https://m.facebook.com/835254086570267/

Title of Event(s): Massive Monkees: Fresh Air open dance sessions
Organizer or Agency: Extraordinary Futures
Date(s) and Time(s): August 2,5,9,12,16,19,23,26,30, 6-9PM
Event Location(s) (e.g., name of park, picnic shelter, etc.): Fridays: Pratt Park Basketball Courts & Tuesdays: Jefferson Park Shelter #3
Event Description: Drop in Breakdance sessions facilitated by coaches from the Massive Monkees. Participants will learn basic breakdance moves and be able to practice them in a fun and interactive setting.
Event Facebook: https://ift.tt/z5Edwk4
Event Website: www.massivemonkees.com

Title of Event(s): Honored Rose – Mother’s Brunch
Organizer or Agency: Muslimah’s Against Abuse Center
Date(s) and Time(s): August 14, 2022
Event Location(s) (e.g., name of park, picnic shelter, etc.): MAAC Office: 7136 Martin Luther King Junior Way South, Suite 204, Seattle, WA 98118
Event Description: Our Honored Rose program is a bi-weekly brunch for mothers. MAAC aims to give our mothers in the community roses and much needed appraisal for being such amazing caretakers. Our weekly brunches aim to discuss topics such as postpartum depression, maternal health abuse and creating a space for new moms to be themselves and to relax.
Event Facebook: https://ift.tt/orS1MD4
Event Website: MAAC (ma-ac.org)

Title of Event(s): ‘Dance Is Where We Heal’
Organizer or Agency: Franchesska Berry
Date(s) and Time(s): Wednesdays, August 3, 10, 17, 24, 31. Saturdays 6, 13, 20, 27. Wednesdays 7:00 – 9:00 pm & Saturday 12:00 – 2:00 pm.
Event Location(s) (e.g., name of park, picnic shelter, etc.): Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
Event Description: Franchesska Berry specializes in teaching traditional storytelling, dances, drums, and the language of West Africa within the Feminine Essence. We resolves identified problems for participants holistically through dance and oneness. We shift the energy honoring who and whose we are. This teaching style consistently enhances students’ mental well-being, stamina, rhythm, timing, and energy from dancing. We evoke Spiritual self-love initiations and transmute struggle into miracles.
Event Website: https://www.thefeminineessence.com/

Title of Event(s): Jefferson Jumpstart
Organizer or Agency: Beacon Arts
Date(s) and Time(s): Aug 4 & 11, 7pm
Event Location(s) (e.g., name of park, picnic shelter, etc.): Jefferson Park Amphitheater
Event Description: Beacon Arts returns to Jefferson Park Amphitheater with Free Jefferson Jumpstart Concert to get a jumpstart on your weekend! Join us for free contemporary music by: KEXP 8/4Supersones – a six-piece Cuban son band! 8/11Ramblxr – dance music with live instrument
Event Facebook: https://ift.tt/ltxEpIm
Event Website: https://ift.tt/4liv0wT

Title of Event(s): Alafia: Sacred Drum and Dance
Organizer or Agency: Griot Girlz
Date(s) and Time(s): Saturdays August 6,13,20,27, 12-2 pm
Event Location(s) (e.g., name of park, picnic shelter, etc.): Judkins Park @ Norman St
Event Description: African Drum and Dance sessions open to all ages, stages and walks of life.
Event Facebook: https://ift.tt/fVztogn
Event Website: www.griotgirlz.org

Title of Event(s): Accessible Seattle- Accessible Music Festival!
Organizer or Agency: NOC Society
Date(s) and Time(s): August 6, 2022, 1-5pm
Event Location(s) (e.g., name of park, picnic shelter, etc.): Jefferson Park
Event Description: Accessible Seattle- Accessible Music Festival! will be a 100% accessible music festival that features local Seattle musicians of all abilities!

Title of Event(s): Hit Workouts
Organizer or Agency: Free Flo Fit
Date(s) and Time(s): August 6, 13, 20, 27, 12:15-1:15PM
Event Location(s) (e.g., name of park, picnic shelter, etc.): Columbia City Fitness (2609 S Jackson St, Seattle, WA 98144).
Event Description: Free Saturday classes from 12:15-1:15pm in the group fitness room all are welcome. Held every Saturday except for July 9^th and July 23^rd.
Event Facebook: facebook.com/freeflofit6
Event Website: www.freeflofit.com

Title of Event(s): THE WRITE TO BREATHE THEATER CAMP
Organizer or Agency: Kathya Alexander
Date(s) and Time(s): August 6 & 13, 11:30AM-3:30PM, August 21, 5-9PM
Event Location(s) (e.g., name of park, picnic shelter, etc.): Rainier Beach CC Plaza
Event Description: Youth will create a play to tell their own stories. They will learn the basics of storytelling/poetry, including point of view, setting, character, conflict, resolution, what their character wants, what is keeping them from getting what they want, how they overcome the obstacle, and how their life changes when they get what they want. The act of creating the presentation will reinforce strengths, including realizations about who I am, what I think, what my life has been like, what I want, and what I can accomplish.
Event Website: To sign up and for more information contact Kathya Alexander at writerkathyaa@gmail.com

Title of Event(s): Park & Play with Reconnect
Organizer or Agency: Progress House Association
Date(s) and Time(s): August 13th, 2022, 12-3pm.
Event Location(s) (e.g., name of park, picnic shelter, etc.): Powell Barnett
Event Description: An afternoon of music, food, and fun for the family!

Title of Event(s): THE BAZZOOKA BALL
Organizer or Agency: BAZZOOKAFEST, The Vera Project & Northwest Film Forum
Date(s) and Time(s): August 19, 2022, 3-10PM
Event Location(s) (e.g., name of park, picnic shelter, etc.): Jefferson Park
Event Description: BAZZOOKAFEST presents a celebration for all LGBTQIA+ members of Seattle’s black and brown communities, with a Kiki ball employing drag artists, dance performers and DJs of color to perform live. The market for black-owned businesses will return for a second day to platform additional vendors and close out the weekend’s festivities.

Title of Event(s): YES FEST
Organizer or Agency: Bureau of Fearless Ideas
Date(s) and Time(s): 8/26, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Event Location(s) (e.g., name of park, picnic shelter, etc.): Yesler Terrace Park
Event Description: YES FEST is a community festival, bringing together youth, families, and residents of Yesler Terrace to be together and celebrate. Each YES FEST includes booths from community organizations, a range of hands-on activities, food, and fellowship.

Title of Event(s): Future Ancient – Yoga in the Park
Organizer or Agency: Experience Education
Date(s) and Time(s): August 27, 2022, 1-3PM
Event Location(s) (e.g., name of park, picnic shelter, etc.): Hing Hay Park
Event Description: We will feature local artists and cultural workers sharing their message and purpose on how they center their cultural futures and collective liberation through their work.

Title of Event(s): Barbershop Chat Chew & Play 2 of 2-part Series
Organizer or Agency: Fathers and Sons Together FAST
Date(s) and Time(s): August 27, 2022, 12-4PM
Event Location(s) (e.g., name of park, picnic shelter, etc.): Rainier Beach CC Plaza
Event Description: Free Haircuts, speakers, food, music, and entertainment
Event Website: https://ift.tt/qGaL0hl

Title of Event(s): It’s Never 2 Early 2 Create & Innovate
Organizer or Agency: Olu Productions
Date(s) and Time(s): August 28, 2022, 12-6PM
Event Location(s) (e.g., name of park, picnic shelter, etc.): WA NA WARI, 911 24^TH AVE, Seattle, WA, 98122
Event Description: A Young Black Entrepreneurial Market Place
Event Website: www.oluproductions.com