Community Directory

Seattle Christchurch Sister City Association

Seattle,

Community Focus: Australian
New Zealander

The Seattle-Christchurch Sister City Association was founded in 1981 by a group of volunteers seeking to improve the people-to-people connections between Seattle, USA, and Christchurch, New Zealand. The SCSCA builds a valuable international connection through a wide range of activities in Seattle, WA and Christchurch, NZ.

Seattle City Club

Seattle,

Community Focus: For All

Seattle CityClub is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization improving the civic health of the Puget Sound region by providing programs that bridge politics, sectors and generations to inform and engage residents and community leaders.

Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project

Seattle,

Community Focus: For All

This multi-media web site brings the vital history of Seattle’s civil rights movements to life with scores of video oral histories, hundreds of rare photographs, documents, movement histories, and personal biographies, more than 300 pages in all.

Seattle Colleges Cable Television (SCCtv)

Seattle,

Community Focus: For All

Education based television is the focus of SCCtv cable. Daytime cable programming on weekdays is often tied directly to the coursework of instructors at Seattle Community Colleges. SCCtv also airs and produces community focused programming and originates a number of regular program series including Remarkable People with Jean Walkenshaw, Professor Fred’s Movie Marvels and Centuries of Great Music with Orchestra Seattle. Many of these shows and more are archived and served on demand at www.scctv.net.

Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium

Seattle,

Community Focus: For All

Seattle Dojo

Seattle,

Community Focus: Asian American, Eastern Asian
Japanese

Seattle Dojo, the oldest Judo dojo in the United States, was established in the early 1900’s. The club moved several times until the present dojo was built in the 1930’s by first generation Japanese Americans.

Seattle Euskal Etxea

Seattle,

Community Focus: Western European
Basque

The origins of the Euskal Etxea (Basque Center) of Seattle take us back to 1993, when the first gatherings and meetings were held in Monroe. After those first steps, the club officially incorporated in 1997, and joined NABO.

Seattle Fandango Project

Seattle,

Community Focus: Mexican

In 2004, Martha Gonzalez and Quetzal Flores organized the first fandango workshop and in the following years, continued to perform and give workshops in the city. In 2008, Quetzal and Martha relocated to Seattle and connected with the few fandangueras/os in the city. Through small informal gatherings, this group shared their experience and knowledge of the fandango tradition and explored ideas to get more people involved. With a supportive community of artists, activist, and educators, the Seattle Fandango Project (SFP) coalesced in the summer of 2009 with the purpose of building a fandango community in Seattle and connect it to the larger movement in other parts of the United States and in Mexico. The Fandango traditions of Veracruz, Mexico, use music, singing, and dancing to generate a spirit of convivencia—of living and being in community. For a decade, musicians in Veracruz and in California have built a movement of convivencia through Fandango Sin Fronteras (Fandango Without Borders). The Seattle Fandango Project brings this movement to Seattle through workshops, concerts, and public discussions with guest artists. Come experience, and learn!

Seattle Film Institute

Seattle,

Community Focus: For All

Seattle Film Institute has prepared students for successful careers in the film industry since 1994.

Seattle Folklore Society

Seattle,

Community Focus: For All

The purpose of the Seattle Folklore Society is to preserve and foster awareness and appreciation of folk and traditional arts in the Seattle area. Our non-profit folk organization, founded in 1966, has one of the largest and most stable memberships in the country. We produce folk music concerts, dances, song circles, camps, and a newsletter, the SFS Flyer. Many of our members are active concertgoers, dancers and players of the acoustic guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, dulcimer, ukulele, and other folk instruments. The SFS is a member of Folk Alliance.

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