SoCoCulture Membership Meeting 13 February 2024 Held at Black River Cultural Arts Center, Renton Attendees: 4Culture African American Writers Alliance Allied Arts of Renton Auburn Symphony Orchestra Burien Arts Association CenterStage Theatre Evergreen City Ballet... Read more...
SoCoCulture Membership Meeting Notes 11/9/2023 – 9:30 AM-Noon This meeting was hosted at Auburn’s newly-opened Postmark Center for the Arts at 20 Auburn Avenue in Auburn. Allison Hyde, Arts Program Supervisor for the City of Auburn, welcomed SoCo members and we dove... Read more...
SoCoCulture Membership Meeting Notes 9/14/2023, 10 AM – Noon Many thanks to our meeting hosts at the Historical Society of Federal Way – we convened at the Historical Society’s offices at the Steel Lake Annex, across the... Read more...
SoCoCulture Membership Meeting Notes 5/16/2023 – 1-3 PM Our meeting was hosted by the Kent Historical Museum (thanks to executive director Dylan High). Mary Clymer, SoCo leadership team member and Renton Municipal Arts Commissioner, served as the emcee. Dylan... Read more...
by Eric Mathison Maureen Hoffmann is well known around Burien. Maybe it’s because she’s led Walk-n-Talks around town every month for many years as part of her activities with WABI (Walk/Bike) Burien. Maybe it’s her countless hours helping her hometown become a... Read more...
Our meeting was hosted by Key to Change Studio (thanks to Dr. Quinton Morris and Shelby Denckla!) and Christina DePaolo, communications director at 4Culture, served as the moderator. Dr. Morris shared his personal history as a young Black violinist growing up in the... Read more...
SoCoCulture Meeting Notes – Tuesday, January 10, 1-3 PM SoCo Announcements: SoCo membership renewal request will be coming to your e-mail inbox soon – we would love to have your continued participation in SoCoCulture! Please plan to renew your SoCo membership.... Read more...
Notes from SoCo’s 11/17/2022 meeting – Regrouping with Gratitude As we slowly emerge from the pandemic, many of our organizations have experienced “The Great Resignation” effect, while those of us who are still hanging in there are being run... Read more...
Mary Fertakis of M Fertakis Consulting was the featured speaker at SoCoCulture’s 9/20/2022 meeting at the Tukwila Community Center. This was a profoundly helpful presentation, loaded with local historical insight, about reimagining and regrounding the work of... Read more...
When the owner of the former Des Moines Masonic Home property filed for a permit from the City of Des Moines to demolish all structures on the property, including the stately main building, which has reigned as the most prominent landmark on Puget Sound between... Read more...
SOCOCULTURE STRATEGIC PLAN – 2022-2024 In the 21st Century, South King County has become one of the most diverse centers of humanity anywhere in the world – we are home to people whose ancestors have lived in this region since time immemorial, to brand-new arrivals... Read more...
This list is provided in conjunction with SoCoCulture’s September 16, 2020 membership meeting on Racial Equity Matters. Browse through and follow up on the programs, activities and readings that are of most interest to you. SoCo members can use these materials... Read more...
At its Kent-based Space Center, The Boeing Company designed, tested and built the four-wheeler vehicles used by NASA during Apollo Missions 15, 16, and 17 in 1971 and 1972. The Rovers made possible the most ambitious scientific missions of the Apollo Program, enabling... Read more...
It turns out that walls DO talk, after all! In an effort spearheaded by Kent Landmarks Commissioner Nancy Simpson and supported by the Greater Kent Historical Society and the Kent Downtown Partnership, with technical assistance supplied by Industry Sign & Graphics... Read more...
by Dianna Marshall Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides panoramic views from positions along many streets in the world. Street View was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States and has since expanded... Read more...
Artists, city electeds and staff, and developers from around South King County gathered in Federal Way at The Greenline (former Weyerhaeuser headquarters) on September 22 to share ideas about how to encourage more public art projects in South King County, and how to... Read more...
Thanks to the will of the voters throughout the Southeast King County communities of Taylor, Hobart and Maple Valley, high school students in the Tahoma School District in September, 2017 entered a brand new high school that gleams with potential and resonates with... Read more...
by Chris Green From August 29 to September 17, 1974, teachers in Federal Way were on strike. It was the first public school teacher’s strike in the history of King County. Public school teachers in Washington state had only been granted the right to organize unions... Read more...
by Zachary E. Van Tassel, Greater Kent Historical Society On Saturday, August 8, at 1 PM, the Mill Creek Neighborhood will host a unique ribbon-cutting event on the corner of Temperance Street and Jason Avenue North in Kent. Late last year, the neighborhood was... Read more...
by James Daly and Greg Bartol If you are one who recognizes great organizations when you see them, then you know that two of them are near each other on Lea Hill in Auburn. Naturally, when Soos Creek Botanical Garden (SCBG) needed a gate to span their large entry,... Read more...
by Pat Brodin, Tukwila Historical Society Although the Civil War was under way on the eastern side of the nation which seemed far away from the Pacific Northwest, the conflict had coursed its way through the Washington Territory. Vast numbers of military personnel... Read more...
by Karen Meador For most people, the phrase Jefferson Davis and the Pacific Northwest sounds like the ultimate historical paradox. But before he became President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, Davis had had a long career of public service... Read more...
by Barbara McMichael, SoCoCulture administrator Historical photographs provided courtesy of Des Moines Historical Society The Des Moines Beach Park Heritage Trail is a stroll back through time. The Des Moines Historical Society, with support from 4Culture, has... Read more...
by Dick Caster The Historical Society of Federal Way recently completed its restoration of the historic David T. Denny Cabin. Historical Society secretary Dick Caster has written a detailed monograph about the Denny Cabin. Below is an excerpt. As early as 1870 David... Read more...
