Seattle Parks and Recreation news and events

Event: YES FEST  Organizer: Bureau of Fearless Ideas  Date(s) and Time(s): July 1 and July 29, 4:00 – 6:00 pm  Event Location: 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. 

Event: Massive Monkees: Fresh Air open dance sessions Organizer: Extraordinary Futures Date(s) and Time(s): July 1,5,8,12,15,19,23,26,30, 6-9PM Event Location:  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: www.facebook.com/massivemonkees

Event: Blessed Hearts Fitness  Organizer: Noel Montgomery  Date(s) and Time(s): Tuesdays: July 5,12,19,26, 5:30-6:30PM, Thursdays: July 7,14,21,28, 6-7PM Event Location: 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/

Event: Hit Workouts Organizer: Free Flo Fit  Date(s) and Time(s): July 2, 16, 30, no class July 9th or 23rd, 12:15-1:15PM Event Location: 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 9th and July 23rd. Event Facebook: facebook.com/freeflofit6  Event Website: www.freeflofit.com  

Event: Summer Saturdays – Free African Dance for All Ages!  Organizer: ADEFUA Cultural Education Workshop  Date(s) and Time(s): July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30. Each date the time is 10:00am-2:00pm.  Event Location:: Columbia Park   Event Description: This project will provide weekly cultural dance classes for youth and adults. Join us for learning the history and rhythms of the dance movements being learned. Live drumming weekly will play for our dancing pleasure. Youth – 10:00am-11:50am, Adult – 12:00pm-2:00pm.  Event Facebook: www.facebook.com/AdefuaCenter/ Event Website: www.adefuacenter.org 

Event: Back 2 Basics Pt. 2  Organizer: 219 Solutions  Date(s) and Time(s): Thursday’s, July 7,14,21,28, 3:30-6:30PM Event Location: Concord International Elementary Playfield  Event Description: Back to Basics is a platform for kids to come play organized games, be creative through art projects, socialize with each other, and be physically active in a safe environment.

Event Fit Melanin Summer 2022  Organizer: Free Flo Fit  Date(s) and Time(s): July 9th, 2022 from 2pm-7pm.  Event Location: Judkins Park   Event Description: It’s that time of the year again, and Free Flo Fit is going all out with our Fit Melanin Summer event for 2022. Meet new and returning black and brown vendors while enjoying fun, high-energy workouts, performers, and much more!    Event Facebook: facebook.com/freeflofit6  Event Website: www.freeflofit.com  

Event: Puerto Rican Bomba y Plena en la Huerta 2022  Organizer: Center for Linguistic and Cultural Democracy  Date(s) and Time(s): July 10,17, 24, 6:30-8:30PM Event Location: Martha Washington Park  Event Description: Bomba en La Huerta brings traditional and expressive Puerto Rican Bomba drumming, singing, and dancing into a Parks Department Orchard Space in order to bring together families and community members to share, engage, create, let go, and build unity.​  Event Facebook: https://fb.me/e/1THybHFHC  Note: If the weather is bad for any of these sessions, we will switch to ZOOM. https://antioch.zoom.us/j/91302296657  ID: 913 0229 6657  Join by phone: 253 215-8782  

Event: ‘Dance Is Where We Heal’    Organizer: Franchesska Berry  Date(s) and Time(s): Wednesdays 7:00 – 9:00 pm & Saturday 12:00 – 2:00 pm. Wednesdays, July 13, 20,27. Saturdays 16, 23. Event Location: 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/ 

Event: Jefferson Jumpstart  Organizer : Beacon Arts  Date(s) and Time(s): 7pm July 14, 21,28 Event Location: 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: 7/14 The Whags – funky prog indie 7/21 Talaya – existential soul 7/28 Tomo Nakayama Born in Japan and raised in Seattle, Washington, Tomo Nakayama is an artist whose melodic, complex and emotionally compelling music has been praised by NPR, New York Times. Event Facebook: https://fb.me/e/nePgV2RRf  Event Website: https://www.beacon-arts.org/ 

Event: Alafia: Sacred Drum and Dance  Organizer: Griot Girlz  Date(s) and Time(s): Saturdays July 16, 23, 30, 12-2 pm  Event Location: Judkins Park @ Norman st​  Event Description: African Drum and Dance sessions open to all ages, stages and walks of life.   Event Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/746783473417147  Event Website: www.griotgirlz.org 

Event: Walk for Change Organizer: Fathers and Sons Together FAST Date(s) and Time(s): July 16, 2022, 11AM-3PM Event Location: Rainier Beach CC Plaza Event Description: The Walk for Change will celebrate our fathers as we encourage, provoke and inspire them to view fatherhood as a powerful entity that is strong enough to invoke change. Our focus is on strengthening the relationships between fathers and sons. Event Website: www.fastfathersandsonstogether.org/events.html

Event: Healthy Aging  Organizer: Lao Women Association of Washington  Date(s) and Time(s): July 17,2022, 12-3PM Event Location: Wat Lao Mixayaram  Event Description: Dance: Lomvong, Basalop, Cha Cha and Aerobic Exercises-Boon Khaophansa Event Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/1637897489858587

Event: Lao Women Association of Washington Annual Picnic  Organizer: Lao Women Association of Washington  Date(s) and Time(s): July 24,2022, 12-4:00PM Event Location: Seward Park​  Event Description: To celebrate our 2022 Welcome Back Seattle program as well as gathering our members to celebrate summer, we will hold an annual picnic at Seward Park.  Event Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1637897489858587 

Sign up to receive email updates