Events

February 2

Reception: Ethinic Heritage Art Gallery
Location: Seattle Municipal Tower, 3rd floor
Time: 3:30 p.m.
City employees and the community are invited to the grand opening of the gallery. Coalition and City leaders will provide a brief dedication. Artists will be present. Music and light refreshments will be available.

The art installation will remain open to the public until April 15, 2009.

  February 7

Ezell's Famous Chicken 25th Anniversary Celebration
Location: Westin Hotel
Time: 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm
“It Takes A Community To Raise A Business.”
What started out as a dream for childhood friends, Ezell Stephens, Faye Stephens, and Lewis Rudd, has formulated into a promising reality of success. And they are truly a testament to the term “Living The Dream.”
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  February 10

Batwa Pygmy of Bwindi Uganda
Location: Bertha Landes Room (City Hall)
Time: 11:30am-1pm
Presentation about the plight of the Batwa Pygmies, displaced from their homeland, the Impenetrable Bwindi Forest in Southern Uganda in order to provide a preserve for the mountain gorillas and the tourist dollars they bring. Without a homeland and a vaiablee, pygmies across face prejudice from other Africans, poverty, disease, and an uncertain future. Q&A and discussion follows.

February 11

Voting Rights Restoration
Location: TBA
Time: 11:30am-1pm
Changing Requirements For The Restoration Of The Right To Vote. Presentation by Gabriela Quintana, ACLU, followed by Q&A and discussion. Sponsored by CLBEA in collaboration with ACLU

February 17

R&B and Spoken Word
Location: TBA
Time: 11:30am-1pm
Shun Prescott singer and Chelsey Richardson spoken word artist perform. Sponsored by CLBEA.

  February 24

Classified X- a film by Melvin Van Peebles
Location: Bertha Landes Room (City Hall)
Time: 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Classified X examines the treatment of Black characters throughout the history of American cinema. Filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles explores the institutionalization of racism in Hollywood.
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  February 26

Change has Come to America; Now What?
Location: Jefferson Community Center
3801 Beacon Ave. So., Seattle WA
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
The Evergreen and Southeast Chapters of Blacks In Government will host the 2nd annual community forum in celebration of Black History Month.

“A More Perfect Union” speech and discussion
Location: Bertha Landes Room (City Hall)
Time: 11:30 a.m.-1:30  p.m.
Presented by City Light’s Race and Social Justice Change Team, President Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech addressing matters of race and how America can work together to pursue a better future for all.  Panel discussion follows.

  February 28

Call to Conscience - Black History Month
Location: MUSEUM of GLASS, Tacoma, WA
Time: 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm
A Black History Month event celebrating African-Americans historical service to the United States of America from "Slavery to the Presidency” and “Calling to Conscience” health and wellness issues that disproportionately impact African-American communities.
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