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The Capitol Hill Farmers Market’s summer season of Tuesday markets begins with a bonus for food workers

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The return of the Tuesday night Capitol Hill Farmers Market this summer will be especially sweet for neighborhood food and drink workers:

To celebrate the seasonal opening of our Tuesday market in Capitol Hill, we will be offering Farm Bucks for local food workers. If you work as a barista, cook, or wait staff, stop on by the manager’s tent for $4 in NFM currency to spend at the markets! You can take advantage of this promotion every first Tuesday of the month through September.

Tuesday night, June 3rd marks the start of the weeknight season for the market joining the year-round Sunday markets. Continue reading →

It’s Cal Anderson’s birthday — Remember him next week at the AIDS Memorial Pathway community clean-up

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Former Seattle City Councilmember and AIDS Memorial Pathway champion Tom Rasmussen is putting out a call for volunteers to help with a community clean-up next week:

We are seeking volunteers to help install new plants, and carry out general weeding and cleanup and care around the AIDS Memorial Pathway (the AMP) located at the north end of Cal Anderson Park. The event will be on Tuesday May 6th from 10:00 AM to Noon. Tools and other supplies will be provided by the Seattle Park Department

The pathway’s mix of art, history, and activism connects the north end of Cal Anderson Park and the plaza above Capitol Hill Station.

In 2015, Rasmussen, the first openly gay man on Seattle’s City Council, joined Leonard Garfield, executive director of the Museum of History & Industry, and community volunteer Michele Hasson in convening a group of stakeholders to assess interest in a memorial to recognize those lost during the AIDS crisis.

The $2.9 million public-private pathway project was powered by developer Gerding Edlen, Sound Transit, SDOT, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, and Seattle Parks and Recreation along with major support from community fundraising. Continue reading →

Take an AIDS Memorial Pathway tour with the man who helped make it possible

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Part of the Ribbon of Light installations (Image: AIDS Memorial Pathway)

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One of the driving forces behind the creation of the AIDS Memorial Pathway will help lead a tour of the art, history, and activism highlighted along the route connecting Cal Anderson Park to Capitol Hill Station.

Former Seattle City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen will join the Capitol Hill Historical Society for a May 7th walk along the pathway:

We will meet at the Station House Cathy Hillenbrand Community Room, which does not have an official address, but is at 10th Ave E and John Street. Once gathered, we will hear from Tom Rasmussen and then walk the pathway to learn about the stops along the way. The tour will run rain or shine, so come prepared for both scenarios. The walk will be slow and fairly flat, with some slight inclines, but attendees should be prepared to be on their feet for roughly an hour and a half.

“The project has three goals: to use public art to create a physical place for reflection and remembrance, to share stories of the epidemic and the diverse community responses to the AIDS crisis, and to provide a call to action to end HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination,” the group writes about the tour. “Today, this beautiful series of art works weaves its way through our every day neighborhood spots, from the farmer’s market to Cal Anderson Park. Here is a chance to explore the people and history behind the art and learn how it all fits together.” Continue reading →

A ‘quiet space for communal mourning and personal contemplation,’ Ribbon of Light the last piece of Capitol Hill’s AIDS Memorial Pathway

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The final installation of art to complete the AIDS Memorial Pathway between Cal Anderson Park and Capitol Hill Station will be marked with a ceremony Thursday night.

Organizers are inviting the community to gather with artist Horatio Hung-Yan Law as the fences come down and the Ribbon of Light sculpture is fully unveiled with remarks from the artist, Gay City, and the Office of Arts and Culture. The event will take place Thursday from 8 to 9 PM on the north end of Cal Anderson.

CHS reported here on the Ribbon work as a “quiet space for communal mourning and personal contemplation” as  part of the AIDS Memorial Pathway connecting the park to The AMP Plaza and Capitol Hill Station. Continue reading →

CHS Pics | Some celebrated Juneteenth in the Central District with a roller party — Get ready for Pride skate dancing this weekend on Capitol Hill

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As Seattle observes the holiday for the first time with a quiet Monday at City Hall, there was a wealth of Juneteenth celebrations across the city and the Central District Sunday including a day of roller skate dancing in Judkins Park.

The Juneteenth Celebration: Skate Party & Community Day was hosted by the Northwest African American Museum and included complimentary skate rentals for people to join the fun.

You’ll want to keep those wheels rolling. Pride on Capitol Hill will feature a roller party at the smooth and well paved AIDS Memorial Pathway Plaza on Saturday: Continue reading →

‘Pieces of the sky that have fallen to the ground,’ Ribbon of Light joins AIDS Memorial Pathway connecting Cal Anderson to Capitol Hill Station

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The first installation of an artist’s new “quiet space for communal mourning and personal contemplation” is lighting the northeast corner of Cal Anderson Park.

The first of three stations in Horatio Hung-Yan Law’s sculptural Ribbon of Light installation in the park debuted early this month as Capitol Hill nonprofit Gay City hosted a World AIDS Day commemoration marking 40 years since the first cases of the virus were identified.

The new work is part of the AIDS Memorial Pathway connecting the park to The AMP Plaza and Capitol Hill Station. Continue reading →

Marking the 40th anniversary of the first reported cases, Capitol Hill’s AMP Plaza will host World AIDS Day commemoration

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The plaza’s andimgonnamisseverybody is a giant X made from speakers, a 20 foot by 20 foot structure, designed by artist Christopher Paul Jordan to represent X as a positive symbol turned on its axis to erode the perceived binary between HIV positive and HIV negative people and symbolizing a solidarity between the two.

As it prepares to move into a new home and leads the way in putting Capitol Hill’s newest community gathering space in motion, Gay City is planning to mark the 40th anniversary of the AIDS epidemic with a World AIDS Day commemoration Wednesday in the new AMP Plaza above Capitol Hill Station.

The December 1st will feature artists and storytellers impacted by the AIDS epidemic and a candlelight vigil led by The Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence, The Abbey of St. Joan:

World AIDS Day at The AMP Plaza
Wednesday, December 1st 4 PM
920 E Barbara Bailey Way
Join us in person or virtually to commemorate World AIDS Day on Wednesday, Dec. 1 at 4 p.m. This year, we mark the 40th anniversary of the first reported cases of the AIDS epidemic. In remembrance, Gay City will partner with The AMP and community organizers to host a World AIDS Day commemoration. We will remember those impacted by AIDS and the importance of investing in research and prevention efforts.

CHS reported here on Gay City’s 26 years of service and plans for a new Capitol Hill headquarters on E Pine. Gay City has also stepped forward to help steward the new AIDS Memorial Pathway stretching across Capitol Hill Station’s plaza and Cal Anderson Park. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill Pride: A day of sweat and tears at AIDS Memorial Pathway dedication — Plus, plans for in-person Labor Day Pride

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A day of remembrance and love, sweat, and tears marked Pride weekend on Capitol Hill Saturday and the dedication of the AIDS Memorial Pathway connecting the new plaza above the neighborhood’s light rail station to Cal Anderson Park, named for the first openly gay member of the Washington Legislature who died of AIDS in 1995.

“After six years of planning, artist selection and development, it’s finally time to share these beautiful artworks with the community,” Jason Plourde, project manager for the memorial, said. “The artworks and the themes of The AMP will bring important and meaningful connections to this special public park.”

Meanwhile, with the city emerging from the last days of months of COVID-19 restrictions, news spread Saturday of an in-person Labor Day Pride coming to Capitol Hill later this year. Pride 2021 might as well have also been rescheduled due to heat — Seattle hit 102 F just before 4 PM Saturday afternoon and is forecasted to reach new highs on Sunday and again on Monday.

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An updated* Pride 2021 on Capitol Hill: AIDS Memorial Pathway dedication, ‘silent’ DJ dance party in Cal Anderson, Pride vax pop-ups

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You’ll have a few chances to gather to celebrate Pride on Capitol Hill this weekend despite a heat wave and a wave of disappointment for one event’s organizers. Here is an updated look at Pride weekend events around Capitol Hill and the Central District as the city’s largest in-person celebrations have been rescheduled for later in the year.

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  • AIDS Memorial Pathway Dedication: Capitol Hill’s Pride weekend centerpiece will take place in the Capitol Hill Station Plaza with an event celebrating the dedication of the new memorial pathway connecting the gathering space to Cal Anderson Park. From noon to 3 PM Saturday, organizers say “the community is invited to visit the new pathway to sign a large red ribbon memorializing a loved one, share a message, or sign their name to be a part of this special day in Seattle history.” The ribbon will be part of a new AIDS Memorial Quilt. Artists and The AMP team will be available to answer questions and share more information on the new $2.9 million pathway of art “celebrating the lives of loved ones who have passed on throughout the AIDS crisis.”
    The AMP DEDICATION
    Saturday, June 26
    Noon – 3pm
    On the plaza at the Capitol Hill Light Rail Station     Continue reading →

‘FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES’ — Latest addition to Capitol Hill’s AIDS Memorial Pathway adds messages of action on way to June opening

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After a year mostly lost to the COVID-19 crisis, Capitol Hill Station’s AIDS memorial project connecting the transit hub’s mixed-use development and plaza to Cal Anderson is taking shape and on track for a June 2021 completion. This week, an important component of the AIDS Memorial Pathway was installed, adding new messages to the area from time of the height of the AIDS crisis that the project’s organizers and contributing creators say are relevant and important for today’s Capitol Hill.

“We not only wanted to do messaging that was relevant, that was authentic,” Gabriel Stromberg of the Civilization firm tells CHS about the We’re Already Here installation added to the pathway this week. “But we also wanted to find messaging that represents different experiences in the AIDS crisis.”

Stromberg and Corey Gutch say the Civilization creation of bright signs now on display at the Broadway development and plaza is based research and community review of messages from “collective action” — protests, demonstrations, rallies, and campaigns — from the activism around the HIV/AIDS crisis.

Jason Plourde, manager of the AIDS Memorial Pathway Project, says that realness, relevancy, and diversity of experience is a key component of the pathway. Continue reading →