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The Bite of Seattle is an annual food festival held in Seattle, Washington.It takes place at the Seattle Center.Locally, the festival is known as "The Bite". It is held on one weekend during the month of July, and is considered to be one of Seattle's largest food and beverage events with over 200 participating vendors.
Based on the Vera club in Groningen, Netherlands.The name Vera comes from the phrase Veri Et Recti Amici, which is Latin meaning "true and sincere friends". [1] Seattle's VERA Project was founded in 2001 by James Keblas, Shannon Stewart [2] (both studied at the University of Groningen in 1999), and Kate Becker (founder of the Old Redmond Firehouse), along with the help of many other community ...
Bumbershoot is an annual international music and arts festival held in Seattle, Washington.One of North America's largest such festivals, [1] it takes place every Labor Day weekend (leading up to and including the first Monday of September) at the 74-acre (299,000 m 2) Seattle Center, which was built for the 1962 World's Fair.
In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the gala had to be cancelled and for the first time ever, the event was made free to the public, streaming online on December 1, 2020, as MoPOP honored Seattle's own Alice in Chains. [46] The benefit streaming raised more than $600,000 for MoPOP in its first night.
The Rainier Club was first proposed at a February 23, 1888 meeting of six Seattle civic leaders; it was formally incorporated July 25, 1888. The attendees of the original meeting were J. R. McDonald, president of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway; John Leary, real estate developer and former Seattle mayor; Norman Kelly; R. C. Washburn, editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Bailey ...
Seattle Pride is a nonprofit organization that coordinates and promotes LGBTQIA+ events and programs in Seattle year-round. The organization aims to create unity, honor diversity, and achieve equal human rights throughout the region and the world [9] through a variety of programs including its Pride Speaks speaker series, [10] Vote with Pride [11] voter engagement program, and its community ...
Seattle Metropolitan, or Seattle Met, is a monthly city magazine covering Seattle, Washington. Its first issue was published in March 2006, and features reporting and feature articles on Seattle events, politics, people, dining and restaurants, popular places, and attractions.
The organization was founded in 1999 as the Seattle Sex Positive Community Center. Socially speaking, it is an outgrowth of Allena Gabosch's Beyond the Edge Cafe , which hosted BDSM related events. Several regulars of the cafe started discussing getting a dedicated space for their activities.