The Nature Consortium
| Last updated on December 7, 2011 |
The mission of our organization is to teach environmental lessons through the creative arts and hands-on conservation projects.
Our goals are to: inspire members of the community to take responsibility in caring for our diminishing resources and open space and to increase access to the arts.
Description:
We are a grassroots, nonprofit environmental arts organization. We are based in West Seattle and our programs include a Urban Forest Restoration Project, a Youth Art Program and the annual Arts in Nature Festival. Our Urban Forest Restoration Project is a long-term stewardship, education & advocacy project in the West Duwamish Greenbelt where we conduct on-going work parties to plant native trees and understory and to clear invasive vegetation. Our Youth Art Program provides free environmental art classes to at-risk youth living in low-income and public housing communities throughout King County. The Arts in Nature Festival is an annual celebration that encompasses music, dance, theatre, fire performances, wandering performers, a museum of sound and hands-on art & naturalist activities. The 2010 festival is scheduled for August 21st & 22nd at Camp Long in West Seattle.
History:
Nature Consortium began as a simple effort to engage neighbors through a sharing of the idea that everyone has the ability to create and explore the arts and care for the environment. From its inception as a small neighborhood festival in 1998, the organization quickly grew into a nonprofit community arts symposium that teaches environmental lessons.
Over the past 12 years we have served: 2,083 artists, 19,387 community members, 9,754 at-risk youth and 11,743 volunteers. We have planted over 13,000 native conifers and over 10,000 native understory plants.
Contact person: Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email)
Main office number:
(206) 923-0853Office fax number: (206) 932-0866
Address:
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4408 Delridge Way SW #107
Seattle, WA 98106
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Web Site: http://www.naturec.org
Directions:
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*NOTE* this is our office location, NOT our location for work parties.
Take Delridge Way SW exit ramp from the West Seattle Bridge. The office is on the first floor of the Youngstown Cultural Center just south of Genesee SW on the east side of Delridge Way SW. |
| Last updated on December 7, 2011 |
