Category: Community News & Events

The Bike Month Commute Challenge, presented by Adobe, is May 1 – 31. Motivate yourself to commute by bike as often as possible during the month of May. Track yourself or join as part of a team, and use a cool new website to track all your bike trips. To participate, you need to commute by bike at least four days throughout the month. No problem, right?

Click here to register.

Just getting started?

Click here to register for any of these (and other) helpful and informative bike commuting classes, held at the HUB, and taught by instructors from Cascade Bicycle Club:

• Bike Commuting 101 – Getting Started (April 28, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. today, May 6)
• Bike Commuting 102 – Rules of the Road (May 14)
• Bike Commuting 103 – Fix your own flat tire (May 19)

Don’t have a bike? Use Pronto!

Pronto is Seattle’s nonprofit bike share system with 11 stations in the U-District and 40+ more in Capitol Hill, South Lake Union, and downtown. Once you join, you can take an unlimited number of rides up to 30 minutes for free.

Click here for full Pronto membership information and to see a map that shows you all the UW Pronto stations.

Always be safe!

Always wear a helmet (clean helmets are available to borrow at every Pronto station) and bike cautiously and responsibly.

Remember the following rules:

• Pedestrians always have the right of way
• Stay in control and ride within your ability
• Obey all traffic laws
• Dismount and walk your bike when in any Bike Walk Zone and other crowded pedestrian areas
• Minimize your impact by staying off of lawns
• Park and lock your bike only at designated bike racks

See you in the bike lane!

Watch this new video from UWTV about the opening celebration at Intellectual House on March 12, 2015, and its philosophy to serve as a place of welcome and affirmation, and “where we can share our culture with non-Natives and build bridges amongst us,” Denny Hurtado, former chair of the Skokomish Tribe and retired director of Indian Education for the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), says.

This new facility is also known by the Lushootseed language name for Intellectual House, wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ, pronounced “wah-sheb-altuh,” and is intended to be a learning and gathering place for Native American students, faculty and staff, as well as the UW and surrounding community.

40 years in the making, wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House received input and guidance from an elders committee and regional tribes in addition to UW community members.

Sheila Edwards Lange, Vice President for Minority Affairs and Vice Provost for Diversity, UW; Charlotte Coté, associate professor, American Indian Studies, UW; Ross Braine, director, Intellectual House, UW and Johnpaul Jones, architect, are also featured in the video.

Visit wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House at 4249 Whitman Court, Seattle, WA 98195.

Hours of operation are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. (unless otherwise reserved)

For more information about wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House, click here.

From 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 19, look, listen, explore and laugh at the third annual Arty Party at the Henry Art Gallery.

There will be a variety of activities including creating with artists, listening to storytellers, dancing to tunes, exploring exhibits, and enjoying the “Best of the Fest” from the 2015 Children’s Film Festival Seattle.

Dubs, the UW mascot, will make a special appearance from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Bring the whole family!

For more information or to purchase tickets, click here.

Run or walk a 5k or 10k, or run a 15k or half marathon at this energizing Earth Day event hosted by the Magnuson Series at Magnuson Park on April 18. There is also a kids’ dash and a dog dash, and two-person team and duathlon options — come one, come all!

Each finisher will receive a native sapling tree to take home or donate to the parks department, and the Mangrove Action Project will plant a mangrove tree in our nation’s forests in each finisher’s name.

Don’t forget to bring your used running shoes! They will be donated to the More Foundation, who will use the proceeds from the sales to help people in Africa grow fruit trees, plant gardens and more.

Get outside, have some fun, plant a tree and feel good about supporting the environment!

To register, get more information and see the full event schedule click here.