The Creative Advantage

03/21/2025

💥Huge thanks to SAM Educators, Seattle Public Schools educators and all of our community partners for making the Seattle Visual Arts Education Coalition's 2nd Annual Professional Development Day truly stellar.💥

03/17/2025

FREE Teen Action Fair, Saturday March 22 @ Gates Foundation Discovery Center

03/15/2025

✨ Spread the word! ✨

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/206-zulu-community-orientation-tickets-1256953203869?aff=oddtdtcreator

02/26/2025

🔥 Interested in applying to The Creative Advantage Community Arts Partner Roster? The next panel review takes place in March for all applications that come in by Friday, Feb 28! 🔥
https://www.creativeadvantageseattle.org/the-roster/

02/25/2025

Youth Arts Grant applications are due in one week!
Apply for $12,000 by March 4, 5 p.m. Pacific Time!

Youth Arts Grant applications are due in one week!

Apply for $12,000 by March 4, 5 p.m. Pacific: seattle.gov/arts/programs/grants/youth-arts-grant

The Youth Arts grant supports two years of equitable access to arts and cultural learning opportunities for Seattle’s middle and high school-aged youth. Individual artists, artists, arts and cultural organizations, youth-service agencies, and degree-granting institutions are eligible to apply.

02/25/2025

✨ Shout out to Wedgewood students and The Creative Advantage roster partner Bayfest! ✨

02/21/2025

👉 Interested in becoming a teaching artist with The Rhapsody Project? Attend these FREE sessions. 🤛

Free music program - guitar classes meet jam sessions! Free for all ages. Informal community music making in a hybrid format from Seattle.

02/20/2025

Shout out to The Seattle Music Coalition and all the partners that made the recent professional development day such a success! Seattle Public Schools Visual + Performing, Ben Hunter & Joe Seamons, The Rhapsody Project, Orquesta Northwest, Eduardo Mendonca + Show Brazil, Dr. Christopher Mena!

In January, The Creative Advantage hosted The Seattle Music Education Coalition’s Professional Development Day at Seattle Opera Center. The Coalition strives to build music programs and opportunities for Seattle Public School’s youth. It includes SPS Visual & Performing Arts music teachers, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, The Rhapsody Project, and Seattle-based music partners.

Read more: artbeat.seattle.gov/2025/02/11/seattle-music-education-coalition

02/13/2025

🪱 Saturday February 22nd! 🪱

Join CIDBIA to celebrate Lunar New Year!

The celebration features traditional dragon and lion dances, martial arts demonstrations, Japanese Taiko drumming, and other cultural performances. Visitors can participate in our Annual Food Walk, sampling dishes from local businesses. With a variety of family-friendly activities, arts and crafts vendors, and cultural exhibits, the event offers something for everyone to enjoy.

Vendor booths will line up along S King St., dance performances and music will take place at Hing Hay Park, and there are 40+ food walk destinations!

Learn more: seattlechinatownid.com/experiences/lunar-new-

02/10/2025

💥 Hey there teaching artists and community arts orgs -
Spread the word about these Office of Arts & Culture Seattle opportunities! Especially The Creative Advantage roster, Youth Arts + SmART Ventures! 💥

02/07/2025

📣 Latine Teen Poetry Workshop on February 15th. Featuring Mateo Acuna, Carlos Nieto, Clara Olivio + Free Tamales!

02/06/2025

Ooh. Whatcha doin' Saturday? This event with Young Women Empowered (Y-WE) sure sounds good!

🕯️🪞✨— We are THREE days away from our Health and Wellness day!

Make sure you RSVP to the link in our bio for a day dedicated to your mind, body, and community! 🫧🌿 Take a break, recharge, and enjoy a day filled with education, connection, and fun.

Goodie Bags are first come, first serve… and word on the street is some of them have nail kits inside by the one and only 😉💅🏼

📅 When: Saturday, February 8th
⏰ Time: 11:30 AM – 4:00 PM (Doors open at 11:00 AM)
📍 Where: YWE Office
🔗RSVP, link in our bio

Don’t miss out on this chance to treat yourself—you deserve it! 🌸 See you there! 💕

02/05/2025

⚡️Spread the word to the artists and community orgs!

02/04/2025

✨ Stop by ARTS at King St this Thursday to witness and celebrate this incredible show (and program). ✨

Join us this First Thursday for Fresh Perspectives!

Each year of the program, Fresh Perspectives brings on a cohort of youth curators to select new artists to add to the City’s Civic Art Collection. Thanks to dedicated funds from the City Light percent-for-art, the 2024 cohort of 10 youth curators, under the tutelage of artist and educator Hasaan Kirkland, selected 50 artists for consideration for purchase by City Light for the collection. The final selection was made by a purchasing panel of City Light employees. This exhibition features those purchases, now a permanent part of the City’s collection, showcasing Seattle’s rich artistic heritage.

ARTS at King Street Station is open Wed. – Sat. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. and until 8 p.m. on First Thursdays. Admission is free. The gallery is located at 303 S. Jackson St., Top Floor, Seattle, WA 98104.

02/04/2025

"We have an obligation to join together! As the road ahead requires people of all ages to lead, follow, and pass the baton as we move toward justice."
https://www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com/woa.html

01/31/2025

✨ Spread the word about Community Day at Pacific Northwest Ballet this Sunday. ✨

01/29/2025

🪱 Celebrate the Year of the Snake with art activities for all ages!
Join us at the Donnie Chin International Children's Park at 700 S Lane St. from 1-3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 8.

01/28/2025

🎉 Congratulations to Urban ArtWorks for completing this big project with the students at Loyal Heights!