Save the Date for Venice is Sinking!

Party with a purpose is back!
Don’t miss the best Carnival party in Seattle!
Check out Photos from last year’s event!
Tickets go on sale Nov. 1 – stay tuned on this blog or on Facebook for ticket info!
$50 Early Bird price until Jan, 31st
$60 After January 31st
LIVE Performers include:
Darek Mazzone- KEXP World Pop DJ
Geoffrey Castle; violinist extraordinaire
Opening [...]

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Crooked Trails Autumn Newsletter

Welcome everyone to our Autumn newsletter
Every year, about this time, as I watch the leaves turn colors and fall to the ground I cannot help but think of our friend Moi, the Haorani leader from the Ecuadorian Amazon. During a visit to Seattle one autumn, Moi and I drove along a particularly colorful tree lined [...]

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Volunteer Travel Q&A on Facebook with Shelley Seale

Writer and travel junkie Shelley Seale will be a guest on a Q&A discussion about volunteer travel this Saturday, May 16 from 10 am to 4 pm.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=86033206565
The discussion will be hosted on Facebook by The Voluntary Traveler Book Project. This is an anthology of volunteer travel tales that is coming out this fall; Shelley is [...]

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Venetian Carnival is SOLD OUT!!!

Hope you got your tickets, because the ticket sales were swift this year and we are now officially maxed out!
For those of you who missed the cut-off – we’re sorry we can’t welcome you to join us (fire marshals must be obeyed) but hope to see you at one of our next events.
For you lucky [...]

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We Came, We Chatted, We Drank

Crooked Trails staff, board and volunteers had a blast hosting the March GreenDrinks at Ecohaus. A huge thanks to all of you who came out!

Folks from all over the green spectrum came out to connect, learn about our work, share a drink and get to know each other.

Besides holding a bingo game and drawing for [...]

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Join us March 10th – we’re hosting Seattle Green Drinks!

Money’s tight, job uncertain, looking for options or just a good time?
All good reasons to come out to GreenDrinks this month.
Hosted by Crooked Trails!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009            5:30 – 9:00 pm
at Ecohaus flagship store 4121 First Avenue South, in SoDo
Join us and several hundred of our friends in the “green” world for a fun, FREE [...]

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Tumbao joins the April 18th line-up

We’re so excited about the band we recently lined up for our April 18th Carnival event that we thought we’d share it with you – check these guys out!
Click on “listen to our new cd” on Tumbao’s website:  http://www.tumbao.us/Home.htm
“…an exuberant, joyful, energetic and amazing musical ride that soars and swings. Trust me when I say that [...]

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“Namaste Reunited”: Coming Soon to ArtXchange

Our wonderful friends at ArtXchange Gallery will be featuring an exhibition that explores the Namaste Children’s Fund history and projects. They will also be exhibiting new work by Cora Edmonds, benefitting NCF. “Namaste Reunited” opens March 5 and runs through April 31.
“Namaste Reunited” will be opening with a reception during the First Thursday Artwalk on [...]

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Photography & Voluntourism webcast with Jeff Speigner

In a Crooked Trails blog post last autumn, we told you about our friend Jeff Speigner’s involvment with the Design4Kids workshop project in Guatemala.
Now Jeff has been invited to participate in a live webcast for a conversation on the subject of Photography and Voluntourism with host David Clemmons. He’ll be discussing the Design4Kids workshop he [...]

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New Year’s Resolution: I Want to Volunteer!

We are all guilty of the New Years resolution that we are never really able to fulfill. It leaves us with that empty feeling of a job half done, a book partially read, a promise broken. Crooked Trails’ New Years Resolution is to help our CT friends and family fulfill their own goals of the [...]

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