EVENTS

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Pride Storytelling Cohort Timeline

January 1, 2025
Olympia, many locations

We've brought together this timeline to share the Pride Storytelling Project cohort's progress and opportunities for community engagmeent with you.

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Queerotica Art Exhibit

April 26, 2025
‍225 State Ave NE Olympia, WA 98501

Window Seat staff and cohort members will be engaging the public creatively in what we're learning through the Pride Storytelling Project inside Capital City Pride’s Queerotica exhibit for Spring Arts Walk.

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Together We Gather

May 22, 2025
Burfoot Park - Meadow Shelter, 6927 Boston Harbor Rd NE, Olympia, WA 98506

Together, We Gather for a POTLUCK-style annual gathering and fundraiser in the park. Bring food to share and help us celebrate this year at Window Seat in storytelling community. A non ticketed event. RSVP to help us know how many people to expect!

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Pride Cohort Community Share-Out

June 3, 2025
Olympia Timberland Library, 313 8th Ave SE

Celebrate local LGBTQIAA2S+ voices and community research with Window Seat and Capital City Pride.

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Pretty When I Cry at the Capitol Theater

June 8, 2025
Olympia Film Society, 206 5th Ave SE, Olympia, WA 98501

DJ Dilemma Roberts is spinning the hits (pop, electronic & freestyle). Bring your friend, invite your crush, tell a nemesis to meet you on the dancefloor. Drink a canned cocktail while thinking of your past. Try new moves to an old Tove Lo song. According to Instagram, Alison Roman considered coming to this event last year. Dress up and show out. We’re the Pacific Northwest’s answer to Joyface in New York City. A Portion of each ticket sale benefits Window Seat’s Pride Storytelling Project!

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Capital City Pride 2025

June 28, 2025
The Olympia Center, 222 Columbia St NW, Olympia, WA 98501

Drop by our exhibit during Capital City Pride 2025! Window Seat staff and cohort members will be activating stories from Pride Storytelling Project oral history collection.

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Oral History Summer Institute

August 15, 2025
Arbutus Folk School, 705 4th Ave E, Olympia, WA 98501

Learn to ethically document and share community voices with your students. Perfect for educators, librarians, arts and culture professionals, and others interested in project-based community oral history research.

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Events

January 1, 2025
Pride Storytelling Cohort Timeline
April 26, 2025
Queerotica Art Exhibit
May 22, 2025
Together We Gather
June 3, 2025
Pride Cohort Community Share-Out
June 8, 2025
Pretty When I Cry at the Capitol Theater
June 28, 2025
Capital City Pride 2025
August 15, 2025
Oral History Summer Institute

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Community oral history projects:

Pride Storytelling Project

DOCUMENTATION IN PROGRESS 2024-2025. Our LGBTQ+ cohort of narrative changemakers is embarking on a documentation efforts to preserve local Queer history. Join us at events, artist talks, exhibits, workshops, and performances. Apply this summer to join our cohort for year 2 of this project.

Third Spaces

A team of community researchers gathered oral histories in 2023-24 about three local organizing efforts grounded in specific spaces that are important to our collective history in the South Sound.

Stories of Food, Food as Story

A project-based workshop series in 2023 using oral history practices to explore participants histories and cultural heritage through food traditions and local foodways.

The Third Thirty

A community-based oral history project 2018-21 honoring and amplifying the voices of South Sound elders.

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705 4th Ave E Ste 101, Olympia, WA 98506

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