White Center Now: The blog about White Center

White Center Jubilee Days has its 2010 theme – “Come Together, Embrace Our Differences” – chosen in mid-December, and planning for next summer is roaring ahead. Next meeting for people who want to help is at 6:30 pm January 6th (next Wednesday), Big Al Brewing (then the group will meet every two weeks till they go into weekly-meeting mode). According to the WCJD Facebook page, another decision that’s been made is to have the parade on Sunday this year, probably at 10 am.

If you haven’t become a fan of White Center Jubilee Days on Facebook already, now’s a good time – that’s where they are asking people to post suggested themes for this year. The contest is open for another week. One nominated theme posted today – “Embrace Our Differences.” (Last year’s theme was “Living the Dream.”)

3 pm today, The Not-Its play Full Tilt Ice Cream on 16th SW. Here’s the – pardon the pun – scoop. (But first, of course, it’s parade time, 1 pm!)

You won’t be able to miss White Center for the Arts during White Center Jubilee Days this weekend – they’re planning to be everywhere, according to this update from Shelli:

White Center for the Arts (www.whitecenterforthearts.org) will be heavily represented at Jubilee Days (www.jubileedays.org) this year. For both days of the event, July 18th and 19th, White Center for the Arts will have a booth in the community area where everyone can participate in a future public art project. This will be the first of many community art projects that we will host. It will be a clay mosaic. Do what you want with your piece of clay, sign your name or initials, and we will make sure that your piece is placed in the finished mosaic. Fun for one and all. And you’ll be a famous artist!

White Center for the Arts will also have a float in the parade, which starts at the McDonalds on 16th Ave SW near 114th. The float starts at 1:00 PM. We will be handing out candy and flyers. We will float towards downtown White Center on 16th Ave SW with the rest of the crew. You’ve got to see what we are making this time!

White Center for the Arts is hosting another Art Event this coming weekend in conjunction with Jubilee Days. We will be in the parking lot of the Skate Building on 17th Ave SW. We will be active for our regular hours of 5 PM to 10 PM. Enjoy the nearby Beer Gardens, and the music flowing from the stage while you watch art in action!

… not to mention the rest of Jubilee Days. On behalf of West Seattle Blog, we’ve been tabling at West Seattle Summer Fest this weekend, and we have a few Jubilee Days guides as well as information on WS events. We’re big parade fans so that’s the highlight for us! Coming up next Saturday afternoon — here are the details.

So many marathons these days, it’s refreshing to see a “microthon,” which is what’s planned right before the White Center Jubilee Days parade on July 18th – not a 26 mile, not a 13 mile, not a 5K, but a … 1K! Get your entry form here.

The info available on the White Center Jubilee Days website continues to grow – and now there’s more info about this year’s parade, Saturday afternoon, July 18th. The theme: “Living the Dream.” Hard to believe the heart of summer festival season is just a little more than six weeks away!

Check out the new logo at jubileedays.org – and they’ve even started a Twitter account.

As posted on CL: White Center Jubilee Days needs “a new logo and an artist to create it.” Interested? gmc_tile@comcast.net; here’s the website from this past summer’s event.