Events

Upcoming Events

Flights & Rights: Abortion

Date: 
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Event Location: 
Online

Learn about the future of abortion in Washington with community partners and ACLU-WA Health Care and Liberty Counsel Leah Rutman. Moderated by ACLU-WA Executive Director Michele Storms.

Pride Across Washington

Date: 
Wednesday, June 1, 2022 - 12:15pm to Monday, October 24, 2022 - 12:15pm
Event Location: 
Various
Celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride all across Washington

Festival Sundiata: Call for Volunteers and Save-the-Date

Date: 
Friday, June 17, 2022 - 12:00pm to Sunday, June 19, 2022 - 8:00pm
Event Location: 
Seattle Center
Seattle Center Festál presents Festival Sundiata: Black Arts Fest in partnership with Sundiata African American Cultural Association (SAACA). The festival focuses on intergenerational activities and promotion of traditional and contemporary African American heritage, showcasing local entertainment, photography, food merchants, historical exhibits, and more! The ACLU-WA is proud to be a presenting sponsor of this year's festival, held during Juneteenth weekend. Festival organizers are seeking volunteers for various roles.
Seattle Pride

Seattle Pride Parade - ACLU Contingent

Date: 
Sunday, June 26, 2022 - 11:00am to 3:00pm
Event Location: 
Downtown Seattle
Join the ACLU of Washington supporters and staff at the 2022 Pride Parade!

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Celebrate Juneteenth with Black-Owned Businesses

Date: 
Saturday, June 19, 2021 - 9:00am to Sunday, June 20, 2021 - 9:00pm
The ACLU is supporting local Black-owned businesses by opening tabs in your community to give you the opportunity to expand your purchasing power and support local businesses.

SAL Presents Ocean Vuong

Date: 
Wednesday, June 9, 2021 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Event Location: 
Online
Ocean Vuong is a poet and fiction writer whose work considers class, queerness, family, and identity. His epistolary novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019), was an immediate and enduring bestseller described by the Los Angeles Times as a “series of high notes that trembles exquisitely almost without break.” Q&A moderated by musician Perfume Genius.

Projecting Justice

Date: 
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - 9:30pm to Tuesday, June 8, 2021 - 11:30pm
Event Location: 
Saint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral
With Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, we projected names of those killed by police, beginning with George Floyd on May 25. Photo by Brian Smale.

Flights & Rights: Healthcare Equity For Immigrants

Date: 
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Event Location: 
Online
Join ACLU-WA Health Care and Liberty Policy Counsel Leah Rutman for a conversation on healthcare equity for immigrants. Leah will be joined by Adriana Ortiz of El Centro de la Raza and Michael Byun of Asian Counseling and Referral Services (ACRS) to discuss health care access issues facing immigrant communities and current steps being taken to address barriers to care.
 

Ibram X. Kendi: Live & Online

Date: 
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
The author of How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi is one of America’s foremost historians and leading antiracist voices. He is a #1 New York Times best-selling author and the director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University. The format for this event will be a live, online conversation with Dr. Edward Taylor.

This event will be live and online only. Please note: this event begins at 6:00 p.m. (PDT).

Seattle University APILSA and ABAW: Black Allyship and Reparations Panel

Date: 
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Seattle University’s Asian Pacific Islander Law Student Association (APILSA) and Black Student Law Association (BLSA), and the Asian Bar Association of Washington (ABAW) in collaboration with University of Washington's Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA) proudly presents a community panel on the importance of AAPI allyship and racial solidarity with the Black community and on understanding the calls for Black reparations from the Japanese American experience with redress.

A Conversation about The Sum of Us: Live & Online

Date: 
Monday, March 29, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Heather McGhee’s recently released book, The Sum of Us, provides a critical analysis of zero-sum policymaking that creates the false choice between some of us being O.K. and all of us being better off. Marguerite Casey Foundation, the Open Society Foundations, and SAL will present a free, Youtube Live event with McGhee, in conversation with Dr. Carmen Rojas, moderated by Tom  Perriello.

MLK / FBI Virtual Screening with Director Sam Pollard

Date: 
Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 6:00pm
Please join so co-hosts Equal Rights Washington and ACLU-WA for a screening of MLK/FBI, with a special introduction from film director Sam Pollard and post-screening panel discussion with Michele Storms, Executive Director, ACLU-WA; Monisha Harrell, Chair, Equal Rights Washington; Aneelah Afzali, Executive Director, MAPS-AMEN (American Muslim Empowerment Network); and Kamau Chege, Managing Director, Washington for Black Lives.

Japanese Americans and African Americans Advancing the Movement for Reparations

Date: 
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Event Location: 
Online
Join us to discuss the historical impact of reparations and redress on communities, the precedent, and path forward to passing HR 40.

Seattle Arts & Lectures Luvvie Ajayi Jones: In Conversation—Live & Online

Date: 
Friday, March 19, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Event Location: 
Register Here
Luvvie Ajayi Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of I’m Judging You, and a speaker and podcast host who thrives at the intersection of comedy, technology, and justice.

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