Sponsors of Awesome:
Columbia Tower Club
Awesome Seattle
Ventures
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"Hey, would you like a sandwich?" "Sure." "I've also got some bananas, would you like one?"
Donating money or non-perishables to a food shelter is great, but for a more direct experience of contributing to someone in need, try making a bunch of sandwiches up at home, load up your backpack with them and some fruit, and then go bike around downtown, offering up food to folks directly.
This project is to get a team together to do this at whatever awesome scale you can manage. Be of service, have some conversations, make some days just a little brighter.
Inspired photography to make some good happen in the world. In this project an Awesome Fest team sets up an area in a public park for the afternoon and works with a pro photographer to photograph people with their pets. For a small donation ($10-$20), people can have professional photos taken of their pets, which they can then download off of a website. Donations benefit an animal shelter in the Seattle Metro area.
The project calls for some inspired assistants to hustle for the event day of and some publicity to have this make as much happiness for park goers and good for an animal shelter happen as possible. Bonus points for talent able to rally media coverage.
We want to fill downtown Burien with unique and interesting spaces for building community. We’ve been working for years to clean up the alley behind Burien Press and turn it in to a space to host art and community events. Now we want to convert a previously wasted space behind our coffee shop into a beautiful and welcoming space that bumps up against the alley.
We would love to work with people who want to make Burien more awesome by creating a new garden space, a new venue and want to support the arts and the revitalization of wasted spaces in our community.
Awesome Projects
We're putting together a project grab bag.
We're all of us talented and motivated folks, but coming up with an enticing 3-week project with a group of strangers in just an hour or two might still be a tall order. So there'll be a grab bag of projects for teams to choose from/be inspired by in case creating one from scratch isn't immediately obvious.
What kind of projects? Try a few of these sample ideas on for size:
Guerilla Style Homeless Food Drive
"Hey, would you like a sandwich?" "Sure." "I've also got some bananas, would you like one?"Donating money or non-perishables to a food shelter is great, but for a more direct experience of contributing to someone in need, try making a bunch of sandwiches up at home, load up your backpack with them and some fruit, and then go bike around downtown, offering up food to folks directly.
This project is to get a team together to do this at whatever awesome scale you can manage. Be of service, have some conversations, make some days just a little brighter.
Pups in the Park
Inspired photography to make some good happen in the world. In this project an Awesome Fest team sets up an area in a public park for the afternoon and works with a pro photographer to photograph people with their pets. For a small donation ($10-$20), people can have professional photos taken of their pets, which they can then download off of a website. Donations benefit an animal shelter in the Seattle Metro area.The project calls for some inspired assistants to hustle for the event day of and some publicity to have this make as much happiness for park goers and good for an animal shelter happen as possible. Bonus points for talent able to rally media coverage.
Burien Press Urban Garden
Champion: Matthew Wendland
We want to fill downtown Burien with unique and interesting spaces for building community. We’ve been working for years to clean up the alley behind Burien Press and turn it in to a space to host art and community events. Now we want to convert a previously wasted space behind our coffee shop into a beautiful and welcoming space that bumps up against the alley.We would love to work with people who want to make Burien more awesome by creating a new garden space, a new venue and want to support the arts and the revitalization of wasted spaces in our community.
Tiny House Village
Champion: Mercedes Elizalde