Events
Events and benefits happen throughout the year. We have a few larger annual events and several smaller spontaneous ones. These are all generally fundraising events, but they also help us promote our programs and celebrate our successes. Sometimes members of the community want to host events in our honor. Information about all these happenings can be found below.
Sponsorship Opportunities
If you or your company would like to sponsor an upcoming event, we can arrange a package of sponsorship benefits to meet your needs. Sponsorship levels vary with each event, so contact us to start the conversation.
Saturday, April 25 - 826 Seattle, 11 AM
Join 826 Seattle and the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. for the third installment of the Great Moments in Astrophysics event series – The Great Space Race. There will be model rocket ship races (pick up your free kit in the store while supplies last, ages 6 to 18) and a flash fiction workshop (open to all ages – students and adults!).
826 Seattle and Northwest Film Forum present a special screening of Away We Go
Saturday, May 9 - Harvard Exit Theater - 807 E. Roy St., 4:30 PM
Directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”) from an original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, this funny and heartfelt film follows the journey of an expectant couple (John Krasinski [“The Office’] and Maya Rudolph [“Saturday Night Live’]), as they travel the U.S. in search of the perfect place to put down roots and raise their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover “home” on their own terms for the first time. The movie features the music of Alexi Murdoch. View the trailer here.
Screenwriter Dave Eggers (bestselling author A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and What is the What, and founder of 826 National) will be in attendance for a Q&A after the screening.
Tickets are $25 general admission and $20 for Northwest Film Forum members and active 826 Seattle volunteers. Available from Brown Paper Tickets.
All proceeds from this event go to 826 Seattle in support of its programs.
How To Write Like I Do - The Adult Writers’ Workshop Series
(About) Once a Month - 826 Seattle, 7-9 PM
Join 826 Seattle for the inauguration of How To Write Like I Do, a year-long series of adult writing workshops in which lots of really talented writers donate their time so a bunch of adults, many of whom are also writers or want to be writers, can pay money to learn more about writing, and all that money goes into the coffers of 826 Seattle so we can help young writers (ages 6-18) with their writing, free of charge.
How to Teach Like I Do — A Writing Teachers’ Round Table
Monthly Thursdays (see schedule by clicking above)- 826 Seattle, 6:30-8:30 PM
Anyone who teaches writing or wants to teach writing to any and all ages is welcome. A natural network of current and future writing teachers exists at 826 Seattle, yet very few of them get the chance to talk shop. We’d like to create an opportunity for
these teachers to meet, write, eat, and share what’s working for them as teachers and what’s not. We feel like this group can
become a great resource for those looking to teach a workshop at 826 Seattle, also a place where we can share information on
job opportunities, not to mention new ideas, writing prompts and assignments, as well as support in dealing with the challenges
that teachers face. Potluck.
Upon request 826 Seattle will provide auxiliary aids for participants with disabilities.
“Hearing (Lemony) Snicket, (Mike) Doughty and Death Cab (for Cutie) brought the capacity crowd to its feet, howling like Irish setters. This for me was Bumbershoot at its best. It had everything—nerve, heart, brains and rock ‘n’ roll.”
— Regina Hackett of the Seattle P-I