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Dear friends We are so excited to announce the date for this years ride! Please stay tuned for more details. In the meantime be you get vaccinated and ride safe! ABOUT THE WNBR Celebrating bicycle power and the beauty of people World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) is an international clothing-optional people powered event that highlights the vulnerability of cyclists everywhere decries society’s dependence on pollution-based transport and promotes positive body image. It’s also just a lot of fun! The event is bare-as-you-dare; anything from body paint to underwear to fanciful costumes are encouraged. Due to legal restrictions full frontal nudity is at your own risk but many participants do go all out. Large-scale body painting is typically available pre-ride and personal expression is encouraged. past events drew over 2000 riders and covered over ten miles of high visibility city areas. Blessed by decent summer weather in a great cycling city the event has grown into a fantastic rolling celebration complete with a massive afterparty. Participants often describe it as a transcendent group experience personally transforming and beyond superlative.

CYCLISTS & SKATERS: Check-in Saturday 3–3:45pm

RIDE LEAVES BY 4PM so DON’T BE LATE!

Rain or shine so BE PREPARED for ANYTHING.

Ends where we start. No promises after but we’ll have time to hydrate decompress and connect with friends.

PLAN TO ARRIVE EARLY!

We recommend you bring your Helmet Lights Water Snacks Shoes and Clothes.

SAFETY IN NUMBERS!

Ride as a MASS keeping together by staying behind the leader and with the group. Stay to the center to avoid bystanders. Consider hopping off your bike to stay in control.

Work with Bike Marshalls (in yellow vests!) for everyone’s safety. Communicate what you need to those around you and support those who call out for help!

– DON’T get wasted.

– DON’T lag behind or split off.

– DON’T enter lanes of on-coming traffic.

– DON’T swarm cars or antagonize the public and cops.

Be prepared stay alert take care help others.

LEAVE NO TRACE!!! PICK IT UP and PACK IT OUT!!!

HAVE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE !!!

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Styled by the Streets: Black Women in Hip-Hop Fashion explores how Black women transform Hip-Hop fashion into a cultural and political force, transcending the boundaries of music to influence global style, self-expression, and identity. From streetwear to couture, hair to jewelry, and iconic photography, the exhibition showcases style as a powerful expression of Black womanhood across 30 unique artifacts. Layered in late 1990s and early 2000s denim, holographic finishes, and Y2K palettes, the gallery highlights the artists and cultural creators who bring these iconic looks to life—centering the women visionaries whose creativity reshapes Black and Hip-Hop communities through storytelling, authorship, and legacy.

This is a permanent exhibition. Since time immemorial, Tribal nations have existed in this place we call Washington. This Is Native Land invites visitors to understand Washington State through the lived experiences and voices of its Native people.

Tribal nations are sovereign nations. Today, Native history, culture, and community thrive in our state. Through everyday acts of sovereignty – big and small – Indigenous peoples demonstrate they are still here, they have persevered, and they will always be here.

This Is Native Land is guided by three teachings:
We are of the land and waters
With knowledge comes responsibility
Sovereignty protects people, lands, and waters

These teachings are shared through multimedia, artwork, and interactive objects designed for guest engagement. They represent a contemporary continuation of Tribal stories and traditions.

Over 100 Native contributors from more than 60 Tribes shaped the exhibition’s stories and content. We thank the Native Advisory Committee and all community participants for their contributions.

Trees speak. Water sings. A storm gathers. And somewhere beyond it, the air clears.

Inspired by the abundant nature and breathtaking landscapes that surround Olympia, CONNECT listens to the living world through trees, water, weather, memory, and renewal. This is not nature as background scenery. This is nature as presence, as motion, as something that speaks when we slow down enough to hear it.
Iman Habibi’s Jeder Baum spricht, or Every Tree Speaks, opens the concert in conversation with Beethoven. Written as a response to Beethoven’s Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, the work listens to the natural world through a present-day lens, where beauty and fragility exist side by side. The piece’s direct connection to Beethoven makes its place beside the Pastoral Symphony feel less like a pairing and more like a conversation across centuries.

Then, water takes center stage. In Tan Dun’s words, “Water is an element you can’t block. You can block land...but water has no such frontiers.” In the Water Concerto, percussionist Svet Stoyanov turns that idea into something you can see and hear. Bowls, basins, splashes, ripples, and touch become sound, creating music that feels heard and seen at the same time.

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” brings the concert home. Birds call. A brook moves. Dancers gather. A storm breaks open the sky. Then comes the calm after, full of gratitude and release. After Habibi and Tan Dun ask us to listen again, Beethoven reminds us why the natural world has always called us back.

CONNECT is a poetic, sensory concert about the landscapes around us, the elements that move through every border, and the quiet renewal that begins when we pay attention.

Styled by the Streets: Black Women in Hip-Hop Fashion explores how Black women transform Hip-Hop fashion into a cultural and political force, transcending the boundaries of music to influence global style, self-expression, and identity. From streetwear to couture, hair to jewelry, and iconic photography, the exhibition showcases style as a powerful expression of Black womanhood across 30 unique artifacts. Layered in late 1990s and early 2000s denim, holographic finishes, and Y2K palettes, the gallery highlights the artists and cultural creators who bring these iconic looks to life—centering the women visionaries whose creativity reshapes Black and Hip-Hop communities through storytelling, authorship, and legacy.

This is a permanent exhibition. Since time immemorial, Tribal nations have existed in this place we call Washington. This Is Native Land invites visitors to understand Washington State through the lived experiences and voices of its Native people.

Tribal nations are sovereign nations. Today, Native history, culture, and community thrive in our state. Through everyday acts of sovereignty – big and small – Indigenous peoples demonstrate they are still here, they have persevered, and they will always be here.

This Is Native Land is guided by three teachings:
We are of the land and waters
With knowledge comes responsibility
Sovereignty protects people, lands, and waters

These teachings are shared through multimedia, artwork, and interactive objects designed for guest engagement. They represent a contemporary continuation of Tribal stories and traditions.

Over 100 Native contributors from more than 60 Tribes shaped the exhibition’s stories and content. We thank the Native Advisory Committee and all community participants for their contributions.

Styled by the Streets: Black Women in Hip-Hop Fashion explores how Black women transform Hip-Hop fashion into a cultural and political force, transcending the boundaries of music to influence global style, self-expression, and identity. From streetwear to couture, hair to jewelry, and iconic photography, the exhibition showcases style as a powerful expression of Black womanhood across 30 unique artifacts. Layered in late 1990s and early 2000s denim, holographic finishes, and Y2K palettes, the gallery highlights the artists and cultural creators who bring these iconic looks to life—centering the women visionaries whose creativity reshapes Black and Hip-Hop communities through storytelling, authorship, and legacy.

This is a permanent exhibition. Since time immemorial, Tribal nations have existed in this place we call Washington. This Is Native Land invites visitors to understand Washington State through the lived experiences and voices of its Native people.

Tribal nations are sovereign nations. Today, Native history, culture, and community thrive in our state. Through everyday acts of sovereignty – big and small – Indigenous peoples demonstrate they are still here, they have persevered, and they will always be here.

This Is Native Land is guided by three teachings:
We are of the land and waters
With knowledge comes responsibility
Sovereignty protects people, lands, and waters

These teachings are shared through multimedia, artwork, and interactive objects designed for guest engagement. They represent a contemporary continuation of Tribal stories and traditions.

Over 100 Native contributors from more than 60 Tribes shaped the exhibition’s stories and content. We thank the Native Advisory Committee and all community participants for their contributions.

You will be found.  Don’t miss this poignant, heart-stirring, and beautiful musical—featuring an exquisite score by Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land, The Greatest Showman)—in a powerful new production directed by Meredith McDonaugh (Village’s Legally Blonde). 

Evan Hansen has felt invisible his entire life, until opportunity hands him what he’s always been looking for: the chance to belong. But as his lie becomes a legend, it sweeps him into a story he never intended to tell.

Dear Evan Hansen is a modern masterpiece that took Broadway by storm, winning six Tony Awards and hailed by The Washington Post as “one of the most remarkable shows in musical theater history.”  It is a contemporary coming-of-age story about the courage it takes to find your voice, and the truth that sets us free.

Styled by the Streets: Black Women in Hip-Hop Fashion explores how Black women transform Hip-Hop fashion into a cultural and political force, transcending the boundaries of music to influence global style, self-expression, and identity. From streetwear to couture, hair to jewelry, and iconic photography, the exhibition showcases style as a powerful expression of Black womanhood across 30 unique artifacts. Layered in late 1990s and early 2000s denim, holographic finishes, and Y2K palettes, the gallery highlights the artists and cultural creators who bring these iconic looks to life—centering the women visionaries whose creativity reshapes Black and Hip-Hop communities through storytelling, authorship, and legacy.