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Join Futurewise for our end of year party!
It's been a long year with big fights and big wins for land use in Washington. Come celebrate with Futurewise at our end of year party, featuring a conversation about the future of planning in Seattle with local author Shaun Scott. We're thrilled to be highlighting small bites from former Musang's chef de cuisine Jonnah Ayala alongside beverages from local producers.
As we gear up for the 2024 Seattle comprehensive plan update, what can we learn from the mistakes of our past? Shaun Scott is a Seattle-based writer, historian and filmmaker who has written about past planning initiatives like the Forward Thrust ballot initiatives and the urban village strategy. His new book Heartbreak City tells the story of 170 years of Seattle history, examining the nexus between sports and social issues in our city.
Join Shaun and Futurewise for a conversation about the legacy of past planning efforts and what we can learn as we organize around the 2024 comprehensive plan update.
When: Thursday, December 7th, 4:30 PM
Where: 210 Seattle (210 S Washington St, Seattle, WA 98104)
Tickets: $30 Early Bird (before November 23)
$40 General Admission
Members get 25% off - check your emails for the discount code!
About Shaun: Shaun Scott is a Seattle-based writer and lobbyist. He is the Policy & Field Campaign Manager for the Statewide Poverty Action Network. A member of the Seattle Democratic Socialists of America and a former Executive Councilmember for the union Campaign Workers Guild, he is a former field organizer for Pramila Jayapal’s 2018 re-election campaign, and was the Washington State Field Director for Bernie Sanders 2020. Shaun's writings about sports, politics, and popular culture have appeared in Sports Illustrated, The Guardian, and Jacobin Magazine.
About Shaun's new book Heartbreak City: To cities, sports have never been just entertainment. Progressive urbanites across the United States have used athletics to address persistent problems in city life: the fights for racial justice, workers' rights, equality for women and LGBTQ+ city dwellers, and environmental conservation. In Seattle, sports initiatives have powered meaningful reforms, such as popular stadium projects that promoted investments in public housing and mass transit. At the same time, conservative forces also used sports to consolidate their power and mobilize against the civic good. In Heartbreak City Shaun Scott takes the reader through 170 years of Seattle history, chronicling both well-known and long-forgotten events, like the establishment of racially segregated golf courses and neighborhoods in the regressive 1920s and the 1987 Seahawks players' strike that galvanized organized labor. At every step of the journey, he uncovers how sports have both united Seattle in pursuit of triumph and revealed its most profound political divides. Deep archival research and analysis combine in this people's history of a great American city's quest to become even greater—if only it could get out of its own way.
WHEN
Thursday, December 7th
4:30 PM
WHERE
210 S Washington St
Seattle, WA 98104
WHEN
Thursday, December 7th
4:30 PM
WHERE
210 S Washington St
Seattle, WA 98104