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- EIN 47-3836379
- (206) 622-6952
- 1117 Minor Ave Seattle WA 98101-4246 USA
- www.historicseattle.org
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Causes: Arts & Culture, Historical Organizations
Mission: To restore washington hall as a community arts, culture and gathering space. To preserve this historic building for the benefit of the community it serves.
Programs: Washington hall qalicb was formed in april 2015, in conjunction with the new markets tax credit financing transaction that closed on june 17, 2015. Washington hall qalicb holds the washington hall building and underlying land as assets and will lease the building to community organizations and other entities for performance, gathering, rehearsal, meeting and office space. Historic seattle's vision for washington hall was full rehabilitation, allowing it to serve as a permanent home for community arts, heritage, and cultural organizations. With the help of 4culture, we secured nonprofit arts organizations as anchor groups in the project who are also users of the spaces for rehearsals, offices, and performances. Our anchor groups in the project are three emerging arts organizations with a focus on social justice. These organizations include 206 zulu, a group that promotes hip hop culture; voices rising, a youth lgbt music and spoken word organization; and hidmo, an eritrean community culture and food group with social justice and arts expression at its core. After its renovation, the building's main hall and lodge room began to help address the lack of affordable venues in seattle. By providing upgraded facilities, we built a self-sustaining operating model that ensures the space can be a vibrant, affordable, diverse arts and cultural facility that serves seattle and king county's arts, heritage, and preservation communities.