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 National Park(ing) Day this year kicked off with a great start thanks to Mother’s Place Childcare. The children and teachers enjoyed sidewalk chalk, cookies and milk, and Schemata coloring books. Come join us for lunch in our Park today and bring your own brown bag lunch!

Schedule of EVENTS! Schemata Workshop Open House and National PARK(ing) Day

You're invited to join us next Friday between 12:00-5:00!

12:00 - 1:00	Neighbors are invited to join us for a brown bag lunch in our Park(ing) Spot - this is BYOBB style (bring your own brown bag)
1:00 - 3:00	Our neighbors at Lucky Devil Tattoo will be over with chalk to help decorate our Park(ing) Spot. Have a hidden artistic side? Join us!
	Sling Ball Tournament. Don't know what Sling Ball is this is a great chance to find out from with our resident expert Katherine Willis.
4:00 - 5:00	Bagels Happy Hour! Our neighbors at Eltana have graciously offered to supply their delicious Wood Fired Bagels for your afternoon carb-pick-me-up!

Special Thanks to:

Regan and Associates for providing us landscaping trees that will make our Park(ing) Spot an inviting place. http://www.ragenassociates.com/

Eltana Wood Fired Bagels for providing the Happy Hour Bagels! http://eltana.com/

Schemata Workshop Open House and National PARK(ing) Day

In celebration of National Park(ing) Day, Schemata Workshop is reclaiming two parking spots in front of our office on Friday September 16 to host a series of events, including an Open House 11:00am-5:00pm.  (stay tuned to our blog for Schedule of Events).  We invite our friends, neighbors and collaborators to join us as we make our temporary street side PARK a lively and fun place:: we’ll have places to sit, games to play, and friends to hang with.  Stop by just to say hi, come by  to eat a delicious bagel generously sponsored by our friends at Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Café, or come by to challenge one of us to a game of sling-ball!

For our younger friends, ages 7 and under, come by and pick your very own limited edition Schemata Workshop coloring book.

What is National Park(ing) Day?

PARK(ing) Day is an annual, worldwide event that invites citizens everywhere to transform metered parking spots into temporary parks for the public good. It is a call to action for the necessity of high quality urban open space, generating critical debate around how public space is created and allocated pursuant towards increasing the quality of urban human habitats.

For those looking for more information about National Park(ing) Day here are some great links:

National Park(ing) Day’s website: http://parkingday.org/about-parking-day/ find out more about this nationwide event, how you can get involved, and what it means to the folks who participate.

Feet First: http://feetfirst.info/content/parking-day This is the local group helping getting Seattle organized for National Park(ing) Day.  Feet First is doing a great job making it easy for people and organization to get involved. They are helping process and submit the proper paperwork to get city permits as well as providing city required barricades.  Check out how to get involved with them!

Photos: www.flickr.com/groups/worldparkingday/pool/ Check out the creative ways people reclaimed public land from years past

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Thanks to all our friends!

[caption id="attachment_783" align="aligncenter" width="700" caption="Holiday Party at Schemata World Headquarters"][/caption] Last Friday, Schemata Workshop celebrated our 6th anniversary.  Thanks to all the friends, clients, consultants that joined us.  We appreciate your support and confidence. 

In 2010, we won some competitive public contracts with the Renton Housing Authority and the City of Lacey.  And we added Salvation Army to our list of clients with whom we have a shared mission.  We hope the resulting Community Buildings we are producing for these clients will have a lasting impact on the residents and seniors who will utilize them. 

We also appreciate the work we've completed this year for our long standing clients such as the Multi-Service Center, Shelter Resources, King County Housing Authority, ET Environmental, and Waste Management, Sound Transit, the Capitol Hill Chamber, as well as the myriad of single family homeowners we've completed projects with this year.  And of course the team of fantastic collaborators - PAO Structural, SvR Design Company, BCE Engineers, Greenbusch Group, Cierra Electrical, Harriot SmithValentine Engineers, ORB Architects, Frank Company, B2 Structural Engineers, and Wool-Zee Company.

2011 looks to be a very exciting year ahead!