Hi Jenny,

- Joe Mabel has been our primary photo person, both as a photographer & a Commons admin. - I have been the primary Seattle Wikipedians / Cascadia Wikimedians coordinator.

Is anyone else interested in being part of the team to coordinate with WikiPortraits photographers? I am hoping to get something going with this year's SIFF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_International_Film_Festival.

Yours, Peaceray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peaceray

On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM Jennifer 8. Lee jenny@wikiportraits.org wrote:

Hi Raymond et al,

Who on the Wikimedia Cascadia side is the best editor team to coordinate the WikiPortraits photographers with? We have maybe 3-4 in Seattle that have popped since our BBC article dropped

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqly43k3d45o

Jenny

On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM Raymond Leonard < raymond.f.leonard.jr@gmail.com> wrote:

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Just over two months out are these two events in Seattle:

• Seattle International Film Festiva https://www.siff.net/festivall

(SIFF), May 15–25 – although Sundance gets the flashy premieres, SIFF has been touted as "the largest film gathering in the U.S. https://variety.com/2018/film/news/seattle-international-film-festival-2018-lineup-1202795655/" & "the country's biggest international film festival https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/washington/articles/how-siff-became-the-countrys-biggest-international-film-festival ". - Last year's festival program https://issuu.com/siffnews/docs/fest24_program (p. 3) stated that they were screening a "total of 261 films from 84 countries/regions around the globe: 92 features, 47 documentaries, 115 short films in 14 different programs, five archival features, two conversations with incredible actresses, and two secret films. 18 of these films are world premieres, 26 are North American premieres, and 14 are U.S. premieres. 49% of our filmmakers are female or non-binary identifying, 35% identify as a BIPOC director, and 18% identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. 62% are from first- or second-time filmmakers, and 63% don’t currently have U.S. distribution." - Should WikiPortraits https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WikiPortraits (on Bcc:, *hint, hint*) ever desire to get easy access to up-and-coming filmmakers, this is the festival at which to do it!

• 2025 NW Folklife Festival https://nwfolklife.org/, May 23-26th – this

54th year's theme https://nwfolklife.org/festival/home.html is based on the Japanese *Ikigai *[life worth living]

Seattle is also one of the five metropolitan areas with six or more FIFA World Cup 2025 matches https://digitalhub.fifa.com/m/83583980e0bb1fb/original/FCWC25-Match-Schedule.pdf in June, with LA, Miami, NY/NJ, & Philadelphia being the other four.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM Oscar Costero < oscarcostero86_at_gmail.com_peaceray@duck.com> wrote:

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Hi all,

I’m inspired by the wiki-activations happening at SXSW this week https://www.wiki.haus/, and the possibility of bringing something similar to the PNW.

I’d love to explore what it would take to make it happen!

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