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A Project Under Development in West Seattle
The Garden is currently a construction site and is only opened for guided docent tours; the free guided tours are offered at 10:00 AM March-October on the second Saturday of the month, no reservations needed. Tours will begin again in March 2009. For details, please click "Visit" on the right side menu.
Please click here to arrange special group tours
Construction at the Garden is Moving Fast
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Updated News
Tea Appreciation Festival
Tea is one of
China
’s greatest gifts to world civilization. On October 12, the Seattle Chinese Garden society joined with Black Dragon Tea Bar to present the second annual Seattle Chinese Tea Appreciation Festival. Brett Boynton, sponsor of the event and the gracious and knowledgeable owner of Black Dragon, assembled almost forty tea lovers at the
Chan
Education
Center
to sip a wonderful selection of oolong and pu-erh teas, sample delicious vegan treats and enjoy each other’s company.
As part of the program, Garden board member and docents Jan Whitner presented a slide show on Chinese gardens and led a tour of the building site of the Society’s current construction project, the Knowing the Spring Courtyard. Participants left the event having enjoyed great tea, great conversation, and a peek at the foundations of the
Seattle
Chinese
Garden
. The society looks forward to the day tea lovers will savor “two leaves and a bud” in the Garden’s teahouse – a unique structure to be built in
Sichuan
architectural style and sited on a Lotus Pond. For information on how to support fundraising efforts for the teahouse, please phone the society office at (206) 282-8040.
Happy people at the garden(left). Brett Boynton brewing tea for the guests(middle). Jan Whiter describing the garden(right).
The Boeing Company Contributes
$20,000 to Chinese Garden
In October, The Boeing Company generously contributed $20,000 to the Seattle Chinese Garden Society to support capacity building.
Garden Society Hosts Officials
from Changshu Garden Company
The Seattle Chinese Garden Society hosted three high-level officials from the Changshu Classical Garden Construction Company for a week in early September. The Chongqing Garden Bureau has contracted with the Changshu company to manage the construction of the traditional elements of Knowing the Spring Courtyard. The officials visited the site to see the completed foundation work and met with Garden Society leaders and our local contractor to plan for the completion of construction in spring and summer 2009.
COSCO Container Arrives in Seattle
April 4, 2008
China Ocean Shipping COmpany has generously donated up to forty 40-foot
containers to transport China-fabricated materials for the Garden. The first of these arrived in Seattle carrying stone foundations for the wooden columns that will hold up the roof of Knowing the Spring Courtyard.
Greeting this first shipment are:
Tim Banks-COSCO Seattle, Mike Craig, Jon Geiger-SCGS President and Yangming Chu-SCGS Executive Director
Chongqing Gives $1.2 Million
for the First Courtyard
We have received a gift valued at 1.2 million US dollars from our sister city of Chongqing. Chongqing has donated all materials, labor and associated in-China costs for Knowing the Spring Courtyard, the second traditional structure in the Garden. We anticipate opening this first courtyard in the summer 2009. Artisans from Chongqing will arrive in spring 2009 to assemble the components using traditional tools and construction methods. Special educational programs will be offered at the site while the artisans are here.
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