AGE UP News & Updates
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#BlackLivesMatter
AGE UP at November 25th’s not-another-black-friday #BlackLivesMatter protest at Westlake Center. Photos by Naomi Ishisaka. #BREAKTHEPATRIARCHY #ENDWHITESUPREMACY “Our mandate has not changed: organize and end all state-sanctioned violence until all Black Lives Matter. Donald Trump has promised more death, disenfranchisement and deportations. We believe him. The violence he will inflict in office, and the permission he gives…
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Wow! Family Feast was incredible!
Together, we raised $27,415! That’s money towards centering young women of color, prioritizing rather than silencing marginalized voices. Towards hiring high school interns to build organizing skills while running a program they care about. Towards accessible opportunities to play the sport we love. Towards expanding the equity conversation, and, of course, towards many more games…
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Video
Get pumped for GiveBig! 2018 will be the final year of the GiveBig campaign, and AGE UP’s 4th year participating. Get involved by donating, and check out this quick vid: AGE UP is on the big screen! Check out the Seattle Channel’s rad documentary on us! Last year we were so fortunate to get to…
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You’re Invited! AGE UP Family Feast 2016
You’re Invited! We’re so excited to have you at AGE UP’s 2016 Family Feast Dinner and Fundraiser. Come join us for a night of celebrating with our community (that’s you!), eating delicious foods, and looking forward to the year ahead. AGE UP & Southend Ultimate present 2016 FAMILY FEAST DINNER & FUNDRAISER Saturday, October 15th…
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GIVEBIG 2015!!!
Homies, You all are great. We want to invite you to donate you to donate to All Girl Everything Ultimate Program (AGE UP) / Southend Ultimate on Tuesday, May 5th for GiveBig! We want to raise $15,000 to support our programming and hire our first full time staff member by 2016, and we need your…
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First Year Girls at WWU!
Hey people, long time no blog! Gabby here to report some amazing things. A few weekends ago (February 21st), we took our First Year Girls’ Program to Western Washington University to hang out on campus and practice with Chaos, Western’s Women’s Ultimate Frisbee team. The day started bright and early at Jefferson Community Center where…
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Happy Holidays & Thanks Five Ultimate!
Happy Holidays from AGE UP! If you’re looking for a gift for someone special, we highly recommend a snazzy new AGE UP disc like the one above. Don’t have the time to track down one of your lovely AGE UP homies to sell you one? Well, that’s okay the awesome people at Five Ultimate sell them…
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Guys AGE UP 2015 is here!
Yooooooo!!!!! What’s up wonderful people?! Are you interested in Ultimate? Are you interested in learning about Social Justice? If you answer yes to both then AGE UP is the program for you! Guys AGE UP is back for another year and we want you to come and join us! Here is the link to the…
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Youth Speaks & Springrolls! 11/05/14
Heyy its gmoneyfoshizzle (Gabby M) and the honay boobae (Kaitlyn S) in da hOUse! Today Shelby taught us that youth speaks is a youth organization that helps takeout your innerself through poetry. We expressed ourselfs by writing our own poem to share out with our fello age SQUADDD. We ate spring rolls with multiple sauces. It…
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Smack Talk is Whack
Today, we learned about back-stabbing and smack talking from our awesome returner Edmel. For example, we split into groups and created a skit, poem, or rap based on the topic that was given to us. To demonstrate, Katie was asked to squeezed toothpaste, or Talkin’Smack Paste from a tube and then she had to put…