I've attended this a few times in the past year with my kids and we've always had a blast. It's one of my favorite things in Olympia.

 Family Dance Night in downtown Olympia at Fusion the Integrated Body 302 Columbia St. (across Olympia Ave. from the Olympia Center) fully wheelchair accessible Saturday March 15th 2008 6-8pm

This wonderful event full of laughter, movement, friendship, and play happens every other month. It’s two hours of music and dance activities that are inclusive of all ages and abilities. Grandparents and infants, schoolchildren and even some teens come together for the joy of dancing. Activities like shape museum where your dance takes you to interlocking shapes with others, rivers and rocks and bridges, dancing with scarves, in costumes or riding on a pull cloth, make it interactive and playful. The evening flows between structured dance activities and free dancing. A variety of music; old and contemporary, in many styles, changes the mood and gives everyone a chance to do their kind of dance. Cost for the whole family what ever size and configuration is $5 to $10 sliding scale (but please join us regardless of your ability to pay).

I'm submitting this for the folks at momsrising.org: Your help is needed this Friday morning at the capitol. Join us to to deliver fortune cookies, which are stuffed with messages for fully funded family leave to issue champion, Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown. We need your help delivering them to her, and to other state legislators. We'll bring the cookies to share, you bring your enthusiasm for the issue (and kids are more than welcome too!).

CAN YOU MEET US AT THE CAPITOL?

TIME & DATE: 9am, this Friday, January 18th for about 30 minutes.

LOCATION: Outside the Senate Majority Leader's Office (Senator Lisa Brown) in the Washington State Legislative Building (the building with the big dome), Room 307, in Olympia.

RSVP: Katie@momsrising.org

MomsRising.org was a part of the Washington Family Leave Coalition, a coalition of more than 50 organizations and businesses, which strongly advocated for this policy. The Coalition also includes the Economic Opportunity Institute and the Washington State Labor Council. MomsRising.org also reached out to small business owners in the state, and helped generate a letter supporting the law signed by 36 small business owners. "This effort is ongoing and support for family leave insurance is growing--both Washington families and businesses will be helped by the implementation of this law and we've heard from our members that this is a priority," says MomsRising Executive Director Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner.