Upper QA Trick or Treat Event

Friday, October 31st 3 - 6 p.m.
Don’t miss out on more than 1,200 or so little witches, gremlins, goblins and ghostly creatures as they parade through the street asking for tricks or treats! So cute and sooo scary!!! Wear your costumes either funny or scary. For this will make our night merry.

August 21st Art Walk Update

Hello all...it's that time again for the art walk. The August Art Walk brings you new locations to view art not currently on the Upper QA Art Walk postcards. When you take a stroll this month, remember to stop in at the following locations as well. Or even easier...remember to follow the lime green balloons!

UQAMA welcomes the following additoinal businesses to the art walk this month!

• Pete's Coffee - corner of Boston and Queen Anne Ave
• Edward Jones - 319 West Galer St
• Portage - between McGraw & Boston on Queen Anne Ave

Don't forget the usual suspects...

• Fountainhead Gallery
• Muse Coffee
• Eat Local
• Bouncing Wall
• Hilltop Yarn
• Nancy's Sewing Basket
• Teacup
• Cafe Ladro
• Paragon
• Blue Highway Games
• Julia's Cafe
• Queen Anne Avenue Books
• Salon Acropolis
• Urban Kid's Play
• Five Spot

Gorgeous Day for an Art Walk

Did you remember it's the Upper Queen Anne Art Walk today? It starts at 6pm and some businesses are open until 8pm while others are open until 9pm. What a gorgeous day to meander and walk the Queen Anne strip and look at art!

I popped in at the QA Farmer's Market to pick up some fresh berries and flowers for our artist reception and it was amazing to see all the families out and about. I hope on your way to or from the market, you'll be stopping by the businesses to say hello to the artists.

Oh yeah...something new at the McGraw end of the street. Eat Local and Bouncing Wall is working together to bring LOCAL Bounce. What is that you say? Well...it's our way of giving some space to the indie crafters and local artist vendors to have some place to strut their stuff. Come check it out. It's fun!

Best Neighborhood...Oh Yeah Queen Anne!

Let's give a little "whoop whoop" to Queen Anne being listed as the Best Neighborhood in the July issue of Seattle Magazine's BEST NEIGHBORHOODS.

Several of the Upper Queen Anne businesses were mentioned as to why Queen Anne is "vibrant" and "cool". How awesome is that! Our neighborhood shop Urban Kids Play and Bouncing Wall were the new stores mentioned as new comers, while they gave props to the "longtime favorites" like Queen Anne Books and Hilltop Yarn. In addition, the following places were mentioned as the places to eat and drink...El Diablo, Betty and How To Cook A Wolf

Thank you Seattle Magazine for including us and congrats to the business mentioned in the article!! Don't forget, you can click on the link above to read the full article or get yourself a copy of the July Issue and go to page 58.

Upper Queen Anne Art Walk Kick-Off Tonight!

Hello art walk lovers! Tonight is the night where it all happens for the Upper Queen Anne Art Walk. Tonight the UQAMA will be featuring student art work from Coe, John Hay, Country Day, St. Anns, and McClure. Check out the wonderful work from the local students in the 20 participating locations.




1. Fountainhead Gallery

2. Eat Local

3. Hilltop Yarn

4. Bouncing Wall

5. Nancy's Sewing Basket

6. Teacup

7. Caffe Ladro

8. Blue Highway Games

9. Queen Anne Dispatch

10. Paragon

11. Muse Coffee Co

12. Metropolitan Market

13. Julia's Cafe

14. Queen Anne Avenue Books

15. Salon Acropolis

16. Urban Kids Play

17. Sully's Lounge

18. Queen Anne Frame and Aveune Arts

19. Lily's Pampering Salon

20. Five Spot

Queen Anne Dispatch and Bouncing Wall Friday Event

Exciting Friday events are happening up here on the hill this Friday night!

Queen Anne Dispatch is having their Friends and Family event where they offer 20% off. They will also tempt you with wine tasting by Revelry Vintners and chocolat tasting by Chocolopolis. DJ Mullet will be spining his sounds to make your shopping experience that much more groovier.

On the other side of the street, Bouncing Wall is hotsting a jewelry trunk show by Seattle's sassy designer Shay D Designs. She is offering 25%-30% off on select jewelry...just in time for your Mother's Day shopping needs or to pick up something special for yourself.

Upper Queen Anne Summer Art Walk

It's time for the 2nd annual Upper Queen Anne Summer Art Walk! Last year's had a fabulous start for a first year art walk in Queen Anne, which was spearheaded by Kim of Bouncing Wall (that's me!) and Joan from Queen Anne Frame and Avenue Arts.

This is year will be bigger and better with help from Jaime Bagnariol, our new UQAMA President. UQAMA is launching the Summer Art Walk to coinside with the QA Farmer's Market from June to October. In addition, there will be a pre-launch Kick-off event with the local schools around Queen Anne on May 15th. What does this mean? 20 local merchants are "adopting" a class from John Hay, McClure, Country Day, St. Anne's and Coe and coordinating with the art teachers to display art in the locations.

This is a great outreach program that we hope will be welcomed by the community. The merchants are now getting the art work up in their locations so go out and check out the local student work. If you prefer to be part of the "event night"...come out on Thursday, May 19th starting at 6pm! Hope to see you all there!