What every parent needs to know about bullying: warning signs, cultural and gender differences, guidance for how to handle at home and school, helping your child to speak up and stay safe. Tickets: $20. Topic age range: 8-16 years.

Real questions and real answers for parents having conversations with their kids about puberty and sex. Learn from local experts, Metzger and Lehman, how to guide your child on their journey through adolescence. Tickets: $20. Topic age range: 9-14 years.

The Science of Trust - new research on marriage and parenting from award-winning Dr.Gottman. The author of 40 books including The New York Times bestseller The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work and Why Marriages Succeed or Fail...and How You Can Make Yours Last. Tickets: $20.

       An empowering talk on leadership for teens and their parents. Drawing on his incredible life experiences, the      former president of Starbucks inspires teens to explore their values and begin plotting a course to realize their        dreams.Tickets: $20. Topic age range: 13-18 years.


Friday, April 13  ·  Thursday, April 26  ·  Wednesday, May 9
One God, Three Faiths: Building Community Through Prayer
The Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center invites you to a series of interfaith visits to learn about the Jewish, Muslim and Christian traditions, explore sacred space and share community.
·The first event will be at Temple B'nai Torah (15727 NE 4th St, Bellevue), on April 13, 7:30 - 9:30 pm.
·The second event will be at Masjid Ar-Rahmah (Muslim Assoc. of Puget Sound), 17550 NE 67th Ct, Redmond, on April 26, 7 - 9:30 pm.
·The final event will be at Holy Spirit Lutheran Church (10021 NE 124th St, Kirkland), on May 9, 6 to 8 pm.
·Pre-register for 1, 2, or 3 visits by calling (206) 223-1138 or emailing ipjc@ipjc.org.


Wednesday, April 18  ·  7:30 pm  ·  Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle University campus
The Seattle University School of Theology and Ministry invites you to Yom HaShoah: Remembering the Holocaust service. Join as people of many faiths come together in a service of readings, music and prayer to remember the Holocaust in an inspiring interfaith service. For more information, contact Rachel Stacy at stacyra@seattleu.edu or (206) 220-8588.




Thursday, April 19  ·  7 - 8:30 pm  ·  Mount Zion Baptist Church (1634 19th Ave, Seattle)

David "Sonny" Lacks will discuss his mother's contributions to medicine and science as cataloged in Rebecca Skloot's, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

The international success of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, has left people keenly interested in the Lacks family and Henrietta's legacy. In his appearances, Sonny shares with audiences what it meant to find out, decades after the fact, that his mother's cells were being used in labs around the world, bought and sold by the billions. Sonny's visits put a personal face to big issues such as the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over "informed consent" and whether we control the stuff we're made of, and should share in the profits.

Henrietta Lacks was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells, taken without her knowledge in 1951, went on to become the first immortal human cells ever grown in the laboratory. Those cells, nicknamed HeLa, became one of the most important tools in modern medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. Though Henrietta died in 1951, her cells-alive and growing to this day-are still the most widely used cell line in the world.

Free tickets for this event can be reserved at Brown Paper Tickets. RSVPs are for reasons of planning and security only; all comers will be seated. Sponsored by Seattle University, Mount Zion Baptist Church, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.