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  • Central Library Leaf Dedication October 8, 2025

    September 12, 2025 /

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  • Lake City Mini-Park Leaf Dedication 2025

    August 27, 2025 /

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  • New Leaf Dedication: Hobson Place/Health Care for the Homeless Clinic, September 15, 2025

    August 27, 2025 /

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  • New Leaf Dedication at Third/Pine: September 12, 2025

    August 27, 2025 /

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  • New Leaf Dedication at Columbia Center PCC: August 29th, 2025

    August 13, 2025 /

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  • Cleaning Leaves of Remembrance: A Primer

    July 28, 2025 /

    CLEANING & MAINTAINING THE HOMELESS REMEMBRANCE PROJECT’S LEAVES OF REMEMBRANCE www.fallenleaves.org Download as PDF  INTRODUCTION Before you set out to volunteer to assist the Homeless Remembrance Project, PLEASE check in with the Project Organizer at wheelorg@yahoo.com, or (206) 956-0334. She’ll help you get started and helps Coordinate these efforts! Thank you! Here’s some introductory information: The leaves are made of silicon bronze, a metal which is a wonderful golden color, but develops a patina when exposed to water, chemicals, etc. The patina is a dull dark brown. Early in the project, the leaves were simply polished with fine sandpaper before installation. Maintenance consisted of cleaning them from time to time…

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  • Help Find a Public Art/Memorial Team Leader!

    March 17, 2025 /

    Volunteers in search of a Public Art/Memorial Team Leader! The Homeless Remembrance Project is a unique public memorial to people who’ve experienced homelessness and died in Seattle. It has two parts: A “Tree of Life” sculpture and gathering place in Victor Steinbrueck Park, and bronze “Leaves of Remembrance” in the right of way all over Seattle. We’re looking for a Team Leader to facilitate the scope of our Leaf-Laying work, which is primarily done in the warm-weather months. Tasks include: Assuring we have sheets of bronze to do this work Arranging for Leaf templates to be cut from this bronze Arranging for engraving the approved Leaves (with name & DOB/DOD)…

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  • Ballard Library Leaf Dedication 2024

    September 16, 2024 /

    Ballard Library

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  • Lake City Mini-Park Leaf Dedication 2024

    September 3, 2024 /

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  • Real Change Leaf Dedication August 30, 2024

    August 29, 2024 /

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  • Mary’s Place Leaf Dedication August 24, 2024

    July 18, 2024 /

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  • 2023 Women in Black List of the Dead 

    January 22, 2024 /

    Download print file WIB 2023 List of the Dead

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  • Women in Black Winter Solstice Vigil 2023

    November 19, 2023 /

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  • Celebrate WHEEL’S 30th Anniversary and the 20th Anniversary of the Homeless Remembrance Project!

    November 6, 2023 /

    Details and Tickets Details and Tickets Details and Tickets  

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  • Leaf Dedications: Seattle City Hall, Central Library

    October 5, 2023 /

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These Leaves of Remembrance bear witness: The sorrows and struggles of people living without a home are not nothing. There is courage here, and community, and hope. And all too often there is death at a young age, grief for family and friends who will never forget comrades they loved. Now these Leaves say “Our city must not forget!” Those who pass by are called by these names to remembrance, to compassion, and to action. They cry out for justice, for shelter and safety.

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