FOI in the South Seattle Emerald

Thank you Amanda Ong of the South Seattle Emerald for writing this article about our efforts to preserve INScape as arts and cultural space for the community.

Tamaribuchi puts it best: The INS building is the whole history of immigration in Seattle. It was a starting point for many communities, and now is a place where art and history thrive together. Seattle’s histories are there, and erasing those stories would forever destroy part of the city’s collective identity. 

“It would be devastating not to have that space anymore to share those stories,” [Ðoan Diane Hoang] Dy said. Immigration isn’t just one group of ethnic people that is affected. It’s all of us. … This is all of our collective history, documented or undocumented. This is all of our history that we have to know, regardless of your ancestry.”