About

The Adventure School is an event planning company that creates immersive adventure environments.

Our motto is Semper Ad Extremum.

The translation from Latin is Take it to the Limit Every Time.

We believe in adventure.

We work with individuals, businesses, communities, and other key partners to create visionary spaces, legendary parties and happiness.

Transform indoor and outdoor spaces through green and affirming business practices, participatory processes and ingenious use of materials to improve the sense of fun and celebration in clients lives.

Create sensory experience for clients by improving logistics management, streamlining the event planning process and negotiating vendor relationships through analytic solutions.

Dissolve the line between art and life by establishing and supporting immersion of the viewer/guest in a total installation.

Fill critical metropolitan gaps by establishing and supporting social enterprises that spotlight the communities with which we work to celebrate the achievements of local businesses and individuals; to meet needs in areas such as Private Parties, Corporate Events, PR/Marketing, Convention, Conference, and Performance.

Innovation: We value efficiency and artfulness. We continuously learn from experience, from our partners, and from the communities with which we work.

Relationships: We strive to be a collaborative and respectful partner so that the programs we develop are fun and creative for everyone.

Stewardship: We create an environment of trust and accountability. We make socially, environmentally, and fiscally responsible decisions for individuals and groups.

Aviva Calmer is Founder and CEO at The Adventure School. She planned her first surprise party at age 10. Aviva loves thinking about the importance of celebration to culture and to the healing of our world. She is co-author of Uno Mundo, a picture book about peace and non-verbal communication and she loves Servas.

Becca Weiss is the Operations Manager and Craftsman at The Adventure School. She enjoys being a know-how-go-to and is always amidst a creative project or process. At the moment, assembling jigsaw puzzles without referencing the box, experiencing Seattle’s Kubota Garden during all seasons of the year and knotted string netting are captivating Becca’s mind and free time.

Greg Flores is the lead Graphic Designer at The Adventure School. He creates posters, invitations, signs and all manner of party decor. He knows the perfect way to cook a pork chop and is a founding member and graphic designer of the literary quarterly Hoarse. Greg wishes he were always in a tent playing the ukulele.

Aviva Calmer Her spirit animal is the elk.

Cori Ready Her spirit animal is the mountain lion.

Cori and Aviva met at Oktoberfest in Munchen in 2002, through their pals. The Adventure School was founded in 2006 in Seattle.