Seattle Events Calendar
10:00am–5:00pm
Visual Arts
BAM Arts Fair + Kids Fair
Bellevue Arts Museum hosts the largest award-winning arts & crafts festival in the Northwest. We are committed to handmade excellence and supporting national designers, artists, and craftspeople. Shop from over 300 inspiring artists showcasing unique, handmade craft and art. This…
11:00am–5:00pm
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Frye Salon
Frye Salon features over one hundred paintings from the Frye Art Museum’s Founding Collection hung floor to ceiling—a display mode referred to as a salon-style hang. The installation approximates the dramatic viewing experience enjoyed by visitors to Charles and Emma…
12:30–1:30pm
Food
Free Summer Meals
Nourish your body and brain while you read this summer. Enjoy a FREE lunch and be a Summer Reader! Meals must be eaten on-site. In partnership with the Des Moines Food Bank, YMCA - Seattle, United Way of King County…
2:00–7:00pm
Visual Arts
kwonny | Modern Day Saints
ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery
Modern Day Saints is a collection of works made by kwonny between 2023-2024 and is an introspection of the relationship we carry with the idea of ourselves. Just as we encounter others, we encounter our own selves constantly through our…
5:00–6:00pm
Film
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbird & Snakes: Seattle Park Movie
Some of us who live outside the city center (howdy from Lake City!) bemoan that the most publicized events can sometimes feel like a hassle to get to, what with heavy traffic and increasing parking rates. But it’s summer, the…
6:00–8:00pm
Theater
The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Everett
The Two Gentlemen of Verona is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays and also one of the most rarely performed. It's about betrayal, love and disguise.
6:00–7:00pm
Film
Back to the Future (1985) @ Juanita Beach+ Heritage Park
Unlike other local outdoor movie screenings, the city of Kirkland keeps the tradition up year-round with beach screenings in the winter and spring for those hardy enough to brave the PNW’s weather, so they’re very well-practiced in building community events…
7:00–8:00pm
Theater
GreenStage presents Twelfth Night
Viola, shipwrecked and separated from her twin brother, presumed to be lost at sea, disguises herself as a man named Cesario to navigate the foreign land of Illyria. Caught in a love triangle, Viola (as Cesario) finds herself inadvertently wooing…
All Day
Miscellaneous
Exhibitions at the Gates Discovery Center
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center
Located next to the global headquarters of the Gates Foundation in Seattle, the Discovery Center is a free public space open to all. Through our exhibitions and programs, we share stories and data from our partners, grantees, and foundation employees…
All Day
Film
Free Films For Tacoma Students @ The Grand Cinema!
The Grand Cinema is pleased to participate in a pilot program funded by Tacoma Creates. Students and EBT/Quest card holders living within Tacoma city limits may now attend most* public showings at The Grand Cinema. Any student of any age…
All Day
Visual Arts
Hank Willis Thomas: LOVERULES
This exhibition of 90 works covers 20 years (2002-22) of Thomas’s work and is drawn from the collection of the Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation. The exhibition features some of the artist’s most iconic and well-known artworks across a range…
All Day
Visual Arts
Raúl de Nieves: A window to the see, a spirit star chiming in the wind of wonder…
In A window to the see..., Raúl de Nieves (b. 1983 in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) presents an interplay of colored light and poetic prompts to guide visitors on a journey of continual transformation…
All Day
Dance | Music | Food
Seattle Arab Festival
Seattle Center Festál presents Seattle Arab Festival in partnership with Seattle Arab Festival (SAF). The festival features traditional Arab foods, drinks, and desserts inside along with a wide array of local and national vendors with fabulous products from or about…
All Day
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Stephanie Syjuco: After/Images
Stephanie Syjuco: After/Images examines how the camera records and constructs American histories. Mining the archives of major US institutions, Syjuco (born 1974, Manila, Philippines) engages with photographs and objects to reframe our view. She uses photographic tools such as color-calibration…
All Day
Visual Arts
The 2024 Neddy Exhibition
An exhibition showcasing the 2024 Neddy Artist Awards finalists and recipients, curated by Philippe Hyojung-Kim. Featuring work by: Eric Chan*, Sofya Belinskaya, Grace Athena Flott, Hank Reavis, Le’Ecia Farmer*, Alison Bremner, Sarah Kavage, and Lynne Siefert. * Neddy Artists Award…
All Day
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Twilight Child: Antonia Kuo and Martin Wong
A study in personal and artistic resonance, Twilight Child brings together the work of Antonia Kuo (born 1987, New York, New York) and Martin Wong (born 1946, Portland, Oregon; died 1999, San Francisco, California)—two queer diasporic Chinese artists born more…