Seattle Events Calendar
10:00am–9:00pm
Festival
Summer at SAM: Carnival
Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park
Summer at SAM 2026 culminates in a park-wide Carnival! Unleash creative play as you join us for games, art installations, movement classes, hands-on art activities, music performances, sculpture tours, meet-ups, and community partners.All Summer at SAM programs are free and…
11:00am–3:00pm
Exhibit | Visual Arts
Parisa Ghaderi | The Wrong Order
ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery
Artist BioParisa Ghaderi is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator. Born and raised in Iran, she earned her Master of Fine Arts from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.Her work has been…
1:00–2:00pm
Museum Tour
Public Tour: Discover the Olympic Sculpture Park
Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park
Explore the Olympic Sculpture Park’s ecosystems and artworks on an hour-long guided tour. The park’s Z-shaped configuration connects four distinct landscapes that reflect the native ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest. These landscapes provide settings for sculptures and create microclimates for…
1:30–2:30pm
Museum Tour
Public Tour: Journeys Through Time and Space
The Seattle Asian Art Museum breaks boundaries to offer a thematic exploration of art from the world’s largest continent. Exploring themes of worship and celebration, clothing and identity, nature and power, and birth and death, the collection installations reveal the…
5:00–6:00pm
Theater
The Winter's Tale @ Marvista Park
Once upon a time, love and friendship ruled the lands of Sicilia and Bohemia. Until King Leontes’ jealousy sets off a series of fantastical events that consumes his wife, Hermione, and dear friend, Bohemia’s King Polixenes. Sixteen years later, a…
All Day
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads
Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park
Get up close with Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads (2010) at the Olympic Sculpture Park, where you can walk among these monumental sculptures. Consisting of 12 zodiac head sculptures arranged in an arcing semicircle, each animal in Circle of…
All Day
Miscellaneous
Daily Admission @ Bellevue Botanical Gardens
The Bellevue Botanical Garden features cultivated display gardens, natural wetlands and a woodland trail, displaying the best plants and gardening practices for healthy, beautiful Northwest gardens. Visitors are welcome any day, from dawn to dusk.
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
Exhibit
Fresh Off The Field: Seattle Mariners Cleats
Sports is an art form, and SAM’s new installation is a home run. Step on up to Fresh Off the Field: Seattle Mariners Cleats, a display that brings together game-worn cleats from the team’s starting lineup. Show your spirit for…
All Day
Exhibit
SAM Gallery Presents: ALL THAT
Who says you can't have it all? Enjoy a wide variety of styles and mediums in our summer group show, ALL THAT.With over sixty local working artists, SAM Gallery brings together a little bit of everything - printmaking, collage, encaustic…