5th Annual International Children's Friendship Festival at Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center - Saturday and Sunday, April 12th and 13th 2014 from 11am-5:30pm

This is a fun one and especially for learning and enjoying other cultures! As of this posting there will be 41 different countries participating and it is so nice to see that festival has grown enough to be held at Seattle Center this year! Take the kids and check it out!

" International Children's Friendship Festival, held on Saturday, April 12th and Sunday, April 13th this year by TACAWA is the biggest children's festival of its kind in the U.S. You will not want to miss stage performances from India to Brazil, from Madagascar to Ukraine and from many more kids of different nationalities. There will be arts and crafts, sports and music activities as well! To get an idea, check out previous year's albums. "

For more info. go here and here.

FREE SKATE DAY and Holiday Caravan featuring Santa, activities, giveaways and more presented by Coca-Cola at Seattle Center - Sunday, December 22nd 2013 from 10am-8pm

Coca-Cola Holiday Caravan and Free Skate Day! 

Dec. 22, 10am – 8pm

Fisher Pavilion and International Fountain

A FREE EVENT!

" Coca-Cola hosts a day of free skating, pictures with Santa, samples of Honest Tea, Zico, and Illy Issimo; and more family-friendly activities. "

For more info. go here.

2013 ARTSCrush Kick-Off Fair at Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center - Sunday, September 22nd 2013 from 11am-2pm - Win free tickets to local performances!

We have done this event twice and have won tickets twice using the priority code... so, give it a shot! There will be a couple of fun performances at the kick-off fair and art activities too for the kids!

" A free interactive celebration for the public with artists and arts organizations from around Puget Sound. Kick Off represents many of the interactive arts events that happen throughout October as part of Arts Crush.

Attending Arts Crush Kick Off will also give you a special Priority Code to win tickets in October in the Free Night Lottery Sept 13-25 at www.artscrush.org.

Play Arts Crush Bingo to win prizes, enter raffle for arts experiences including tickets and classes, try out interactive arts tables for all ages. You can enjoy live entertainment including:

DJ VOX MOD. This KEXP Live Volume 9 artist will have music for dancing throughout the day including hip hop and belly dance workshops for all ages.

The ChromaMatics will create live mural paintings and smaller pieces with your participation. Some pieces will be auctioned and raffled off throughout the day.

Poems, Prose, Plays and Pedicabs.
Hop a ride with a Puget Sound writer with up to seven friends and pedal around Seattle Center while listening to or reading with some of the most talented literary artists in the region. "

For more info. go here.

Check out KidCrush events here. 

For pay-what-you will events go here. 

Seattle Opera presents an Earth Day Celebration with performances and activities at Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center - Saturday, April 20th 2013 at 12pm

What a fun and unique way to celebrate Earth Day!


" Celebrate Earth Day with Seattle Opera! Come listen to free performances of the first two operas from the new Our Earth trilogy: Heron and the Salmon Girl and Rushing Upriver. Created for our youngest operagoers and their families, Our Earth is about a network of ecosystems turned upside down when one species disappears. Will Heron, Orca, and Turtle find the salmon and save the day? Come to Seattle Center’s Fisher Pavilion on April 20 to find out!

Performances will take place at 1:30 (Heron and the Salmon Girl) and at 3:00 (Rushing Upriver). Families can enjoy such activities as planting seeds and face-painting based on the animal characters of Our Earth. Have your photo taken against iconic Pacific Northwest landscapes at our photo booth, and enter The Nature Conservancy’s Facebook sweepstakes for a brand-new kayak.

Both performances feature Seattle Youth Symphony, Seattle Opera soloists and Youth Chorus, conducted by Stephen Rogers Radcliffe. Additional Earth Day programming made possible by The Nature Conservancy. This concert is sponsored in part by Seattle Center. "


For more info. go here.

Live Aloha Hawaiian Cultural Festival at Seattle Center's Fisher Pavilion - Sunday, September 11th from 11am-7pm

Image courtesy of Live Aloha Hawaiian Cultural Festival

Another great Festal 2011 event at Seattle Center! Live Aloha Hawaiian Cultural Festival will have Hawaiian music, dance, food, crafts, workshops like lei making, keiki korner with 5 activities for the kids, plus exhibits showcasing Hawaiian History. 


For more info. go here.

27th Annual Naturalization Ceremony at Fisher Pavilion in Seattle with special speakers, music, dance and more! - Monday, July 4th from 11am-1pm

Want your children to see how the naturalization process works live and in person! Take them to see the Naturalization Ceremony at the Fisher Pavilion in Seattle and show them the last step people of all lands take to become American citizens!  Music concert starts at 11am and then the formal ceremony starts at noon and will include speakers like U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell and Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn as Master of Ceremonies. There will be the "Spirit of Liberty" award presentation, The United States Army Color Guard, Native American dancers and a gospel choir to round out the event with flags, dance and music. All countries represented at the ceremony will be announced and as a special honor the eldest applicant for citizenship will be introduced.  Plus, the "Children of the World" will lead the new citizens in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance for their first time!

Sounds like an amazing experience!

For more details go here.