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The Seafair Pirates, depicted here at White Center Jubilee Days (2007) just south of Seattle, are longstanding fixtures of Seattle's Seafair-sanctioned parades. Seattle, Washington, United States has almost twenty neighborhoods that host one or more street fairs and/or parades.
The Seattle Center is an entertainment, education, tourism and performing arts center located in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. Constructed for the 1962 World's Fair , the Seattle Center's landmark feature is the 605 ft (184 m) Space Needle , an official city landmark and globally recognized symbol of ...
Bumbershoot is an annual international music and arts festival held in Seattle, Washington.One of North America's largest such festivals, [1] it takes place every Labor Day weekend (leading up to and including the first Monday of September) at the 74-acre (299,000 m 2) Seattle Center, which was built for the 1962 World's Fair.
Festal Sundiata in February is one of the oldest Seattle Center festivals, beginning in 1981. The festival is the most comprehensive African American festival in the city. Named to celebrate the West African Mansa (king of kings) of the Mali Empire, who rescued the Griot - his people's storyteller and tribal historian - Festival Sundiata is a ...
[2] [3] The city hosted its largest-ever convention, a week-long meeting of the Shriners, late June and early July 1969 at the Seattle Center Coliseum and around the Seattle Center grounds. [4] The state government proposed a dedicated convention and trade center complex in the early 1970s as a form of economic stimulus following the "Boeing ...
Seattle Opera is an American opera company based in Seattle, Washington. The company's season runs from August through late May, comprising five or six operas of eight to ten performances each, often featuring double casts in major roles to allow for successive evening presentations.
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Hec Ed originally had glass skylights in its ceiling; during the state high school basketball tournament in 1938, one of these fell during a windstorm and injured two adults, [6] [7] resulting in their permanent removal. [8] The pavilion was used as a venue for the 1990 Goodwill Games and the flooring was renovated for the event. [9]