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Saturday, July 13 | 12-7 p.m. PT
Seattle Center Armory Food & Event Hall and Mural Amphiteatre
Join us for a fun-filled day celebrating Polish cultures, traditions, and contemporary achievements!
Come explore your heritage if you’re Polish American or learn about your Polish neighbors if you aren’t. See how to make pierogi, create flower head wreaths, and enjoy a variety of dance and music entertainers!
This year’s festival will feature ’80s in Poland, featuring the Fiat 126p “Maluch” and an extensive photo display of what life was like living day to day
at that time.
Festival highlights include:
- Fiat 126p “Maluch” and other ’80s Polish memorabilia and photographs on display
- Dance performances by Syrena Seattle, Wawel, and Lajkonik
- Live music from Zabavva, Vivat Musica!, Marcin Paczkowski, Viridian Winds, Daniel Conrad, and David Lin
- Children’s activities
- Delicious traditional Polish food and desserts – Smacznego!
- Beer garden and vodka tasting – Na Zdrowie!
- Exhibits & films: Polish School of Poster Art: New Generations, Polish Wings in World War II, The White Wolf: The story of the Witcher in Video Games, The Wooden Soul of Lesser Poland
- A marketplace, featuring Polish arts & crafts, imports, and other merchandise including Polish cookbooks, crystal glasses, amber jewelry, and more
See the full festival schedule and plan your visit! Plan Your Visit
The festival is free and open to the public.
About Seattle Center Festál
Seattle Center Festál is where the world gathers to celebrate the people, the places, the stories, and the traditions of diverse ethnic communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. This unique series links together 24 free festivals, each offering its own cultural focus, identity, and range of engaging activities to cultivate a deeper understanding of the diversity of our region. Seattle Center Festál is produced in partnership with community groups, presented on weekends from February to November, and supported by City of Seattle, Seattle Center Foundation, and 4Culture. Festál is also part of the ArtsFund Cultural Partners Network.
About Seattle Center
Connect to the extraordinary at Seattle Center, an active civic, arts, and family gathering place in the core of our city and region. Seattle Center’s 74-acre campus, centered around the International Fountain, is part of the Uptown Arts & Cultural District and home to Climate Pledge Arena; more than 30 cultural, educational, sports, and entertainment organizations; and a broad range of public and community programs. In everything it does, Seattle Center’s mission is to create exceptional events, experiences, and environments which delight and inspire the human spirit to build stronger communities.
Seattle Center has expanded its role to provide maintenance and public safety services for Seattle’s new Waterfront Park, a series of new public spaces on Seattle’s downtown waterfront between Pioneer Square and the Seattle Aquarium. Seattle Center supports managing these new waterfront public spaces in partnership with the non-profit Friends of Waterfront Seattle, which offers the community a range of recreational and cultural programming.
Thanks to the support of Official Seattle Center Partners – Alaska Airlines, The Climate Pledge, Coors Light, Pepsi, Premera Blue Cross, Symetra, T-Mobile, and WaFd Bank – Seattle Center is the #1 arts and entertainment destination in the Pacific Northwest with 12 million annual visitors, generating $1.864 billion in business activity and more than $631 million in labor income annually. www.seattlecenter.com