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Día de Muertos Festival Seattle | Oct 26-27

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Día de Muertos Festival Seattle

October 27 11am-7pm & October 28, 11am-6pm

Armory Food & Event Hall

Join Seattle Center for Día de Muertos Festival Seattle: a colorful, vibrant, and traditional holiday that celebrates and honors those who have passed on through cultural activities and events including altars with offerings, music, dance, feasting, and more.

As one of the most important celebrations in Mexico, Día de Muertos is an intimate gathering, commemorating death as another element of life,
and providing time for communication between the living and the deceased.

Click here for the schedule

Featured activities include:

  • Festive traditional music and dance performances
  • Elaborate community altars (ofrendas)
  • Sand Painting (tapete)
  • Colorful face-painting
  • Sugar skull workshops
  • Visual art
  • Delicious Mexican food

About Festival Partner

Learn more about Día de Muertos Festival Seattle (DDMFS) Committee here.

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 public program 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