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Festál Cultural Festival to Showcase Additional Vendors and Wider Variety of China’s Food Culture on Saturday, May 17 at Seattle Center
SEATTLE – Explore the traditional and contemporary influences of China at A Glimpse of China – Seattle Chinese Culture & Arts Festival from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on May 17 at the Seattle Center Armory Food & Event Hall. This free one-day event will allow attendees to participate in cultural traditions covering 5,000 years of Chinese history.
Attendees can enjoy painting and calligraphy activities, admire vibrant artwork and traditional Chinese outfits on display, play fun Chinese games, and watch live folk-dance performances on the Armory stage. There will be seven new vendors this year, including new food vendors, that will showcase a wider variety of China’s food culture.
“Our main theme is still to foster understanding, friendship, and appreciation between Chinese and other local communities through arts and culture. This event will showcase the unique Chinese arts and culture through Chinese performing arts/dance, music, visual arts/calligraphy interactive activities, lifestyle exhibitions, and seminars to the Seattle multicultural communities,” said A Glimpse of China organizer Dandan Ran.
This festival is in partnership with Washington Chinese Arts & Culture Committee (WCACC). “Festál has included a Chinese heritage festival since its launch in 1997,” said Heidi Jackson, Managing Artistic Director of Seattle Center Cultural Programs. “Glimpse of China, curated by WCACC, offers a heartwarming day of traditional music and dance that showcases the outstanding multi-generational performers living right here in greater Seattle.”
This festival is part of the Festál series of 25 cultural festivals presented by community groups and hosted by Seattle Center throughout the year.
About Glimpse of China
The organizer of A Glimpse of China, the Washington Chinese Arts & Culture Committee (WCACC), was founded in 2005. WCACC is a 501©3 non-profit organization that strives to foster understanding, friendship, and opportunities between local Chinese and American communities, and between China and America, through art and cultural events, as well as other exchange activities. The volunteer-run organization is operated by dedicated volunteers who share the same vision and passion for China/US cultural exchange. Over the past 19 years, WCACC has initiated and co-organized numerous community events in the greater Seattle area. Information on the festival is available at www.seattlecenter.com, as well as on Facebook, Instagram and www.chinaartsandculture.org.
About Seattle Center Festál
Seattle Center Festál is a unique public program series of 25 free cultural festivals, each offering its own celebration of heritage and identity. These events provide a range of engaging programs and 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 January to November and supported by City of Seattle, Seattle Center Foundation, and 4Culture.
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, 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
