29 May
Pike Place Market Street Festival
SAT-SUN Wine-tasting, cook-offs, children's activities, crafts, live music and more at Pike Place Market. (www.pikeplacemarketstreetfestival.com).
Edmonds Waterfront Festival
FRI-SUN Family festival with a nautical theme with crafts, food, belt-sander races, exhibits, music, children's activities and more at Edmonds Marina. (www.edmondswaterfrontfestival.com).
Celebrate Seattle Summer Streets at Alki Point
SAT Walk. Bike. Shop. Play. Breathe. On Sunday, May 31 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Alki Avenue SW from California Way SW to 63rd Avenue SW is being opened up to pedestrians and cyclists (http://seattlecan.org/summerstreets/ ).
A Glimpse of China: Chinese Culture and Arts Festival
SAT Celebration of Chinese history and culture with art, dance, music and more at Seattle Center. (www.seattlecenter.com).
Mason County Forest Festival
THURS-SUN Car show, carnival, parade, logging show and fireworks in downtown Shelton. (www.masoncountyforestfestival.com).
Seattle International Film Festival
THRU June 15 The largest film festival in the United States and among the top film festivals in the world. SIFF runs for three weeks (24 days) and features a diverse assortment of predominantly independent and foreign films and, in recent years, a strong contingent of documentaries. (www.siff.net).
22 May
Northwest Folklife Festival
FRI-MON Ethnic music and dance, visual arts, folklore, children's activities, food, crafts and funky fun at Seattle Center. If you like street performers this is the festival for you. Free Admission. (www.folklife.org).
World War II B17 Bombers & Warbirds
WED-SUN Tour the B17 through Sunday and catch the Warbirds fly-in on Saturday at the Museum of Flight. (www.museumofflight.org).
Monster Trucks & Fireworks
SUN Monster Trucks, Demolition Derby, Fireworks, school bus races and more at Evergreen Speedway in Monroe. directions (http://www.evergreenspeedway.net ).
Animal Grossology at Pacific Science Center
SAT-Sept 7 Join Kent Phillips at the opening weekend of the new interactive exhibit that looks at the gross things animals do at Pacific Science Center. (http://pacificsciencecenter.org/animalgrossology).
Hydro Fever
SAT Celebration of the museum's sixth anniversary with model hydro racing for kids and other memorabilia at the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum in Kent. (www.thunderboats.org).
Edmonds Jazz Connection
SAT Continuous big band, vocal and combo jazz plus an evening gala concert at Edmonds Center for the Arts. (www.jazzconnection.org).
Hood Canal ShrimpFest
SAT-SUN Craft and food vendors, belt sander races, exhibits, entertainment, children's activities in Brinnon. (www.emeraldtowns.org/shrimpfest.htm).
15 May
University District Street Fair
SAT-SUN More than 300 local arts & crafts vendors, food, street performers, music, kids' play area and more. Go early for the best parking. (http://www.udistrictchamber.org/StreetFair/index.html).
Seattle Cheese Festival
FRI-SUN Taste and learn more about artisan cheese through various activities at Pike Place Market. (www.seattlecheesefestival.com).
Giant Magnet 2009 (formerly Seattle Int'l Children's Festival)
TUES-18th Performing arts extravaganza with theatre, music, puppetry, dance and more at Seattle Center and in Tacoma at Pantages Theatre and Theatre on the Square. (www.giantmagnet.org).
Queen Victoria Birthday Celebration
SAT Celebrating the birthday of Queen Victoria with cannons, muskets, birthday toasts and Civil War re-enactors. Take I-5 south to Tacoma and follow signs to Point Defiance Park, about 1 hr. directions (www.metroparkstacoma.org/page.php?id=825).
Port Townsend Rhody Festival
SAT Parade, craft fair, flower show and carnival in picturesque Port Townsend. Take the Kingston Ferry at Edmonds and head north on hwy 104, about 2 hrs. directions. (http://www.ptguide.com/rhodyfest/index.html).
Anacortes Waterfront Festival
SAT-SUN Family-friendly festival celebrates Anacortes's maritime heritage with free boat rides, quick and dirty boat building demonstrations, waterfront walking tours, kids activities, live entertainment and open water sea kayak races. Also a boat show, Corvette car show and swap meet in downtown Anacortes. (www.anacortes.org/wff).
Seattle Beer Week
THRU SUN Festival highlighting one of the best beer scenes in the world at venues around the greater Seattle Area. (www.seattlebeerweek.com).
01 May
Opening Day of Boating Season
SAT Crew races, decorated boat parade, dragon boats, Marching Bands and more on the Montlake Cut in Seattle. (www.seattleyachtclub.org).
Walking with Dinosaurs- The Live Experience
WED-SUN Life-sized animatronic dinosaur show based on the BBC series at Key Arena. (http://stgpresents.org/wwd/).
Woodland Park Zoo Humboldt Penguin Exhibit
OPENING WEEKEND New exhibit with underwater and on-land penguin viewing, representation of the coastal desert shoreline of Chile and Peru, the penguins' native habitat, view of nesting areas, children's play area with splash zone at Woodland Park Zoo. (www.zoo.org).
NWFS Eastside Fuchsia & Dahlia Tuber Sale
Northwest Fuchsia Society members offer plant material from their own collections at bargain prices. At the Bellevue Botanical Gardens (http://www.nwfuchsiasociety.com/dates.htm )
Master Gardener Foundation Plant Sale
SAT-SUN Plants propagated from Master Gardeners' gardens, plus vendors from specialty nurseries, garden art, new and used gardening books, garden gloves and thousands of tomato starts. At the Center for Urban Horticulture. (www.mgfkc.org).
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