Top Picks: Big Events Happening This February 2025

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Things Happening Around Seattle in 2025

nside MoPOP's warmly lit exhibition space, guests gather around a cocktail table draped in black cloth during an evening event. Two people share a moment of engaging conversation, with ambient lighting creating an inviting atmosphere for cultural discussion and community connection.

Black Beyond: A Black History Month Kickoff @ MoPOP

Black sci-fi takes center stage 🛸

Attractions Culture Visual Art

Hayv Kahraman: Look Me in the Eyes @ Frye Art Museum

Looking back at you 👁️

FEB 4 – MAR 2

Hamilton @ The Paramount Theatre

The revolution returns 👑

Family & Kids Music Theatre

A person in traditional Sámi winter clothing with a fur-lined hat looks through a telescope or camera lens, photographed against a bright winter sky. The individual wears a dark coat with traditional red embroidered trim.

Sámi Film Festival @ Majestic Bay

Indigenous cinema in Ballard 🎬

Anime Washington 2025 @ Washington State Fair and Events Center

Cosplay paradise in Puyallup 🦸‍♀️

Festival Film Gaming

A close-up fashion photo showing a bridal look, featuring a delicate vintage-style veil adorned with small beaded details and floral embellishments. The veil has a soft, ethereal quality in warm lighting. The person is wearing subtle makeup and appears in a dreamy, romantic style reminiscent of 1960s fashion photography.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg @ SIFF Cinema Downtown

French New Wave romance in 4K 🌂

The Fishermen's Terminal building in Seattle on a gray day, with its iconic sign mounted on the white facade. A distinctive teal watchtower stands at one end, and the building's long row of windows reflects the marina. Weathered dock pilings and marine equipment are visible in the foreground.

SAD (Strong and Dark) Beer Fest @ Figurehead Brewing Company

Embrace the winter blues 🍺

Festival Food Events Seasonal

An animated illustration from The Hula Hoopin' Queen shows a joyful young girl in orange with her arms raised triumphantly, spinning a yellow hoop while wearing a crown. Other characters with hoops, including an elderly woman in purple and two young friends, surround her against a bright green background.

FEB 13 – MAR 23

The Hula Hoopin’ Queen @ Seattle Children’s Theatre

Community spirit meets playground fun 💫

Family & Kids Theatre

The Pacific Science Center building exterior features its iconic blue neon signage against a glass facade, topped by a large colorful butterfly mural banner. White architectural lattice work frames the entrance, with wayfinding signs for "Main" and "Gates" visible at ground level.

Science After Dark: Valentine’s Day @ Pacific Science Center

Love meets laboratory 🧪

Two dancers in an iconic scene from La La Land perform against a twilight Los Angeles skyline, with one wearing a flowing yellow dress and the other in business attire as they strike a symmetrical pose with outstretched arms.

La La Land in Concert with Seattle Symphony @ Benaroya Hall

Movie magic meets live orchestra 🎬

A dramatic black and white film still from The Narrow Margin (1952) featuring a tense close-up of two characters in a shadowy train compartment, highlighting film noir's characteristic use of shadow and intimate framing.

Noir City 2025 @ SIFF Cinema Downtown

Dangerous dames take over downtown 🎬

A detailed scale model of a silver Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber sits in sharp focus on a black display table, with other miniature aircraft visible in the background.

Northwest Scale Modelers Show @ Museum of Flight

Tiny planes, big dreams ✈️

Official UFC promotional portrait showing main event fighters Henry Cejudo and Song Yadong side by side against a dark background with geometric line details. Both fighters are shirtless and posed in a traditional pre-fight stance.

UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Yadong @ Climate Pledge Arena

MMA returns to Seattle 🥊

Sports & Leisure

Black and white promotional photo showing seven cast members of Almost Live! standing neck-deep in rippling water, arranged in a group composition with serious expressions, capturing the show's irreverent style.

Almost Live! (Almost an Exhibit) @ MOHAI

Seattle’s comedy time capsule 😆

Comedy Film History

Two women, one an elder and one younger, walk side by side, smiling inside a community center

Hello Auntie, Hello Uncle @ Wing Luke Museum

Illuminating the lives of elders 💡

Art installation detail showing fantastical glass flowers with pink-tinged translucent petals, amber globes, and delicate stems against a black background, part of Fischersund's Faux Flora exhibit at the Nordic Museum.

Fischersund: Faux Flora @ National Nordic Museum

A multisensory garden of invented blooms 🌸

A triptych of passport-themed artworks: Left shows a blue paper document emerging from a black cover with 'TORY' visible, center features a whimsical sculptural bird with a red pinata-like head and blue-gold body displayed alongside a colorful accordion-style book with decorative borders, and right shows a corner of a dark blue passport with gold emblem visible.

Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined @ BIMA

Art that reimagines identity & borders 🛂

A sequence of three black and white photographs showing a performative act: first, someone holding a ceremonial urn, then standing with raised hands as the urn sits below, and finally with the urn broken on the ground. The figure stands against a brick wall wearing casual clothes.

MAR 12 – SEP 7

Ai Weiwei @ Three SAM Locations

A landmark Seattle moment 🎨 ✨

A person in a yellow sweater sits cross-legged beside crystal sound bowls while participants rest on colorful yoga mats in the light-filled PACCAR Pavilion, with Seattle's waterfront visible through floor-to-ceiling windows.

SAM Body + Mind (Mar 2025) @ Olympic Sculpture Park

Mindful vibes for spring awakening 🌿

A dramatic scene from Cirque du Soleil's KOOZA shows a performer in an ornate gold and white costume against a red curtain backdrop, while skeleton-suited acrobats leap through the air behind them.

Cirque du Soleil’s KOOZA @ Marymoor Park (Redmond)

Classic circus magic 🎪

A shot of two cars from the Shinka exhibit against a nightime Japanese cityscape.

Shinka @ LeMay – America’s Car Museum

Celebrating Japanese car culture 🇯🇵

Keith Haring painting a large mural.

Keith Haring: A Radiant Legacy @ MoPOP

An icon 👯

Following Space @ Seattle Art Museum

Organic levitation 🌀

A tour provider shows a guide to different flavors within chocolate during a Seattle Chocolate Tour at Pike Place Market.

Seattle Chocolate Tour @ Pike Place Market

Treats in downtown Seattle 🍫

Family & Kids Food Events Market Events

An aerial drone view of Stadium High School Tacoma Washington covered in snow

How to Tour the High School from 10 Things I Hate About You

It’s basically a castle 🏰

Film History Tour

Inside the Sorrento Hotel's wood-paneled Fireside Room, readers sit in leather chairs around small tables with glowing candles. A domed skylight illuminates the warm space, while a well-stocked bar glows in the background.

Silent Reading Party @ Hotel Sorrento

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