Top Picks: Big Events Happening This May 2025

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Puyallup farmers market

APR 19 THRU OCT 11

It’s Market Season @ Puyallup

It’s official! 🫛

Family & Kids Food Events Music Seasonal

Woman in heels

Seattle Erotic Art Festival @ Seattle Center’s Exhibition Hall

Where sensuality meets creativity 🫦

Arts & Culture Film

Photo of the empty ACT theatre stage

Golden @ ACT Contemporary Theatre

Change your fortune 🪙

Culture Theatre

Ship at a vista

May the Fourth Star Wars Takeover @ The Museum of Flight

Where the Empire meets aerospace 🚀

Arts & Culture Family & Kids Film

Suchitra Mattai exhibit at the Seattle Asian Art Museum

Suchitra Mattai @ Seattle Asian Art Museum

A colorful tapestry of memory 🎨

Arts & Culture Visual Art

A spread of food on a table from Plenty of Clouds

Spring 2025 Seattle Restaurant Week @ Locations around Seattle

Food and community 💛

A group of four people wearing bright, multi-colored astronaut costumes

Yuri’s Night 2025 @ Museum of Flight

Party like a space pioneer 👨‍🚀

Dance Music Nightlife

A blue background with the embroidered words SIFF 'n' Stitch

NEXT SHOW APR 13

SIFF ‘n’ Stitch @ SIFF Cinema Uptown

Craft x cinema 🧶

Pi and the Bengal tiger perch on the edge of a rowboat underneath a starry sky onstage.

Life of Pi @ Paramount Theatre

With larger-than-life puppets 🐯

A crowd of people singing and waving flags gather around a person standing on a chair, spotlighted onstage.

Parade @ The 5th Avenue Theatre

Big and bombastic 💥

Actor Gabriell Salgado and Choreographer Vanessa Villalobos in rehearsal for Laughs in Spanish.

APR 17 – MAY 11

Laughs in Spanish @ Seattle Rep

A joyous blast of energy ☀️

Following Space @ Seattle Art Museum

Organic levitation 🌀

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.

Ai Weiwei @ Three SAM Locations

A landmark Seattle moment 🎨 ✨

A photo of The 5th Avenue Theatre taken at night with long exposure.

SEPT 13 – MAY 17

The 2025/26 Season @ The 5th Avenue Theatre

All the musicals 🎼

An illustrated man with a fierce expression on a red background.

THRU JAN 4, 2026

Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form @ MOPOP

From kavaads to Astro Boy 🚀

Culture Visual Art

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

Shh 🤫