Top Picks: Big Events Happening This July and Beyond

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Things Happening Around Seattle in July 2024

THRU AUG 29

Dive-In Movies @ Wild Waves

Watch movies while riding waves 🌊

Film Kids & Family

THRU SEP 5

Deck’d Out @ Monkey Loft

A rooftop rave 🎛️

Holiday Live Music Nightlife

A Golden Retriever looks at the camera, smiling, while wearing a Mariners hat.

THRU SEP 12

Mariners Bark at the Park Nights 2024 @ T-Mobile Park

Bring the pups 🐶

Sports & Leisure

THRU SEP 14

Where to Watch Movies for Free in Seattle City Parks This Summer

Movie nights at 12 Seattle parks 🌳

Film Kids & Family

Alaska Airlines drill team of flight attendants perform during the annual Torchlight Parade at the Seafair Festival in Seattle, Washington.

THRU AUG 4

Seafair Festival 2024 @ Gas Works Park, Downtown Seattle, Lake Washington, and More Local Spots

You’ll hear it when it happens👂✈️

Community Festival Sports & Leisure

Two teens paddleboat in Lake Union in Seattle, Washington, in the movie 10 Things I Hate About You.

THRU JUL 31

Class of 1999: Nine Movies from 1999 @ Central Cinema

I just wanna go back, back to 1999 📼

Festival Film

JUL 3

Taylor’s Version: 4th of July Party! @ Neumos

Dance yourself free 🇺🇸

Holiday Nightlife

A promotional image for "MaXXXine" that shows two women walking the Hollywood strip.

STARTS JUL 3

MaXXXine @ Seattle-Area Movie Theaters

Bloody summer fun 🔪🩸

Film

THRU SEP 5

Deck’d Out @ Monkey Loft

A rooftop rave 🎛️

Holiday Live Music Nightlife

JUL 5–6

Pioneer Square Fest @ Occidental Square, Baba Yaga, and More Venues

A Pioneer Square party 🎶

Community Festival Live Music Shopping

In the film Fancy Dance, Jax (Lily Gladstone) cares for her niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson).

THRU JUL 21

Fancy Dance @ Grand Illusion and Northwest Film Forum

Lily’s latest 🎬

Film

Seattle singer UMI throws flowers to a crowd in Westlake Park during Downtown Summer Sounds 2023 in Seattle, Washington.

THRU SEP 7

Downtown Summer Sounds 2024 @ Westlake Park and More Seattle Locations

Soul in the sunshine ☀️

Live Music

Campus Dining, The Buddhist Bug Series , 2012, Anida Yoeu Ali, Cambodian American, b. 1974, archival inkjet print, Image courtesy of the artist, © Studio Revolt, photo: Masahiro Sugano

THRU JUL 7

The Buddhist Bug and The Red Chador @ Seattle Asian Art Museum

A big new show at SAAM 🪱

Visual Art

THRU AUG

Summer Porch Shows @ Add-A-Ball Amusements Bar & Arcade

Adult recreation 🎰

Live Music

THRU AUG 10

Summer Outdoor Movies @ Juanita Beach Park + Heritage Park

Movie nights in Kirkland 🍿

Film Kids & Family

THRU AUG 28

Outdoor Movies @ Marymoor Park

Movie nights in Redmond 🌃

Film Kids & Family

Thomas the Tank Engine moves passengers through a thick forest in the Pacific Northwest with a conductor waving to the camera.

JUL 12–28

Day Out with Thomas @ Northwest Railway Museum

A bonafide celebrity 🚂

Kids & Family

JUL 12–14

West Seattle Summer Fest 2024 @ The Junction

A summer street fest 🌴🍹🍉⛱️🥥

Community Festival Food & Drink Live Music

JUL 12–14

Day In Day Out 2024 @ Seattle Center

Run away with me 🏃🪩

Festival Live Music

JUL 12 + AUG 9

Sponsored

Motors & Movies @ LeMay – America’s Car Museum

Nostalgia time 🚗

Film Kids & Family Outdoors

THRU JUL 13

Where to Find Glass Floats During BIMA’S Summer Treasure Trek

200 glass orbs 🔮

Community Kids & Family

JUL 13

Pixel Power: Old School Gaming Day @ MoPOP

Playing games in Sky Church 🕹

Gaming Museums

A promotional image for Once on This Island, running at Village Theatre in Issaquah and Everett, Washington.

THRU JUL 14

Once On This Island @ Village Theatre (Issaquah + Everett)

A lavish fairytale 🌴

Theatre

A group of Storm players enter Climate Pledge Arena while a crowd holds out hands to high five them.

JUL 14

Seattle Storm’s Believe in Women Night 2024 @ Climate Pledge Arena

Our region’s best 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧

Sports & Leisure

THRU AUG 17

CID Summer Food Walk @ Seattle’s Chinatown-International District

Sip and savor 🥡

Community Festival Food & Drink

A limited edition Mariners pickleball paddle available this summer at T-Mobile Park.

JUL 19

Mariners Pickleball Night 2024 @ T-Mobile Park

Our fav sport 🤾‍♀️🥒🏓

Sports & Leisure

A preview image for the Capitol Hill Block Party 2024, featuring a large crowd in 2023.

JUL 19–21

Capitol Hill Block Party 2024 @ Pike/Pine Corridor

Summer’s big block party ☀️

Festival Live Music

A large crowd sits on the Seattle Center's lawn during the annual Bite of Seattle food festival in Seattle, Washington.

JUL 19–21

Bite of Seattle 2024 @ Seattle Center

Seattle’s food fest 🤤

Festival Food & Drink

Two people joust with swords at Washington Renaissance Faire in Snohomish, Washington.

JUL 19– AUG 18

Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire 2024 @ Sky Meadows Lane (Snohomish)

Five full weekends 🍗

Community Festival Food & Drink

A collection of stickers available at Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery

JUL 20

Lowrider Block Party 2024 @ Nepantla Cultural Art Gallery

Hydraulics and heritage 🏁

Community Festival Kids & Family Visual Art

THRU JUL 21

Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century @ National Nordic Museum

New at Nordic 🖼

History Visual Art

A limited edition Cookie Monster Mariners bobblehead, exclusively available at T-Mobile Park this July 22nd.

JUL 22

Mariners Sesame Street Night 2024 @ T-Mobile Park

Om nom nom nom 🍪👹

Sports & Leisure

A buttoned Hawaiian shirt adorned with a be-capped kitten, a ball of yarn, and little fish silhouettes.

JUL 23

Take Meow’t to the Ballgame @ T-Mobile Park

Purrr 😼

Sports & Leisure

Santa Claus and fans at T-Mobile Park during July

JUL 23

Mariners Christmas in July @ T-Mobile Park

Ho-ho-hoooooome run ⚾

Kids & Family Sports & Leisure

JUL 25–26

Possession @ The Beacon Cinema

All the weird goo 😱

Film

JUL 25–28

Seattle Art Fair 2024 @ Lumen Field

Art’s big weekend 🖼

Festival Visual Art

JUL 26 – AUG 23

Movies at the Mural 2024 @ Seattle Center

Summer movies in Seattle 🍿

Film Kids & Family

JUL 26 – AUG 9

Friday Night Flicks @ Auburn Parks

Free and outdoors 📽

Film Kids & Family

A group of dancers dressed in yellow pose while marching down 4th for the Seafair Parade.

JUL 27

Torchlight Parade 2024 @ Westlake Park

It starts with a spark 🔥

Festival Holiday Kids & Family

JUL 27–28

Urban Craft Uprising’s 2024 Summer Show @ Magnuson Park Hangar 30

Over 130 makers 🛒

Community Shopping

Three sailors lean together to take a selfie in front of the Pike Place Market Public Market Center sign.

JUL 30 – AUG 4

Fleet Week 2024 @ Seattle Waterfront

Big boats ⚓

Community Holiday Kids & Family

JUL 31

Laser Brat Summer @ The Laser Dome at Pacific Science Center

🍏⚡🦄

Attractions Live Music

THRU SEP 1

Dolly! A Burlesque Musical @ Can Can Culinary Cabaret

Dripping in rhinestones 💎

Burlesque Food & Drink Musical Theatre

Two young children build with Legos at a low counter

THRU SEP 22

Sponsored

Towers of Tomorrow @ MOHAI

Reconnect with your inner child 💛

Kids & Family Museums

THRU SEPT 24

Sponsored

Sound Check! The Music We Make @ Wing Luke Museum

Dive into AAPI music history 🎸

History Museums

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

EVERY MONTH

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

It’s basically a castle 🏰

Film History Tour

THRU JAN 2025

Sponsored

Stonehenge @ Royal BC Museum

Uncover the mystery 🧐

History Museums

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

THRU FEB 2025

Sponsored

Hello Auntie, Hello Uncle @ Wing Luke Museum

Illuminating the lives of elders 💡

Community Museums

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

THRU MAR 2025

Sponsored

Shinka @ LeMay – America’s Car Museum

Celebrating Japanese car culture 🇯🇵

Community Museums Visual Art

Upcoming Around Seattle

A still from the movie Donnie Darko, screening as part of AGFA August at SIFF Cinema Egyptian in Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington.

AUG 1–30

AGFA August @ SIFF Egyptian

A radical cinema festival 🤙

Festival Film

A man stands on top of a hydroplane during Seafair 2023.

AUG 2–4

Hydroplane Gold Cup Race @ Seafair 2024

Wet speed racers 🏎️ 💦

Festival Sports & Leisure

A group of parachuters sail towards the ground while holding an American flag.

AUG 2–4

Seafair Airshow 2024 @ Genesee Park + Lake Washington

You’ll hear it when it happens 🪂

Festival Kids & Family Sports & Leisure

A group of parties put their hands up while on a boat during the Seafair Weekend Logjam.

AUG 2–4

The Log Boom @ Seafair 2024

Fleets on fleets ⛵⛵

Holiday Sports & Leisure

A clown with tear-stained makeup wearing a traditional white clown suit with black pom-pom buttons stands in front of a dark red background. His hands are behind his head and he looks at the viewer with surprise

AUG 3 – AUG 17

Sponsored

Pagliacci @ McCaw Hall

Put on a smile 🎭

Opera

An illustration of the restaurant Canlis, but dressed in Barbiecore pink.

AUG 9–10

Kenlis: A Dance Party @ The Canlis Dream House

We’re all just Ken 🛼

Festival Food & Drink

A collage of the three films screening as part of the annual Movies By The Tower series.

AUG 10–24

Movies by the Tower 2024 @ Maple Leaf Reservoir Park

No crying in baseball 😭

Film Kids & Family

AUG 23

SAM Remix 2024 @ Seattle Art Museum

A big art party 🪩

Festival Visual Art

A group of people play a table top game at PAX West in Seattle, WA

AUG 30 – SEP 2

PAX West 2024 @ Seattle Convention Center

Let’s go, gamers 🕹

Convention Festival Geeky

A lead performer for the band Foreigner raises a fist in the air in this promotional image for the Washington State Fair 2024

AUG 30 – SEP 22

Washington State Fair 2024 @ Puyallup Fairgrounds

Doing the Puyallup 🎡

Festival Food & Drink Kids & Family

A group of people relax at Seattle Center in the dusk near the fountain at Bumbershoot 2023.

AUG 31 – SEP 1

Bumbershoot 2024 @ Seattle Center

Pavement and James Blake headline 🎧

Festival Live Music Visual Art

A Hello Kitty x Mariners crossbody bag available only at the September Hello Kitty game.

APR 30 + SEP 10

Mariners Hello Kitty Night @ T-Mobile Park

Tridents up for Kitty White 🎀

Kids & Family Sports & Leisure

A colored background with reds and blues that acts as a promotional image for Freakout Festival

NOV 7–10

Freakout Festival 2024

Psychedelic and fun 🎸

Festival Live Music

Christmas drinks featured at the Seattle bar Rob Roy

DEC 2024

Miracle on 2nd (2024) @ Rob Roy Seattle

Pass the Christmaspolitans 🍸

Food & Drink Holiday

“Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (Edition 4 of 8)” is part of a black-and-white photograph triptych by Ai Weiwei.

MAR 12 – SEP 7, 2025

Ai Weiwei @ Seattle Art Museum

A legendary show ⚱️💥