

📆 Saturday, May 18th
⏰ 11 am – 7 pm
📅 Sunday, May 19th
⏰ 11 am – 6 pm
🎟 Free to attend
📍 University Way (“The Ave”)
For 53 years, Seattle’s University District has held a yearly fair, with bragging rights as “the longest-running festival of its kind in the nation,” write its organizers. Held on the Ave, the U District Street Fair is a 10-block affair where arts, crafts, food, and entertainment collide. It’s also free to attend, family-friendly, car-free, and easily accessible by U District Station.
🗺️ Need a map? Here a map!

🛍 Expect over 230 arts and crafts vendors, including:
- Cute knitted creatures from Exquisit Knots
- Handcrafted nut butter from Ground Up PDX Nut Butters
- Traditional and wearable art from My Indigenous Life
- Trippy fashion from Sew It Seams Tie Dye
- Carnivorous plants from Predatory Perennials
- Custom maps from 3D Wood Maps
🍽 Over 50 food booths and trucks, including:
- Spice Bridge African cuisine with Chef Jalissa
- Capheteria Vietnamese Smoothies
- Cafecito Mexican bakery
- Kathmandu MoMoCha Nepalese dumplings
- Moustache Milk tea
- El Tajin tacos
- Paella House Paella
🎤 Two days of live entertainment, including:
- Alex Dugdale Jazz Quintet
- Garfield High School Jazz Combo
- Chaotic Noise Marching Band
- Lushy
- Husky Alumni Marching Band
- Emerald City Soul Club DJs & dancers
- Analog Brass Band
- TapWater
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