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Community Focus
Location
Community Focus
WA, Jewish
Location
Seattle, WA
Chabad is a home for all things Jewish. We are founded on the principle that, while Jews may embrace many levels of observance in their personal lives, there should be a place for all Jews- no labels, no affiliations- to develop a sense of community, to enhance the experience of being Jewish, to learn, and to enjoy Judaism. We provide Jewish holiday programming, adult and youth education, Shabbat prayer services, and much more. But perhaps more importantly, on a personal level, Chabad serves as a shoulder to lean on, a friend, and a place to turn to at any time. Chabad of North Seattle is dedicated to providing an open-door environment to strengthen Jewish life for every Jew of every age regardless of background, philosophy, or level of commitment.
Community Focus
WA, Asian, Methodist
Location
Seattle, WA
Located in the heart of Shoreline, WA, Ronald United Methodist Church is a diverse, faithful, active community of service, hospitality and hope.
Community Focus
WA, Jewish
Location
Mercer Island, WA
Chabad Mercer Island is a place where you can celebrate Judaism joyfully and with meaning. A place where Judaism sheds relevant perspective to our daily lives. Filled with opportunities to expand your mind, excite your heart, and touch your soul. Our center offers you a wide range of learning, connection, and outreach opportunities for all ages. Experience is paramount, and your questions are encouraged and embraced.
Community Focus
WA, Southeast Asian, Asian, Filipino
Location
Seattle, WA
The Filipino Cultural Heritage Society of Washington (FCHSW) proudly presents Pagdiriwang, commemorating the anniversary of Philippine Independence. Held on the first or second week of June at the Seattle Center since 1987, the event has grown into the largest festival of Filipino arts and culture in the Pacific Northwest.

This celebration is a part of Seattle Center Festál, a series of cultural programs sponsored by the City of Seattle. Pagdiriwang provides a venue for Filipinos and non-Filipinos alike to learn about the culture. It is an ideal setting for presenting art, craft, song, dance, music, history, literature, and culture to promote better understanding of the Filipino cultural heritage.
Community Focus
Middle Eastern, WA, Islamic
Location
Seattle, WA
Masjid Al-Furqan was established in 2014 when Hope Academy purchased the Saint James Lutheran Church at White Center, Seattle to cater the growing needs of the Muslim community in Seattle. Please feel free to contact us!
Community Focus
WA, For All
Location
Seattle, WA
Blue Earth believes documentary photography can inspire positive change. We support visual storytelling on critical environmental and social issues through direct assistance to photographers and a collaborative community of professionals.
Community Focus
WA, West Asian, Asian, Turkish
Location
Seattle, WA
Seattle Center Festál presents Turkfest in partnership with the Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington (TACAWA). The festival boasts a lively marketplace, food, music, dance, and more.

Turkfest is an annual cultural festival in Seattle, whose mission is to foster friendship, to highlight the diversity and richness of Turkish culture and Turkish speaking countries, and cooperate throughout the greater community by organizing educational, entertaining, and engaging cultural programs that celebrate Turkish and Turkic cultures and heritage.

This event is free and open to the public.



Community Focus
South European, WA, American (US), European, Italian, Italian American
Location
Seattle, WA
Welcome to Seattle’s 34th Annual Festa Italiana! Festa Italiana is an all-volunteer community organization which produces an annual series of events the last week of September, culminating in a FREE Italian Festival at Seattle Center. Since 1988, Festa Italiana has been celebrating the cultural roots of Italians and Italian-Americans in the Pacific Northwest by promoting the arts, the food and the culture that are uniquely Italian.
Community Focus
North European, WA, European, Scottish
Location
Seattle, WA
Established 1947
The Seattle Scottish Highland Games Association, a self-supporting non-profit (c)(3) group, was formed in 1947 by a local group of prominent Scots. The Association provided this group of fellow Scots a means of keeping their ethnic origin alive as well as stimulating an interest in Scottish Highland Games through Scottish dancing, piping, drumming and athletic competition. Listed among the first patrons were Emil Sick, Governor Arthur Langlie, Mayor William Devine and John L. Scott.

The first “Seattle Scottish Highland Games” were held in the West Seattle Stadium. Since that time the Highland Games have become a true Pacific Northwest event, thus the name change in 1980 to the “Pacific Northwest Scottish Highland Games & Clan Gathering.” Our other sites have included Bothell, Burien, Everett, Fort Lewis, Kirkland, Renton, the Seattle Center, and now the Expo Center (formerly the King County Fairgrounds) in Enumclaw.

The Seattle Scottish Highland Games Association is dedicated to the perpetuation of the Scottish arts, their traditions & customs to inspire new generations to take part in their stories. Bringing Scotland to the Pacific Northwest for over 70 years through the skirl of the Pipes and Drums, the beauty of Highland Dancing, the brawn of Scottish athletics, and the sharing of clan history. The Association provides venues that explore connections to your Scottish ancestry.
Community Focus
Buddhism, WA
Location
Seattle, WA
Building spiritual community since 1985.
Community Focus
East European, WA, European, Polish
Location
Seattle, WA
Polish Festival Seattle is a premier event created to celebrate Polish culture, traditions and contemporary achievements in a joyful atmosphere with diverse audiences of the Greater Seattle region.
Community Focus
WA, For All
Location
Seattle, WA
We activate and sustain Seattle through arts and culture.
Community Focus
WA, Southeast Asian, American (US), Asian, Asian American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American
Location
Seattle, WA
Tết In Seattle (T-I-S.) organizes the annual Tết Festival, a free celebration event held at the Seattle Center as part of Seattle Center's Festal world cultural program. The Tết Festival celebrates the cultural roots of Vietnamese-Americans through the celebration of Tết, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, by presenting, promoting, and providing hands-on experience in the arts, musics, performances, and foods that are unique to Vietnam.
Community Focus
WA, Panamanian
Location
, WA
Las Molas Association is a non-profit Organization. Our purpose is to preserve, promote, enhance, and increase conscience of Panamá culture, to aid and assist Panamanians and other individuals in the State of Washington, and in our Homeland of Panamá.
Community Focus
North European, WA, Lutheran, European, Norwegian
Location
Seattle, WA
Denny Park Lutheran Church was founded in Seattle in 1888 by people rich with a Norwegian heritage. The present church building, located across the street from Denny Park, was built in 1939 and is considered a historical landmark in South Lake Union. We are an evangelical Lutheran parish, affiliated with Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC) and the Augustana District (AD).
Community Focus
WA, Latina/e/o/x
Location
Seattle, WA
La Sala is a collective formed to coalesce and mobilize the growing Latino/Latina arts community of the Seattle/Bellevue and surrounding districts.
Community Focus
South European, East European, WA, Balkan, European
Location
Brier, WA
Balkan Night Northwest (BNNW) is a non-profit organization that coordinates this annual event dedicated to fostering a vibrant Balkan music and dance community in the Pacific Northwest. The volunteers who produce the event and serve as the executive steering committee are Christos Govetas, Ruth Hunter and John Morovich.
Community Focus
African, WA
Location
Seattle, WA
Spirit of Africa is a celebration of the music, dance, and culture of Africa.
Community Focus
Buddhism, East Asian, WA, Asian, Tibetan
Location
Seattle, WA
Dechen Ling Press LogoDechen Ling is a center of Tibetan Buddhism, where you can learn meditation and practical Buddhism.
Community Focus
WA, Black
Location
Seattle, WA
The annual Seattle Black Film Festival (formerly the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival - LHAAFF) is a major season program of LANGSTON, showing provocative films and works about the Black experience from independent filmmakers.