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Location
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WA, Asian / Pacific Islander (API)
Location
Tacoma, WA
Asia Pacific Cultural Center (APCC) serves as an interactive cultural crossroads between local and international communities. APCC represents 47 countries and cultures, offering programs and services honoring their distinct artistry, business protocols, history, and social practices.


Community Focus
West African, WA, Ghanaian
Location
Seattle, WA
Gansango Music & Dance presents traditional and contemporary dance and music from West Africa – drawing on the stunning talent of multicultural dancers and musicians.
Community Focus
West European, WA, Austrian, European, German
Location
Seattle, WA
Herzlich Wilkommen
Community Focus
East Asian, WA, Asian, Japanese
Location
Seattle, WA
The Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival highlights traditional and contemporary arts and artists of Japan and the United States, focusing the Pacific Northwest. The annual free event showcases over 100 (no-vendors) displays and demonstrations of Japanese fine and applied arts, crafts, performing and martial arts, culinary arts, and cultural heritage presented by over 800 volunteers.
Community Focus
WA, Jewish
Location
Bellevue, WA
The Eastside Torah Center – Chabad of Bellevue (ETC) is your source for everything Jewish on the Eastside.

The ETC is a small and diverse community composed of Jews of all religious and cultural backgrounds located right in suburban Bellevue. We are open 365 days of the year, ready to facilitate your educational, social, and spiritual needs. Browse the website to learn more about the broad spectrum of programs and services we offer our. Welcome to the ETC!
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
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
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, 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
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
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.
Community Focus
North European, WA, European, Irish
Location
Kirkland, WA
Community Focus
East Asian, WA, Asian, Japanese
Location
Spokane, WA
KuroNeko Cultural Association presents KuroNekoCon: an anime, gaming, and Japanese culture convention based in Spokane, WA.
Community Focus
WA, Mexican
Location
Burien, WA
¡VEN E INSPIRA A OTROS!
Come to be part of this celebration where the colors give life to the moments of mourning. Be part of this tradition as a visitor or as a volunteer. We will wait for you!

Ven a ser parte de esta celebración donde los colores le dan vida a los momentos de duelo. Se parte de esta tradición como visitante o como voluntario. ¡Te esperamos!
Community Focus
WA, LGBTQ, For All
Location
King County, WA
We are a community based LGBTQIA+ advocacy organization in King County, WA.
Community Focus
WA, Latina/e/o/x
Location
Seattle, WA
Sea Mar Fiestas Patrias, presented by Sea Mar Community Health Centers, is a celebration of Latino culture, with two festivals hosted in the small, but lively neighborhood of South Park and Seattle Center, home of the Space Needle.
Community Focus
WA, For All
Location
Seattle, WA
An immersive series of music & art performances focused on the healing power of global sacred music