Join us for a laid-back day of music, creativity, and community as we celebrate Asian American voices and stories. Groove out to SEAVinyl's smooth beats and feel-good tunes or bring a book to exchange with our friends from the Seattle Chinatown Bookclub. Explore the themes and ideas in Anila Quayyum Agha: Geometry of Light through a drop-in art workshop, or just come to soak up the vibes and meet new people!

Free tree tour in Volunteer Park, meet at the Black Sun. Image © Seattle and Sound, https://www.seattleandsound.com/volunteer-park/

Join your friends and neighbors as we weed and clean the garden beds in Volunteer Park to keep it beautiful for everyone. This is a great event for kids and families.

Meet us at the Black Sun Sculpture across from Seattle Asian Art Museum at 10:00 AM on Saturday.  If you arrive late, look for our green signboard telling you where in the park we will be working.

We will provide the gloves and tools.

Volunteer Park Conservatory: First Thursdays of every month are free to all. Open 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. FOC also has free youth admission with the purchase of an adult ticket on the first Saturday of each month. 

Seattle Asian Art Museum: First Thursdays of every month are free to all. Open 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Share this indoor oasis with your kids! Free youth* admission to the Conservatory with the purchase of accompanying adult admission.

Occurs 1st Saturday, Monthly

*Youth indicates children aged 12 and under.

Free tree tour in Volunteer Park, meet at the Black Sun. Image © Seattle and Sound, https://www.seattleandsound.com/volunteer-park/

Join your friends and neighbors for our annual Fall Restoration Day as we weed and clean the garden beds in Volunteer Park to keep it beautiful for everyone. This is a great event for kids and families. Further details about the project and location in the park will be updated here in the fall.

We will provide gloves and tools.

Join us for the Halloween Pet Parade in Volunteer Park! We are excited to see the clever costumes and adorable animals. This delightful FREE parade and costume competition will feature pets in costumes, food trucks, prizes, and vendor booths.

EVENT

11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

#vptpetparade

SCHEDULE

11:00 AM — Gather in the park for the Pet Parade!

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM — Register Your Pet for the Costume Competition

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM — Craft Booth for Kids

12:30 PM to 1:30 PM — Costume Competition on the Stage

1:45 PM — Costume Competition Winners announced

COSTUME COMPETITION

• Each winner receives a pet-related gift basket!

• Prizes offered in 4 categories: ○ Best Dressed ○ Best Pet/Owner Combo ○ Most Creative ○ Spookiest Pet

THANK YOU to our sponsoring Community Partner: 4Culture.

Share this indoor oasis with your kids! Free youth* admission to the Conservatory with the purchase of accompanying adult admission.

Occurs 1st Saturday, Monthly

*Youth indicates children aged 12 and under.

Volunteer Park Conservatory: First Thursdays of every month are free to all. Open 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. FOC also has free youth admission with the purchase of an adult ticket on the first Saturday of each month. 

Seattle Asian Art Museum: First Thursdays of every month are free to all. Open 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Join us for a vibrant celebration of movement, music, and community! Whether you're a seasoned dancer or just here to watch your favorite viral dances, this event brings the joy and creativity of Hallyu straight to the museum’s door. With our partners Battalion Entertainment we’ll turn the museum into our own pop-powered dance floor!

12-12:30 pm | Dance Performance

Cheer on dance cover groups from all across Seattle during their high-energy dance performances that will feature dance covers from our favorite girl groups!

12:30-2 pm | Random Play Dance

Facilitated by Battalion Entertainment, dancers of all levels and abilities are welcome to join in and dance along to viral K-Pop choreo!

Tickets
Free

Community Fire Jams offer an opportunity for fire spinners of all skill levels to practice and play with fire in a safe and supportive environment. Not feeling up to spinning fire yourself? Come watch or play with LED or day props outside the fire circle!

The Seattle Asian Art Museum is pleased to kick off the Jaipur Literature Festival.

Join us for an evening with John Vaillant for a discussion of his recent work, including Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the US National Book Award, the winner of Britain's Baillie Gifford Prize and Canada's Shaughnessy-Cohen Prize, and was one of the New York Times’ ten best books of 2023. Vaillant's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and National Geographic.

Join your friends and neighbors as we weed and clean the garden beds in Volunteer Park to keep it beautiful for everyone. This is a great event for kids and families.

Meet us at the Black Sun Sculpture across from Seattle Asian Art Museum at 10:00 AM on Saturday.  If you arrive late, look for our green signboard telling you where in the park we will be working.

We will provide the gloves and tools.

Modular on the Spot is a FREE outdoor event where you can soak up electronic soundscapes of local modular artists. Show starts 5:00pm.

Share this indoor oasis with your kids! Free youth* admission to the Conservatory with the purchase of accompanying adult admission.

Occurs 1st Saturday, Monthly

*Youth indicates children aged 12 and under.

Volunteer Park Conservatory: First Thursdays of every month are free to all. Open 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. FOC also has free youth admission with the purchase of an adult ticket on the first Saturday of each month. 

Seattle Asian Art Museum: First Thursdays of every month are free to all. Open 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Presented by Seattle Parks Foundation: Join us as we continue to celebrate our 25th Anniversary with our Pop-Up Concerts in the Park on Wednesdays in July and August 2025!

On Wednesday, August 20, 2025, we’ll present a free concert with The Residency Showcase at Volunteer Park Amphitheater, featuring Jua, Kenshi, Isaiah Banks & SaNia, Nestra, DJ T E N, AK & NW Tap.

Join us on Thursday, August 14 from 6:00-8:30pm for an evening featuring Kalimba and Day Soul Exquisite.

GreenStage makes high-quality theatrical productions of Shakespeare’s plays freely accessible to all residents and visitors to Seattle and King County. Our productions are free, fun, and family oriented, focusing on the text and story of the play. The talent of our artists, the beauty of the natural park spaces, and the imagination and participation of our audiences creates inspiring productions that allow everyone involved to experience live theatre, and Shakespeare in particular, in new ways.

Love and laughter tangle in a sparkling tale of wit, trickery, and mistaken identity. The fiery Beatrice and the stubborn Benedick are hilariously duped into falling for each other, while young lovers Hero and Claudio are torn apart by a villain’s cruel deception.

Presented by GreenStage

Love and laughter tangle in a sparkling tale of wit, trickery, and mistaken identity. The fiery Beatrice and the stubborn Benedick are hilariously duped into falling for each other, while young lovers Hero and Claudio are torn apart by a villain’s cruel deception.

Presented by GreenStage

GreenStage makes high-quality theatrical productions of Shakespeare’s plays freely accessible to all residents and visitors to Seattle and King County. Our productions are free, fun, and family oriented, focusing on the text and story of the play. The talent of our artists, the beauty of the natural park spaces, and the imagination and participation of our audiences creates inspiring productions that allow everyone involved to experience live theatre, and Shakespeare in particular, in new ways.

Join your friends and neighbors as we weed and clean the garden beds in Volunteer Park to keep it beautiful for everyone. This is a great event for kids and families.

Meet us at the Black Sun Sculpture across from Seattle Asian Art Museum at 10:00 AM on Saturday.  If you arrive late, look for our green signboard telling you where in the park we will be working.

We will provide the gloves and tools.

GreenStage makes high-quality theatrical productions of Shakespeare’s plays freely accessible to all residents and visitors to Seattle and King County. Our productions are free, fun, and family oriented, focusing on the text and story of the play. The talent of our artists, the beauty of the natural park spaces, and the imagination and participation of our audiences creates inspiring productions that allow everyone involved to experience live theatre, and Shakespeare in particular, in new ways.