July 18th, the Seattle Center hosted Bastille Day. The event featured a cooking demo, live performances, French car show, fencing demo, and a wine garden. The highlight of the day for me was the crepe (provided by Seattle’s specialty food truck, Seattle Crisp Creperie) The festival goer’s were most inspired by French style. The fashion staples of the day included stripes…
Category: Happenings
Northwest Folklife Festival [post-coverage]
A palate of bluegrass, old timey, indie and folk music, the Northwest Folk Festival offers a refreshing offering to mainstream music. I was only able to see a small sampling of the over 6,000 performers they had over the festival, but of the small sampling I was lucky enough to see, I only have positive things…
Independence Clean-up
I’m not a fan of large crowds nor fireworks, so I stayed home for America’s Independence Day. The day after I joined a large number of volunteers to take part in the annual Starbucks sponsored clean-up. There are two locations for post-fireworks clean-up, Lake Union and Gasworks Park. Just like last year, I chose the destination closet…
Scandinavian Midsummer Festival, post-coverage
I attended the Scandinavian Midsummer Festival at Saint Edwards State Park this past Sunday (June 24) This event was put together by Skandia Folkdance Society. The event stayed true to the Swedish celebration. There were attendees in traditional folk costume. There was a parade prior to the highlight of the event, the garlanded maypole (majstång) was raised successfully that afternoon. There was a…
Midsummer Festival this weekend, June 24th 2012
I will be attending Midsummer Festival this year. Midsummer celebration, aka Summer Solstice, aka the beginning of summer is different depending on the culture. The event that I will be attending this weekend is having a traditional Scandinavian Midsummer celebration. From the wikipedia page on Midsummer celebration – In modern Sweden, Midsummer’s Eve and Midsummer’s Day (Midsommarafton and Midsommardagen) were formerly celebrated on 23 June and…