We start the Friday list with Day 1 of the peninsula’s biggest party of the year:
WEST SEATTLE SUMMER FEST AT A GLANCE: Official festival hours are 1 pm to 8 pm, with mainstage music and the beverage garden continuing later. The festival stretches along California SW from the main stage (in the Post Office vicinity between Genesee and Oregon) to Edmunds, and along SW Alaska from the Kids’ Zone (California to 42nd this year) to the food zone (California to 44th and the parking lot behind KeyBank). The schedules for both music stages (the smaller West Side Stage is west of California) are here; the food/drink info (including year-round businesses) is here; the vendors (etc.) list is here; the Kids Zone info, including advance inflatable ticket/pass purchase and fun free offerings too, is here. As we’ve done annually for 15+ years, we’ll be covering the festival nonstop while on Team Info Booth all three days; see you there!
Here’s what else is happening, mostly from the WSB West Seattle Event Calendar:
SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE GARDEN CENTER: The center is open for plant-shopping Thursdays-Saturdays 10 am-3 pm, north end of the South Seattle College (6000 16th SW; WSB sponsor) campus.
HIGHLAND PARK SPRAYPARK: The spraypark is open every day 11 am-8 pm. Free. (1100 SW Cloverdale)
WADING POOLS: Lincoln Park (noon-7 pm), Delridge, and Hiawatha (both noon-5:30 pm) will be open today.
COLMAN POOL: The heated salt-water pool has sessions between noon and 7 pm; see the schedule here. (And the slide is open Fridays!)
SEATTLE TERIYAKI HISTORY: See this brand-new exhibit at the Log House Museum (61st/Stevens) while it’s open noon-4 pm today.
LOW-LOW TIDE: Out to -2.4 feet at (updated) noon.
QI GONG AT VIVA ARTS: Fridays at 12:15 pm – info in our calendar listing. (4421 Fauntleroy Way SW)
SCREENPRINTING AT EASY STREET: 5-8 pm at Easy Street Records (4559 California SW) during the first night of Summer Fest, live screenprinting – free, or buy a blank T-shirt!
PICKUP SOCCER FOR KIDS: Local dad leads pickup soccer games at Delridge Playfield (4458 Delridge Way SW), 5:30-7 pm, RSVP via email to iamcasanova2024@gmail.com.
OUTDOOR SHAKESPEARE: 7 pm, High Point Commons Park (behind 6400 Sylvan Way SW), GreenStage presents the Backyard Bard abbreviated version of “Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Free.
‘THE EFFECT’ AT ARTSWEST: Final weekend for the new play directed by Mathew Wright, 7:30 pm. Our calendar listing has the ticket link, but online tickets are sold out tonight, so check at the box office.
AT THE SKYLARK: Doors at 7 pm, music at 8 pm, Cinema Riot, Death Spa, Animal Adjective at The Skylark (3803 Delridge Way SW).
REVELRY ROOM DJ: 9 pm, DJ HerShe tonight, and check the earlier afternoon/evening Summer Fest DJ lineup here! (4547 California SW)
MAKE IT LOUD: Skating with live music – tonight, Sweat at the Disco – 9 pm at Southgate Roller Rink (9646 17th SW). 21+. $18 cover/$5 skates.
If you have something to showcase on our event lists or calendar, please email what/when/where/etc. info to westseattleblog@gmail.com – thank you!
