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‘WAR! at the Market’ — Robots will battle Saturday on Capitol Hill

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Lojinx vs Holy Terror in 2024

It will be “WAR! at the Market” Saturday on Capitol Hill.

Western Allied Robotics combatants will gather Saturday at 15th Ave E’s Quality Flea Center for a day of tournaments and robot on robot martial violence.

The event is free for spectators but serious business for members of the Pacific Northwest robotic combat club. Organizers are planning a giant arena and more than 20 tables for teams to prepare their wired gladiators and make repairs.

The fights go down Saturday from 10 AM to 4 PM at 416 15th Ave E.

 

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On the list | Art Walk, dancing in Cal Anderson, picnic at the Pillars, and Capitol Hill Garage Sale Day 2025

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Capitol Hill’s 2025 sit in a park watching free music, dancing, and movies season isn’t over but it is winding down quickly. Don’t miss out. This weekend brings plenty of things to get out and do including the 2025 Capitol Hill Garage Sale Day. Continue reading →

On the List | Candidate Survivor, ’80s cover band Nite Wave in Volunteer Park, Indie Pop in the Park

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(Image: Nite Wave)

Yes, the 2025 sit in a park watching free music, dancing, and movies season is underway across Capitol Hill and the nearby. Here’s a look at a few choice activities around the neighborhood this weekend. For more — or to add your own event (like this weekend’s DIY Indie Pop in the Park concert) — check out the CHS Calendar. Happy weekend, everybody.

  • THURSDAY JULY 24 — Candidate Survivor: The Stranger and the Washington Bus bring a free night of political fun and civic involvement to Neumos just in time for you to vote in the August 5th Primary
  • THURSDAY JULY 24 — Summer Series at the Amphitheater: The summer schedule of free Thursday night concerts in Volunteer Park continues, this week with Nite Wave and The ABBAgraphs.
  • FRIDAY JULY 25 – SUNDAY JULY 26 — GreenStage Presents FREE Shakespeare in the Park: With performances scheduled across the city, check out the schedule for this weekend in Volunteer Park
  • SUNDAY JULY 26 — Indie Pop in the Park: Throw your own music festival in one of the best parks in the city? Why not! “First band kicks off at 2 pm, Saint Disco, Generation Jones at 3 pm, Not Dead Yet at 4 pm, Call it Mango at 5 pm and Crash Site takes the stage at 6 pm.”

 

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On the List | Summer Series at the Amphitheater begins in Volunteer Park, Pitch the Baby grand opening, Queer & Trans Film Festival 2025

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A series of summer concerts in Volunteer Park begins Thursday night. It is time for the July Capitol Hill Art Walk and the Queer & Trans Film Festival 2025. Here’s a look a few calendar highlights from around Capitol Hill this week. For more, check out the CHS Calendar.

  • THURSDAY — Summer Series at the Amphitheater and Picnic in the Park — Volunteer Park — Join us for the kickoff concert of Summer Series at the Amphitheater, featuring an evening with The Paperboys and the Stacy Jones Band on Thursday, July 10th from 6:00-8:30pm. We will also be hosting our annual Picnic in the Park! Bring a picnic, your blanket, and your friends and family. There will be free ice cream and activities for kids. Food trucks will be onsite, including Oskar’s Pizza, Taco Cortes, Spooky Dogs, Canela, and Kathmandu MoMoCha. Admission is free and open to the public. We can’t wait to see you there. Reserve a ticket here (not required but it helps us predict crowd size for each show). 
  • THURSDAY — July Capitol Hill Art Walk — The monthly second Thursday art walk returns for a summer edition with special activities in the Chophouse Row courtyard and a dance party at E Union’s Passable Art.
  • FRIDAY — Pitch the Baby Grand Opening — 600 19th Ave E — The new Capitol Hill women’s sports bar is ready to turn on the game and serve up a few cold ones: Cozy pub. Fierce fans. Women’s sports always on tap. Continue reading →

2025 Capitol Hill Pride Weekend: Trans Pride in Volunteer Park, PrideFest on Broadway

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This weekend, there will be Pride celebrations across Capitol Hill even as challenges in Seattle, across the nation, and around the world cast their shadows. Two major celebrations will lead the way as Friday’s Trans Pride Seattle rally and party again fills Volunteer Park and Saturday’s PrideFest Capitol Hill spans five blocks of Broadway, Denny, and Cal Anderson Park. Both events are free to attend.

  • FRIDAY — TRANS PRIDE SEATTLE — 5 – 10 PM VOLUNTEER PARK: Friday’s event runs from 5 to 10 PM and will fill the Volunteer Park amphitheater stage with speakers and performers: Now in our twelfth year, Trans Pride Seattle stands as a radiant testament, honoring and carrying the torch of our Transcestors who originated Pride as a means of both resistance and cultural communion. We gather here in celebration of Trans life. To be Trans is to be powerful. In each of us is the power that comes from dreaming, from forging new paths, from becoming. We are not bound by the limitations of what is, but illuminated by the infinite possibilities of what we can create. What profound gifts we bring to this world. Our celebration is survival and our survival is celebration. We gather here in vibrant defiance of the violence, dehumanization, and political attacks on our lives. We gather because we dare to imagine—and demand—a world where all people can live truly, safely, and freely. Trans Pride is not just a festival. It is a declaration: We are divine. We are powerful. We are the past, the present, and the future. We are unstoppable. More: transprideseattle.org Continue reading →

On the List | April Capitol Hill Art Walk, Record Store Day 2025, Cal Anderson cleanup, last weekend for Moisture Festival

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Here are a few things to do around Capitol Hill from the CHS Calendar. Missing something? Add it here.

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On the List | Emerald City Comic Con, Standard Goods Warehouse Sale, Outer Planet Brewing’s 9th, State of Africatown

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With chances of slushy snow this weekend you probably won’t be doing much sledding on Capitol Hill but there are still plenty of things to get out and do around the neighborhood including a big anniversary for a little beer brewer, a big sale from a Pike/Pine retailer, and an important meeting in the Central District. Meanwhile, Emerald City Comic Con will keep things busy downtown and across Capitol Hill. Check out the CHS Calendar for more.

  • Standard Goods Warehouse Sale: After eight years on Capitol Hill, E Pike’s Standard Goods is having their first ever Warehouse Sale. Everything is priced to move so they can make space for 2024. Most everything will be 50% off, with some items going below $10.00.

  • Outer Planet Brewing’s 9th Anniversary: 12th Ave nanobrewery Outer Planet has been celebrating its birthday all week. The party culminates Saturday with a day of beer, music, and Girl Scout cookies.

  • State of Africatown 2024: Africatown is about to open its most ambitious investment yet as the affordable housing development Africatown Plaza completes construction. Saturday, the organization that also runs social and community programs focused on the economic growth and culture in the Central District will hold its 11th annual State of Africatown forum at Langston Hughes.

  • In Search of Truth with Barbara McQuade and Jenny Durkan: We’re not sure what activists from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in her city will think of this. Former Mayor Jenny Durkan is scheduled to appear Sunday at First Hill’s Town Hall for a discussion with MSNBC legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade for a talk on disinformation –“a well-known part of political rhetoric, but it has implications even outside of the sphere of democracy.” While Durkan herself is a former federal prosecutor, her participation in this Town Hall Seattle talk will be interesting, to say the least. Seattle Police infamously deployed disinformation tactics including an “improper ruse” intended to disrupt Capitol Hill demonstrations during the 2020 protests under Durkan’s watch.

 

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Start the new year right with Thursday’s first Capitol Hill Art Walk of 2024

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Steve Jensen’s gallery is located at 1424 10th Ave (Image: CHS)

Here is a good resolution for 2024: See more art. Thursday night’s January edition of the Capitol Hill Art Walk is a good start.

Though the listings at capitolhillartwalk.com are a little lighter than usual, there are still lots of area venues participating in this month’s walk. The monthly art walk takes place every second Thursday at studios, galleries, shops, and cafes across the Hill.
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2023 Capitol Hill holiday highlights include 65th annual Julfest, Holiday in the Park, Guilty Holiday Pleasures Party

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While you’re recovering from the Thanksgiving holiday, brace yourself — Capitol Hill is going to be a festive place for the next few weeks. Here are a few Capitol Hill holiday highlights from the CHS Calendar. You can find more events and gatherings here — or add your own.

Sunday, December 3rd brings the 65th annual Julfest to E Pike’s First Covenant Church:

Thursday, December 7th is the date for the annual return of the Holiday in the Park celebration with hundreds of glowing luminaria, music, crafts and games, and treats in Volunteer Park:

Chabad of Capitol Hill & The Central District will also hold its Grand Menorah Lighting and Celebration in Volunteer Park on the 7th:


The Guilty Holiday Pleasures Party returns to Chophouse Row on Thursday, December 14th:

The Local Brilliance market and art exhibition takes place at 19th Ave E’s Ritual House on Saturday, December 16th:

Plus, lots more coming up soon around the Hill:

 

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On the List | Capitol Hill Garage Sale Day, Jockstraps and Glitter 2023, Optimism goodbye, Maui benefits

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Here are a few weekend things to do around Capitol Hill.

  • Jockstraps and Glitter 2023: Dykes have been battling drag queens in charity kickball matches since Capitol Hill was invented. The annual fundraiser organized by Seattle Quake Rugby and The Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence, The Abbey of St. Joan returns Saturday in Cal Anderson Park:
    Come join us for the fundraising event of the summer! Come watch as Quake Rugby take on the Sisterhood of Perpetual Indulgence’s Seattle chapter in a kickball game! Why should I come watch?: Jockstraps and Glitter is the most fun you can have with your clothes on…mostly because ours come off! How is money raised?: Fans pay for things like ruggers and sisters to strip down and play like that, outs, home runs, and make up “swaps” When? August 19th, 1 pm Where?: The kickball field at Cal Anderson! Drinking after?: Join us for the social and an adult beverage after! Bar TBA
  • Capitol Hill Garage Sale Day: Sunday, Cal Anderson and streets across Capitol Hill will host CHGSD 2023. Born in 2007 as a day loosely organized by CHS for people to rally together to hold yard sales across the Hill, the event has grown to focus on a community flea market in Cal Anderson Park organized by the Cal Anderson Park Alliance to help people reuse and recycle while also celebrating the neighborhood’s central park. This year’s sale includes a clothing swap hosted by the Queer and Trans Youth Project while the Capitol Hill Neighborhood Farmers Market will be taking place just down the block. You’ll find more information at capitolhillgaragesale.org.

    Gay Gilmore and Troy Hakala of Optimism (Image: Optimism Brewing)

  • Optimism Garage Sale: In June, CHS broke the news that Capito Hill brewery Optimism Brewing was closing down and making way for Ballard-born Stoup Brewing to take over the Broadway at Union microbrewery and beer hall. This weekend, you can stop by to bid farewell to Optimism — and check out their goodbye garage sale:
    Let’s drain the kegs and sell the stuff this weekend! Garage sale is Friday and Saturday with deals on glassware, merchandise, equipment and more. We are raffling off our neon signs. All proceeds from beer & gear sale benefit the Maui Strong Fund. Please come have a final toast with us!
  • Maui benefits: Many Capitol Hill area venues are raising funds for Maui including E Olive Way’s Hula Hula. Know about more? Let us know in comments.
 

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