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
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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.
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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.
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.
Here are a few things to do around Capitol Hill from the CHS Calendar. Missing something? Add it here.
Sandbox recently featured the work of Brandon Thomas (Image: Sandbox Seattle)
While the number of participating venues in tonight’s first Capitol Hill Art Walk of the new year falls just short of 25, that is still a hell of a lot of neighborhood art.
Start 2025 off right by checking out a venue or two on this first second Thursday of the year.
There is also a new participant in the Walk. Sandbox Seattle is a new addition to the mix adding a a video and photo studio, co-working space, and lounge at 1417 10th Ave. The studio is hosting a new exhibit from Lucille Groleau “featuring a series of eight oil paintings, six small 8×10 framed paintings and two larger pieces on stretched canvas.” Sandbox is also showcasing a selection of printed photographs from our local studio collective through January.
Learn more and check out a map of all participating venues at capitolhillartwalk.com.
For more neighborhoods things to do, check out the CHS Calendar.
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On The Block Seattle’s inaugural HOLIDAY SPECIAL Marketplace & End-of-Year Fundraiser Celebration is Friday
To help the 11th Ave arts scene with your holiday shopping, head to 15th Ave E.
Friday night, the Quality Flea Center is playing host to On the Block Seattle’s HOLIDAY SPECIAL Marketplace & End-of-Year Fundraiser Celebration:
FRIDAY, DEC 13TH 🎉🎁🎄🎅🏾💚 Come join us for our On The Block Seattle’s inaugural HOLIDAY SPECIAL Marketplace & End-of-Year Fundraiser Celebration.🎉🎉🎅🏾🎁🎄Our first INDOORS market at the @qualityfleacenter for the holiday season!! 🙌🏽🎄💚🚧 So much space for 70+ local vendors 🤩🤩 Black Santa photobooth @blacksanta206 , raffles games, food and hot beverages, and so much more!! 💚 Join us for this special celebration!! 🎅🏾🎄🎉
Location: Indoors at @qualityfleacenter – 416 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112
Market hours: 4 pm – 9:30 pm
On the Block is the organizer behind the free street market series that has filled 11th Ave with music, artists, and vendors in recent summers. OTB’s Julie-C has helped make 11th Ave a center of activity with her efforts at Blue Cone Studios, So Below, and The Study at CryBaby. On the Block organizers include Mediums Collective, Throwbacks NW, and Vermillion Art Gallery and Bar.
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Volunteer Park and the Volunteer Park Conservatory were done up in seasonal finery Thursday night for the annual Holiday in the Park event with music, hot chocolate, and cookies. The conservatory’s holiday model train will keep running through December every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
This weekend will bring some good opportunities for the gift giving season to Capitol Hill as the Punk Rock Flea Market hosts its December edition at 15th Ave E’s Quality Flea Center: Continue reading
Thursday is the Pride edition of the monthly Capitol Hill Art Walk with more than 20 studios, galleries, and venues officially participating — and the rest of the Hill unofficially participating as you enjoy a warm-ish June evening in the neighborhood.
A core to this month’s Art Walk will be on 11th Ave at the Vermillion art bar where the Mighty Realer queer arts showcase follows up on last year’s Mighty Real show.
The 2024 edition features artists including Anouk Rawkson, Jordan Christianson, Kerstin Graudins, David Van Der Linden, Casey Curran, Maybe, Jeff Legere, Tony Barnes, Kelly O, Richard Peacock, Christopher Ando, Julianee Mendoza, and Ruben David.
It is going to be so -er. Continue reading
(Image: Gage Academy of Art)
It is nearly garage sale season. Capitol Hill artists will want to mark their calendars for a good start to the season early next month.
The Gage Academy of Art is holding a yard sale featuring “art supplies, books, easels, costumes, home decor, kitchen items, electronics, and more” April 6th as it prepares to leave its longtime Capitol Hill home:
Later this year, Gage will move into a South Lake Amazon office building where the 35-year-old school will become the ground-floor presence below floors of tech workers above. CHS reported here on the planned move for the school after decades on the St. Mark’s campus as the church prepares for planned housing development on its 10th Ave E property.
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