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SEATTLE WA – Indigenous People Festival returns to Seattle Center Festál at the Seattle Center Armory Food & Event Hall and Mural Amphitheatre on Saturday, June 7, from 10 a.m.–5 p.m., transforming the campus into a vibrant celebration of Indigenous brilliance. This free, all-day event features an exciting lineup of Native artists, makers, performers, and small businesses, highlighting the creativity, diversity, and traditions of Indigenous communities.
Guests can enjoy Native food trucks, live music, dance, and cultural performances that showcase the vitality and strength of Indigenous heritage. The festival’s cultural marketplace will fill the Armory and surrounding grounds with handcrafted goods, jewelry, artwork, clothing, and more with a portion of sales going to the Seattle Indian Health Board’s Elder’s Program.
This year’s programming emphasizes Indigenous joy, community connection, and cultural expression. The festival offers a welcoming space for people of all backgrounds to engage with Indigenous traditions, support Native-owned businesses, and celebrate Indigenous presence and power.
“It is an underrecognized fact that upwards of 80% of Native people in the United States live in urban areas like Seattle,” said festival producer Wayne Harvey of Seattle Indian Health Board. “This festival creates space for Indigenous people to celebrate artistry and traditions and for all attendees to learn about Indigenous cultures from contemporary talent.”
Indigenous People Festival is part of the Festál series of 25 cultural festivals presented by community groups and hosted by Seattle Center throughout the year.
About Indigenous People Festival & Seattle Indian Health Board
Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB) is a community health clinic that provides health and human services to its patients, while specializing in the care of Native people. The organization is recognized as a leader in the promotion of health improvement for urban American Indians and Alaska Natives, locally and nationally. The organization serves approximately 6,000 patients annually in King County, and more than 4,000 of those identify as American Indian and/or Alaska Native and employs more than 200 people. SIHB opened its doors to the community in 1970. For the first time, urban Indians in Seattle had access to healthcare and services by organizations that were operated by Native people for Native people. Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB) is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
Information on the festival is available at www.sihb.org and www.seattlecenter.com, as well as on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
About Seattle Center Festál
Seattle Center Festál is a unique public program series of 25 free cultural festivals, each offering its own celebration of heritage and identity. These events provide a range of engaging programs and activities to cultivate a deeper understanding of the diversity of our region. Seattle Center Festál is produced in partnership with community groups, presented on weekends from January to November and supported by City of Seattle, Seattle Center Foundation, and 4Culture.
About Seattle Center
Connect to the extraordinary at Seattle Center, an active civic, arts, and family gathering place in the core of our city and region. Seattle Center’s 74-acre campus, centered around the International Fountain, is part of the Uptown Arts & Cultural District and home to Climate Pledge Arena; more than 30 cultural, educational, sports, and entertainment organizations; and a broad range of public and community programs. In everything it does, Seattle Center’s mission is to create exceptional events, experiences, and environments which delight and inspire the human spirit to build stronger communities.
Seattle Center has expanded its role to provide maintenance and public safety services for Seattle’s new Waterfront Park, a series of new public spaces on Seattle’s downtown waterfront between Pioneer Square and the Seattle Aquarium. Seattle Center supports managing these new waterfront public spaces in partnership with the non-profit Friends of Waterfront Seattle, which offers the community a range of recreational and cultural programming.
Thanks to the support of Official Seattle Center Partners – Alaska Airlines, The Climate Pledge, Coors Light, Pepsi, Premera, Symetra, T-Mobile, and WaFd Bank – Seattle Center is the #1 arts and entertainment destination in the Pacific Northwest with 12 million annual visitors, generating $1.864 billion in business activity and more than $631 million in labor income annually.
Contact
Madison Miller, Why For Good
425-246-5468 madison@whyforgood.com
