Annual Festival Brings Music, Hula, Ono Food, Workshops, Spam Musubi Eating Contest
and More to Seattle Center, Sept. 8
SEATTLE – The Live Aloha Hawaiian Cultural Festival brings the wonder and beauty of Hawaii to Seattle on Sunday, Sept. 8, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Seattle Center Armory Food & Event Hall, Mural Amphitheatre, and Fisher Pavilion Rooftop.
The free, family oriented event – part of the year-round series of cultural festivals, Seattle Center Festál – celebrates Native Hawaiian arts and culture through music and hula across two stages, as well as Ono food trucks, a Spam musubi eating contest, fresh orchid lei making, educational workshops, kids’ activities, and a Hawaiian craft marketplace featuring hand-made goods from artisans attending from Hawai’i and throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Headlining this year’s musical lineup is award-winning Hawaiian vocal group Na Leo Pilimehana, the popular female trio in their “Taking it Back to the Fans” tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of their hit single “Local Boys” which remains the #1 selling single in Hawai’i music history.
“Live Aloha is a celebration of our Hawaiian culture, food, and most of all connecting with our ‘ohana (family), the thousands of Native Hawaiians living in Washington state,” said Cyndi Aiona Kahaialii, event producer.
“We’re excited to welcome the Live Aloha Hawaiian Cultural Festival which transports the culture of our neighbors across the Pacific here to share with Seattle,” said Seattle Center Managing Artistic Director of Cultural Programs Heidi Jackson. “The festival helps unite the Native Hawaiian community residing in Washington and provides the opportunity for all people to experience their rich heritage and traditions.”
The Live Aloha festival serves to promote and share the Hawaiian culture here in the Pacific Northwest by enriching and strengthening the Hawaiian community and celebrating the arts and culture of Hawai'i.
Information on the festival is available at seattlecenter.com and seattlelivealohafestival.com as well as on Facebook, Instagram, and X.
About Live Aloha Hawaiian Cultural Festival
In 2018, Live Aloha Hawaiian Cultural Festival became a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The Festival’s committee is passionate about Hawaiian culture, providing an opportunity for the more than 50,000 Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders who live in the Pacific Northwest to immerse themselves in food, music, hula, and crafts.
About Seattle Center Festál
Seattle Center Festál is where the world gathers to celebrate the people, the places, the stories, and the traditions of diverse ethnic communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. This unique public program series links together 24 free festivals, each offering its own cultural focus, identity, and range of engaging 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 February to November, and supported by City of Seattle, Seattle Center Foundation, and 4Culture. Festál is also part of the ArtsFund Cultural Partners Network.
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 Blue Cross, 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. www.seattlecenter.com
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