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Festival Information
- Performance
Schedules
Four Day
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
- Participation
Schedules
Four Day
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
- Performance
Search
Looking for your favorite musician or group? Want
to see who's playing at a certain time or on a particular
stage? Use our search function to find out when and
where they are playing.
- Visit our Poster
Gallery - 35 years of Festival Posters!
- Add
your name to our application list
Fill
out a simple form and receive the most current application,
for performers, merchants, sidewalk artists, volunteers.
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Getting There
Location, lodging, transportation,
parking, etc.
- Accommodations
Where
to stay in Seattle during the Festival.
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Festival Volunteers
How to become a Festival Volunteer.
- Sponsors
A thousand thanks to the companies and foundations
that make our events happen!
- Festival
Services
- Information on accessibility, emergencies, lost
and found, etc.
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Seattle Center
Information about Seattle Center
- Street
Performing
The rules and regulations for street performing at
the 2008 Folklife Festival
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Participate...Participate!
Folklife is about participation.
Learn a new song or dance step. Or drop in on
a jam session. They happen all over the grounds.
Join
the many volunteers who keep the Festival Free
and open to all!
More than 1000
Folklife Volunteers perform just about every
job imaginable. Walk-in volunteers are a welcome
and important part of the Festival! To volunteer
during the Festival, simply come up to Volunteer
Registration on the 3rd Floor of Center House.
We'll be happy to find a way for you to help in
an area that's fun and interesting for you. See
you soon, and thanks for helping out!
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Dance
and music workshops teach a multitude of styles
to beginners, professionals, children, seniors and anyone
who wants to join in.
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The Northwest Folklife Festival is the annual free
climactic celebration
of year-round ethnic, folk, and traditional arts activities
produced by Northwest Folklife. The Folklife Festival
is Seattle's unofficial leap into summer, with four
days of jam-packed excitement.  Artists
from the Pacific Northwest along with special guests
from throughout the world create an ethnic extravaganza
embracing music and dance performances, visual arts
and folklore exhibits, hands-on ethnic children's activities,
symposia, dance and music workshops, crafts, food, imported
goods, demonstrations of traditional arts, and more!
The exuberant tradition of sharing and participation
at the Festival encourages exploration and learning
between participants and public alike.
 Founded
in 1972 and sponsored by Northwest Folklife and
Seattle Center, Folklife brings together an estimated
250,000 visitors, 1,000 volunteers and more than 7,000
musicians, dancers, tradition bearers and visual artists
who contribute their time, talent, and energy.
Vendor
Lists and Locations
Buttons and Souvenirs
The $10.00 Commemorative Festival
buttons are souvenirs
with a mission: they help keep Folklife free. There
will be a different Festival button for every day! Folklife
T-shirts and other sportswear also help keep the Folklife
Festival the best free event in the Northwest.
Important!
Go
Green
to Folklife! Ride your bike, take the bus, hop
on the Monorail or simply walk to the 2008 Northwest
Folklife Festival. Construction of a garage on Fifth
Avenue and the sale of the 2nd Ave. and John St. lots
have reduced parking at Seattle Center. Pay stations
have also reduced parking opportunities. Driving around
looking for parking is a source of global warming, so
eliminate your frustrations, reduce your expenses and
make the world a better place to live. Leave your car
at home.
If you must take a car to the Festival, visit Spaceshare.com/folklife to find a carpool buddy and help keep vehicle traffic around Seattle Center to a minimum.
Community Networking: host travelers, meet neighbors.
Find people who love the same arts and music before the Festival starts! If you're local, consider hosting people and performers from out of town. Bashful about trying out a local class or one of the Festival workshops? Find a buddy with whom you can try something new! And as always, you can carpool, take the bus with your neighbors and connect with others in your community at www.spaceshare.com/folklife .
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