SEATTLE CENTER

'Seattle Center' is a fairground, park and arts and entertainment center in Seattle, Washington, on the site used in 1962 by the Century 21 Exposition. It is located just north of Belltown in Lower Queen Anne.

Contents

Attractions

Performing Arts

Athletics

Festivals

Winterfest

College Performance Series

Future plans

External links

Attractions

★ The Space Needle.

★ Seattle Center Monorail terminus.

★ Center House, formerly known as the Food Circus, which includes:
The Center House Theater (Home to Seattle Shakespeare Company and Book-It Repertory Theatre), the Children's Museum and The Center High School. Before the World's Fair, the building was an armory.

★ The Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame.

★ The Fisher Pavilion.

★ The Fun Forest amusement park.

★ The International Fountain.

★ The Mercer Arena

★ The outdoor Mural Amphitheater, featuring a mosaic mural by Paul Horiuchi.

★ The Northwest Rooms, a small conference center.

★ The Pacific Science Center, home of the Boeing IMAX Theater, Eames IMAX Theater, and Seattle Laser Dome.

★ The Seattle Center Pavilion

Performing Arts

★ Bagley Wright Theatre

★ Leo Kreielsheimer Theatre

★ PONCHO Forum, home of Seattle Repertory Theatre.

★ Center House Theater

★ The Center School

★ The Intiman Playhouse, home of the Intiman theater company.

★ McCaw Hall, home of the Seattle Opera and shared as a performance space with the Pacific Northwest Ballet, whose ballet school is adjacent. This is the third performance space on this site, the second being the Opera House built at the time of the World's Fair.

★ The Seattle Children's Theatre

★ The VERA Project

Athletics

★ KeyArena, home court of Seattle SuperSonics, Seattle Storm basketball and Seattle Thunderbirds (Western Hockey League) ice hockey. This is a rebuilt version of what was once the Coliseum.

★ Memorial Stadium, a high school football and soccer stadium, which predates the World's Fair.

Festivals

Seattle Center hosts many cultural, music and arts festivals. Major attractions include:

★ Bumbershoot

★ Festál

★ Seattle International Children's Festival

★ Northwest Folklife

★ Bite of Seattle

★ Winterfest

Winterfest

Winterfest runs from Nov 24-Jan 1 annually. It is an annual celebration including ice skating, artisitic and cultural performances, concerts, student musical performances from area schools, storytelling, exhibits and classic films. Winterfest also includes the Seattle trademark holiday train, Holiday Big Band Dance and New Year's Eve concert.
Winterfest includes several collections of performances, including:

★ ''Winter Worldfest'': A festival within a festival, represting cultural holiday traditions

★ ''Storytellers'': storytelling, puppet shows for children and adults

★ ''Winter Solstice Celebration'': a sunset extravaganza celebrating the winter solstice

★ ''Breakin' in the New Year'': a hip, metropolitan culture showcase including break dancing

★ ''Peace on Earth'': an interfaith celebration

★ ''Student Showcases'': area school musical groups perform in the Centerhouse
Annual performers include

★ The Aerialistas, aerial performance troupe

★ Circus Contraption Band

★ Womanipura, fire dancing troupe

★ Magic Mystery Show

★ Lelavision, modern and aerial dance

College Performance Series

The College Performance Series was introduced for 2007 Winterfest. It features outstanding performing arts groups of washington state colleges and universities. The project allows high-level college performers to contribute to the celebration, and to showcase the state's university community during the winter season.
===Festál===
Seattle Center has many world cultural festivals throughout the year, in a series called Festál at Seattle Center. This includes

★ Tét Festival, (Vietnam)

★ Festival Sundiata, (African-American)

★ Irish Week Festival, (Ireland)

★ Cherry Blossom Fetsival, (Japan)

★ Asian-Pacific Islander Hertiage Month, (Asia-Pacific)

★ Padiriwang Phillipine Fetsival, (The Phillipines)

★ Naturalization Ceremony, (United States of America)

★ Bastille Day, (France)

★ Arab Festival, (Arab Middle East)

★ Cambodian Cultural Heritage, (Cambodia)

★ BrasilFest, (Brasil)

★ Tibet Fest, (Tibet)

★ Korean Cultural Celebration, (Korea)

★ Fiestas Patrias, (Mexico)

★ The Italian Festival, (Italy)

★ CroatiaFest, (Croatia)

★ Utsav South Asian Performing Arts Festival, (South Asia)

★ TurkFest, (Turkey)

★ Dia De Muertos, (Mexico)

★ Hmong New Year, (China)

Future plans

There is a long history of plans for revision of the Seattle Center. In 2007 the 17 member Seattle Center Century 21 Committee appointed to consider potential changes presented a set of four plans.

External links

★ 'Seattle Center Official Website'

★ Guide to the Seattle Center Annual Reports 1966-(ongoing)

★ Seattle Center Century 21 Committee