All week long, we've been posting lists of Seattle events to keep you busy (including the best arts & culture events, quirky things to do, and music shows to see), but we realize there's a lot to sort through. To help you out, we've plucked the biggest events you need to know about in every genre, whether you want to celebrate Italian culture, get some early-fall scares, or watch French films. See them all below, and find even more things to do this weekend on our complete EverOut Things To Do calendar.

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ARTS & MUSIC FESTIVALS

27th Anniversary Birthday Fest!
Redmond's Old Fire House Teen Center will celebrate its 27th birthday with two days of music from acts like Seattle alt-rockers Not Alone and Señor Fin on Friday, with a "female-driven" lineup composed of Emma Cornwall, King Sheim, and many others on Saturday. 
Friday-Saturday, Old Fire House (Redmond)

Bellevue Fashion Week
See what fall fashion trends are in store at the Bellevue Collection's annual week of runway shows, beauty demos, fancy parties, and lots of shopping.
Friday-Sunday, Bellevue Collection

Eliminator Fest 2019
Thrash away at this fest for the most maniacal among us, with Deceased making their first Seattle appearance in over a decade, Morbid Saint making their Pacific Northwest debut, and additional sets by R.I.P., Bewitcher, Oxygen Destroyer, Reversed, Kömmand, Greyhawk, Witch Vomit, Quayde LaHüe, Cerna Krev, Nightmare, Grave Dust, and Mortal Wound.
Friday, El CorazĂłn (Eastlake)

Kaleidoscope Ballard
Get a little woozy this autumn at Kaleidoscope, a newish music and art festival that will feature live sets by So Pitted, Actionesse, Kilcid Band, Ruler, and many more all accompanied by a Space Pyramid-made "analog light experience" for some extra sensory overload.
Saturday-Sunday, Salmon Bay Eagles (Ballard)

Town Hall Homecoming Festival
Town Hall, a wonderful organization that hosts inexpensive, accessible talks by eminent scholars, writers, politicians, musicians, scientists, and others, is thrilled to be back in its home after a couple of years of renovation. They'll wrap up their homecoming lecture series this weekend with Alexandra Horowitz (Sat) and Jenny Brown (Sun). Expand your mind without expending (much) money!
Saturday-Sunday, Town Hall (First Hill)

COMEDY, PERFORMANCES & VISUAL ART

Carmina Burana + Agon
Pacific Northwest Ballet kicks off its 47th season by hanging a 26-foot-long, 2,500-pound golden wheel from the ceiling for founding artistic director Kent Stowell's Carmina Burana, a ballet based on a 13th-century medieval poem written by a bunch of saucy Catholic clerics. As a choir belts out one of the most dramatic—if not most played—pieces of classical music, "O Fortuna," more than 100 dancers do their thing beneath the wheel of fortune, embodying fate's random mood swings. PNB pairs this epic dance with George Balanchine's Agon, which Balanchine himself called "the quintessential contemporary ballet," according to press materials. RICH SMITH
Friday-Saturday, McCaw Hall (Seattle Center)

Cherdonna's BIRTH-O-RAMA
In the words of The Stranger's digital editor, Chase Burns: "Cherdonna Shinatra is a drag performer, dancer, choreographer, and generally fun lunatic. Her drag shtick is that she’s a woman playing a man playing a woman, which used to be a radical idea but has now become pretty run-of-the-mill. Which is great! That said, Cherdonna is more than a woman playing a man playing a woman, she’s a performance artist dedicated to interrogating how the female body is consumed by the male gaze/gays." In this show, Cherdonna and her three "Donna" dancers will use their wild and weird performance art to subvert ideas about aging and time.
Friday-Sunday, Re-bar (Downtown)

Demetri Martin: Wandering Mind Tour
A handsomer-than-average nerd, Demetri Martin emits brainy, humorous observations with effortless poise. In one set, he said, “I feel like there’s a parallel world right in front of us that’s revealed with a small shift in perspective.” Those words could stand as Martin’s mission statement. He scrutinizes the mundane activities and thought processes humans engage in every damn day and forces us to reassess them in ways that make you think, “Wow, I’ve never looked at it that way—but he’s totally right! Now I need to adopt this worldview in order to live a much more entertaining life.” Martin excels at slyly making the ordinary seem surreal. DAVE SEGAL
Friday, Paramount Theatre (Downtown)

Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer’s semi-autobiographical first novel, Everything Is Illuminated, about a man (also named Jonathan Safran Foer) who travels to Ukraine to try to track down the details of his Jewish ancestry, is one of the most brilliant and celebrated novels of the last 20 years. Much of it is narrated by a translator who shows Jonathan around and gets many English words wrong, hilariously. The language of the book is key, and Book-It adaptations always emphasize the language of the original text in a way that other dramatic treatments (and the movie) don’t. CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE
Friday-Sunday, Book-It Repertory Theatre (Seattle Center)

Indecent
When Sholem Asch's searing critique of Orthodox Judaism, God of Vengeance, debuted on Broadway in 1923, the entire cast was arrested and tried for obscenity. They were tried not only because of the play's lesbian kiss—which for some reason didn't disturb the delicate sensibilities of Europeans, who praised the piece for years before it was translated into English—but also because of the rising anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant sentiment in America. Though it was the "roaring twenties," it was also a time when conspiracy theories about Jews controlling the world through theater and banking were peaking. Paula Vogel's Tony Award–winning play dramatizes the history of this show. In a recent interview, the playwright called it "a love letter to theater, a love letter to Yiddish culture, and a plea to every audience member who sees it: Please, please partake in the arts. The arts will see us through to our last days on earth." RICH SMITH
Friday-Sunday, Seattle Repertory Theatre (Seattle Center)

People of the Book
When a soldier returns home from war and writes a memoir about his experiences, another friend of his—a poet—feels pangs of resentment. And also suspicion. Is the memoir about the soldier’s heroics factually accurate? And there are other jealousies swirling around. The poet’s wife is someone the soldier used to have a big crush on, and may still have a crush on. Does she have feelings for him, too? Truth, infidelity, artistic jealousy, and sexual tension come together in this powerful and concise new play by Yussef El Guindi, a phenomenal writer and the winner of a Stranger Genius Award. CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE
Friday-Sunday, ACT Theatre (Downtown)

COMMUNITY FAIRS & FESTIVALS

The Italian Festival
Celebrate the rich culture of the old country with food, crafts, puppet theatre, Italian films, a grape-stomping contest, and a bocce ball tournament.
Saturday-Sunday, Seattle Center

Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival
Geek out over the history, craft, and culture of wooden boats of all shapes and sizes at this annual festival. You'll get to climb aboard classic and modern vessels, tour Lake Union on a historic fleet, shop from maritime vendors, sip beer in a garden, and more.
Saturday-Sunday, Center for Wooden Boats (South Lake Union)

Sea Otter Awareness Weekend
Learn about the lives, diets, and habitats of sea otters—those whiskered, weasel-like aquatic mammals that can be found floating on their backs in the Puget Sound with a mouth full of fish—from marine biologists. The weekend will also include diver shows, underwater feedings, and more.
Friday-Sunday, Seattle Aquarium (Downtown)

Sustainable Ballard Festival
The Sustainable Ballard Festival will continue its tradition of championing a more environmentally friendly world by offering arts activities, an urban farm with goats and chickens, live music on a solar-powered stage, a tea garden, and much more. This year's theme is "Green Steps," which will focus on ways you can make a difference in your community.
Saturday, Ballard Commons Park

FALL EVENTS

Autumn Leaf Festival in Leavenworth
Celebrate the changing colors of the fall leaves with music, dancing, food, a car show, a parade, and more at Leavenworth's longest-running festival.
Friday-Sunday, Leavenworth

Festival at Stocker Farms
It's officially fall when Stocker Farms opens its U-Pick pumpkin patch. From now through Halloween, you'll find gourds in all shapes and sizes, a corn maze, and more family-friendly attractions.
Saturday-Sunday, Stocker Farms (Snohomish)

Fright Fest 2019
Wild Waves will offer six weekends of thrills this fall for kids and adults alike, including a nightly "parade of ghouls."
Friday-Sunday, Wild Waves Theme Park (Federal Way)

Frighthouse Station Haunted House
Tacoma-dwelling ghosts and ghouls will lurk in the shadowy corners of two equally creepy haunts.
Friday-Saturday, Frighthouse Station (Tacoma)

Georgetown Morgue Haunted House
This annual haunted village of doom—which takes place in an actual former morgue—hosts scares all throughout autumn. Bloodworks Northwest will be onsite on select Saturdays and promise VIP access to those who volunteer to donate blood.
Friday-Saturday, Georgetown Morgue

FILM

70mm Film Festival
Put down your phone and surrender to the splendor of actually-epic-scale cinema in the cathedral that is the Cinerama. Not much unites the films in this 13-day festival other than a commitment to MAGNITUDE, but several are essential viewing. I know you’ve heard it before, but I’ll say it again: Seeing a film in a darkened theater with strangers is a secular sacrament. The fact that you can't pause, talk, text, or tweet until it's over is a feature. Please enjoy it while it's still available. SEAN NELSON
Friday-Sunday, Cinerama (Belltown)

French Cinema Now
For one week, Seattle turns into a center for French and Francophone cinema culture, offering some of the best movies you'll see all year. The fest will open with The Shiny Shrimp, a comedy about a flamboyant gay water polo team. Other notable features: the farce Kiss & Tell, the Adèle Haenel-starring crime comedy The Trouble With You, the thriller Mother's Instinct, the contemporary French Muslim reimagining of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the Golden Bear-winning Synonyms, and the drama Stars by the Pound, whose lead, Laure Duchêne, will be visiting.
Friday-Sunday, SIFF Cinema Uptown (Queen Anne)

Local Sightings Film Festival 2019
This year, the regional film festival will get even more local, partnering with homegrown nonprofits and media production companies like Indigenous Showcase, Sustainable Seattle, Langston, Pr0n 4 Freakz, NFFTY, and more. Once again, the city will become a hub for indie filmmakers who eschew New York or LA for the earnest and eccentric Northwest. Local Sightings acts as a showcase and watering hole for regional filmmakers, VR artists, and others who range from emotional storytellers to nature documentarists to political essayists. Many of them will attend, which makes for an opportunity for local professional and aspiring moviemakers to meet at the screenings, workshops, and parties. JOULE ZELMAN
Friday-Sunday, Northwest Film Forum (Capitol Hill)

Tasveer South Asian Film Festival
Seattle is lucky to have one of the largest South Asian-focused film festivals in the world, second only to Toronto. Now in its 14th year, the Tasveer South Asian Film Festival continues with a focus on stories from under-heard communities via a women-geared short film series (dubbed “She Persisted”) plus programming of seven LGBTQ+ movies. The fest kicks off with an opening night gala and screening of The Illegal, about a young man from middle-class India who moves to L.A. to study filmmaking, but must drop out and get an American job to help support his family back home. Prior to the screening, TSAFF presents actress/activist Shabana Azmi with the Tasveer Emerald Award for her contributions to world cinema. Director Danish Renzu (In Search of America) and star Suraj Shama (Life of Pi) take part in a post-film Q&A, and a Bollywood dance party with Indian food follows afterward. Other films of note: The Price of Free, about child labor and child slavery/abductions in South Asian countries (with guest Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi); A Monsoon Date, a short outing from transgender Bollywood writer Gazal Dhaliwal (who is scheduled to attend); and fest centerpiece, the Tibetan refugee-driven drama The Sweet Requiem, with wife-and-husband directing team Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam in attendance. LEILANI POLK
Friday-Sunday, Various locations

FOOD & DRINK EVENTS

Cider Swig ~ the Greater Peninsula Cider Festival
Taste more than 100 regional ciders (and other libations) paired with savory bites. Other attractions include the "Battle of the Pie" contest, apple launching, the live performance-filled Apple CarnivĂ le, and kids' activities.
Saturday, Sehmel Homestead Park (Gig Harbor)

2019 Everett Sausage Fest
This family-oriented Bavarian-themed fall festival will offer heaps of German sausages (in addition to banh mi sandwiches, egg rolls, Mexican food, and more to keep you sated), carnival rides, live music, kids' activities, a raffle, and plenty of beer and wine.
Friday-Saturday, Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Everett)

Fremont Brewing's 10 Year Anniversary Bash!
Fremont Brewing, with its ample outdoor seating, free pretzels, and extensive list of brews, is a local favorite. Raise a glass to its 10th birthday by enjoying special "throwback" beers, a fresh hop special, free cake, and more. 
Saturday, Fremont Brewing

National Coffee Day
Finally, a holiday for caffeine fiends everywhere. Looking for inspiration? Try perching on the iconic orange Central Perk couch with an oversized mug at The Lounge by AT&T's Friends 25th Anniversary Celebration, or splash coffee onto a canvas in an "interactive coffee art experience" at Motif's National Coffee Day celebration. For more ideas, try our guide to our favorite coffee shops in Seattle.
Friday-Sunday, Various locations

Northwest Agave Fest
This boozy festival has come a long way from its origins as a tequila bacchanal in a Phinney Ridge parking lot. Now, they serve up cocktails across the agave spectrum, plus beer and bites.
Saturday, Block 41 (Belltown)

The 2019 Northwest Tea Festival
Learn about tea-drinking traditions around the world and sip warm steeped beverages for yourself at this two-day festival.
Saturday-Sunday, Seattle Center

Seattle Cowabunga
Seattle Met's Cowabunga festival devotes four whole events to an all-you-can-eat beefy bacchanalia. Friday’s Surf ’n’ Turf fest kicks things off with seafood alongside slabs o' meat and a bourbon cocktail battle. Next, Saturday brings smoky brisket and craft brews with the Beer ’n’ BBQ event, followed by Seared, a night of “steak and cake” that will evoke a swanky steak house with Snake River Farms Wagyu and a baking competition. Finally, things wrap up on Sunday with the Burger Bash, a smorgasbord of bun-wrapped patties from favorites like Li’l Woody’s and Little Big Burger. This year’s lineup of red-meat maestros includes Jack Timmons of Jack’s BBQ, Melissa Miranda of Musang, Eric Rivera of Addo, and Jay Blackinton of Hogstone and Ælder, among (many) others. JULIANNE BELL
Friday-Sunday, South Lake Union Discovery Center

Washington Cigar & Spirits Festival
If you've been waiting for an opportunity to wear your grandfather's Italian loafers, this boozy-smokey festival is it. The event will feature tobacco products from eight cigar manufacturers and dozens of spirits to try.
Saturday, Snoqualmie Casino

MAJOR CONCERTS

Angels & Airwaves
After Blink-182 went on hiatus in 2005 (you remember, don't you?), lead singer Tom DeLonge formed a new band with some members from his previous pop-punk group to form a supergroup of rock. They'll come through Seattle on their latest North America Tour.
Friday, Showbox Sodo

Vampire Weekend
Not to be that person, but I saw Vampire Weekend way back when, in 2008, when the Ezra Koenig–led group were on the come-up with the melody-drenched, college-thoughtful, Afropop-infused songwriting of their self-titled debut. Nearly a dozen years and minus one founding member later, they’re touring behind fourth album Father of the Bride, and have sold out the 7,000-seat WaMu. “Harmony Hall” is what they’ve been playing on the radio, but the most obvious standout is the Grateful Dead–vibing first single “Sunflower,” its rising and falling scat singing serving as both the refrain and a surprisingly well-placed rhythmic device. LEILANI POLK
Friday, WaMu Theatre (Sodo)

OKTOBERFESTS

4th Annual Queen Anne Beerhall Oktoberfest!
How heavy of a stein can you raise with your brute strength? Find out at this two-weekend bier fest, where you can dance around to live music from the Bavarian Beer Garden Band, Prom Date Mixtape, Caspar Babypants, and others, feast on hearty delights (like German-style sausages), and drink lots of beer.
Friday-Saturday, Queen Anne Beerhall

Ballard Oktoberfest
Knock back eight-ounce pours of German-style beers at this Ballard Oktoberfest celebration, which also promises food and music.
Saturday, Bad Jimmy's Brewing Co. (Ballard)

Tacoma Oktoberfest 2019
Stuff your face with bratwurst, pretzels from Hess German Bakery, and other Bavarian-style delights while you drink beer, drive nails into a beam of wood in a round of Hammerschlagen, and dance to a live DJ. (Actually, maybe don't do all of these things at once.)
Saturday, Dystopian State Brewing Co. (Tacoma)

POLITICAL EVENTS

Join Kamala Harris In Seattle
After appearing at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute for a gun safety roundtable, Senator Kamala Harris will host a fundraiser for her presidential campaign on Capitol Hill in partnership with the Riveter.
Friday, Location to be announced (Capitol Hill)

SPORTS & RECREATION

National & State Park Free Days
All national and state parks will waive their entrance fees for National Public Lands Day.
Saturday, Various locations

Night Nation Run Seattle
At the "world's first running music festival," runners will wait for nightfall to make their way along a 5k course punctuated by party zones full of live EDM music and interactive light shows. Prepare to get glowy and sweaty.
Saturday, CenturyLink Field (Pioneer Square)

Seattle AIDS Walk & Run
While research and treatment have progressed significantly since the AIDS epidemic of the '80s, support and prevention services are still vital. The goal of the 28th edition of the annual AIDS Walk and Run is "Zero HIV transmissions. Zero HIV stigma. Zero HIV-related deaths," with proceeds going towards cure research and relief services for patients.
Saturday, Volunteer Park (Capitol Hill)

Seattle Mariners vs. Oakland Athletics
The Seattle Mariners will play against the Oakland Athletics, which will be followed by a special fan appreciation fireworks show.
Friday, T-Mobile Park (Sodo)