Dec 21 Sunday
Live Jazz!
The Bellevue Downtown Ice Rink presented by Symetra returns for its 28th year! The region’s largest ice-skating experience boasts over 9,000 square feet of real ice in a fully covered, open-air venue at Bellevue Downtown Park. Join for a season of festive fun featuring free skate lessons courtesy of Microsoft, themed skate nights, on-site concessions, and more. Whether you’re a seasoned skater or a novice eager to learn, get ready to bundle up for an unforgettable time on the ice.
Join us the 3rd Sunday of each month from 4-8pm for a pop-up CIDER tasting with Press Then Press cider shop (pressthenpress.com). We’ll be featuring bottle pours and tasting flights of craft, small-batch ciders. Each month will feature a new theme. A delicious and fun way to learn more about all things cider!
**Watershed Pub is located on the southwest corner of Thornton Place, one block from the Link Light Rail Northgate Station. ADA accessible facility, limited-mobility dropoff access directly from 3rd Ave NE. Plant-based, gluten free and alcohol free options available. Guide and service animals always welcome, dog friendly patio (well-behaved, on leash). Free, time-limited street parking and Thornton Place garage parking, and free transit center parking across 3rd Ave NE available.**
Multiple times and locations available. Choose the one that works the best for you. Lessons available in Buckley, Tacoma, Sumner. Lessons beginning the 4th - 8th of February depending on the location. Preregister today.
Square dance is the official state dance for the state of WA. Experience and share in our state's unique history and culture.
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Garden d’Lights is a dazzling holiday tradition that transforms the Bellevue Botanical Garden into a magical wonderland of over half a million sparkling lights in whimsical shapes of plants, flowers, birds, animals, and cascading waterfalls, all set amid the Garden’s natural beauty. Now celebrating its 31st year, this beloved family event continues to enchant visitors with festive charm and imaginative displays.
Enter a waking dream as King Street Station is transformed in celebration of the longest night of 2025.
Full of music performances, guided movement, wellness activities, participatory rituals, and countless inventions culled from subconscious states, LONGEST NIGHT is a communally-minded, season-inspired Solstice party that brings light to the liminal space of the year’s darkest day.
Curated by Vee Hua 華婷婷 and presented by ARTS at King Street Station.
RSVP here.
Inside Activities:4:30 – 5:00 p.m. — King Street Station doors open5:00 – 5:30 p.m. — Welcome and grounding with Schona Christie5:30 – 6:30 p.m. — Held: An Herbal Bathing Workshop with Amari Ayomide6:30 – 7:30 p.m. — Body Love Ritual: movement practice to align with our highest selves with Goddess Briq House.6:30 – 8:00 p.m. — Ambient music with Samuel Joseph Kim8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. — Sound Bath: sound meditation to relax, heal, and amplify your intentions with Jen Moore and Ayan G, Bhakti Studio
Outside Activities from 5-8 p.m.tea& a solstice steep: self-guided tea ritual hosted by ilaria ghattas of tea&Visions from the Heart: an intuitive heart walk with Schona ChristieTarot Readings: access your authentic self with Alexia ParmerMehndi: henna artistry with local kabutarTarot Collage: create The Moon card with Isabella Price
Welcomed by KNKX. Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world’s top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, John Lewis, Tommy Emmanuel, Lionel Hampton, the Boston Pops, the New York Pops, and guitar legend Les Paul, who named Vignola to his “Five Most Admired Guitarists List:” for the Wall Street Journal.
His dynamic genre-spanning music has brought him to 21 countries on three continents – and still growing – performing in some of the world’s most illustrious venues, including the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, New York’s Lincoln Center, The Blue Note, and the world’s oldest indoor concert hall, Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy.
Pasquale Grasso - It was the kind of endorsement most rising guitarists can only dream of, and then some. In his interview for Vintage Guitar magazine’s February 2016 cover story, Pat Metheny was asked to name some younger musicians who’d impressed him. “The best guitar player I’ve heard in maybe my entire life is floating around now, Pasquale Grasso,” said the jazz-guitar icon and NEA Jazz Master. “This guy is doing something so amazingly musical and so difficult. “Mostly what I hear now are guitar players who sound a little bit like me mixed with a little bit of [John Scofield] and a little bit of [Bill Frisell],” he continued. “What’s interesting about Pasquale is that he doesn’t sound anything like that at all. In a way, it is a little bit of a throwback, because his model—which is an incredible model to have—is Bud Powell. He has somehow captured the essence of that language from piano onto guitar in a way that almost nobody has ever addressed. He’s the most significant new guy I’ve heard in many, many years.”
Tumble out of bed and stumble to the theater for this delicious workplace revenge comedy from living legend Dolly Parton. Pushed to the boiling point by their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical boss, three female co-workers concoct a plan to get even—a plan that spins wildly and hilariously out of control. Hey, a girl can scheme, can’t she?
Set in the Rolodex era, when shag rugs, pet rocks, and disco were the grooviest things around, this must-see, dance-filled musical is based on the hit 1980 film and features the blockbuster title song—plus a new score of 18 original numbers by Dolly Parton herself. Outrageous, big-hearted, and even a little romantic, 9 to 5: The Musical is about teaming up and getting credit, it’s about kicking butt and taking care of business, and it’s about to put a huge smile on your face.
Scrooge has no honor, nor any courage. Can three ghosts help him to become the true warrior he ought to be in time to save Tiny Tim from a horrible fate? Performed in the original Klingon with English supertitles, and narrative analysis from The Vulcan Institute of Cultural Anthropology.
KIDSTAGE proudly presents a student-performed production of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s take on everyone’s favorite storybook characters, brought together for a timeless, yet relevant, piece… and a rare modern classic. The Tony Award-winning book and score are both enchanting and touching.
The story follows a Baker and his wife, who wish to have a child; Cinderella, who wishes to attend the King’s Festival; and Jack, who wishes his cow would give milk. When the Baker and his wife learn that they cannot have a child because of a Witch’s curse, the two set off on a journey to break the curse. Everyone’s wish is granted, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later with disastrous results.
