The city’s really cooking this weekend, with warm weather and hot events from Seattle Center’s Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration to El Centro de la Raza’s Cinco de Mayo Celebration and from the Windermere Cup to Neighbor Day. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week.
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ACTIVISM & SOCIAL JUSTICE
Seattle May Day 2026: International Workers’ Day
As a kid, I always celebrated May Day with family, both in observance of International Workers’ Day and as a look forward to spring. But over the past decade? Really ain’t shit to celebrate. But May Day has become a more than necessary day to demonstrate. In Seattle, organizers are joining a national call for no work, school, or shopping on May 1. Framed around demands like “communities, not ICE,” “workers, not billionaires,” and “services, not war,” May Day 2026 is about solidarity between workers, immigrants, and migrants. So join the UW Student and Workers Rally, the Seattle Central College Rally, or this march starting at Cal Anderson Park—just take this as your invitation to show up. LANGSTON THOMAS
(Cal Anderson Park, Capitol Hill, free)
