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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 .




Performing Arts



Athletics



FESTIVALS

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


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


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.


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