BrasilFest 2024 | Aug 18

Experience Brazilian culture at this one-day festival

August 18, 2024

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Discover the cultural arts, and historical and contemporary traditions that are the centerpiece of BrasilFest, an annual, vibrant celebration held uniquely during the week of Brazilian Folklore Day.

With fun activities for all ages, BrasilFest is your opportunity to be immersed in the lively culture and spirit of Brazil!

This year, BrasilFest observes the theme "Celebrating the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil", dedicated to recognizing the incredible Brazilian First Nation.

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Festival highlights include:

• Live music from Chorando na Chuva, Tambor e Cordas, Onda Verde, Show Brazil!, amarElas Band, and more

• Roda de Capoeria, presenting the Brazilian martial art and dance form, Capoeira

• Dance performances from Bahia in Motion and VamoLá along with a dance workshop presented by Rachel and Kit

• Roda de Choro hosted by Karen Tsao

• Brazilian Yoga with Fernanda Santos

• Lectures on Brazilian children's books and Brazilian Black Diaspora

• Kids' activities

• Brazilian food

• A vendor marketplace with food and crafts

About BrasilFest, Brazil Center & Show Brazil Productions

BrasilFest was established in 1999 by Brazilian immigrants and husband and wife duo, Eduardo and Ana Paula Mendonca, to share Brazilian arts and traditions during the week of Brazilian Folklore Day. This is unique because the holiday is not celebrated outside of Brazil yet is an important day to educate and share Brazilian folkloric traditions.

Information on the festival is available at brasilfest.org and www.seattlecenter.com, as well as on Facebook, Instagram, X, and YouTube.

About Seattle Center Festál

Seattle Center Festál is where the world gathers to celebrate the people, the places, the stories, and the traditions of diverse ethnic communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. This unique public program series links together 24 free festivals, each offering its own cultural focus, identity, and range of engaging activities to cultivate a deeper understanding of the diversity of our region. Seattle Center Festál is produced in partnership with community groups, presented on weekends from February to November, and supported by City of Seattle, Seattle Center Foundation, and 4Culture. Festál is also part of the ArtsFund Cultural Partners Network.

About Seattle Center

Connect to the extraordinary at Seattle Center, an active civic, arts, and family gathering place in the core of our city and region. Seattle Center's 74-acre campus, centered around the International Fountain, is part of the Uptown Arts & Cultural District and home to Climate Pledge Arena; more than 30 cultural, educational, sports, and entertainment organizations; and a broad range of public and community programs. In everything it does, Seattle Center's mission is to create exceptional events, experiences, and environments which delight and inspire the human spirit to build stronger communities.

Seattle Center has expanded its role to provide maintenance and public safety services for Seattle's new Waterfront Park, a series of new public spaces on Seattle's downtown waterfront between Pioneer Square and the Seattle Aquarium. Seattle Center supports managing these new waterfront public spaces in partnership with the non-profit Friends of Waterfront Seattle, which offers the community a range of recreational and cultural programming. 

Thanks to the support of Official Seattle Center Partners - Alaska Airlines, The Climate Pledge, Coors Light, Pepsi, Premera Blue Cross, Symetra, T-Mobile, and WaFd Bank - Seattle Center is the #1 arts and entertainment destination in the Pacific Northwest with 12 million annual visitors, generating $1.864 billion in business activity and more than $631 million in labor income annually. www.seattlecenter.com

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