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The Pagdiriwang Philippine Festival is coming to the Armory Food & Event Hall & Mural Amphitheatre in Seattle on June 3 and 4, 2023. This festival will commemorate the anniversary of Philippine Independence. It offers a glimpse of Filipino culture and heritage.
The Pagdiriwang Philippine Festival is presented by the Seattle Center Festal in partnership with the Filipino Cultural Heritage Society of Washington (FCHSW). Philippine arts, culture and history are celebrated in the festival through food exhibits, a fashion show, performing arts, martial arts and much more.
Festival Hours
- Saturday, June 3, 2023, from 11 am to 6 pm
- Sunday, June 4, 2023, from 12 pm to 6 pm
The Pagdiriwang Philippine Festival has been held at the Seattle Center since 1987. It is now the largest festival of Filipino arts and culture in the Pacific Northwest. It provides a venue for both Filipinos and non-Filipinos to learn about the Philippine culture. Art, songs, music, dance, crafts, history, martial arts and literature are used to promote better understanding.
Filipiniana Multicultural Dance Troupe (FMDT) will be performing at the festival. The troupe is made up of Filipino Americans from the greater Tacoma area. They will be performing cultural dances and native songs that depict the story of Philippine history and culture.
Filipino martial arts consist of a unique form of stick fighting which is called “arnis.” It has been most famously performed by Bruce Lee. You can see demonstrations of this at the festival.
Grayseas Pies is a handmade pie pop up business and will have pies at the festival. Gracie Santos makes each pie with love. She incorporates her Filipino American heritage in her business as she includes filipinx flavors in her pie making.
If you’d like to attend the festival and want to look the part, you can wear lovely Filipino clothing. You don’t have any? You can remedy that with the Filipino apparel here.
If you liked the food at the festival and want to know more about Philippine cooking, try these cookbooks. Use our links to see how you can save money on each one.
- The Philippine Cookbook by Reynaldo Alejandro and Luisa Abelardo Arguellis
- Quintessential Filipino Cooking by Lisa Agbanlog
- The World Of Filipino Cooking: Food & Fun in the Philippines by Chris Urbano
Seattle Hotels
If you’d like to visit Seattle for the Pagdiriwang Philippine Festival, you should consider the following hotels. They are close to the festival and are offering discounted rates.
- Lotte Hotel Seattle 34% Discount
- The Belltown Inn 20% Discount
- Mediterranean Inn 20% Discount
- Level Seattle Downtown – South Lake Union 17% Discount
- citizenM Seattle Pioneer Square 15% Discount
- citizenM Seattle South Lake Union 15% Discount
- Mayflower Park Hotel 15% Discount
- Kimpton Palladian Hotel, an IHG Hotel 10% Discount
