Festál at Seattle Center Festál at Seattle Center is a program of annual ethnically -related festivals that take place on the grounds of Seattle Center in Seattle , Washington . Festál began in 1996 and as of 2004 includes : Têt Festival , celebrating the Vietnamese Lunar New Year Festival Sundiata : an African-American Celebration Irish Week Festival Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival Celebrate Cambodia ! Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration Northwest Folklife Festival Chinese Culture & Arts Day Pagdiriwang Philippine Festival A naturalization ceremony on U.S. Independence Day Bastille Day Brasil Fest Tibet Fest Korean Cultural Celebration Fiestas Patrias ( for Mexican Independence Day ) The Italian Festival Croatia Fest Turk Fest Día de los Muertos Hmong New Year Celebration The 2005 schedule added the Arab Festival . The Festál events range enormously in scope , from a July 4 naturalization ceremony to the enormous pan-ethnic Northwest Folklife Festival , which draws an estimated 250 , 000 visitors on Memorial Day weekend . Typical Festál events draw 5 , 000 to 20 , 000 visitors . Some ( such as Fiestas Patrias ) of them draw crowds that are predominantly of the ethnic group that is the focus of the festival ; others draw more of a cross-section of the city . External link The official site for Festál at Seattle Center included descriptions of each of these festivals . Categories : Washington culture | Seattle festivals | Cultural festivals | Seattle Center 