this week with less footage of these events we begin with the polish festival conclude the chinatown seafair parade and then indigenous cultures day enjoy at the seattle center we attend the second annual two thousand and thirteen polish festival seattle we are at the second annual two thousand and thirteen polish first of all here at the seattle center has not officially began just yet they're and they also have a little brochure event so we're going to actually head inside to the main stage check out the opening as with every different culture the upper right things like that and so that was that was really kind of one of the more fun things in old old tradition and that's you know what does it represent exactly  architecture of the city really really welcomes kind of good health are represents i mean good health and fortune but that's a very traditional motif so you'll see a lot of he put a lot of the teaching on designs on there and had it for actually a couple of years because nobody gave me a deadline and i spanned just basically my spare time putting it back putting things back together that i could  festival seattle occurring july twelfth two thousand and fourteen from twelve noon to eight pm at the seattle center by visiting polish festival seattle dot org please visit my archive page at seattle community media dot org slash node slash two six five five eight slash list shows and as always thank you for watching adventure t v cultural festivals in the heart of seattle's chinatown international district we conclude the fiftieth annual two thousand and thirteen chinatown c p r parade learn more about the fifty first chinatown see for parade occurring sunday july twentieth two thousand and fourteen starting at seven pm to roughly nine pm by visiting seattle chinese chamber dot org please visit my archive page at seattle community media dot org slash node slash two six five five eight slash list shows and as always thank you for watching adventure t v cultural festivals at the seattle center we attend the fourth annual two thousand and thirteen indigenous cultures day we are at an event called digital culture day and it is the first time i have been at this event it's also of course the tail end of at least celebration i hope to actually talk to some folks we have actually come outside for a moment so we can actually talk a little bit easier without being interrupted with music and i have with me and organizer of this of events from the beginning and you are and what exactly is indigenous cultures day it's a social change you know if you look at the demographics in america you see a lot of it broken down by race the race is really an illusion you know we all come from indigenous people five hundred years ago i don't care where who you are where you're from you know your family were feathers they sing songs are passed down through generations or tradition was a major part of it and so the events about connecting people connecting them with their ancestors connecting them with the earth i'm helping helping them understand that we're all alike what are some of the groups that we did not see today because again this has as i kind of discussed off camera it's been difficult to catch up with this event because it hasn't been well marketed and i try to pay attention to the different cultures to yeah well you know that event itself is actually like culture itself it starts off in the morning with traditional stuff a traditional songs traditional dances with traditional regalia and the afternoon we open up a powwow which is actually a little more contemporary than the traditional stuff and in the evening here we have film festival and we have a contemporary music festival so that people can understand the cultures change going and then in the afternoon at the power we had we had some jingle dancers we had a variety of drums there that came up from portland and from the local area and i'm also changing  have better lighting on your face so ok that's what i mean about the viewer to realize who we're talking to and and how did you come about organizing this today you know it actually didn't start with me it started with america volunteer who had an idea four years ago that she was going to throw a festival it was called indigenous peoples day and i really didn't believe that she had the seattle center armory booked and i showed up anyway and now she had one band she had one story chalice she had one artist  but there was a lot of potential there just so happened when daisy chain started playing that everyone all these like people that were in the armory started dancing and that's when the festal coordinator steve sneed came down and he said this is great we got to do this again in the next year we became incubator program and he just happened to come down at the right time again when the why is we're performing and they had brought their big contingency and he's like man this is the real deal he's like this is going to be a festival event so here we are two years later i was gone from one thousand dollars as i as i mentioned camera i'm used to going to the center or church or pavilion or you know even there we're i have a theater in and at the time that i arrived which was a little bit later in the day because i'm covering a couple different events this year and this weekend i should say but it was not necessarily easy to find you guys and we can use a lot of help there in marketing i markings the key to any festival you know the m p has been fantastic i donated the space and the people to help help move us into here and host our contemporary part of our evening well i'm hoping that next year they'll be better marketing it and  in other things and maybe not within the several different locations maybe can be held in all one location next year every year we learn stuff you know marketing this year we learned that we were in the seattle times paper even though we advertised in the seattle times we were in the seattle weekly calendar even though we advertised in the weekly and the lesson we learned there is a you have to contact both the editor and the advertising people separately because they don't control things the next year i imagine will be all those calendars but what's the chance that you might be all in one location you know i think of the thing as i think two locations is find what we have a two different kinds of people there's a different kind of people that come for the traditional stuff and there's a different kind of people that comes for the contemporary stuff temper a chance to be younger more night time people traditional people are more morning al they're lazy people older people and so we have two different things that we're trying to market actually i see the film festival becoming a weeklong event really only indigenous film festival in the world that i'm aware of that actually celebrates indigenous people wherever they come from and that has great potential  in seattle you know it's a hotbed for that and the hype that for a film that is i mean especially in the indigenous community where we have needed voices at the university of washington we have long house media that does independent filmmaking up north  and so i do think that they are going to be different but i do think we're going to keep the m p and keep the center house i'm going to grow them on but individually now if i know that you have to get back and we're going to get back to some of the entertainment for iowa on good because there's there the last band as being featured and so they're doing a little extra attention for the festival as my coverage at least all right but a web site for more information all right now you go to facebook and you can go to the seattle native circle which i has all the native events that are going on it has a calendar there i encourage everybody to check that out also on twitter ok well i thank you for your time and talking to the folks and we seattle center by visiting s h b dot org and the native circle on facebook and twitter please visit my archive page at seattle community media dot org slash node slash two six five five eight slash list shows and as always thank you for watching adventure t v cultural festivals