WEEKEND PREVIEW: Here are highlights for Alki Beach Pride on Saturday!

This Saturday marks the 10th time that Alki residents Stacy and Jolie Bass-Walden have organized the Alki Beach Pride summer celebration. It’s grown over the years, and again this year, Alki Beach Pride will be an all-day street festival and beach party. Alki Avenue will be closed for the street-festival component, 7 am–10 pm, between 57th SW and 61st SW. Here’s what you’ll find if you’re going:

*The entertainment lineup is on the ABP website now – see it here. Organizers tell us, “Our entertainment headliners on the stage are Mariah Counts, LIVt, and RikoWithAK.”

*Other activities include volleyball 1-6 pm, a HIIT fitness class on the beach @ noon, and Drag King Story Time with Harley Sane, hosted by the Charlie’s Queer Books booth, in Alki Bathhouse at 12:10 pm

*More than 40 vendors

*Future Primitive (2536 Alki SW) is the “official beer garden”

*Food trucks

*Some other Alki businesses are supporting the festival too – one example, Harry’s Beach House (2676 Alki SW) is offering a Divas Brunch on Saturday, with seatings at 11 am and 1 pm (details and ticketing link are in our calendar listing); up in the Admiral District, Mission Cantina (2325 California SW) hosts an after-party

Official festival hours are noon-9 pm on Saturday (August 31).

AN August 29, 2024 (10:13 pm)

Strongly urging support of Harry’s Beach House Drag Brunch (see their IG Stories for some serious BS shenanigans trying to go down–y’all messin’ with the wrong queens, boos!)

Grizz August 30, 2024 (6:57 am)

Seconding a call for support for Harry’s Beach House drag brunch. Let’s turn up the volume on our celebration of drag to drown out the virtue signaling naysayers. Drag is joy!

Brandi Lee August 30, 2024 (6:18 pm)

There are no parking signs on the side streets for the event as well, where are residents supposed to park?

Al King August 30, 2024 (6:47 pm)

If you don’t have an assigned spot at your apartment or a driveway at your home you’ll have to join all the visitors in parking on the street. PLEASE NOTE: parking in front of fire hydrants/too close to stop signs or alleys or block sidewalks is against the law and you will(hopefully)get ticketed and towed.
huh? August 30, 2024 (7:27 pm)

What a silly question! Either have off-street parking or park wherever you can? If you need/value being able to park close to your home, you choose a place with off-street parking. If you don’t, then park wherever is closest. Not rocket science!
- Lina J August 30, 2024 (8:12 pm)
  
  And what do those do whose streets off Alki are also being blocked off? Parking on Alki is already difficult in the summer so losing valued street parking for those that live on Alki is unfortunate. I don’t see how their question was silly…
  - Bbron August 31, 2024 (11:24 am)
    
    you aren’t entitled to street parking as a resident. pretty simple

Rose August 30, 2024 (10:32 pm)

As someone who lives on Alki, I’ll give some suggestions on where you can park. 59th from Admiral to Lander, 58th from SW Stevens st to Lander, 57th from Lander to Stevens. Those are all next to the side streets that will be closed. As someone who lives on Alki and has figured out how to park during events, you can easily find parking where I mentioned after 9pm (right now). One of the best parts of living on Alki is being in the action. It’s a short season and there will be plenty of parking the rest of the year with way less closures. Also, I know neighbors who will leave for the day during big events (as they don’t want to deal with the crowds). Then you can leave early and not worry about parking at all.

Beach Combover August 31, 2024 (6:01 pm)

Great event! I support the cause and the businesses are down here. I’m down here at the moment and parking moral panic seems a bit exaggerated. Hopefully the parking persecuted can overcome their adversity and celebrate pride on Alki with the rest of us.

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