The best culture and community events happening this month. by Nathalie Graham Want more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This That. Emerald City Comic Con Mar 5–8 Nerds run the city the first week of March. They, bedecked in cosplay, are the mayor now. Their first conquest: the Convention Center. Emerald City Comic Con is the place to be if you like sci-fi, fantasy, or popular Renaissance faire acts like Jacques ze Whipper. If you head to ECCC this year, you could be in the same room as Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Fallout) or the one woman who was in Heated Rivalry. You’ll also get to see Hayden Christensen from everyone’s least favorite Star Wars movies and renowned authors like Matt Dinniman, who wrote the electric Dungeon Crawler Carl, or Chuck Tingle, who writes “tinglers” like Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt. Something for everybody! Don’t forget to wear deodorant! (Seattle Convention Center, all ages) NATHALIE GRAHAM The Seattle Color Festival Mar 28 Celebrate Holi, the Hindu Festival of Colors, almost a month late but near the Space Needle. Entry is free, registration is mandatory, colors are not free, and you can’t bring your own colors. This palette is regulated. We’re celebrating the eternal love of Radha and Krishna, the end of winter, and the arrival of spring, not your favorite shade. I would not recommend the festival to crowd-a-phobes. Last year’s Holi celebration drew 10,000 people. (Mural Amphitheatre Seattle Center, 11 am, all ages, free) VIVIAN McCALL Daffodil Day Mar 20 The clocks are forward. The birds are chirping. The rabbits are going to start fucking any second. The daffodils have burst forth from the earth, buttery and hopeful. Spring has sprung. The only way to celebrate is to venture down to Pike Place Market on March 20. The roof of the market turns yellow, lined with the happy flowers. Underneath the blooms tossing their heads in a spritely dance (Wordsworth, anyone?), you’ll be able to participate in the market’s annual Daffodil Day. Between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., the market just gives away bundles of flowers. You’ll need to be quick, though—the free daffodils go quickly. If worse comes to worst, you may need to prepare for daffodil battle. Stems can poke an eye out. (Pike Place Market, 11 am–2 pm, free) NATHALIE GRAHAM More Riding Together: 135 Years of Cycling in Seattle Through Apr 26, Museum of History Industry Stitch and Bitch Mar 4 (every first Wednesday), Push/Pull, 6 pm, free Northwest Record Show Mar 8, Seattle Center Armory, 10 am–5 pm, all ages Free Play Open House Vinyl Night Mar 10, Northwest Pinball Collective, 8 pm, all ages Pi Day Dash Mar 14, Green Lake Community Center, 8 am, all ages Cultivating Your Best Crop of Tomatoes Mar 14, NE Seattle Tool Library, 1 pm Irish Festival Mar 14–15, Seattle Center Armory, all ages, free The Gothic Market Mar 14–15, Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, noon, all ages Block Printing Workshop Mar 27 (every last Friday), Push/Pull, noon Sneaker Con Seattle Mar 28, Seattle Convention Center, noon, all ages Spelling Bee 2026 Mar 29, Town Hall, 1 pm, all ages, free ...read more read less