The city’s really cooking this weekend, with warm weather and hot events from Seattle Center’s Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration to El Centro de la Raza’s Cinco de Mayo Celebration and from the Windermere Cup to Neighbor Day. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week. FRIDAY ACTIVISM SOCIAL JUSTICE Seattle May Day 2026: International Workers’ DayAs a kid, I always celebrated May Day with family, both in observance of International Workers’ Day and as a look forward to spring. But over the past decade? Really ain’t shit to celebrate. But May Day has become a more than necessary day to demonstrate. In Seattle, organizers are joining a national call for no work, school, or shopping on May 1. Framed around demands like “communities, not ICE,” “workers, not billionaires,” and “services, not war,” May Day 2026 is about solidarity between workers, immigrants, and migrants. So join the UW Student and Workers Rally, the Seattle Central College Rally, or this march starting at Cal Anderson Park—just take this as your invitation to show up. LANGSTON THOMAS(Cal Anderson Park, Capitol Hill, free) Read more on EverOut! The post The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: May 1–3, 2026 appeared first on The Stranger. ...read more read less