Stories from
Seattle
Event guides, launch updates, and local culture — straight from the Kickflip team.
Seattle Coffee Festival: meet the people behind your beans
One hangar at Magnuson Park, a weekend of tastings, and a room full of roasters happy to talk about what's in your cup. Seattle Coffee Festival runs Saturday Oct 24 and Sunday Oct 25, 2026 at Magnuson Park Hangar 30.
WeRise Wines: Raising a Glass to Who Makes It
A downtown Seattle wine bar where every bottle comes with a name, a story, and a reason it's on the shelf. Founded by Jamila Conley to put women, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ winemakers in front of the people who drink their wine.
Coltrane at 100: Four Seattle Jazz Nights, From a Free Organ Session to a Basement Tribute
John Coltrane would have turned 100 this week. Four Seattle jazz nights worth showing up for — a free late-night organ session, a centennial listening party, a basement tribute to Julian Priester, and a $5 Sunday matinee. Nothing over $24.
Stocker Farms: A Hundred Years in One Valley
Stocker Farms has been in the same family since 1919. Every October it turns ten acres of pumpkins, a corn maze and thirty-odd attractions into the biggest fall day out within an hour of Seattle — and after dark, the corn turns on you.
Making Local: Sarah Built the Market She Wished She Had
Sarah spent years vending handmade goods at markets across the PNW. When the pandemic ended that business, she didn't leave the community — she started building the markets instead, and a whole support structure around them for the makers coming up behind her.
Fall on Whidbey and Camano: Harvest Month, Gypsy Jazz and a Ferry Ride
An hour north of Seattle, two islands in the Salish Sea run a full fall season — a month-long harvest celebration, a self-guided farm and food trail, five days of Gypsy jazz in Langley, and whales off the bluffs come October.
No Nightclub Required: Inside Seattle's ChaiRave
A roving dance party rooted in South Asian culture and built around global sounds — pulled out of the club and into daylight, with a cup of chai in your hand. Founded by Laxmi, built by a whole community.
Inside Clay Element: Where Elmira Found Her Fire
After more than 20 years as an engineer, Elmira Zomorrodi took a leap of faith and built Clay Element — an Issaquah ceramic studio laid out room by room around the classical elements. Air, Earth, Water, Fire, and the one that matters most: Ether.
Inside Arunima's Art and Craft Workshops: Where Seattle Slows Down
Macramé, mosaic, block printing, pressed flowers — under Arunima G Studio, the craft changes every week but the intent doesn't. Small, beginner-friendly workshops around Seattle built on one idea: creative time just for yourself. Two make-and-takes land at Big Block on August 8.
Yash Patel's Soul Jam doesn't ask you to listen. It invites you to belong.
By day a Microsoft security engineer with a PhD in cybersecurity; by night the creator of Soul Jam — an immersive evening of South Asian music and poetry that pulls the whole room in through all five senses. Yash Patel's next show, Madhubala, comes to The Royal Room on July 25.
Two Super Bowl champions are swapping cleats for softball gloves — and all of Seattle's invited.
The Seattle All-Star Classic returns to Cheney Stadium on July 11 for its fifth summer — a star-studded, family-friendly celebrity softball game and Home Run Derby hosted by Super Bowl champions Rashid Shaheed and Uchenna Nwosu. Kickflip is proud to be the 2026 Community Outreach Partner.
Daniel Padrnos Is Rebuilding Community, One Toast at a Time
Daniel Padrnos brought the centuries-old Georgian Supra to Seattle — a four-hour communal feast of food, wine, and Tamada-led toasts that turns a table of strangers into friends.
Two Ryans built a coffee shop. What they really built was a living room for Redmond.
Founders Ryan Heidy and Ryan Yamaguchi built Cypress Coffee in Redmond as more than a café — a gathering place pouring acclaimed Middlefork Roasters and making room for local talent at Open Mic Night.
Sonia Keshwani isn't just singing. She's rewriting the room.
Fifteen years of performing taught Sonia Keshwani that music is a zone, not a performance. Her new show, The Velvet Stories, proves she's brought the whole room in with her.
The World Cup is in Seattle. Here's how to live it.
Six matches at Lumen Field. Fan zones drawing thousands. Museums, jazz clubs, and warehouses all throwing their own version of a party. This is the guide we'll keep updating all tournament long.
Seattle, we made you a thing.
We built Kickflip to help people discover the best things happening around them — before they miss them. Today we're opening to our first group of early supporters.
