Summer-at-SAM

JOIN US Outside!

Play, picnic, and create this summer at the Olympic Sculpture Park. SAM presents an entire summer season packed full of activities and performances that combine visual art, music, and community. Join us Thursdays for evening concerts with food trucks and art making and Saturdays for daytime movement classes, tours, and community partner activities.

All Summer at SAM programs are free, public, and suitable for all ages.

Help keep programs like Summer at SAM free for all. Become a member and visit SAM for free for a whole year or make a donation.

There is no outside alcohol permitted in the Olympic Sculpture Park.

What’s going on?

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Pre-Summer at SAM Workshop at Nepantla Cultural Arts Center
Saturday, July 1, 2–4 pm, 9414 Delridge Way SW, Seattle, WA 98106,
As part of our ongoing partnership with Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery, art-making workshops will take place at their gallery in White Center on Saturdays in July. Join Azul Vaquero Art, a local Mexican Puerto Rican Queer Artist, for a watercolor bookmark painting workshop to make your own zarape-themed or circular floral bookmark with matching tassels.

People smiling and sitting on the lawn with colorful blankets and chairs

SAT JUL 15

9 am – 2 pm

Yoga: Vinyasa (all levels)
9:30–10:30 am
Reconnect with your body and mind after a busy week with a 60-minute vinyasa flow led by Take Care Yoga.

SAM Tours
Meet outside of PACCAR Pavilion

11 am–noon
Join SAM Facilities and Landscape Manager Bobby McCullough for a stroll through the park's four distinct ecological zones. If you're lucky, you may get a glimpse of our social media star King Bunny!

1–2 pm
Explore the dynamic history of the park from the layout design, to the site history of the Duwamish and Unocal, to selected sculptures, and more. This docent-led walking adventure occurs every Saturday and Sunday.

Community Partner Activities
10 am–2 pm
Join the Seattle Aquarium Beach Naturalist Program learning about the marine life of Elliott Bay, play with adoptable puppies from Washington-based nonprofit Dog Gone Seattle, and create wearable dog bandanas to take home (or to donate) with Seattle ReCreative.

Zumba®
1–2 pm
Fusing Latin rhythms with easy-to-follow moves, free Zumba® Latin dance-fitness lessons are a great way to spend the afternoon. Tennis shoes and water bottle recommended. Rain or shine! Class led by Daren Wade and Dee Sprinkling.

MARKET in the Park will be serving coffee and bites.

people laying on yoga mat with a dog looking toward the camera

A guitarist on a stage plays for a crowd

SAT JUL 22

9 am – 2 pm

Yoga: Vinyasa (all levels)
9:30–10:30 am
Reconnect with your body and mind after a busy week with a 60-minute vinyasa flow led by Take Care Yoga.

SAM Tours
Meet outside PACCAR Pavilion

SAM Creates
10 am–2 pm
Have fun with the Seattle Aquarium Beach Naturalist Program and Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition on the waterfront while learning about our local waters and environment. Plus, don’t miss the opportunity to make nichos, a folkloric decorative shadow box made from recycled materials, with artist Raquel García Martínez.

Zumba®
1–2 pm
Fusing Latin rhythms with easy-to-follow moves, free Zumba® Latin dance-fitness classes are a great way to spend the afternoon. Tennis shoes and water bottle recommended. Rain or shine! Class led by Daren Wade and Venessa Mackie.

MARKET in the Park will be serving coffee and bites.

Singer smiling and drummer playing on stage

SAT JUL 29

9 am – 2 pm

Yoga: Vinyasa (all levels)
9:30–10:30 am
Reconnect with your body and mind after a busy week with a 60-minute vinyasa flow led by Take Care Yoga.

SAM Tours
Meet outside PACCAR Pavilion

Community Partner Activities
10 am–2 pm
Meet the Seattle Aquarium Beach Naturalist Program on the waterfront for a lesson on the marine life of Elliott Bay. Then, create your own work of art using recycled materials with Seattle ReCreative.

Zumba®
1–2 pm
Fusing Latin rhythms with easy-to-follow moves, free Zumba® Latin dance-fitness classes are a great way to spend the afternoon. Tennis shoes and water bottle recommended. Rain or shine! Class led by Daren Wade and Sasha Jones.

MARKET in the Park will be serving coffee and bites.

people looking at the ground on the pocket beach

People working on art activity together at a table

SAT AUG 5

9 am – 2 pm

Yoga: Vinyasa (all levels)
9:30–10:30 am
Reconnect with your body and mind after a busy week with a 60-minute vinyasa flow led by Take Care Yoga.

SAM Performs
Noon–1 pm
Experience Homebodies or A Ritual to Lose Oneself, a movement meditation and performance guided by this year’s Constance W. Rice Fellow, Stefan Richmond. Utilizing the techniques of deep listening, mediation, shamanic healing, and somatic cultural practices as research, fused with elements of performance art, Stefan offers a moment to come back to yourself.

SAM Tours
Meet outside PACCAR Pavilion

Community Partner Activities
10 am–2 pm
Get creative with an art-making activity led by Southend Stories and create nichos, a folkloric decorative shadow box made from recycled materials, with artist Raquel García Martínez. Follow these activities up by exploring the birds and wilderness that live at the park with Birds Connect Seattle.

Zumba®
1–2 pm
Fusing Latin rhythms with easy-to-follow moves, free Zumba® Latin dance-fitness classes are a great way to spend the afternoon. Tennis shoes and water bottle recommended. Rain or shine! Class led by Daren Wade and Susan Rucker.

MARKET in the Park will be serving coffee and bites.

THU AUG 10

6–8 PM

Get a sampling of the programs offered by Friends of Waterfront Seattle that celebrate Indigenous arts and culture in Seattle.

SAM Performs
Pride celebrations continue all summer long at the Indigiqueer Festival, with performances from Seattle-born multidisciplinary and versatile artist Bimbo Hypnosis (Suquamish) and musician there's more (Pawnee).

SAM Creates
Create personalized flags with Raven Juarez (Blackfeet) to be displayed at the We Are Water Festival coming to Seattle’s Pier 62 in September in partnership with yəhaw̓.

Food Trucks
Off The Rez and Sam Choy’s Poke to the Max

Shooby Doo Catering will be serving snacks and drinks in our outdoor beer garden.

Member Appreciation Night
We love our members! As a thank you for your support, join us on the final Thursday of Summer at SAM and enjoy member-exclusive perks including complimentary popsicles from Seattle Pops, discounts on Shooby Doo food and beverages, a chance to spin-to-win SAM swag, and more. Thank you for being a part of SAM!

Not a member? Join now!

a group of people work on art activities at a table

SAT AUG 12

9 AM – 2 PM

Yoga: Vinyasa (all levels)
9:30–10:30 am
Reconnect with your body and mind after a busy week with a 60-minute vinyasa flow led by Take Care Yoga.

SAM Tours
Meet outside PACCAR Pavilion

Community Partner Activities
10 am–2 pm
Play with adoptable puppies from Washington-based nonprofit Dog Gone Seattle and support them in their mission to save homeless dogs in high-kill shelters in Washington and beyond through rescue, foster, and adoption. Then, fashion a wearable dog bandana with Seattle ReCreative to take home to your own four-legged friend and learn more about the salmon and orcas living in our region’s waters in an art-making activity led by Snake River Savers.

Zumba®
1–2 pm
Fusing Latin rhythms with easy-to-follow moves, free Zumba® Latin dance-fitness classes are a great way to spend the afternoon. Tennis shoes and water bottle recommended. Rain or shine! Class led by Dan Flores and Venessa Mackie.

MARKET in the Park will be serving coffee and bites.

A group of silhouetted people dancing underneath pink, purple, and blue colored lights, lens flares sparkling

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