Weekly Ballard events roundup: June 22 – 28

Here’s your weekly events roundup for June 22 – 28 in Ballard.

It’s gearing up to be another exciting summer week in Ballard! Highlights include the inaugural Regnbue Pride + World Cup event in central Ballard and the annual Ballard Edible Garden Tour, put on by Sustainable Ballard. Enjoy!

Monday, June 22

• Book Club: Historical Hellions, Swoon City, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
  • Whether you’re dipping your toe into historical romance after watching Bridgerton or have loved the genre for years, there’s a place for you at Swoon City’s Historical Hellions Book Club. We’ll be reading historicals that have a strong lead, and are willing to break with convention. Come laugh, chat, and discuss your favorite romance books with us! June’s Book Club Pick is: Like in Love with You by Emma Alban

Tuesday, June 23

• Music Bingo! Pride Night, Channel Marker Cider, 7 – 8 p.m.
  • Music Bingo at Channel Marker Cider! Test your music knowledge, sing along to your favorite hits, and compete for prizes at our weekly Music Bingo nights. Match songs instead of numbers as you play, enjoy a different theme each week—from throwback classics to pop hits and everything in between—and win fun prizes. Plus, grab dinner from one of our rotating local food trucks.

Wednesday, June 24

• Sportsball Book Club: June Meeting, Swoon City, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
  • Can’t stop thinking about Heated Rivalry? We’ve got your back—and your next fix. Come join Swoon City’s Sports Romance Book Club to find your next swoony sports read. Our books span straight and queer relationships, as well as pretty much every sport under the sun. Sportsball knowledge welcomed, but NOT required! The pick for June is Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa

Friday, June 26

• Ballard Regnbue Pride Festival, 22nd Ave NW and Ballard Ave NW, 11:30 a.m. – 10 p.m.
  • Ballard Regnbue includes a full day of Pride celebrations and World Cup festivities along Ballard Avenue. The free event will feature live music, drag performances, local vendors, family-friendly activities, food and drinks, and a large outdoor watch party for the evening FIFA World Cup matches. Organizers say the festival is designed to celebrate LGBTQ+ pride while bringing the community together around soccer during Seattle’s World Cup summer.

Saturday, June 27

• Sustainable Ballard’s Edible Garden Tour, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
  • Join us for a fun walking or biking tour of neighborhood gardens, planting strips, containers, raised beds, and all sorts of creative edibles from fruit trees to berries to veggies galore. Plan to spend a day walking or biking through Ballard to discover how your neighbors raise urban fruits and vegetables. Gardeners will be on hand to answer your questions. If you’re new to gardening, we hope that you can join us to see what other gardeners in the neighborhood are doing and get some tips! This year’s tour will be located in Southeast Ballard. The tour is self-guided. Just show your ticket (printed or on phone) to pick up your tour map at the start point: Collective Chemistry, 5201 11th Ave NW, Ballard
• Drypoint Intaglio Printmaking Using Tetra Pak, Swoon City, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
  • Even beginners can learn to create “etching-like” prints quickly and easily using tools and materials you already have at home! Explore drypoint intaglio printmaking using recycled Tetra Pak cartons as an affordable and eco-friendly plate material. We’ll practice cross-hatching and incising textures using drypoint tools, corkscrews, dental tools, and exacto knives. Instead of etching ink, we’ll use water soluble “Stabilo Woody” colored pencils. After “inking,” prepare your plate using Q-tips to increase contrast, and pull prints using rolling pins or hand-burnishing. Emphasis on sustainable practice, mark-making, and experimental approaches to tone, pattern, and layering.
    

Sunday, June 28

• Ballard Farmer’s Market, Ballard Ave, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.(recurring)
  • Open since 2000, The Ballard Farmers Market is Seattle’s first year-round neighborhood farmers market selling produce exclusively from Washington state farmers. The Market has operated along the historic cobblestone stretch of Ballard Avenue NW between Vernon Place and 22nd Avenue.
• Seattle Pride Parade, Downtown Seattle, 11 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
  • Seattle’s Pride Month festivities culminate with the Seattle Pride Parade—an unforgettable rally through the heart of downtown Seattle. Rally the streets and join nearly 300,000 attendees and 200+ community groups, nonprofits, businesses, and civic leaders in Washington’s largest Pride celebration.
• Washington Summer Mead Festival, Skål Beer Hall, 12 – 5 p.m.
  • Celebrate the Nectar of the Gods with WA Mead Makers! Seven local meaderies will be on hand to pour their Summer favorites in our covered outdoor street cafe. Come mead the makers, sample a variety of meads, and take home a bottle or two.
• Painting Class: Ombre Sprayed Edges for Your Favorite Book, Swoon City, 2:30 – 4 p.m.
  • Beautify your favorite book by creating a sprayed-edge style design! Bring a book or buy one from Swoon City for 20% off. Have a favorite book that never got the sprayed edge treatment? Have an older book that deserves a glow up? In this class you’ll learn how to take an every day book and turn it into a work of art using paint. No experience needed. All supplies will be provided, and you’ll leave with a one-of-a-kind creation.
    
    

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Photo: Ballard Farmers Market Pride Parade 2025