From our sister site Queen Anne View

Bring your lantern or buy a pre-made lantern to help the Fremont Arts Council raise money and parade around Green Lake celebrating the Fall Equinox this Friday night.

Organizer Peter Toms writes

The Autumn Equinox is approaching and we are getting the mojo together for another fabulous amazingly beautiful nighttime event. The event is produced by the Fremont Arts Council whom you could say knows a thing or two about putting on a great parade! … As always we will start at 7 pm at the Aqua Barn on the south end of Green Lake. As soon as it’s full dark we’ll head out onto the parade route with the bands rocking and all the coolest lanterns and lighty lights out and about. We’ll end at the Secret Banquet with cider, cookies and treats, more music and fun, and of course King Winter will appear to oversee the festivities. Last year it was a gorgeous evening and the moon was riding high in the sky for the Autumn Equinox. This year will be even better! All lanterns, puppets, lit up costumes, lighty toys, burner wear etc are welcome…we will have lanterns for sale at the event – please do buy a lantern and support the FAC! Even if you already have one. You just can’t have too many lanterns. And this is how the event raises money so that it can continue on each year.

Luminata participants will get down to music from the Orkestar Zirkonium marching band, and One Love marching band led by funkiest trombone Marc Smason. All ages are welcome, and festive dress is encouraged. Meet at the South End of Green Lake, next to the boat launch / water amphitheater (begin gathering at 7pm, parade starts at dusk).

For more information, click here.

Police officers and medics responded to the corner of Fremont Ave. and 34th this Sunday afternoon for a report of an assault with weapons.  Police say the early indication is a suicide near the Waiting for Interurban statue.  Several lanes are closed in the area, backing up traffic through the neighborhood.

Looking for something to do in Fremont tonight?

The Moth – Seattle StorySLAM

8pm tonight at the Fremont Abbey (4272 Fremont Ave N)

Tickets are $16 for this nationally renowned storytelling event

Or

BLVD Park

8p, Nectar Lounge (412 N 36th St)

$5, 21+

Tomorrow?

Fremont First Friday Art Walk

Or how ’bout this?

Or this?

More music?

A Sports fan, perhaps?

We know, we know…this event is not in Fremont. But we also know that Fremont holds a special place in their collective heart for Seattle icon J.P. Patches and his decades-long legacy of delighting kids and adults alike.

Chris Wedes played J.P. Patches for more than 50 years. He died July 22 after a long battle with blood cancer. He was 84. A free public celebration of of J.P. Patches and Wedes’ life will take place this Saturday, September 8, at 11:00 am at McCaw Hall (the Opera House) at the Seattle Center. The event will be hosted by Chris’s longtime friend Pat Cashman, who will be joined onstage by family members and other Patches Pals to honor Wedes and remember his unique spirit.

Doors open at 10- seating is first-come, first-served and there is a $5 suggested donation. All proceeds go to Seattle Children’s Hospital, (a favorite charity of J.P. and the Wedes family).

The celebration will be streamed live here and rebroadcast on channel 7 at 8pm that night.

School starts tomorrow for mini Fremonsters (and kids in other Seattle neighborhoods as well). Be sure to watch out for school buses and masses of kids walking to and from school!

Hello, The lyrics to this song aren’t particularly family friendly, but… Macklemore’s newest video…was shot partially in Fremont.