Seattle weekend events: Film noir fest, garden show, concerts and more

We've gathered a few ideas for how you can spend this long weekend in Seattle.

📽️ Embrace cinematic glam and grit with Noir City , which will screen film noir titles from the U.S. and abroad. Opens Friday and runs through Feb. 22 at the SIFF Cinema Egyptian .

• Individual tickets are $11–16; a full festival pass is $125–$150.

🌷 Get excited for spring at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival , which features more than 20 display gardens and dozens of sessions to inspire you. Runs through Sunday at the Seattle Convention Center (705 Pike St.).

• One-day admission is $27 , with discounts for students. Half-day tickets cost $14.

🎞️ Catch this year's Oscar-nominated animated short films in an 80-minute block at SIFF Cinema Uptown.

• 7:30pm Friday, 12:45pm Saturday and 4pm Sunday.

🇨🇳 Honor Seattle's Chinese and Chinese-American community at the fourth annual Chinese Expulsion Rally and March .

• The event reflects on the February 1886 riot where a mob forcibly expelled many of Seattle's Chinese residents.
• 10am–12pm Saturday at Hing Hay Park .

🎶 Support young musicians at MoPOP's Sound Off! Showcase , highlighting performances from Pacific Northwest artists under 21.

• Saturday's 8pm performance is the first of three shows through March 2. $15 per show.

🌕 Watch a lion dance while sipping a tangerine latte at the Lunar New Year celebration at Westlake Park. 10am–1pm Sunday.

🌊 Get fired up by sea shanties and other maritime music from England, Scotland, Ireland, the Americas and the Caribbean with La Nef: Red Sky at Night .

• 2pm Sunday at Town Hall Seattle. Tickets are $15–$60.

🔥 Warm your hands at a firepit and soak up those Seattle waterfront sunset views.

• 3–6pm Sunday at Pier 62 .

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