Jubilee Days

White Center Jubilee Days is a Seafair Sanctioned Community Event, and the street fair and parade gets bigger and better each year. The 2010 Theme is Come Together, Embrace Our Differences. T-shirts and other festival memorabilia will be available for purchase soon. White Center Jubilee Days is an event for families, to build community pride and unity. It is an opportunity for neighbors to get to know their neighbors, community service providers and local business members.

2010 will mark the 22nd year that White Center has participated in a Seafair sanctioned community event. An event planned for the local businesses to participate and support the community and it’s resources and talent. The street fair continues to grow. In 2010 a locally grown Farmers Market is being planned. A fireworks display to kick off the event in conjunction with the carnival is planned. Our returning vendors, volunteers, musical and magic performers, carnival, children's entertainers, the famous beer garden and Golf Tournament and parade, bring a fun event together for the whole community.

A SeaFair Sanctioned Event

The First White Center community festival was the Great Fair, held August 1-4 1923. The slogan was "Big Time, All the Time, One Dime" and events included a carnival, sideshow, and Big Baby and Popular Lady contests. Since that event, many White Center community festivals have been held under a variety of names. The title, "Jubilee Days" was first used in 1965 and has been in use ever since.

Since its revival in 1986, the White Center Jubilee Days celebration- was organized by the White Center Chamber of Commerce. It has grown to become one of South King County’s most anticipated summer festivals. An estimated 25,000 people attend this celebration each year. White Center Jubilee Days events are part of the Seafair calendar, which is distributed at no cost in the greater Seattle area through Seafair's member festival organizations, which is sponsored by Boeing.

In 1966, the all volunteer staff and organizers decided to expand the White Center Jubilee days festival to two days. It was a great success, and the new 2 day festival has grown to include a Kids Parade, which is attended by the Seafair Princesses Court and escorted by the Seafair Parade Marshals from the organization and of course those goofy Seafair Clowns, and it would not be a Parade without the Pirates. Since the street fair and food Vendorcourt was incorporated a very popular Beer Garden was added which always hosts one or two locally made brews, as seen in the Stranger recently. The two popular Entertainment stages have been a great gathering site for families and friends and have had some very big name entertainers such as The Kingsmen and Merilee Rush. A new Kids Center was added a few years ago and has been one of the most popular events at the festival and is attended by both young and old.

Sponsorship for 2010

Jubilee Days has received a lot of local business support as well as regional, and we would like to thank all of our sponsors from the past and welcome those who will be joining us this year, our 22nd annual White Center Jubilee Days event. For a complete list of all of our sponsors from 2010 please visit our sponsor page listed in the main menu.

All new applications will be posted on the Sponsor page in early January 2010 so keep checking back. If you want to become a sponsor, please submit an email request to Sponsors@jubileedays.org today or call (206) 204-0661. You can also visit our Sponsors Page for more information today.

There are many different ways to be a White Center Jubilee Days sponsor, or volunteer

2010 Festival Events

Jubilee Days hosts a variety of events from fantastic Golf Tourney the weekend before White Center Jubilee Days, and a wonderful fun, safe variety of Childrens events, a well established Beer Garden which is close to the main stage and is an event in it's own right. This entire festival event is entirely manned and operated by a very special group of volunteers, many who have been associated with Jubilee Days for over 20 years and who have volunteered in a variety of ways. This organization has volunteer opportunities available all the time. If you are interested in becoming associated with White Center Jubilee Days, please come to any of the planning meetings which are held every two weeks at Big Al's Brewery in White Center on Wednesday evenings at 6:20 pm. You can also follow and become a fan on FaceBook, or Twitter.

We will have the completed schedule of events and all applications posted by early 2010. We look forward to seeing you at the festival this year!.

Bring your family and friends and join us as we look forward to the Summer of 2010 and White Center Jubilee days events. Join us.