2019 Seattle Festival of Trees Events

Gala Dinner
Saturday November 23, 2019
5:00-10:00 pm
Fairmont Olympic Hotel 
Attire: Black Tie Optional
Tickets from $200

Celebration
Sunday November 24, 2019
1:00 - 4:00 pm
Fairmont Olympic Hotel 
Family friendly event
​Free

Tree Display
November 23 - December 4
Fairmont Olympic Hotel - Downtown Seattle
Free

Teddy Bear Suite
November 29 - December 26
Daily 10 am - 6 pm
Fairmont Olympic Hotel - 
Free - Donations Accepted

An Elegant Evening in Support of Seattle Children's

Seattle Festival of Trees Gala Dinner and Auction
Mark your calendar for this year's gala on Saturday, November 23, 2019.  Join other Seattle Children's supporters and friends to start your holiday season at the Festival of Trees Annual Gala. Mingle with friends surrounded by our beautiful designer Christmas Trees, many of which are available for purchase. Enjoy drinks, passed hors d'oeuvres, entertainment, live and silent auctions and a scrumptious dinner. This event is 21+

Seattle Festival of Trees Gala
Saturday, November 23rd, 2019, 5:00-10:00pm
​Dinner and auction
Fairmont Olympic Hotel,  Downtown Seattle
​Attire: Black tie optional

5:00 Registration, Hors d’oeuvres, Cocktails & Silent Auction
with Seattle’s Christmas Music Warm 106.9

7:00 p.m. Three-Course Dinner & Live Auction
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9:00 p.m. Entertainment – Nite Wave​
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​Gala Menu

​Gala Tickets $200 

​​Patron Tickets $225

​Table of Ten $2,000

​Patron Table of Ten $2,250

​Gala Information
Suzanne Hight
​gala@seattlefestivaloftrees.com 
206 236 6167

Auctioneer: Gavelo Auctions featuring Nelson Jay 
Nelson Jay, BAS is the principal fundraising auctioneer and owner of Gavelo Auctions. He is licensed and bonded as a professional auctioneer and is a member of the National Auctioneers Association (NAA).

Celebrity Reader: Matt Lorch
During his 20 plus years as a television news anchor and reporter, Matt Lorch has covered many of the country's biggest events and interviewed some of the most dynamic and influential newsmakers of our time. He built a career working in some of the nation's largest markets finding creative, thoughtful, and innovative ways to directly reach viewers. 

Gala Emcee: Margaret Larson
​For more than 30 years, Margaret Larson worked as a broadcast journalist, most notably with NBC News as a foreign correspondent based in London. news anchor for the Today show and Dateline NBC reporter, and as a reporter/news anchor at KING-TV in Seattle. She has won broadcast journalism awards including four Emmys, two national Clarion awards, three Telly awards and a National Society of Professional Journalists award.

​An afternoon of family fun

Seattle Festival of Trees Celebration
Come to our 2019 Celebration on Sunday, November 24, 2019 from 
1:00-4:00pm
Fairmont Olympic Hotel, Downtown Seattle
Family friendly event - fun for all ages
Free

Bring your family and friends to this free community event

• Story Tellers reading books to children
• Choir singing Christmas music 
• Homemade cookies
• 20+ Amazing designer holiday trees each with an inspiring patient storyboard
• A featured patient lighting the Fairmont Olympic grand tree
• Special opening the Teddy Bear Suite for the enjoyment of the Celebration guests.

Get started with your holiday shopping with

• Santa Photos taken by Yuen Lui Photography
• ​Numerous holiday items including wreaths, table decorations, small trees and ornaments designed and crafted by our guild members especially for our guests will be available for sale
• The Kid's Corner will have gifts of interest to our younger guests.​ ​​

Featured patient Lillee Haynes, lights the Fairmont Olympic tree.

Tree Raffle 

This beautiful designer Christmas tree, "Holiday Elegance" will be raffled at the Festival of Trees Celebration on Sunday, November 24th, 2019. This 7 1/2 ft lighted dark green tree is dressed with an array of beautiful burgundy and gold decorations, and is enriched and trimmed with sheer velvet ribbon and a feather lighted finial on top of the tree.  
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• Tickets $10
• Proceeds from the raffle will benefit research at Seattle Children's Hospital
• Need not be present to win ​​

To buy raffle tickets, please email Teri Mann, our Raffle Ticket Chair here.

A Beautiful Display of Designer Trees

Festival of Trees Display
Fairmont Olympic Hotel
411 University Street, Seattle WA
November 23 - December 4, 2019
​Free 

Our 2018 display of Holiday trees has ended, and the trees have been delivered to the buyer's homes or businesses.

​Mark your calendars for next year's display. Kick off your holiday season with friends and family by visiting the Fairmont Olympic hotel in Downtown Seattle to see our gorgeous designer holiday trees.  Come view them during that time and read the inspiring stories of our featured Seattle Children's patients.

Fairmont Olympic Hotel Teddy Bear Suite and Child-Sized Gingerbread House

The Fairmont Olympic Hotel supports the Seattle Festival of Trees by creating two magical spaces to delight the child in all of us.

Fairmont Olympic Hotel - Downtown Seattle
​Open: Daily  
Nov 29 through Dec 26
10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Free
Special Opening for Celebration guests: Nov 24 1:15-4:00 pm. 

A hotel suite is magically transformed into a teddy bear wonderland for kids and parents to enjoy, by professional designer Kevin Bradford, In the Grand Motor Entrance, the hotel erects a Life-Sized Gingerbread House to delight the imagination.

​Donations appreciated to benefit uncompensated care at Seattle Children’s Hospital and the Seattle Children's Autism Center.

Jeremiah and Jonah Harris in the Teddy Bear Suite

​Beneficiaries
Seattle Children's Autism Center and Uncompensated Care at Seattle Children's Hospital