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Worth the drive: Tattoos, good eats and chamber music

Published 1:30 am Friday, August 19, 2016

Get inked this weekend

Show off your tattoos. Compete.

Meet some of the best tattoo artists from all over the world.

See someone get a tattoo or get one of your own.

The Seattle Tattoo Expo is Aug. 19, 20 and 21 at Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center.

Share your “Best Portrait” or even “Worst Tattoo” onstage.

There’s more than ink. There’s music, beer, food and vendors.

Bring the kids. The expo is family-friendly.

More at www.seattletattooexpo.com.

Bellevue menu: Buy a passport and taste your way down Main Street from noon to 5 p.m. Aug. 20.

Taste of Main is a food extravaganza on Bellevue’s Main Street. Taste entrees, desserts, snacks, wine and more at local businesses.

Benefits the Detlef Schrempf Foundation and Boys & Girls Clubs of Bellevue.

More at tasteofmainbellevue.com.

Chamber music: Enjoy the music in Port Townsend at 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays Aug. 20 through Sept. 11. Hear world-class concerts at the Olympic Music Festival, Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden, Port Townsend. More at www.olympicmusicfestival.org.

Coming up:

Dance around Seward Park, 5900 Lake Washington Blvd. S., to the beat of live drums at Seattle SambaThon at 2 p.m. Aug. 27. Costume and drums optional.

The Sambathon is like a fun run, but instead of running silently in a straight line, dance to the beat of a live samba bateria around the loop trail. Do your own moves or follow the choreography led by the Samba Queen.