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NavratriEvents in Bellevue 2026

Bellevue is the natural centre for Navratri on Seattle's Eastside, with a huge Indian tech community here and in Redmond, Sammamish and Issaquah. Garba and raas nights run in convention and event halls in Bellevue, school gyms and community centre rooms, usually with singers and a dhol section brought over from Gujarat, while the temples out towards Bothell and Redmond hold nine evenings of aarti and bhajan. Earlier sessions are usually set aside for kids and beginners. Tickets are online and the weekend nights in Bellevue close out first, with family packs going before single entries. Halls enforce socks or bare feet and stop at a venue-set time, so the music ends earlier than it would in India. October here means rain, so bring a jacket and expect a wet walk from the lot. Driving is normal, with 405 and 520 slow near start times. The Indian grocers around Crossroads stock dandiya sticks and festive basics. See the listings below.

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Warm up for garba

Get the beat in your feet before the first night in Bellevue: Spotify’s Garba Nights, from dhol-heavy folk classics to the songs every circle dances to.

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Sun, 1 Nov • 05:00 PM

Snodandiya

Mount Si High School, Snoqualmie

Before you dance

The story of Navratri

Nine nights, a goddess, two demons and one very big bonfire.

  1. 01The boon

    A demon no god could kill

    Mahishasura, the buffalo demon, won a boon: no man and no god could kill him. Fearless, he stormed the heavens and drove the gods from their thrones.

  2. 02The goddess

    Durga rises from their light

    So the gods poured their powers into one blaze, and from it rose Durga. Each gave her a weapon — Shiva his trident, Vishnu his discus — and the mountains gave her a lion.

  3. 03Nine nights

    Nine nights, then victory

    For nine nights she fought him as he changed shape — buffalo, lion, elephant, man — and each night of Navratri honours one of her nine forms. On the tenth, Vijayadashami, she struck him down: good over evil.

  4. 04The Ramayana

    Rama prays to the goddess

    Ravana carried Sita away to Lanka. In one telling, Rama worshipped Durga for her blessing before the war — then crossed the sea to bring Sita home.

  5. 05Dussehra

    The ten-headed king falls

    Rama's arrow brought down Ravana on the same tenth day. That is why the festival's last day is Dussehra too: one victory, told twice.

  6. 06Today

    Ravana goes up in fireworks

    Across north India, towering paper Ravanas are packed with crackers and lit at dusk on Dussehra — and the crowd cheers as evil burns.

And that is why we dance

Garba circles the garbo — a clay lamp, the goddess’s light at the centre of life — and the circle never stops, like time. The dandiya sticks are said to be her swords, clashing in the battle all over again.

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