Pierce County Events Calendar

Pierce County Events Calendar

This calendar is the place to find fun events happening throughout Pierce County, including Tacoma, Puyallup, Lakewood and beyond.

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Feb
2
Thu
Voices of Mississippi @ Pantages Theater
Tickets
Feb 2 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Voices of Mississippi is an immersive multimedia experience and concert that celebrates the people and art of the southern blues, gospel, and storytelling traditions. Based on and inspired by the acclaimed 2019 double Grammy winning four-disc box set of the same name, Voices of Mississippi, the program features musical performances by notable Mississippi artists: Bobby Rush, Shardé Thomas, Luther Dickinson, and Cody Dickinson, plus archival film and images. The show includes fascinating personal narratives and accounts from Dr. William Ferris, founding director of The University of Mississippi Center for The Study of Southern Culture and former Chairman of The National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Music Concerts Theater Performances Tags: #downtowntacoma #pantagestheater #rialtotheater #tacomaartslive #theateronthesquare Aretha B53 blues folk folk music Pantages Portrait of Aretha Theater
Feb
7
Tue
Hey Singers! 
Tickets
Feb 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Hey Singers! 

Hey, Singers, be our guest to explore Tacoma’s largest a capella chorus in the barbershop style at 7 pm, every Tuesday. Join us at 602 N. Orchard. tacomavocalstandard@gmail.com or Facebook: TacomaVocalStandard

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Arts and Entertainment Music Concerts
Feb
11
Sat
Washed In Black [Pearl Jam tribute] • Nothing’s Shocking [Jane’s Addiction] at Spanish Ballroom @ McMenamins Spanish Ballroom @ Elks Temple
Tickets
Feb 11 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Washed In Black – Pearl Jam tribute brings to the stage the sound & spirit of the iconic grunge band that helped define a bold new era in rock music. The most authentic live experience outside of the genuine article that any PJ fan could hope to see!
www.washedinblack.band

Nothing’s Shocking – Janes Addiction tribute performs an album quality production of Perry Farrell & co. greatest hits and cult faves. They present the image, sound, and stage persona of early-era Jane’s Addiction concert experience.
www.nothingsshockingband.com

Saturday, Feb. 11 | Spanish Ballroom
21+ Only | Doors at 7pm
Tickets: https://bit.ly/WashedShocking
$20 Advance, $26 Day Of

www.spanishballroom.com

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Music Concerts Tags: #livemusic
Feb
14
Tue
Hey Singers! 
Tickets
Feb 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Hey Singers! 

Hey, Singers, be our guest to explore Tacoma’s largest a capella chorus in the barbershop style at 7 pm, every Tuesday. Join us at 602 N. Orchard. tacomavocalstandard@gmail.com or Facebook: TacomaVocalStandard

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Arts and Entertainment Music Concerts
Feb
16
Thu
2023 Day of Remembrance Resilience – A Sansei Sense of Legacy exhibition opening @ Washington State History Museum
Tickets
Feb 16 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

FREE – the Washington State History Museum has free admission from 3-8 PM on Third Thursdays
Join us for the opening of Resilience – A Sansei Sense of Legacy and honor the annual Japanese American Day of Remembrance. Meet Susan Kamei, author of the acclaimed book When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration During World War II. Kamei’s book is a comprehensive historical narrative of the WWII imprisonment of more than 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry; she will talk about the enduring impact of this shameful episode in our country’s history. Continue to explore the impacts of Executive Order 9066 through Within the Silence, an interactive performance presented by Living Voices.

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Categories: Author Talk
Scholarly Selections Elegies, Obits, and Honoring Life in Writing: A Creative Exploration of Love with Sarah Chavez, Ph.D. @ Washington State History Museum
Tickets
Feb 16 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

FREE – the Washington State History Musuem has free admission from 3-8 PM on Third Thursdays
While loss and change potentially initiate painful grieving, artists and writers across time have used writing to remember and contextualize life and experience to bring forward the goodness that preceded a loss and/or that which is to come. Western culture has historically encouraged a forgetting or rewriting of the past, but as ancestral and community-focused wisdom shares, looking at the past provides writers and their audiences the opportunity to celebrate life and grow in a more balanced relationship with the environment.
This talk will discuss the transcendence writers and artists create when they allow themselves to sink into mourning and share that space of memory—and often celebration—with readers. From the example of elegies, obituaries, and eulogies, we are given permission to share one of humanity’s multifaceted truths

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Categories: Author Talk
Feb
18
Sat
J-Fell Presents, Spanish Ballroom and ROCK SHOP – 80’s Hair Rock Tribute @ McMenamins Spanish Ballroom @ Elks Temple
Tickets
Feb 18 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

ROCK SHOP – 80’S Hair Rock Tribute brings back the glorious stadium-rock of the 1980s with authentic outfits, instruments, hair & makeup. This band delivers a full-on party night, which never fails to get the crowd rocking along!
www.rockshop80s.com/

Saturday, Feb. 18 | Spanish Ballroom
21+ Only | Doors at 7pm
Tickets: https://bit.ly/RockShopHBB
$20 Advance, $26 Day Of
www.spanishballroom.com

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Music Concerts
Feb
21
Tue
Hey Singers! 
Tickets
Feb 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Hey Singers! 

Hey, Singers, be our guest to explore Tacoma’s largest a capella chorus in the barbershop style at 7 pm, every Tuesday. Join us at 602 N. Orchard. tacomavocalstandard@gmail.com or Facebook: TacomaVocalStandard

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Arts and Entertainment Music Concerts
Feb
25
Sat
Portrait of Aretha: CeCe Teneal celebrates The Queen of Soul @ Rialto Theater
Tickets
Feb 25 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

She taught us how to “Think” and demand “Respect” … all while ridin’ on the “Freeway of Love!” In Portrait of Aretha: CeCe Teneal celebrates The Queen of Soul, award-winning vocalist CeCe Teneal honors the legacy of Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, with personalized interpretations of both popular and lesser-known songs from this 18-Grammy-Award-winning icon’s 50-year career. An award-winning songstress in her own right, Ms. Teneal will regale music lovers with stellar hits from Franklin’s musical catalog including “Chain of Fools,” “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” “Rock Steady,” and “Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do).”

CeCe Teneal has traveled the world with her talent, opening for musical luminaries like Buddy Guy, Joe Cocker, Johnny Lang, and the legendary B.B. King. She has been nominated for four Independent Music Awards and claimed the title for 2011 Best Gospel Song (“I Heard You Prayin’”), 2011 Best R&B Album (Train from Osteen), and 2018 Best Soul/Funk/Fusion Song (“Danger”). Her own original sound has attracted the attention of fans across the globe, and her first music video, “Eleanor Rigby” was exclusively premiered on The Huffington Post. Other accolades include the 2015 Touch the Mic “Muse” Award, the 2017 Orlando Music Trailblazer Award, and the honor of being chosen as the halftime headliner for the 2019 Citrus Bowl.

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Categories: Music Concerts Theater Performances Tags: #downtowntacoma #livemusic #pantagestheater aretha franklin funk music Music Pantages Portrait of Aretha soul music
Symphony Tacoma: Reconcilation @ Pantages Theater
Tickets
Feb 25 @ 7:30 pm

Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Gregory Youtz: Suite from Tacoma Method
Brahms: Symphony No. 4

OUSTED: Britten’s Four Sea Interludes tells the story of Peter Grimes, a psychologically troubled outcast from an English fishing village. Local composer Dr. Gregory Youtz sheds light on perhaps the most tragic chapter of Tacoma’s history in Tacoma Method, an opera about the wrongful expulsion of the city’s Chinese community. Brahms draws inspiration from Bach, Beethoven and Schumann in his deeply passionate Symphony No. 4, one of the most loved symphonies of the Romantic period.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Music Concerts
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