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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October 2020 – June 2022 Oct 2020 – Jun 2022
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Oct
26
Mon
Susan Resneck Pierce Lecture in Public Affairs Featuring Colson Whitehead @ Zoom Webinar
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Oct 26 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

On Monday, Oct. 26, novelist Colson Whitehead will deliver the Susan Resneck Pierce Lecture in Public Affairs and the Arts. Twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Underground Railroad? and The Nickel Boys, Mr. Whitehead also is a winner of the? Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and the Orwell Prize for political fiction. This event, originally scheduled for April of this year, is free and open to all members of the Puget Sound community. Mr. Whitehead will deliver the lecture remotely.

Following the lecture, Mr. Whitehead will engage in conversation with Professors Monica DeHart and Priti Joshi, joint holders of the James A. Dolliver Professorship.

Susan Resneck Pierce Lecture in Public Affairs Featuring Colson Whitehead:
Monday, Oct. 26, at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://pugetsound-edu.zoom.us/j/95578521498
Webinar ID: 955 7852 1498

Attendance is limited. Please plan to log-in early to ensure admittance.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Author Talk Workshops, Classes and Lectures
Nov
13
Fri
The Country That Fiction Built @ Virtual Pierce County Library
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Nov 13 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Explorations: Steilacoom Library Speaker Series
Join us virtually, as UW English professor Michelle Liu discusses how two great works of fiction have fundamentally changed our country’s outlook on race, morality and humanity.

Pierce County Library and Humanities Washington, in partnership with the Steilacoom Historical Museum, welcome you to this compelling conversation.

Ask who Atticus Finch is, and most will remember him from high school English as the heroic lawyer defending an unjustly charged African-American man in To Kill a Mockingbird. Ever since Harper Lee imagined him into life in 1960, the name “Atticus Finch” has become shorthand for a person who acts according to their conscience, not majority rule.

This talk delves into the many ways our country is deeply shaped by Harper Lee, as well as by the best-selling author who lived in the century before her—Harriet Beecher Stowe. Using To Kill a Mockingbird and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin—the novel largely credited with moving the United States into the Civil War—Michelle Liu invites participants to think about how these two works of fiction still fundamentally shape, as well as limit, how we think about skin color, morality, and who counts as human. How can fiction help us imagine building more empathy and openness to those with experiences different from our own?

Michelle Liu is a professor in the English department at the University of Washington, where she specializes in teaching writing and exploring ideas about identity, history, emotion, and storytelling.

Please register to attend this event. A link to the Zoom meeting will be sent via email on the day of the event.

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Categories: Author Talk Local Government
Nov
17
Tue
Own Voices Chapter Book Club- I Can Make This Promise @ Virtual Pierce County Library
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Nov 17 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Join us for a book club for kids in grades 4-6, with books from #OwnVoices authors.

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Categories: Author Talk
Jun
10
Thu
Curator Talk with Peter Boag: Crossing Boundaries: Portraits of a Transgender West @ Washington State History Museum
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Jun 10 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

FREE Facebook Live Presentation
Join us for an immersive discussion surrounding our newest exhibition with its curator, Peter Boag, Professor and Columbia Chair in History of the American West at Washington State University and author of Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past. As Americans moved across the country to create new lives, some also used the opportunity to establish their authentic selves. Boag discusses his quest to find the history of those who changed their assigned genders when moving West and how they were written out of American history. WSHS Lead Curator Gwen Whiting gives a preview of materials used in the exhibition to illustrate these underrepresented stories. Join us at www.Facebook.com/HistoryMuseum/live

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Categories: Author Talk
Jun
12
Sat
Book Launch Party for the new book ” Better Than I Deserve” – The Life & Times of Cowboy Artist Fred Oldfield @ Fred Oldfield Center
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Jun 12 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Enjoy the Silver Sage Radio Players sharing excerpts from the book for the first time and meet the Author, Joella Oldfield!
Premier cowboy artist Fred Oldfield captured the weariness, the steadfastness, the strength and the humor of the cowboy, the mountain man, and the other characters as the old west struggled to become the new west. Now the whole story is available in a breathtaking new book, Better Than I Deserve, with more than 175 color pages and over 100 color photos of his paintings.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Author Talk Local History Tags: #tacomaartslive art arthistory booklaunch books cowboy cowboyart westernart
Book Launch Party for the new book ” Better Than I Deserve” – The Life & Times of Cowboy Artist Fred Oldfield @ Fred Oldfield Center
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Jun 12 @ 4:00 pm

Enjoy the Silver Sage Radio Players sharing excerpts from the book for the first time and meet the Author, Joella Oldfield!

Premier cowboy artist Fred Oldfield captured the weariness, the steadfastness, the strength and the humor of the cowboy, the mountain man, and the other characters as the old west struggled to become the new west. Now the whole story is available in a breathtaking new book, Better Than I Deserve, with more than 175 color pages and over 100 color photos of his paintings.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Author Talk Local History Tags: #tacomaartslive art arthistory book booklaunch bookrelease
Nov
5
Fri
Tacoma Arts Live presents David Sedaris @ The Pantages Theater
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Nov 5 @ 7:30 pm

With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. He is the master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers addressing the human condition. Calypso, his latest collection of essays, is a New York Times best-seller, and a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. The audiobook of Calypso has been nominated for a 2019 Grammy in the Best Spoken Word Album category.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Author Talk Tags: #tacoma Author David Sedaris Pantages Theater reading tacoma arts live
Dec
4
Sat
The Great Tacoma Book Fair @ Court House Square
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Dec 4 @ 10:00 am – 8:00 pm

In partnership with the Washington Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, local nonprofit Blue Forge Press presents…

The Great Tacoma Book Fair!

Join us Saturday, December 4, 10AM to 8PM in the Gallery at Court House Square, 1102 A Street, Tacoma, Washington 98402.

Discover books for all ages in more than a dozen genres from more than twenty local authors. Plus films, music and games from Washington filmmakers, musicians and game designers!

Make sure kids don’t miss a fun photo opportunity with the magical Bookicorn and a free cotton candy with the purchase of any two children’s books.

Are you an author looking for a real publisher? (Not a company that takes your rights and your money!) Purchase any book at the book fair and speak one?on?one with a publisher about the best course of action for your next book and your career.

Founded in 1989, Blue Legacy, the parent company of Blue Forge Press is a nonprofit company dedicated to supporting authors, musicians, filmmakers, and game designers achieve their goals and have their voice heard. Find out more about this a volunteer?run 501(c)3 nonprofit at www.MyBlueLegacy.org

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Author Talk Family Events Kids
Dec
11
Sat
Weyerhaeuser Kidnapping-Deep in the Woods-Author Book Signing and Discussion @ Tacoma Historical Society Museum
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Dec 11 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weyerhaeuser-kidnapping-deep-in-the-woods-author-book-signingdiscussion-tickets-203445550117?aff=eand

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Categories: Author Talk Tags: #downtowntacoma #historicdistrict #localhistory #NorthTacoma #PugetSound #tacoma Author author events book Book Release Book Signing Book Talk booklaunch books Bryan Johnston Crime Criminal Justice Deep in the Woods discussion downtown tacoma educational Events in Tacoma Extortion Famous families FBI Free event George Weyerhaeuser gift ideas History Kidnappings Law Enforcement literary literary arts literary event literary events literature Local History Media frenzy Meet the author Missing persons museum museum events museums North End North Tacoma Northwest pacific northwest Puget Sound history Q&A Reporters research social issues South Sound special event Tacoma Events tacoma history talk talks Things to do in Tacoma Things To Do in Tacoma WA Timber Barons trees True crime Washington Events Washington State History Weyerhaeuser
Jun
7
Tue
Voices for Children 2022 featuring Heather McGhee @ Online
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Jun 7 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Join us live or on-demand for an inspiring conversation with one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers exploring inequality today.

Children’s Alliance is excited to welcome Heather McGhee as the featured guest for this year’s Voices for Children event. A renowned expert on the American economy, Heather is the author of the best-selling book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.

Heather, along with Children’s Alliance Executive Director, Dr. Stephan Blanford, will discuss the devastating true cost of racism—not just for people of color, but for everyone. They will also explore ideas on how to dismantle racism and build a better shared future for our kids.

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Author Talk Education Non-Profit Fundraising Events
October 2020 – June 2022 Oct 2020 – Jun 2022