Pierce County Events Calendar
This calendar is the place to find fun events happening throughout Pierce County, including Tacoma, Puyallup, Lakewood and beyond.
Have an event that isn’t listed? Please email events@SouthSoundTalk.com with the following information:
- Name of Event
- Date, time and location (name of business if applicable and complete address)
- Organizer(s) name
- Cost
- URL to purchase tickets
- Website URL
- SHORT description of the event
- Photo
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A crisis always offers you the chance to learn something about yourself.
Join New York Times Bestselling author Jon Acuff as he explores four change moments that each of us experiences during a crisis and shares practical steps and inspiring insights to help you navigate this brave new world.
We all get to make a choice. Every day our loved ones and our communities are counting on us to make the right one.
Pivot, don’t panic.
Catch this LIVE program from the comfort and safety of your home on your computer or mobile device. For questions, contact us at tmn.northwest@thrivent.com.
No products will be sold. For more information visit Thrivent.com/social.
Thrivent is a membership-owned fraternal organization, as well as a holistic financial services organization, providing financial advice, investments, insurance, banking and generosity programs to help people make the most of all they’ve been given.
Celebrate National Latinx Heritage Month with storyteller Liz Mangual. Celebre el Mes Nacional de la Herencia Latinx con la cuentacuentos Liz Mangual.
Liz will enchant listeners of all ages with her signature style of participatory storytelling, weaving together a tapestry of bilingual tales from around the world.
Saturday, September 19, 2 pm (stories for ages 4 – 7)
Saturday, September 26, 2 pm (stories for ages 8 and up)
Celebre el Mes Nacional de la Herencia Latinx con la cuentacuentos Liz Mangual mientras encanta a los oyentes de todas las edades con su estilo característico de narración participativa, tejiendo un tapiz de cuentos bilingües de todo el mundo.
Sábado, 19 de septiembre, 2 pm (cuentos para niños de 4 a 7 años)
Sábado, 26 de septiembre, 2 pm (cuentos para mayores de 8 años)
Attendance will be available through Zoom. Please register now for the Zoom program. A link will be sent out 2 hours prior to the program. A recorded version of this program will be available on our website for 30 days post program.
How do Zoom programs work?
Register for the program.
A few hours before the program you will receive an email from the Pierce County Library System with a Zoom link and phone login information.
When the Zoom program is scheduled to begin, log in and enjoy the program.
If you are having trouble logging into the program simply reply to the email you received with the Zoom login information and ask for help.
The Pierce County Library recommends using the latest version of Zoom, with all current updates. Check for the latest version by clicking here.
The Library System expects that all participants in Library virtual events and classes follow the Library Rules of Conduct. If an individual does not follow the Rules of Conduct, the library has the right to ask that individual to leave the virtual program.
If you have registered for the event and are having trouble accessing the event, please email VirtualPCLS@pcls.us.
Public Notice & Disclaimer
During this program, you may be using a third-party platform, Zoom, for the purpose of communication, collaboration, projects, etc. This service may collect some personally identifying information about you, such as name, username, email address, and password. This service will treat the information it collects about you pursuant to its own privacy policy, which can be found here: Zoom Privacy Policy.
Celebrate National Latinx Heritage Month with storyteller Liz Mangual. Celebre el Mes Nacional de la Herencia Latinx con la cuentacuentos Liz Mangual.
Liz will enchant listeners of all ages with her signature style of participatory storytelling, weaving together a tapestry of bilingual tales from around the world.
Saturday, September 19, 2 pm (stories for ages 4 – 7)
Saturday, September 26, 2 pm (stories for ages 8 and up)
Celebre el Mes Nacional de la Herencia Latinx con la cuentacuentos Liz Mangual mientras encanta a los oyentes de todas las edades con su estilo característico de narración participativa, tejiendo un tapiz de cuentos bilingües de todo el mundo.
Sábado, 19 de septiembre, 2 pm (cuentos para niños de 4 a 7 años)
Sábado, 26 de septiembre, 2 pm (cuentos para mayores de 8 años)
Attendance will be available through Zoom. Please register now for the Zoom program. A link will be sent out 2 hours prior to the program. A recorded version of this program will be available on our website for 30 days post program.
How do Zoom programs work?
Register for the program.
A few hours before the program you will receive an email from the Pierce County Library System with a Zoom link and phone login information.
When the Zoom program is scheduled to begin, log in and enjoy the program.
If you are having trouble logging into the program simply reply to the email you received with the Zoom login information and ask for help.
The Pierce County Library recommends using the latest version of Zoom, with all current updates. Check for the latest version by clicking here.
The Library System expects that all participants in Library virtual events and classes follow the Library Rules of Conduct. If an individual does not follow the Rules of Conduct, the library has the right to ask that individual to leave the virtual program.
If you have registered for the event and are having trouble accessing the event, please email VirtualPCLS@pcls.us.
Public Notice & Disclaimer
During this program, you may be using a third-party platform, Zoom, for the purpose of communication, collaboration, projects, etc. This service may collect some personally identifying information about you, such as name, username, email address, and password. This service will treat the information it collects about you pursuant to its own privacy policy, which can be found here: Zoom Privacy Policy.
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.
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.
Join us for a book club for kids in grades 4-6, with books from #OwnVoices authors.
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
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.
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.
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.