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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The Thursday night beer run started in January, 2010, with just seven runners. It’s a social run that now exceeds one hundred runners nearly every week of the year. Thousands of people have joined this run from every corner of the region.
The Thursday night run is approximately three miles long. This distance is a night off for some; it’s aspirational for others.
For more information about this event, click here.
Run location changes weekly. Check Tacoma Runners’ website regularly to find out where we’ll be running next.
The Thursday night beer run started in January, 2010, with just seven runners. It’s a social run that now exceeds one hundred runners nearly every week of the year. Thousands of people have joined this run from every corner of the region.
The Thursday night run is approximately three miles long. This distance is a night off for some; it’s aspirational for others.
For more information about this event, click here.
Run location changes weekly. Check Tacoma Runners’ website regularly to find out where we’ll be running next.
An ages 21+ program. This is your chance to learn about Washington State history through tasting sweets, paired with craft beers and wines! Try dessert delicacies while learning from confectioners about the history and processes behind our state’s most well-known treats. From Aplets and Cotlets to Almond Roca, Washington’s candy history is sure to satisfy your sweet tooth. Tickets are available HERE!
Interested in purchasing a History After Hours 4-Pack to attend all four of this year’s 2019 History After Hours programs?! The package is just $65!
February 7 – Candy Bar
May 9 – (In)Famous Washington
October 10 – Washington in Spaaace!
December 5 – Bootleggers’ Ball
Get your full package deal HERE today!
Seattle Sounders Talk – Moneyball, Sounders Style
How to Predict Wins, Buy Million Dollar Players & Win Fantasy League Bets
Presented by Sounders Director of Soccer Analytics,
Ravi Ramineni
MoneyBall in professional soccer, Sounders style.
Get a rare inside look at professional soccer and sports presented by the brain trust at our very own Seattle Sounders… applying Moneyball-style performance analytics to soccer. If you are a soccer fan, a parent, a player, a coach, or a fantasy league fanatic, this talk will be fun and fascinating ! Ask all the questions you want!
Do the Sounders know the secrets? Their 2018 twelve game undefeated streak was one of the longest in league history.
Register Here (if you when there are enough seats)
Health and well-being company Humana Inc. will host a series of free community events starting in March at Tacoma Mall to educate Tacoma area residents on health and wellness.
The Humana pop-up location will offer free health and wellness classes that are open to anyone in the community, such as healthy snack and smoothie demonstrations, crafting classes, diabetes education, and SilverSneakers® Fitness Program demonstrations. Customer service representatives will also be available to answer questions on Humana health plans.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
o 10 a.m.: Crafting: Lucky charm gratitude tree
o 11 a.m.: Six secrets to losing weight
o 12 p.m.: Seasonal allergies: Relief from wheezing and sneezing
o 1 p.m.: Fruits and veggies: Color yourself healthy
o 2 p.m.: Healthy snack demo: Fruit parfait
Health and well-being company Humana Inc. will host a series of free community events starting in March at Tacoma Mall to educate Tacoma area residents on health and wellness.
The Humana pop-up location will offer free health and wellness classes that are open to anyone in the community, such as healthy snack and smoothie demonstrations, crafting classes, diabetes education, and SilverSneakers® Fitness Program demonstrations. Customer service representatives will also be available to answer questions on Humana health plans.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
o 10 a.m.: Crafting: Laminated gratitude bookmarks
o 11 a.m.: Protein: Are you getting enough?
o 12 p.m.: Healthy snack demo: High-protein recipes
o 1 p.m.: Positive thinking: When life gives us lemons
o 2 p.m.: Bingo
Prajnaparamita is the female Buddha of profound wisdom. The empowerment is a blissful guided meditation through which we receive wisdom blessings directly from Prajnaparamita’s enlightened mind, empowering us to experience deep healing and real inner progress. In the empowerment and ensuing commentary, Gen Kelsang Wangpo will teach the Buddhist tantric practice known as self-generation. Applying this brief practice to our own life will draw us ever closer to the enlightened qualities of wisdom, love, compassion, and joy.
We all have the potential for these enlightened qualities. To fulfill our potential we need to develop profound wisdom that realizes the true nature of things. We also need to receive the inspiring blessings of the enlightened beings, the Buddhas. The meditations of this blessing empowerment will help us to transform in this meaningful way.
Typically we view ourselves in a very fixed way, relating to this sense of self as if it were our true nature. This view can make us feel that we can’t change, improve, or become a better person. Our limitations seem an intrinsic part of our nature (“it’s just who I am”).
Buddha’s teachings reveal that all our suffering and unhappiness arise because of this completely mistaken view. Following the profound wisdom we gain in the empowerment and corresponding self-generation practice we can discover our true nature and realize that the only limitations we have are the ones created by our minds of confusion. Our limitations are illusory and self-imposed. Training in Prajnaparamita’s wisdom clears this confusion, allowing us to discover and experience our true nature – an enlightened nature.
Everyone is welcome.
$55, pre-registration is available
Schedule:
Registration 9 – 10 am
Empowerment 10 am – 12 pm
Lunch 12 – 1:30 pm
Commentary 1:30 – 3:00 pm
Break 3:00 – 3:30 pm
Commentary with Practice of Yoga of Great Mother Prajnaparamita 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Health and well-being company Humana Inc. will host a series of free community events starting in March at Tacoma Mall to educate Tacoma area residents on health and wellness.
The Humana pop-up location will offer free health and wellness classes that are open to anyone in the community, such as healthy snack and smoothie demonstrations, crafting classes, diabetes education, and SilverSneakers® Fitness Program demonstrations. Customer service representatives will also be available to answer questions on Humana health plans.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
o 10 a.m.: Crafting: Decorate picture frames
o 11 a.m.: Diabetes: Why sugar matters
o 12 p.m.: March birthday social
o 1 p.m.: Sugar: The not so sweet truth
o 2 p.m.: Bingo
Love is the supreme medicine. In Buddhism, love is a mind that wishes others to be happy, a mind that has immense good qualities, a mind that is perfected with practice both in and out of meditation. By relying on the instructions of the great Geshe Langri Tangpa, who explained how to easily train in loving-kindness, we will strive to improve our own experience of this supreme medicine.
Join us as we navigate the path that leads to personal and universal freedom and happiness. We will learn how to tap into our love, overcome obstacles to our love, and increase our capacity to love more deeply and broadly. We can all benefit from these teachings.
Everyone is welcome regardless of experience.
About the Event
Imagination is a powerful tool for visualizing desired outcomes. Imagining an assembly of Buddhas in what is called the Field of Merit gives us an opportunity to develop a unique relationship with these holy beings, bringing about extraordinary personal transformation. This practice is the basis of many Buddhist rituals for purifying negativity and accumulating positive energy, or merit. Come learn how to have meaningful and transformative experiences simply by developing the power of imagination.
This course, led by Gen Khedrub from Seattle and Gen Wangpo from Olympia, provides an opportunity to hear different perspectives on Buddha’s teachings and enjoy coming together with others in the Pacific Northwest community of Kadampas. Everyone is welcome to stay for the two-hour Offering to the Spiritual Guide practice that starts at 3:30pm.
About the Teachers
Gen Kelsang Khedrub, a Western Buddhist monk, is the Resident Teacher at Kadampa Meditation Center Washington in Seattle. He has been studying and practicing Kadampa Buddhism under Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s guidance for many years. His heartfelt teachings are presented with clarity and humor that make them accessible to everyone. Through his kindness, humility and deep understanding of Buddha’s teachings, Gen Khedrub provides an inspiring example of a contemporary Buddhist practitioner we can follow.
Gen Kelsang Wangpo is the Resident Teacher at Tushita Kadampa Buddhist Center in Olympia and Tacoma, and is a close disciple of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. He presents Buddha’s teachings with warmth and clarity and is appreciated for his loving kindness and his inspiring example of a modern Buddhist practitioner.
Cost
$35, includes a delicious vegetarian lunch ($20 for supporters of Kadampa Meditation Center WA and Tushita Kadampa Buddhist Center).
Retreat Schedule
Session 1 – 9:00-10:15am
Session 2 – 11:00am-12:15pm
Lunch – 12:30-1:30pm
Session 3 – 1:45-3:00pm
Offering to the Spiritual Guide – 3:30-5:30pm