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.

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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January – February 2023 Jan – Feb 2023
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Jan
29
Sun
PO BOY TANGO @ Tacoma Little Theatre
Tickets
Jan 29 @ 2:00 pm

A celebration of the human spirit and the joy of cooking.

Po Boy Tango tells the story of Richie Po, a Taiwanese immigrant who turns to his estranged friend Gloria, an African-American Soul Food Chef, to help him recreate his mother’s ‘Great Banquet’. Despite the challenges of shark fin soup, duck po boy sandwiches, and underlying cultural tensions, they find common ground through their shared humor and the blending of traditional Chinese cuisine and African-American soul food. Helped by lessons from Po Mama’s television cooking show, the two discover a deeper understanding of food, culture, and the nature of friendship.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Theater Performances Tags: tacoma little theatre Theater theatre theatre arts
Feb
2
Thu
PO BOY TANGO-Pay What You Can Night! @ Tacoma Little Theatre
Tickets
Feb 2 @ 7:30 pm

A celebration of the human spirit and the joy of cooking.

Po Boy Tango tells the story of Richie Po, a Taiwanese immigrant who turns to his estranged friend Gloria, an African-American Soul Food Chef, to help him recreate his mother’s ‘Great Banquet’. Despite the challenges of shark fin soup, duck po boy sandwiches, and underlying cultural tensions, they find common ground through their shared humor and the blending of traditional Chinese cuisine and African-American soul food. Helped by lessons from Po Mama’s television cooking show, the two discover a deeper understanding of food, culture, and the nature of friendship.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Theater Performances Tags: tacoma little theatre Theater theatre theatre arts
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
3
Fri
PO BOY TANGO @ Tacoma Little Theatre
Tickets
Feb 3 @ 7:30 pm

A celebration of the human spirit and the joy of cooking.

Po Boy Tango tells the story of Richie Po, a Taiwanese immigrant who turns to his estranged friend Gloria, an African-American Soul Food Chef, to help him recreate his mother’s ‘Great Banquet’. Despite the challenges of shark fin soup, duck po boy sandwiches, and underlying cultural tensions, they find common ground through their shared humor and the blending of traditional Chinese cuisine and African-American soul food. Helped by lessons from Po Mama’s television cooking show, the two discover a deeper understanding of food, culture, and the nature of friendship.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Theater Performances Tags: tacoma little theatre Theater theatre theatre arts
Feb
4
Sat
PO BOY TANGO @ Tacoma Little Theatre
Tickets
Feb 4 @ 7:30 pm

A celebration of the human spirit and the joy of cooking.

Po Boy Tango tells the story of Richie Po, a Taiwanese immigrant who turns to his estranged friend Gloria, an African-American Soul Food Chef, to help him recreate his mother’s ‘Great Banquet’. Despite the challenges of shark fin soup, duck po boy sandwiches, and underlying cultural tensions, they find common ground through their shared humor and the blending of traditional Chinese cuisine and African-American soul food. Helped by lessons from Po Mama’s television cooking show, the two discover a deeper understanding of food, culture, and the nature of friendship.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Theater Performances Tags: tacoma little theatre Theater theatre theatre arts
Feb
5
Sun
PO BOY TANGO – ALS Interpreted Performance @ Tacoma Little Theatre
Tickets
Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm

A celebration of the human spirit and the joy of cooking.

Po Boy Tango tells the story of Richie Po, a Taiwanese immigrant who turns to his estranged friend Gloria, an African-American Soul Food Chef, to help him recreate his mother’s ‘Great Banquet’. Despite the challenges of shark fin soup, duck po boy sandwiches, and underlying cultural tensions, they find common ground through their shared humor and the blending of traditional Chinese cuisine and African-American soul food. Helped by lessons from Po Mama’s television cooking show, the two discover a deeper understanding of food, culture, and the nature of friendship.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Theater Performances Tags: tacoma little theatre Theater theatre theatre arts
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
23
Thu
Baldwin vs Buckley Debate @ Washington State History Museum
Tickets
Feb 23 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

“Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?”

This was the topic on February 18, 1965, when an overflow crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to bear witness to a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America’s most influential conservative intellectual.

The stage was set for an epic confrontation that pitted Baldwin’s call for a moral revolution in race relations against Buckley’s unabashed elitism and implicit commitment to the status quo. This historic clash reveals the deep roots and lasting legacy of racial conflict that continues to haunt America. The objective of restaging this historic debate is to bring back their words and ideas 55 years later so that we may consider our current position and what steps we must take to overcome systemic racism, white supremacy, and overt inequity.

Pierce County Events Calendar


Student tickets must be purchased in person or by calling the Box Office at 253.346.1721

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Education Theater Performances Tags: #downtowntacoma black history civil rights james baldwin tacoma arts live Washington State History Museum wiliam buckley
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
January – February 2023 Jan – Feb 2023