Pierce County Events Calendar
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We are hosting a very special, relevant Monday Night Lecture series during September, October, and November. We have one class a month that covers an important topic that relates to our daily life.
In September we are looking at anxiety and how we can find a way to reduce our fretful feelings. As the summer winds down, we often have a lot of reasons to feel anxious, and with this class, we can have tools to oppose that anxiety. This practical class is open to everyone.
The goal of spiritual practice is to attain a stainless life where no negativity arises. Spiritual practice is easy, we simply eliminate our current inner problems until there is none left. The way to accomplish this result is by practically working with our situation right now. Our daily life is a great indicator of what we need to emphasize for us to secure lasting happiness. Join us as we make progress on the spiritual path by addressing some very common problems that we daily experience.
Anxiety is perhaps the greatest hindrance of our current age. Fortunately, this is also an easy problem to solve by contemplating and meditating on Buddhist wisdom. Come find out for yourself how easy it is to tackle the problem of anxiety with correct ways of thinking.
Class fee is $12. Reduced rates are available for students, seniors, and unemployed.
Everyone is Welcome
Business growth starts with ONE THING! Attend this evening’s F.E.S.T. [Female Entrepreneur Success Tuesday] and get an introduction to how can you uncover your ONE THING.
Women’s Resource NW invites you to join our guest speaker: Rebecca Jones, Mastery Business Coach
Includes: Social with snacks & beverages from 5:30-6:00.
Speaker/program begins at 6:00 pm. Bring your business cards! Free Parking.
Interested in being sponsor and having a showcase table? $25 for member/$35 non members. ONLY 2 sponsors per event. Table and tablecloth provided. You may show, sell and giveaway marketing materials. Sponsorship also includes 2-3 minute speaking opportunity.
Takeaways:
1. Have clarity and confidence in your ability to achieve your goals this year.
2. Understand the relationship between your activities and results in 2019 and have clear metrics to measure your progress as you plan with 2020 vision.
3. Be armed with a plan to make up the gap on the goals that matter the most to you and effectively prioritize the rest of 2019.
Plus!
Rebecca Jones will be setting up for “The ONE Thing” conversation book club to start the week after our meeting.
Trap shooting is an Olympic sport within competitive clay pigeon shooting. Come learn from trained professionals and watch fellow shooters compete for medals at this fundraiser for UW Tacoma’s veteran entrepreneurship center. Spectators can join for lunch at this family-friendly event.
PLAYZONE WORKSHOP
This workshop will be a high energy playful exploration into various ways to have fun using theater games for acting, clowning, solo and ensemble work. Great for beginners, playful fun makers and actors who are in the game. You will leave feeling like a more well-rounded performer. It’s like a performance workout and everybody is welcome!
Led by Rachel Lionheart and Michelle Matlock.
For more details visit http://circleup.fun and register online.
$12 per person
Must Register to attend http://circleup.fun
Please contact info@circleup.fun to arrange alternative payment methods.
When:
Thursdays
September 12th & 19th and October 3rd & 10th
7pm-9pm
Ages: 18+
Where:
Tacoma Dance Studios
1127 Broadway Suite 204
Tacoma, WA 98402
Come out, eat, drink and be entertained by the cast of Madams of the Northwest. This female illusion show brings back the good old days of how entertainment in saloons used to be. Featuring some of the most talented drag queens from all over the Pacific Northwest, each performer will seduce you with their own unique personalities.
Get your tickets today!
Open Seating: $50 (plus tax + fee per ticket) includes Brunch Buffet
VIP Reserved Seating: $75 (plus tax + fee per ticket) includes Brunch Buffet, Bottomless Mimosas, a picture with the cast & reserved seats at tables closer to the stage.
Buy your tickets online at www.MadamsNW.com.
Tickets are not refundable.
21+ years old only
Event located at the
Pacific Grill Events Center
1530 Pacific Ave.
Tacoma, WA 98402
Held annually in more than 600 communities nationwide, the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s® is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research. This inspiring event calls on participants of all ages and abilities to join the fight against the disease!
PLAYZONE WORKSHOP
Playzone is a unique workshop designed by utilizing different techniques for performance education. Playzone intertwines improv, games, movement, and acting to develop performance skills. It is a high energy & playful exploration that can enrich performance whether it’s for acting, clowning, solo or ensemble work. This is a great workshop for anyone interested in learning some performing techniques for fun or beginners or advanced performers. It’s been a proven workshop to bring out the laughter while also learning! We can guarantee the laughs!! Ages 18 and up!
Led by Rachel Lionheart and Michelle Matlock.
For more details visit http://circleup.fun and register online.
$12 per person
Must Register to attend http://circleup.fun
Please contact info@circleup.fun to arrange alternative payment methods.
When:
Thursdays
September 12th & 19th October 3rd & 10th
7pm-9pm
**NO CLASS ON September 26TH (Thursday)**
Ages: 18+
Where:
Tacoma Dance Studios
1127 Broadway Suite 204
Tacoma, WA 98402
About Rachel:
Rachel Lionheart is a performance artist, actor, and writer. Born in the Northwest and a graduate of New York University’s (NYU) Experimental Theater Wing, renowned for its interdisciplinary approach.
Drawing from her studies in physical theater at NYU and mindfulness practices at The Shambhala Meditation Center of NY, Rachel facilitates workshops and masterclasses on improvisation, acting, and story-telling that is rooted in presence, physicality, and vulnerability.
About Michelle:
Michelle Matlock is a teacher, creator, performer, and director. She is a native of Washington State, where she studied theater at Western Washington University for three years and then went on to graduate from the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York City. She spent 15 years in New York acting, teaching, creating shows and producing. Her one-woman shows “The Mammy Project”, has been produced in New York and all over North and South America. Most recently she created the role of Ladybug for Cirque Du Soleil’s touring show “OVO”.
Currently, Michelle lives in Tacoma, WA and is the founder of Circle Up Productions. CUP is a live entertainment and performance education company focused on making the residents of Tacoma laugh, play, think, explore, and smile through theater arts, circus arts, workshops, and events.
Contact Email: info@circleup.fun
Website: https://www.michellenicolematlock.com/circle-up-fun
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Join us for this important film that tells the story of orca scientists, local citizens, tribal members, and others who have been working to protect orca by restoring the salmon they depend on.
Tickets are donation based and available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dammed-to-extinction-film-screening-tickets-68363556237
Please register a “ticket” for each person in your group so that we can have an accurate count of attendees.
No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. Donations are greatly appreciated as the help support expenses of this screening as well as enable us to bring the film to more people!
6:00 Doors open
6:30 Film screening
7:30 Post-screening discussion
For centuries, three unique pods of killer whales have thrived off the coast of Washington, spending summers in the interior waters of the Salish Sea, feasting on chinook salmon. For the past 50 years, these orcas’ presence has thrilled and fascinated people–biologists, tourists, and unsuspecting boaters and fishermen. But chinook salmon are in trouble–with less than one percent of their historic abundance in the Pacific Northwest. The beloved local orca whales’ fate has followed the salmon. Dams have been the main culprit behind salmons’ demise. A broad and growing coalition of scientists, economists, conservationists, and citizens say removing the worst fish killing dams is the best chance we have to bring abundant runs of salmon and the orca that rely on them.
The timing of this film – and its urgent call to action – could not be better. Northwest salmon and Southern Resident orcas need our help today. Citizens regionally and nationally are calling for bold leadership and urgent action. Northwest elected officials have begun to step up and advocate for some big changes to restore our salmon, protect our orcas and invest in our communities. Restoring the lower Snake River and its chinook salmon populations by removing its four costly and out-dated dams is our biggest river/salmon restoration opportunity on anywhere on the West Coast.
Learn more and view a preview at www.dammedtoextinction.com
Co-sponsored by Sierra Club, Earth Justice, Orca Conservancy, Defenders of Wildlife, National Wildlife Federation, and The Point Defiance American Association of Zoo Keepers.
WALK to Prevent Homelessness Saturday, Sept. 28th at Wright Park in Tacoma and take STEPS to help keep families in their homes.
St. Vincent de Paul’s HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION PROGRAM helps our Neighbors in Need by funding basic needs, such as rent & utilities.
Register Today! Sign up as a Walker, or Join a Team or Conference. It’s family-friendly and all are welcome.
Did you know? Last year, SVdP provided more than $430,000 in direct financial assistance to more than 17,000 families in Pierce County. Blessings!
The 30th Annual Nisqually Watershed Festival is an annual celebration of nature featuring art, discovery, music and family fun. The Festival includes live performances, displays from local organizations, walking tours, the Insect Extravaganza, a salmon barbecue and other great coffee and food options. Watch a salmon dissection, listen to traditional stories, learn about raptors, bears, and bugs, tour the Refuge trails or Nisqually Nearshore, make a salmon lifecycle keychain and other crafts, and bring a t-shirt to make a fish print with a Nisqually salmon!
Entrance is free all day! Festival parking will be at River Ridge High School, 350 River Ridge Drive, Lacey, with a shuttle to the Refuge running every 15 minutes.