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

Our editors will review and post within a few business days.

Agenda
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September – October 2019 Sep – Oct 2019
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Sep
26
Thu
Dammed to Extinction Film Screening @ The Grand Cinema
Tickets
Sep 26 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

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.

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Categories: Family Events Local Government Local History Workshops, Classes and Lectures Tags: documentary environment film film screening orca rivers salmon
Sep
28
Sat
Nisqually Watershed Festival @ Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
Tickets
Sep 28 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

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.

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Categories: Education Family Events Food & Beverage Local History Outdoor Recreation
Oct
4
Fri
Oktoberfest Northwest @ WA State Fair Events Center in Puyallup
Tickets
Oct 4 @ 12:00 pm – 11:45 pm

Washington’s Largest Munich-style Oktoberfest celebration with German Biers, brats, entertainment, games & more.
Non-stop live entertainment and German biers in two themed Festhalles: the Munich Festhalle, and the Bavarian Festhalle, plus Weiner Dog Races, Stein Dash 5K, Sports Haus, Bavarian Bier-lympics, Root Beer Garden, German food, and the Northwest’s exclusive Hammerschlagen® Tournament of Champions!

Rain or Shine – We’re Indoors!

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Categories: Festivals, Expos, and Parades Food & Beverage Tags: beer food & beverage German market Music
Oct
5
Sat
Fife Harvest Festival @ Dacca Park
Tickets
Oct 5 @ 10:30 am – 5:00 pm

The City of Fife Harvest Festival is a celebration of all things fall with an emphasis on free entertainment and activities for the whole family. There is free apple cider, hot dogs and corn-on-the-cob for attendees. There are a variety of free events and activities, including face painting, balloon art, a petting zoo, hay wagon rides, a bouncy house, pony rides, squash bowling, kid-friendly craft activities, an apple squeeze, live entertainment and a free parade that begins at 10:30 a.m. with all activities and events to follow. For more information, visit https://www.cityoffife.org/275/Harvest-Festival or call 253-896-8657.

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Categories: Festivals, Expos, and Parades Tags: apple squeeze free hay rides petting zoo pony rides squash bowling
Oktoberfest Northwest @ WA State Fair Events Center in Puyallup
Tickets
Oct 5 @ 11:00 am – 11:45 pm

Washington’s Largest Munich-style Oktoberfest celebration with German Biers, brats, entertainment, games & more.
Non-stop live entertainment and German biers in two themed Festhalles: the Munich Festhalle, and the Bavarian Festhalle, plus Weiner Dog Races, Stein Dash 5K, Sports Haus, Bavarian Bier-lympics, Root Beer Garden, German food, and the Northwest’s exclusive Hammerschlagen® Tournament of Champions!

Rain or Shine – We’re Indoors!

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Categories: Festivals, Expos, and Parades Food & Beverage Tags: beer food & beverage German market Music
Oct
6
Sun
Oktoberfest Northwest @ WA State Fair Events Center in Puyallup
Tickets
Oct 6 @ 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

Washington’s Largest Munich-style Oktoberfest celebration with German Biers, brats, entertainment, games & more.
Non-stop live entertainment and German biers in two themed Festhalles: the Munich Festhalle, and the Bavarian Festhalle, plus Weiner Dog Races, Stein Dash 5K, Sports Haus, Bavarian Bier-lympics, Root Beer Garden, German food, and the Northwest’s exclusive Hammerschlagen® Tournament of Champions!

Rain or Shine – We’re Indoors!

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Categories: Festivals, Expos, and Parades Food & Beverage Tags: beer food & beverage German market Music
Oct
9
Wed
Stewardship Work Party at Mount Rainier Gateway Preserve @ Mount Rainier Gateway Preserve
Tickets
Oct 9 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

We will be removing invasive Himalayan blackberry from our Mount Rainier Gateway Protected Area. Himalayan blackberry is a nasty invasive that can quickly out-compete native vegetation and prevent it from growing. It’s important that we work to control the blackberry so our forests can thrive!
We will be working rain or shine, so please dress for the weather.
We will provide tools including gloves, coffee, water, and snacks.
We will be meeting at Ashford County Park. Please follow the Registration link and register to receive our exact meeting location and driving directions.

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Categories: Outdoor Recreation Volunteering and Community Enrichment Tags: community conservation service stewardship volunteer volunteering
Oct
12
Sat
Harvest Day in Tehaleh @ Tehaleh
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Oct 12 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

Named “Best of the South Sound,” Tehaleh’s Harvest Day returns for its 7th year with carnival rides, trail runs, face painting, a beer and wine garden, a vendor village and a dual zip line allowing two guests to race each other 30 feet in the air. Guests can celebrate autumn’s bounty with fall foliage and sips and snacks of the season at the food truck rodeo. This year also brings Tehaleh’s first-ever Fall Tour of Homes, where home shoppers can tour 30+ quick move-in, resale, and model homes on the same day and see why Tehaleh is Washington’s best-selling new-home community.

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Categories: Family Events Festivals, Expos, and Parades Kids Tags: family event festival kid friendly real estate
Oct
16
Wed
Ocean5 Cereal Challenge for World Food Day @ Ocean5
Tickets
Oct 16 @ 3:00 pm

On Oct 16, BRING IN ONE BOX OF CEREAL, GET A FREE LASER GAME at Ocean5! (Limit 1 free game per person). All boxes will be donated to GH FISH Food Bank.

Did you know that 11% or over 800 million people go hungry every day? And did you know there is an entire day dedicated to tackling world hunger?

World Food Day is celebrated annually on October 16th around the world. It’s a day to come together to declare a commitment to end worldwide hunger from our lifetime.

The Ocean5 and Table 47 team invite you to join us to support families in our own community. At Gig Harbor’s FISH Food Bank (http://www.ghpfish.org/), CEREAL is one of their most needed items in October. So, let’s collect as many as we can together!

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Categories: Volunteering and Community Enrichment Tags: laser tag worldfoodday
Oct
17
Thu
David Guterson, Turn Around Time Author Talk @ The Mountaineers Tacoma Program Center
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Oct 17 @ 7:00 pm

Join us as we welcome the award-winning author of “Snow Falling on Cedars” David Guterson for a reading and discussion of his new book-length poem “Turn Around Time: A Walking Poem for the Pacific Northwest” (Mountaineers Books). David’s newest work is a narrative poem in elegant verse about trails and hiking, wilderness and wonder, aging and myth that will appeal to lovers of literature and poetry as well as nature and the outdoors.

The book is wonderfully illustrated by Washington artist Justin Gibbens (www.justingibbens.com)

6:30 pm Social Half Hour
7:00 pm Author presentation and Q&A
8:15 pm Author Book Signing

This event is co-presented with King’s Books and The Mountaineers Tacoma Branch

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Categories: Author Talk Tags: hiking hiking trails literature nature outdoors Poetry The Cascades
September – October 2019 Sep – Oct 2019