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
Agenda
September – October 2019 Sep – Oct 2019
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Sep
24
Tue
Hey Singers! 
Tickets
Sep 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Hey Singers! 

Hey, Singers, be our guest to explore Tacoma’s largest a capella chorus in the barbershop style at 7 pm, every Tuesday. Join us at 602 N. Orchard. tacomavocalstandard@gmail.com or Facebook: TacomaVocalStandard

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Arts and Entertainment Music Concerts
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
27
Fri
Happy Hour Floats @ Uncharted Waters Float Center
Tickets
Sep 27 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Originally developed in the 1950s as a way to study consciousness and brain activity, floating has become a respected health practice. With benefits ranging from pain relief and stress reduction to improved focus and mental clarity, it’s no surprise that floating has attracted the interest of athletes, artists, meditators, and military personnel alike. Floating offers a healthy, drug-free way to feel and be your very best.

“The cure for anything is saltwater: sweat, tears, or the sea.” -Isak Dinesen

Join us for happy hour every Friday evening from 4:00 p.m. to close!

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Tags: floating uncharted waters
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
1
Tue
Hey Singers! 
Tickets
Oct 1 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Hey Singers! 

Hey, Singers, be our guest to explore Tacoma’s largest a capella chorus in the barbershop style at 7 pm, every Tuesday. Join us at 602 N. Orchard. tacomavocalstandard@gmail.com or Facebook: TacomaVocalStandard

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Arts and Entertainment Music Concerts
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
Happy Hour Floats @ Uncharted Waters Float Center
Tickets
Oct 4 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Originally developed in the 1950s as a way to study consciousness and brain activity, floating has become a respected health practice. With benefits ranging from pain relief and stress reduction to improved focus and mental clarity, it’s no surprise that floating has attracted the interest of athletes, artists, meditators, and military personnel alike. Floating offers a healthy, drug-free way to feel and be your very best.

“The cure for anything is saltwater: sweat, tears, or the sea.” -Isak Dinesen

Join us for happy hour every Friday evening from 4:00 p.m. to close!

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Tags: floating uncharted waters
Laughing Mater Presents Bri Pruett @ Alma Mater
Tickets
Oct 4 @ 8:00 pm

We’re back with our October installment of Laughing Mater!

Host:
Jaci Terjeson
Jaci is a Tacoma based comedian that travels around the PNW sharing far too much with complete strangers. She’s often seen giving unsolicited parenting advice and telling people they have something in their teeth. Jaci is a regular host in clubs and showcases around the Seattle area, and competed in the 2019 Comedy on Trial at Punchline Comedy.

Featuring:
Andy Iwancio
Andy is a transgender gal comedian from Seattle who is a regular at the Comedy Nest, Five Quarters Funny, and Comedy Crater. She has opened for Riley Silverman, James Adomian, and Cameron Esposito.

Rachel Laurendeau
Rachel was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington and got her start in comedy in Olympia while she attended The Evergreen State College. Now based out of Tacoma, Rachel works with children by day and entertains the bar crowds by night. Rachel produces a clean comedy showcase called Wholesome HaHas and co-produces various comedy events at Honey Studios in Tacoma. Rachel’s comedy is versatile and approachable with a generous sprinkling of sass. Rachel recently placed second in Seattle’s yearly Comedy on Trial competition and was selected to compete in the Western Oregon Comedy Competition.

Cameron Mazzuca
Lovable bearded everyman Cameron Mazzuca gets excited onstage. It’s because he’s happy to be doing what he loves, and probably also because he had too much Diet Coke. Born in the City of Destiny, Tacoma, and raised everywhere, he’s become a regular on comedy club stages in Seattle as well as festivals like Folklife, Bumbershoot and venues across the Pacific Northwest. His infectious enthusiasm and goshdarn good-Italian-boy friendliness will win you over in a big way.

Headlining:
Bri Pruett
Bri Pruett is a stand-up comic and improviser from Portland, Oregon, living in Los Angeles, California. Her TedxTalk on beauty standards dropped in 2018. In 2017, she was featured on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle. In 2016 she won the Willamette Week reader’s poll for Best Comedian in Portland. Splitsider.com has named her a “comic-to-watch.”

She’s appeared on Dan Savage’s Savage Lovecast, Doug Loves Movies and NPR’s Live Wire. Her live festival appearances include: TBA Festival, Bridgetown, Riot LA, SF Sketch Fest, All Jane Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot and more. She also makes regular appearances at comedy clubs across the country; although Portland’s Helium Comedy Club will always be her home.

Her solo show, STELLAR, debuted in Portland in 2016; later it was accepted into the 2018 Bootleg Solo Queens Festival in Los Angeles. It’s been called, “Unaplogetically feminine…” and “Body-positive, pro-self love and pro-female sexuality… overtly feminist and feel-good.”

Bri has shared her time as a comedian and MC to several non-profit/arts organizations: Kollaboration, NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon, Planned Parenthood advocates of Oregon, JOIN, and The Portland Art Museum.

Tickets in advance $15
Tickets at the door $18
Doors at 7PM
Show at 8PM
18+
Sponsored by the best weed shop in town Mary Mart!

Jaci Terjeson
https://www.facebook.com/jaciterjeson/

Rachel Laurendeau

Cameron Mazucca

Andy Iwancio
https://www.facebook.com/andyiwancio/

Bri Pruett
https://twitter.com/364268828898758658
https://bripruett.com/

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Arts and Entertainment Tags: Comedy Night Comedy Show date night downtown tacoma local artists
Oct
5
Sat
The 2nd Annual Sustainability Summit for South Sound Women in Business @ RAIN Incubator
Tickets
Oct 5 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

The 2nd Annual Sustainability Summit for South Sound Women in Business is Oct 5, 9-4 in downtown Tacoma! Topics include financial sustainability, environmental
equity, greening your purchases, branding your sustainable business, building community, and more! Tickets are sliding scale and all levels of registration include coffee + keynotes + breakout sessions + vegan/gluten free lunch + more! This
event is open to anyone who identifies as a woman or nobinary person.

Registration, volunteer and financial aid: https://www.allisonbishins.com/register/conference

For more information on speakers and details, check out:
https://www.facebook.com/events/779801159089734/

Questions? Email allisonbishins@gmail.com

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Categories: Women Focused Events Tags: branding community community building Empowering women Enviroment environmental equity financial planning small business sustainability women; businesswomen; networking; empower; sisterhood
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
September – October 2019 Sep – Oct 2019