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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A crisis always offers you the chance to learn something about yourself.
Join New York Times Bestselling author Jon Acuff as he explores four change moments that each of us experiences during a crisis and shares practical steps and inspiring insights to help you navigate this brave new world.
We all get to make a choice. Every day our loved ones and our communities are counting on us to make the right one.
Pivot, don’t panic.
Catch this LIVE program from the comfort and safety of your home on your computer or mobile device. For questions, contact us at tmn.northwest@thrivent.com.
No products will be sold. For more information visit Thrivent.com/social.
Thrivent is a membership-owned fraternal organization, as well as a holistic financial services organization, providing financial advice, investments, insurance, banking and generosity programs to help people make the most of all they’ve been given.
As you or your parents age, take time to talk and develop a strategy to transition with dignity and ease.
Gain a better understanding of the effect caregiving can have on relationships and finances, learn key information for supporting loved ones and tips for initiating healthy conversations with family members.
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No products will be sold.
Puget Sound is growing and housing prices are rising, displacing longtime residents and recent immigrants. How can communities strengthen ties and stay rooted? Co-op housing is one tool Forterra uses to lower the cost of home ownership in our community-driven real estate development projects, helping to keep community members in the neighborhoods they shaped.
Grab your favorite cold beverage and join Forterra on Tuesday, August 25, from 1 to 2 pm for the next discussion in our Coffee & Conversation series. Learn about co-op housing—what it is, how it works, and its history—and how Forterra is applying co-op housing to our work in Tukwila and Tacoma.
Hear from Forterra’s Vice President of Real Estate Transactions Toby Levey, Director of Real Estate Structuring Julie Howe, and Managing Director of Community Development Rebecca Wold Bouchey.
We are delighted to announce that the LeMay Collections at Marymount will reopen September 12, 2020, to the public after being closed for several months due to COVID-19 restrictions. In preparation for the grand opening event, the museum received a deep cleaning and several social distancing improvements. We installed one-way signs, sanitation stations, and a new system that allows for self-guided tours.
Experience of more than 500 vintage vehicles and memorabilia. Self-guided tours will start every 15 minutes from 9 am to 3 pm, and guided tours will also be available at 10 am, 1 pm, and 3 pm. The first 50 museum patrons will receive a fun-filled Goody bag, including a chance to win a VIP LeMay Private Garage Tour package for up to 10 guests, valued at $500!
To help celebrate our grand opening, we are hosting an “Open Air Bazaar” featuring over seventy-five local vendors and crafters. Tents will be spaced for your safety and an excellent opportunity to support local businesses and find great deals and perhaps get in some early holiday shopping. If you feel adventurous, you can take a Model-T ride through the hills and fields of the Marymount estate.
The LeMay Collections at Marymount is dedicated to preservation, education, exhibition, and community engagement through automobiles, memorabilia, fine arts, and historical collections at the historic Marymount Military Academy. From its roots as the original automotive collection of Harold & Nancy LeMay, started in the 1960?s, the LeMay Collections at Marymount is an expression of the continued growth of the LeMay Collections and a desire from the community to preserve the history and stories of the Collections for future generations to enjoy and learn from.
Celebrate National Latinx Heritage Month with storyteller Liz Mangual. Celebre el Mes Nacional de la Herencia Latinx con la cuentacuentos Liz Mangual.
Liz will enchant listeners of all ages with her signature style of participatory storytelling, weaving together a tapestry of bilingual tales from around the world.
Saturday, September 19, 2 pm (stories for ages 4 – 7)
Saturday, September 26, 2 pm (stories for ages 8 and up)
Celebre el Mes Nacional de la Herencia Latinx con la cuentacuentos Liz Mangual mientras encanta a los oyentes de todas las edades con su estilo característico de narración participativa, tejiendo un tapiz de cuentos bilingües de todo el mundo.
Sábado, 19 de septiembre, 2 pm (cuentos para niños de 4 a 7 años)
Sábado, 26 de septiembre, 2 pm (cuentos para mayores de 8 años)
Attendance will be available through Zoom. Please register now for the Zoom program. A link will be sent out 2 hours prior to the program. A recorded version of this program will be available on our website for 30 days post program.
How do Zoom programs work?
Register for the program.
A few hours before the program you will receive an email from the Pierce County Library System with a Zoom link and phone login information.
When the Zoom program is scheduled to begin, log in and enjoy the program.
If you are having trouble logging into the program simply reply to the email you received with the Zoom login information and ask for help.
The Pierce County Library recommends using the latest version of Zoom, with all current updates. Check for the latest version by clicking here.
The Library System expects that all participants in Library virtual events and classes follow the Library Rules of Conduct. If an individual does not follow the Rules of Conduct, the library has the right to ask that individual to leave the virtual program.
If you have registered for the event and are having trouble accessing the event, please email VirtualPCLS@pcls.us.
Public Notice & Disclaimer
During this program, you may be using a third-party platform, Zoom, for the purpose of communication, collaboration, projects, etc. This service may collect some personally identifying information about you, such as name, username, email address, and password. This service will treat the information it collects about you pursuant to its own privacy policy, which can be found here: Zoom Privacy Policy.
Celebrate National Latinx Heritage Month with storyteller Liz Mangual. Celebre el Mes Nacional de la Herencia Latinx con la cuentacuentos Liz Mangual.
Liz will enchant listeners of all ages with her signature style of participatory storytelling, weaving together a tapestry of bilingual tales from around the world.
Saturday, September 19, 2 pm (stories for ages 4 – 7)
Saturday, September 26, 2 pm (stories for ages 8 and up)
Celebre el Mes Nacional de la Herencia Latinx con la cuentacuentos Liz Mangual mientras encanta a los oyentes de todas las edades con su estilo característico de narración participativa, tejiendo un tapiz de cuentos bilingües de todo el mundo.
Sábado, 19 de septiembre, 2 pm (cuentos para niños de 4 a 7 años)
Sábado, 26 de septiembre, 2 pm (cuentos para mayores de 8 años)
Attendance will be available through Zoom. Please register now for the Zoom program. A link will be sent out 2 hours prior to the program. A recorded version of this program will be available on our website for 30 days post program.
How do Zoom programs work?
Register for the program.
A few hours before the program you will receive an email from the Pierce County Library System with a Zoom link and phone login information.
When the Zoom program is scheduled to begin, log in and enjoy the program.
If you are having trouble logging into the program simply reply to the email you received with the Zoom login information and ask for help.
The Pierce County Library recommends using the latest version of Zoom, with all current updates. Check for the latest version by clicking here.
The Library System expects that all participants in Library virtual events and classes follow the Library Rules of Conduct. If an individual does not follow the Rules of Conduct, the library has the right to ask that individual to leave the virtual program.
If you have registered for the event and are having trouble accessing the event, please email VirtualPCLS@pcls.us.
Public Notice & Disclaimer
During this program, you may be using a third-party platform, Zoom, for the purpose of communication, collaboration, projects, etc. This service may collect some personally identifying information about you, such as name, username, email address, and password. This service will treat the information it collects about you pursuant to its own privacy policy, which can be found here: Zoom Privacy Policy.
What does the future hold for the South Sound? Join Forterra on September 29 for a series of discussions on community and conservation work in the South Sound. Learn about work happening now and new opportunities for the year ahead. Hold time on your calendar for a free virtual coffee talk on conservation, a panel discussion on envisioning the future (featuring three South Sound emerging leaders), and a happy hour on Forterra’s work in the Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma. These events are FREE and entirely virtual.
Register online.
Thursday, October 15, 7:00pm
Domestic Violence Awareness Month online discussion
Standing up for women’s lives
Learn from two experiences of the ongoing, global epidemic of violence against women. Cheryl Jones, a Metro driver, will tell how she was immediately labeled as the offender after a boyfriend attacked her, a scenario that often happens to Black women. Sarah Scott, an advocate on the New Beginnings Help Line, will discuss how the Covid pandemic has increased dangers to people at risk of intimate partner violence. The speakers’ message: feminists must keep fighting for ourselves, our sisters, and our right to a system that protects the vulnerable, rather than punishing survivors. Everyone welcome.
Register at https://tinyurl.com/OctRadWom
Sponsored by Radical Women
For more information: RWseattle@mindspring.com • www.facebook.com/RWseattle • 206-722-6057
On Monday, Oct. 26, novelist Colson Whitehead will deliver the Susan Resneck Pierce Lecture in Public Affairs and the Arts. Twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Underground Railroad? and The Nickel Boys, Mr. Whitehead also is a winner of the? Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and the Orwell Prize for political fiction. This event, originally scheduled for April of this year, is free and open to all members of the Puget Sound community. Mr. Whitehead will deliver the lecture remotely.
Following the lecture, Mr. Whitehead will engage in conversation with Professors Monica DeHart and Priti Joshi, joint holders of the James A. Dolliver Professorship.
Susan Resneck Pierce Lecture in Public Affairs Featuring Colson Whitehead:
Monday, Oct. 26, at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://pugetsound-edu.zoom.us/j/95578521498
Webinar ID: 955 7852 1498
Attendance is limited. Please plan to log-in early to ensure admittance.
Explorations: Steilacoom Library Speaker Series
Join us virtually, as UW English professor Michelle Liu discusses how two great works of fiction have fundamentally changed our country’s outlook on race, morality and humanity.
Pierce County Library and Humanities Washington, in partnership with the Steilacoom Historical Museum, welcome you to this compelling conversation.
Ask who Atticus Finch is, and most will remember him from high school English as the heroic lawyer defending an unjustly charged African-American man in To Kill a Mockingbird. Ever since Harper Lee imagined him into life in 1960, the name “Atticus Finch” has become shorthand for a person who acts according to their conscience, not majority rule.
This talk delves into the many ways our country is deeply shaped by Harper Lee, as well as by the best-selling author who lived in the century before her—Harriet Beecher Stowe. Using To Kill a Mockingbird and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin—the novel largely credited with moving the United States into the Civil War—Michelle Liu invites participants to think about how these two works of fiction still fundamentally shape, as well as limit, how we think about skin color, morality, and who counts as human. How can fiction help us imagine building more empathy and openness to those with experiences different from our own?
Michelle Liu is a professor in the English department at the University of Washington, where she specializes in teaching writing and exploring ideas about identity, history, emotion, and storytelling.
Please register to attend this event. A link to the Zoom meeting will be sent via email on the day of the event.