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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December 2021 – March 2022 Dec 2021 – Mar 2022
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Dec
31
Fri
Hope for the Howlidays @ Humane Society of Tacoma and Pierce County
Tickets
Dec 31 all-day

Every year, thousands of shelter pets spend the holidays alone, longing for a forever home. We know you can’t adopt all of them, but you can still make a profound difference for animals in need at the Humane Society for Tacoma & Pierce County. While dogs, cats, and critters wait for their new families, you can let these fur babies know they haven’t been forgotten by sponsoring them during this festive time of year!

During this event, you can sponsor a shelter pet to bring comfort and joy to a homeless pet and also provide the food, safe housing, and medical care they need while they wait for their forever home.

Sponsor a shelter pet today!

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Categories: Family Events Home and Garden Seasonal and Holiday Events
Jan
1
Sat
25th Annual Model Train Festival @ Washington State History Museum
Tickets
Jan 1 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Friday, December 17, 2021 through Sunday, January 2, 2022.
Note: The museum is closed Dec. 24-25, open on Jan. 1.

Remember how it feels to see their eyes light up? Take your family and friends on a magical journey through the detailed world of model trains at the Washington State History Museum! Railroad clubs from around Puget Sound share their incredible layouts and every floor of the museum comes alive with trains. Train operators will be on hand for questions, the museum’s mascot Seymour History will make appearances, and we’ll have a seasonal photo backdrop for holiday selfies.
Museum occupancy will be limited during the Model Train Festival. Visitors for Model Train Festival are encouraged to purchase timed tickets in advance to guarantee a spot.
Get all the details and book your tickets at www.ModelTrainFestival.org.

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Categories: Festivals, Expos, and Parades Seasonal and Holiday Events
Jan
2
Sun
25th Annual Model Train Festival @ Washington State History Museum
Tickets
Jan 2 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Friday, December 17, 2021 through Sunday, January 2, 2022.
Note: The museum is closed Dec. 24-25, open on Jan. 1.

Remember how it feels to see their eyes light up? Take your family and friends on a magical journey through the detailed world of model trains at the Washington State History Museum! Railroad clubs from around Puget Sound share their incredible layouts and every floor of the museum comes alive with trains. Train operators will be on hand for questions, the museum’s mascot Seymour History will make appearances, and we’ll have a seasonal photo backdrop for holiday selfies.
Museum occupancy will be limited during the Model Train Festival. Visitors for Model Train Festival are encouraged to purchase timed tickets in advance to guarantee a spot.
Get all the details and book your tickets at www.ModelTrainFestival.org.

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Categories: Festivals, Expos, and Parades Seasonal and Holiday Events
Feb
18
Fri
Tacoma Arts Live presents: GROUNDED, by George Brant. @ Theater on the Square
Tickets
Feb 18 @ 7:30 pm

Confronted with the love of flying mixed with the challenge of fighting a war, female F-16 fighter pilot becomes pregnant. The Air Force grounds her from flying and reassigns her to the drone program in Nevada. Piloting remotely does not sit well. Mothering brings new connection and insight. She struggles to compartmentalize her existence as her two realities as Mother and Pilot become increasingly permeable. From the award-winning playwright George Brant. Performance contains adult language and themes. For complete performance schedule, visit website.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Theater Performances Tags: #tacoma Drama George Brant tacoma arts live Theater on the Square theatre
Feb
19
Sat
24th Annual Asia Pacific New Year Celebration @ McGavick Conference Center
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Feb 19 @ 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

Asia Pacific Cultural Center (APCC) will host their biggest annual event, the 24th Annual Asia Pacific New Year Celebration, in person at the McGavick Conference Center in Lakewood, Washington, on February 19, 2022, from 11:00am-6:00pm. Each year they feature a different country or culture as the host, and this year they are featuring China with its rich history and heritage. This annual event honors and celebrates the vibrant cultures of Asia and the Pacific Islands that APCC serves and represents here in Greater Puget Sound.

Audiences will see demonstrations from China, as well as Guam, Philippines, Fiji, Vietnam, Korea, Thailand, Samoa, Japan, and many other countries. Everyone who attends this day-long event will experience folk music and dances, exciting martial arts, delicious food, and many other wonderful cultural presentations. Attendees can visit many resource booths, cultural displays, food booths, and a variety of vendor tables. It is a FREE family-friendly event for all ages.

The day kicks off with the colorful Drum of All Nations during the Opening Ceremony. Then throughout the day the audience will see Hawaiian dance from Halau Naniloa Mana’oakamai Okeala Akua, Korean drums from Morning Star, traditional dance from the Indonesian Cultural Association, the Pierce College Taiko Drum Corps, and much more. For more details, please visit the APCC website at www.APCC96.org .

APCC is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization who represents and serves 47 countries with the mission to “bridge communities and generations through arts, culture, education, and business”. Washington is a wonderful kaleidoscope of races and ethnicities with more than 952,00 people who are Asian or Pacific Islander. The 24th Annual Asia Pacific New Year Celebration is one way for APCC to proudly honor the Asia Pacific people in our community.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Family Events Festivals, Expos, and Parades Seasonal and Holiday Events
Feb
24
Thu
Seed Paper class @ Payette's School of Dance
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Feb 24 @ 6:30 pm

Make your own Seed Paper
Spring will be here soon (hopefully). So join us for this fun class making your very own seed paper! Seed paper is fun to make and easy to grow. You can use your paper as a card or gift for a plant loving friend, or use it to grow your own wildflower garden. Choose from a variety of paper colors and seeds to make your very own unique creation. Paper takes at least 24 hours to dry, so please plan on either coming back to the studio to pick up your finished creation, or bring a towel and box to transport it home while wet. $10/person. Includes all supplies needed to make several sheets of seed paper to take home. Learners may make as many sheets as time allows.

Register at www.craftopiawa.com
Masks required at class

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Home and Garden
Mar
24
Thu
Tacoma Arts Live presents Anna in the Tropics: A Play by Nilo Cruz @ Theatre on the Square
Tickets
Mar 24 @ 7:30 pm

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, set in Ybor City, Florida, in 1929. Here, a cadre of Cuban-Americans, primarily female cigar factory laborers who hand roll each cigar await the arrival of their new lector, Juan Julian. The lector serves to entertain the workers by reading great stories. Most of the group is overjoyed by the presence of this new, handsome lector, but when he starts reading from the Russian classic, Anna Karenina, the scandalous lives of Tolstoy’s characters start to intertwine with the lives of his listeners. As Juan Julian reads, the hot, humid Florida summer strangely starts to resemble the cold Russian winter of Tolstoy. Infidelity, money problems, and violence spring to the surface as the owners and workers grapple with their new found understanding of life, love and business. For complete performance schedule and Covid-19 policy, visit website.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Theater Performances Tags: #tacoma Nilo Cruz tacoma arts live Theater on the Square theatre
Mar
25
Fri
Growing a Green Future: Land Use & Sustainability @ Zoom
Tickets
Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

From tree coverage & housing density to walkability & transit access, city design can make sustainable choices the easier option – or make them downright impossible. Join us as we explore how our land use policies and design choices inform the fight against climate change. This free virtual Friday Forum panel event will be held on March 25th from noon – 1:30 p.m. and will feature panelists Kristin Lynett (City of Tacoma Office of Sustainability), Steve Atkinson (City of Tacoma Planning Department), Mariana Sanchez Castillo (Washington Environmental Council), and Marquis Mason (Communities for a Healthy Bay).

Register in advance for this webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. A recording of the panel will be available on DOTG’s Facebook and YouTube accounts. Downtown On the Go’s annual Friday Forum series is a space to discuss transportation issues and opportunities in Tacoma, to recognize real challenges facing downtown commuters and residents, and to learn about new ideas in the transportation world. The 2022 forums are framed around the question what does it mean to be Home in Tacoma? and explore the intersection of housing and transportation as Tacoma looks towards significant housing policy updates.

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Categories: Local Government Local History Volunteering and Community Enrichment Workshops, Classes and Lectures Tags: #downtowntacoma #NorthTacoma #tacoma affordable housing ecology green talk walk tacoma
Tacoma Arts Live presents Anna in the Tropics: A Play by Nilo Cruz @ Theatre on the Square
Tickets
Mar 25 @ 7:30 pm

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, set in Ybor City, Florida, in 1929. Here, a cadre of Cuban-Americans, primarily female cigar factory laborers who hand roll each cigar await the arrival of their new lector, Juan Julian. The lector serves to entertain the workers by reading great stories. Most of the group is overjoyed by the presence of this new, handsome lector, but when he starts reading from the Russian classic, Anna Karenina, the scandalous lives of Tolstoy’s characters start to intertwine with the lives of his listeners. As Juan Julian reads, the hot, humid Florida summer strangely starts to resemble the cold Russian winter of Tolstoy. Infidelity, money problems, and violence spring to the surface as the owners and workers grapple with their new found understanding of life, love and business. For complete performance schedule and Covid-19 policy, visit website.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Theater Performances Tags: #tacoma Nilo Cruz tacoma arts live Theater on the Square theatre
Mar
26
Sat
Tacoma Arts Live presents Anna in the Tropics: A Play by Nilo Cruz @ Theatre on the Square
Tickets
Mar 26 @ 7:30 pm

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, set in Ybor City, Florida, in 1929. Here, a cadre of Cuban-Americans, primarily female cigar factory laborers who hand roll each cigar await the arrival of their new lector, Juan Julian. The lector serves to entertain the workers by reading great stories. Most of the group is overjoyed by the presence of this new, handsome lector, but when he starts reading from the Russian classic, Anna Karenina, the scandalous lives of Tolstoy’s characters start to intertwine with the lives of his listeners. As Juan Julian reads, the hot, humid Florida summer strangely starts to resemble the cold Russian winter of Tolstoy. Infidelity, money problems, and violence spring to the surface as the owners and workers grapple with their new found understanding of life, love and business. For complete performance schedule and Covid-19 policy, visit website.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Theater Performances Tags: #tacoma Nilo Cruz tacoma arts live Theater on the Square theatre
December 2021 – March 2022 Dec 2021 – Mar 2022