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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Oct
6
Fri
Fall Interchangeable Door Hanger Paint Party @ Crafty AF Studio
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Oct 6 @ 5:00 pm

welcome that will be a permanent part of your sign.

Then we will paint the insert for your door hanger!
We will have a few options available at every class, so you can choose what matches your personality and decor. We will paint and assemble in the class.
I will be helping you try different techniques such as blending, ombre, distress and more so you can create a piece that you love.

Please reserve your spot 48 hours in advance. No Cancellations within 48 hours. We work hard to cut and prepare all the pieces needed for classes. If you do need to cancel for any reason, we can work with you and make a DIY kit, open studio, or credit for a future class.

Please arrive 15 min early so we can start on time.
We do provide aprons, please wear clothes that you do not mind getting paint on. It happens.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment
University of Puget Sound Jacobsen Series: Dawn Padula, mezzo-soprano and guests @ Schneebeck Concert Hall
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Oct 6 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Enjoy this faculty recital featuring Dawn Padula, mezzo-soprano with Jessica Hall, collaborative pianist; and guests Brian Smith, drums; and Rob Hutchinson, bass.

All are invited to a reception following the program hosted by the SAI international music fraternity.

Tickets: $20, general; $15 sr. citizen; military, Puget Sound faculty, staff, and Community Music participants.

Admission is free for current Puget Sound and K-12 students. Please obtain a complimentary ticket and show your student ID at the door. Please note that this event will not be live streamed.

Dawn Padula is the School of Music’s director of vocal studies and professor of voice. For this performance, she is joined by faculty colleagues and special guest artists.

Named in honor of Leonard Jacobsen, former chair of the piano department at Puget Sound, the Jacobsen Professional Artist Series was established in 1984 and features School of Music faculty and their guests. Ticket sales support the Jacobsen Series Scholarship Fund, which awards annual music scholarships to an outstanding member of Sigma Alpha Iota, international music fraternity.

For more information about the Jacobsen Series, visit pugetsound.edu/jacobsen

Event Location
University of Puget Sound campus, Schneebeck Concert Hall.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Tags: dawn padula jacobsen series university of puget sound vocals
Oct
7
Sat
Vashon CiderFest @ Vashon Village
Tickets
Oct 7 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Sip and savor at Ciderfest!

Join us on Saturday October 7th, 2023 at Vashon Village for CiderFest, when the Vashon community celebrates of all things cider. The day will be filled with fun events, exhibits and treats for all ages.

In addition to the popular cider tastings from award-winning regional producers, this year we are excited to partner with the Vashon Fruit Club to introduce a new activation: an amateur cider-maker competition, judged by premier regional cidermakers. This family-friendly event also includes a fruit pressing, NA beverages, food vendors, and educational activities all afternoon.

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Arts and Entertainment Family Events Seasonal and Holiday Events
Northwest High School Honor Choir Festival 2023 @ Schneebeck Concert Hall
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Oct 7 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Enjoy a performance featuring high school students from throughout the region in a culminating concert as part of the School of Music’s annual Northwest High School Honor Choir Festival. Featured guest clinician Anthony Trecek-King will conduct the choir performing the following works:

I’m Building Me A Home – arr. Trecek-King
Gloria from Mass in G – Schubert/arr. Robinson
“Home” from The Sacred Veil – Eric Whitacre
Refuge – Elaine Hagenberg
Flight Song – Kim Andre Arneson
I’m Going Home – Pepper Choplin
Check back for this October’s participating high schools, which typically includes students from the following locations:

Auburn High School
Bellarmine High School
Central Kitsap High School
Hoquiam High School
Monroe High School
Redmond High School
Stadium High School
Spanaway Lake High School
Tacoma School of the Arts (SOTA)
W.F. West High School
This event is free and open to the public. For more information about the festival, visit the Northwest High School Honor Choir website.

Event Location
University of Puget Sound campus, Schneebeck Concert Hall.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Tags: choir festival high school choir university of puget sound
Beer and Bites Dinner and Auction Benefiting South Sound CARE Foundation @ The Waterfrom Venue at Narrows Marina
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Oct 7 @ 5:00 pm

ANNUAL AUCTION BENEFITING SOUTH SOUND CARE FOUNDATION CELEBRATES 10 YEARS

Beer & Bites is October 7th! 

Beer & Bites, the annual event and auction benefitting The South Sound CARE Foundation (CARE) will celebrate its 10th anniversary on Saturday, October 7th 2023. All proceeds from this annual event go towards expanding clinical trials and research for patients fighting cancer in the South Sound. Historically a cancer diagnosis in the South Sound meant an immediate referral to Seattle or cancer centers far beyond. Since 2008, the South Sound CARE Foundation has been expanding access to the very best care for patients in the Puget Sound region. Important trials are conducted locally, patients are living longer and they are living better lives. Beer & Bites helps fund this research and provide access to care that patients were previously unable to find locally.

Spearheaded by CARE’s Founder, Dr. Frank Senecal, and Gordon Rush, a CARE Emeritus Board Member and Founder of The Rush Companies, Beer & Bites got its start in 2013 as a way to get the local community involved in improving treatments options for a disease that has touched far too many: cancer. The 10th annual Beer & Bites fundraiser will be held at The Waterfront Venue at Narrows Marina. The generosity of the local community has allowed Beer & Bites to raise more than $7.6 million over the last 10 years to bring important research to our area and to allow cancer patients to stay close to home, surrounded by their support systems during some of the most challenging times of their life.

“Finding a better way to care for our patients and a better way to treat the cancer – whether it is surgery, immune therapy, chemo therapy, or radiation therapy—all depend upon good clinical research,” said Dr. Frank Senecal, Founder of the South Sound CARE Foundation. “Beer & Bites helps make that research possible.”

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Categories: Education Food & Beverage Health and Wellness Non-Profit Fundraising Events
Northwest Sinfonietta : Wine and Dine @ Foss Waterway Seaport
Tickets
Oct 7 @ 7:30 pm

WINE AND DINE
Northwest Sinfonietta
Jeffery Meyer, conductor?
Dan Williams, oboe
Jennifer Krikawa and Ivy Zhou, soprano
Andrew Etherington, tenor
PLU Opera Chorus, James Brown, Director

Juan Pablo Contreras, Mariachitlán
Roupen Shakarian, Oboe Concerto (WP, with wine flight)
J. Strauss II, Selections from Die Fledermaus

Northwest Sinfonietta’s season of favorites opens with Juan Pablo Contreras’s joyful homage to the birthplace of mariachi music, the Mexican state of Jalisco, where mariachis play their songs on every corner, vying for the love and attention of the crowds. We are thrilled to premiere Roupen Shakarian’s Oboe Concerto written for oboist and wine aficionado Dan Williams. Enjoy a complimentary flight of wines and munchies with this light, delightful work. The second half is an opera extravaganza! The PLU Opera Chorus and soloists Ivy Zhou, Andrew Etherington and Vashon Opera diva Jennifer Krikawa join us to bring favorite Die Fledermaus selections to the party, including the famous champagne song.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Tags: #livemusic
Oct
8
Sun
Northwest Sinfonietta : Wine and Dine @ Pioneer Park Pavilion
Tickets
Oct 8 @ 2:00 pm

WINE AND DINE
Northwest Sinfonietta
Jeffery Meyer, conductor?
Dan Williams, oboe
Jennifer Krikawa and Ivy Zhou, soprano
Andrew Etherington, tenor
PLU Opera Chorus, James Brown, Director

Juan Pablo Contreras, Mariachitlán
Roupen Shakarian, Oboe Concerto (WP, with wine flight)
J. Strauss II, Selections from Die Fledermaus

Northwest Sinfonietta’s season of favorites opens with Juan Pablo Contreras’s joyful homage to the birthplace of mariachi music, the Mexican state of Jalisco, where mariachis play their songs on every corner, vying for the love and attention of the crowds. We are thrilled to premiere Roupen Shakarian’s Oboe Concerto written for oboist and wine aficionado Dan Williams. Enjoy a complimentary flight of wines and munchies with this light, delightful work. The second half is an opera extravaganza! The PLU Opera Chorus and soloists Ivy Zhou, Andrew Etherington and Vashon Opera diva Jennifer Krikawa join us to bring favorite Die Fledermaus selections to the party, including the famous champagne song.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Tags: #livemusic
Sammy Miller and The Congregation @ Washington Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets
Oct 8 @ 7:00 pm
Sammy Miller and The Congregation @ Washington Center for the Performing Arts

They’re So Vain
Sammy Miller and The Congregation
Celebrate the Music of 1973 at 50

Sammy Miller and The Congregation are on a mission, crisscrossing the country like a vaudevillian revival show with evangelic fervor for music. The seven-piece band is pulling people out of their solitary lives and putting them in the moment with a bracing dose of joyful jazz performed with infectious theatricality. Led by Juilliard trained and Grammy® nominated drummer, Sammy Miller and his seven-piece group is a community of adventurous and charismatic superstar musicians who are conservatory-trained but who have not lost their childlike wonder and awe for playing music. Since the band’s inception, the Congregation has played nonstop all over the world including Lincoln Center, The White House, and the Newport Jazz Festival where the group received a standing ovation.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Music Concerts
Oct
9
Mon
University of Puget Sound Library at Noon Concert Series @ University of Puget Sound Collins Memorial Library
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Oct 9 @ 12:00 pm

Enjoy the Library at Noon concert series featuring performances by School of Music students. Join us on select Mondays at noon. Free and open to the public. All are welcome.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Music Concerts Tags: #tacoma concert series library university of puget sound
Oct
10
Tue
Hey Singers! 
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Oct 10 @ 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
October 2023 Oct 2023