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.

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Jun
8
Sun
Point Defiance Flower & Garden Festival @ Point Defiance Park
Tickets
Jun 8 @ 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

Tickets are on sale now for the Point Defiance Flower & Garden Festival June 7-8 at Point Defiance Park and extending into the Rose Garden, Japanese Garden and Pagoda. Visitors will enjoy a weekend surrounded by color as they tour the park’s famous gardens, meet some of the Northwest’s best known horticultural experts, create works of botanical art to take home and more.

The festival is free to attend with additional ticketed opportunities available including:

  • Guided tours of the Rose and Japanese gardens ($20)
  • Paint & Sip sessions ($50)
  • Make & Take projects ($85)
  • Made in the Shade: How to Garden on the Dark Side with Marianne Binetti
  • Terrarium Workshop with Scott McSwain
  • The Art of Pot-et-Fleur with Teresa Rao
  • Succulent Wreath with Sarah Smith

Attendees can also enjoy more than a dozen self-guided experiences through eight permanent gardens, fantastic displays created exclusively for this festival, live music and a vendor area featuring nearly 100 local artisans, businesses, farms, nurseries and food options.

Northwest gardening expert Ciscoe Morris will be returning as Saturday’s keynote speaker. Bryon Jones, Parks Tacoma’s horticulturist for the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, will appear on Sunday. The lecture series will be open to all this year with talks on:

  • Beyond the Backbone: Pacific NW Perennials for Resilient Gardens by Anna Thurston
  • The History of the Hedgerow: Wild plants as Food, Medicine, and Habitat by Madrone McCarthy and Teresa McKee of Hedgerow Herb Co.
  • Happier Houseplants by Sarah Brackman of Girl Run Farm
  • Dreamy English Gardens by Justin Henderson

Local wines and beers will be featured in the Rose Garden with tasting packages, starting at $33, available all day throughout the weekend or gather with friends after hours on Saturday for the 21+ only Happy Hour with live music. Bottles will be available for sale on site and proceeds from both bottle sales and tasting packages will directly benefit the Fort Nisqually Foundation.

Vendor applications are open now through April 30 for concessions and May 20 for retail. A 10’x10’ booth begins at $325 with discounted rates available for nonprofit and government agencies.

Find more information and to purchase tickets online at PtDefianceGardenFest.org.

 

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Categories: Family Events Festivals, Expos, and Parades Home and Garden Outdoor Recreation
Artvana paint and sip – Lovers Path @ The Redd Dog Tacoma
Tickets
Jun 8 @ 1:00 pm
Artvana paint and sip - Lovers Path @ The Redd Dog Tacoma

Come enjoy this guided painting class with Artvana!  All art supplies are included, beginner-friendly friendly and all-ages.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Family Events Kids Workshops, Classes and Lectures
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow is Enuf @ Lakewood Playhouse
Tickets
Jun 8 @ 2:00 pm
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow is Enuf @ Lakewood Playhouse

“…somebody/anybody, sing a black girl’s song, bring her out to know herself to know you…”
By Ntozake Shange
Directed by Michelle Matlock

Join the circle as seven women share their stories and find strength in each other’s truth, passion and humor. This fusion of poetry, dance, music and song explodes off the stage and touches the hearts and minds of all those who experience it. It’s time for joy. It’s time for sisterhood. It’s time for colored girls.

“The poems introduce the girls to other kinds of people of color, other worlds. To adventure, and kindness, and cruelty. Cruelty that we usually think we face alone, but we don’t. We discover that by sharing with each other we find strength to go on. The poems are the play’s first hint of the global misogyny that we women face.” – Ntozake Shange

“A poignant, gripping, angry and beautiful work.” – Time

“A triumphant event, filled with humor. Pure theatre.” – New York Daily News

Please note: this production contains strong language, reflections on rape and abuse, and mature themes.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Theater Performances
Artvana paint and sip – Rosy Horseshoe @ Mcmillin Farm and Brewhouse
Tickets
Jun 8 @ 3:00 pm
Artvana paint and sip - Rosy Horseshoe @ Mcmillin Farm and Brewhouse

Come enjoy this guided painting class with Artvana!  All art supplies are included, beginner-friendly friendly and all-ages.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Family Events Kids Workshops, Classes and Lectures
Jun
10
Tue
Artvana paint and sip – Kids and Family Baby Narwhal @ Dennys
Tickets
Jun 10 @ 6:00 pm
Artvana paint and sip - Kids and Family Baby Narwhal @ Dennys

Come enjoy this guided painting class with Artvana!  All art supplies are included, beginner-friendly friendly and all-ages.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Family Events Kids Workshops, Classes and Lectures
Hey Singers! 
Tickets
Jun 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
Tight Tuesdays: Open Mic @ Nate Jackson's Super Funny Comedy Club
Tickets
Jun 10 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Tight Tuesdays: Open Mic @ Nate Jackson's Super Funny Comedy Club

Tight Five Tuesdays is Tacoma’s favorite Tuesday-night laugh lab—where new comedians get five minutes to prove they’ve got what it takes. Hosted weekly at Nate Jackson’s Super Funny Comedy Club, this mic is hand-curated with a mix of rising comics, surprise drop-ins, and wild cards brave enough to try their tightest five. Whether you’re catching our $5.55 ‘Tight Five’ menu or discovering your next favorite comic, this free event brings the funny to our brand-new location on Pacific Ave in downtown Tacoma every single week.

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Arts and Entertainment Food & Beverage
Jun
11
Wed
Artvana paint and sip – Wild Garden @ Top Down Brewing
Tickets
Jun 11 @ 6:00 pm
Artvana paint and sip - Wild Garden @ Top Down Brewing

Come enjoy this guided painting class with Artvana!  All art supplies are included, beginner-friendly friendly and all-ages.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Family Events Kids Workshops, Classes and Lectures
Jun
12
Thu
Artvana paint and sip – Paint,Sip,Win a Trip- Sunset Sailing @ Campfire Coffee
Tickets
Jun 12 @ 5:00 pm
Artvana paint and sip - Paint,Sip,Win a Trip- Sunset Sailing @ Campfire Coffee

Come enjoy this guided painting class with Artvana!  All art supplies are included, beginner-friendly friendly and all-ages.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Family Events Kids Workshops, Classes and Lectures
Artvana paint and sip – Field of Daisies @ Ocean5
Tickets
Jun 12 @ 6:00 pm
Artvana paint and sip - Field of Daisies @ Ocean5

Come enjoy this guided painting class with Artvana!  All art supplies are included, beginner-friendly friendly and all-ages.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Family Events Kids Workshops, Classes and Lectures
June 2025 Jun 2025