Learn about the forced incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry during WWII. Make paper cranes in remembrance. Join the community in a procession to Union Station, the site of forced evacuation. The museum is crowd-sourcing content for a future exhibition on this subject, and the Japanese community is invited to bring photographs and documents from > Continue Reading
The annual Teeny Awards Ceremony celebrates the best in our region's arts and culture according to teens. Come and help us elevate and celebrate young people's contributions to keeping our arts community healthy and strong for decades to come. Plus, there will be cupcakes! Tacoma organizations who are nominated for an award include: Broadway Center > Continue Reading
Tacoma Art Museum is OPEN LATE and FREE to the community every Thursday at 5 – 8 pm, starting March 1, 2018! Find your inner artist and sketch in the galleries with an expert teaching artist. See current exhibitions at bit.ly/TAMonview. Head up to the third floor to see TAM Local community art installations (bit.ly/TAMlocal). > Continue Reading
Monday for Members Only | 9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. Fridays for Everyone | 9:30 – 11 a.m. Drop in and enjoy thematic and musical programs perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, and their grown-ups during the academic year September - May. Program participation includes 30 minutes of exclusive play in the Museum. No pre-registration required. Free > Continue Reading
The annual Teeny Awards Ceremony celebrates the best in our region's arts and culture according to teens. Come and help us elevate and celebrate young people's contributions to keeping our arts community healthy and strong for decades to come. Plus, there will be cupcakes! Tacoma organizations who are nominated for an award include: Broadway Center > Continue Reading
Help the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Tacoma Attack Cancer in Our Community on May 17-18! Join us as we celebrate 35 years of Relay For Life in Tacoma and our incredible impact in the fight against cancer. Relay For Life is an inspirational, non-competitive, 24-hour fundraising event that brings together a community > Continue Reading
Come join us for an evening of fun! The children will have an opportunity to create a craft while the movie is on and the parents are enjoying games and conversation. Coffee and tea will be provided but due to allergies, we are requesting families provide their own snacks. Please RSVP with the number of > Continue Reading
Groups of wear blue runners who meet regularly to run in honor of the service and sacrifice of the American military. Runners join together in a circle of remembrance, call out the name(s) for whom we run, and push onward to honor and remember.
Join us at the CHB BEACH CLEANUP at Tahoma Salt Marsh, a super fun opportunity to help keep Commencement Bay clean. Bring gloves and a bucket. We'll provide anything else you might need. Park at Jack Hyde Park; we'll be cleaning up their beach too! Our beach cleanup will be one part of The Ikkatsu > Continue Reading
SKINFOLK is a grassroots collaborative multi-sensory cultural "skinography" project capturing, archiving and celebrating the powerful headwrap stories of Diasporic Black communities through photojournalism, documentary film, digital storytelling, and interactive offerings designed to facilitate collective healing through holding space for and bearing witness to cathartic stories of reverence, reclamation and resistance. SKINFOLK cultivates a liberated space > Continue Reading
