Carve your own Coast Salish style paddle from yellow cedar using traditional hand tools! The experienced instructor will show students how to use adze and crooked knife to finish a paddle you can hang on your wall or use when you go out to “pull water.” No experience required and all materials will be provided. > Continue Reading
The City of Tacoma is working with its community partners to create a comprehensive action strategy addressing community needs relating to affordable housing. To help inform this process, the City and its community partners organized a series of Community Listening Sessions to understand community members’ experiences surrounding this issue. In partnership with the South Tacoma > Continue Reading
Inventory Get Together! We are looking for some amazing volunteers to help with input and organizing/imaging inventory while helping spread the word about The Princess Project program. Come join us for an evening of coffee, snacks and laughter! RSVP at rsvpEFNevent@gmail.com
Spaceworks’ third annual fundraiser will feature local music, art, a dance party, and of course silent and live auctions with fundraising auctioneer Laura Michalek. Join the effort to strengthen our community and create more opportunities for artists and creative entrepreneurs. Together we are cultivating creative communities. This year NEON will be at the newly refurbished > Continue Reading
Join us as we create our personal vision boards! This is a group for all ages to gather and share their thoughts and ideas while designing our own board. Board and some magazines provided. Limited space. $10 suggested donation. RSVP by emailing your name and number of attendees to: rsvpEFNevent@gmail.com #ImLovinIt
Tacoma Musical Playhouse (TMP) is proud to announce its third annual Food Truck Festival on June 9, 2018 from 12:00 pm – 7:30 pm. Come celebrate with TMP the start of the summer. FREE event. Food truck festivals offer a great way to sample a variety of different flavors in a fun, family-friendly setting that > Continue Reading
This interactive planetarium show is specially designed for our youngest visitors aged 3-12. Explorers will start on watery Earth and embark on an adventure taking them to all 8 planets. From bouncing on Mercury to hula-hooping with Saturn they are certain to have a great journey. Cost: $6 per child. Adults free. Runs Saturdays through > Continue Reading
A free festival on Tacoma's waterfront that brings together arts, sciences and water play to celebrate our ocean, tell about its threats and inspire us all to protect it. When: June 10, 2018 Where: Foss Waterway Seaport, 705 Dock St., Tacoma, WA Why: Bringing the community together with arts, sciences and water play to celebrate > Continue Reading
Join us June 11th at Alma Mater Tacoma for an evening of wild laughs, big prizes, and high hopes for financial empowerment services in Tacoma with headliner A.B. Cassidy! Sound Outreach empowers South Sound residents through income and wealth-building strategies, improved access to financial capital, and strengthened career pathways, so that all community members have > Continue Reading
Help Harbor WildWatch collect meaningful data on our local beaches, estuaries and creeks to learn about, and help protect the environment. Austin Estuary Park: Meet in the parking area behind the Harbor History Museum along the waterfront in Gig Harbor. Our monitoring location is easy to find but be warned, this beach is muddy! Dress > Continue Reading
