Family Saturdays – 2025 Towner Award Nominees Saturday, October 5 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Included with admission Please note that this Family Saturdays offering has a different format than normal. The event will run from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, with members of the Washington Library Association Towner Award Committee reading several books throughout > Continue Reading

Say Listen: A Night with the Black | Indigenous 100s Collective Thursday, October 17, 2024 6:00 PM University of Washington Tacoma at the Museum (formerly Scholarly Selections) FREE The Black | Indigenous 100s Collective is a group of artists, academics, activists, and creators who use collective writing as a means to grapple with the sometimes-frustrating > Continue Reading

  Reclaiming Narratives: Real and Untold Stories of Tacoma Thursday, October 17 6:00 to 7:30 PM FREE – Registration Required Join facilitator Kellie Richardson for this series of free workshops that will allow our community to explore lost, hidden, and untold stories and experiences in an individual, familial, group, and societal context. Each 90-minute workshop > Continue Reading

Celebrate Our 30th Anniversary with Us! Join us for this year's ZAZZ Dinner & Auction and celebrate that, 30 years ago, an idea formed to build a place of peacemaking in Tacoma. We are still going strong serving all of Pierce County, and with your support, we will resolve conflicts for another three decades. The > Continue Reading

Autumn Exhibition Reception Sunday, October 20, 2024 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM FREE with registration. Celebrate Washington State History Museum’s new exhibitions What Is Native Art? Eugene Landry and the Creative Spirit, The Mountain Was Out: Rainier Remembered, MAKERS ON THE TIDE: The Willits Brothers and Their Handcrafted Canoes, and Collections Selections: A Parachute from > Continue Reading

Lean Into Hope serves as a powerful reminder that this is exactly what survivors of domestic violence do when they escape abuse and begin their lives anew. Together, we can all support survivors in their journey. This fundraiser will support YWCA Pierce County in providing safety, healing, and empowerment through services such as emergency shelter, > Continue Reading

6th Annual Trivia BEE October 26, 2024 l 6:00 PM Foss Waterway Seaport l 705 Dock St., Tacoma WA Trivia BEE isn't your run-of-the mill trivia game - it's an exciting, edge of your seat, brain-teasing experience that champions the Pierce County Library System. Your ticket purchases and donations directly benefit outreach services at the > Continue Reading

Join Emergency Food Network for their Abundance 2024 Dinner and Auction October 26th from 6-10pm. (business casual attire) Event features a delicious dinner, exciting live and silent auctions, and a significant way to give so no person goes hungry. Proceeds from this special night will provide emergency food for our neighbors in need throughout Pierce > Continue Reading