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Community Event
Spring Arts Walk
City of Olympia is throwing a huge arts celebration this spring with the production of Olympia Arts Walk on April 26 & 27. Over 100 businesses transform their locations into hosting venues for artwork of all forms, performances, installations, and creative activities in this two day event that lines the downtown City streets and uses ...
Storytelling Workshop with Elizabeth Lord
Olympia Timberland Library 313 8th Ave SE, Olympia, WA, United StatesFor ages 13 and up. Registration Required and Space is Limited. Register at tinyurl.com/storyoly Learn the basics of good live, oral, performative storytelling with local expert storyteller Elizabeth Lord. Learn how to shape a personal experience/memory into a compelling oral narrative and recall all its details without memorization. Learn what works when telling to an ...
Storytelling Workshop with Elizabeth Lord
Olympia Timberland Library 313 8th Ave SE, Olympia, WA, United StatesFor ages 13 and up. Registration Required and Space is Limited. Register at tinyurl.com/storyoly Learn the basics of good live, oral, performative storytelling with local expert storyteller Elizabeth Lord. Learn how to shape a personal experience/memory into a compelling oral narrative and recall all its details without memorization. Learn what works when telling to an ...
Lacey Spring Fun Fair
Saint Martin's University 5300 Pacific Ave SE, Lacey, WA, United StatesFun Fair is THE place to be for free fun! Enjoy live entertainment, kids activities, rides like the giant slide and swings, the circus train and more all FREE! Saturday there will be a S.T.E.M. Fair with lots of cool stuff to check out and Sunday enjoy the car show! Shop from lots of great ...
Lacey Spring Fun Fair
Saint Martin's University 5300 Pacific Ave SE, Lacey, WA, United StatesFun Fair is THE place to be for free fun! Enjoy live entertainment, kids activities, rides like the giant slide and swings, the circus train and more all FREE! Saturday there will be a S.T.E.M. Fair with lots of cool stuff to check out and Sunday enjoy the car show! Shop from lots of great ...
Fall Arts Walk Registration – Artists and Hosting Locations
Arts Walk Event Website The Creative District, Olympia, United StatesArts Walk invites artists and performers of all art forms and their host locations to register as participants for fall Arts Walk 2024, October 4 & 5. Arts Walk is a community-wide celebration of the arts that happens in partnership with local businesses and organizations. Participation is simple: between now and July 15 (although earlier ...
Creativity Salons hosted by Window Seat Media, monthly
The Liberation Collective, YWCA Friendship Hall 220 Union Ave SE, OlympiaCome learn from and with other artists. Work on a creative project, build skills in your chosen artistic practice and gain insight from other creatives during your process. Window Seat Media is hosting a space to support community members engaging in creativity. Bring a storytelling project in your chosen medium that you want to work ...
Or So It Would Seam: A Giant Puppet Voyage Into the Hidden Universe
Decatur Woods Park 1015 Decatur Street SW, Olympia, WA, United StatesString and Shadow Puppet Theater's 5th annual giant puppet show, Or So It Would Seam begins at the beginning of... everything. From ancient asteroids recounting the origins of the universe to a subway train traveling across dimensions. It is equal parts outer-space odyssey, whimsical fairy tale, and slap-stick clown show. A sci-fi folktale populated with succulent ...
Lacey Fireworks Spectacular
Rainier Vista Community Park 5475 45th Avenue SE, Lacey, WA, United StatesJoin us for a dazzling evening at Rainier Vista for the Lacey Fireworks Spectacular on July 3rd! This FREE festival will include exciting live entertainment from Brick House with their disco performance at 5pm & a lively dance party with Mr. Pink at 8pm. As the evening sky approaches, we will prepare for our fireworks ...
Summer at the Schmidt Speakeasy Garden Party
Schmidt House, 330 Schmidt Place SW, Tumwater, WA 98501 330 Schmidt Pl SW, Tumwater, WA, United StatesExperience the roaring 20’s on the grounds of the Schmidt House. Play croquet on the expansive lawn in your best dress, discover a hidden Speakeasy inside the Schmidt House where hand-crafted drinks are made, and enjoy live music, a silent film, and other activities that bring back the Prohibition era. Proceeds will fund a music ...
Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: A Trans Film Fest
Capitol Theater 206 5th Avenue SE, Olympia, WA, United StatesOn July 13th the Library is hosting a free author talk with trans film writers Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay, whose book Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema hits shelves on July 9th. The following weekend (7/19-7/21) the Olympia Film Society is screening six films written about at length ...
IN THE SPIRIT Opening Night & Artist Awards
Washington State History Museum 1911 Pacific Ave., TacomaGuests are invited to gain first access to the 19th Annual IN THE SPIRIT Contemporary Native Arts Exhibition at the Washington State History Museum. Tour the exhibition, enjoy light refreshments and an awards ceremony with contributing artists. The awards categories include Best in Show, Spirit of the Northwest, Honoring Innovation, Honoring the Ancestors, and the Purchase Prize. ...