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Art on the Farm

Melrose Botanicals 8708 Johnson Point Road NE, Olympia

Art on the Farm is a place where people can come to unplug, recharge and allow themselves to be immersed in local art and nature. Held on an organic hobby farm, the show meanders through the farm's orchard, pasture, and trees... around each corner a new maker to visit, more work to take in.   ...

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Free

InGenius! Art Show & Reception for Linda Windham of Olympia

InGenius! Local Artisan Gallery & Boutique 207 1st Street South, Yelm, WA, United States

InGenius! Gallery & Boutique in Yelm is so happy to introduce Linda Windham as our newest InGenius! featured artist, with a wall that every day displays many of her original, vibrant acrylic paintings for sale, some of which are also available as canvas or print reproductions. This show is a chance to see over 30 ...

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Free

Open Auditions for Capital City Chorus of Olympia, WA

Gloria Dei Lutheran Church 1515 Harrison Ave NW, Olympia, WA, United States

The Capital City Chorus of Olympia, WA is conducting open auditions for both our choirs: The Mixed Chorus (SSAATTBB) and Chorale (SSAA) on Sunday, August 20th and Sunday, August 27th from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. Auditions are open to all singers 16 years of age or older and are first-come, first serve upon arrival. No advance ...

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Olympia Harbor Days

Percival Landing Boardwalk 217 Thurston Ave NW, Olympia, WA, United States

Olympia Harbor Days is riding the wave into the future! Over 60,000 people will set a course for the free 50th Celebration of the multiple award winning Olympia Harbor Days Festival and Tugboat Races, Labor Day Weekend 9/1st – 3rd/2023! The festival hosts the largest gathering of the Vintage Tugboats of the Puget Sound Show ...

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Free

Olympia Harbor Days

Percival Landing Park and Boardwalk 217 Thurston Ave NW, Olympia, WA, United States

Olympia Harbor Days is riding the wave into the future! Over 60,000 people will set a course for the free 50th Celebration of the multiple award winning Olympia Harbor Days Festival and Tugboat Races, Labor Day Weekend 9/1st – 3rd/2023! The festival hosts the largest gathering of the Vintage Tugboats of the Puget Sound Show ...

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Free

Olympia Harbor Days Festival

Percival Landing Park and Boardwalk 217 Thurston Ave NW, Olympia, WA, United States

Olympia Harbor Days is riding the wave into the future! Over 60,000 people will set a course for the free 50th Celebration of the multiple award winning Olympia Harbor Days Festival and Tugboat Races, Labor Day Weekend 9/1st – 3rd/2023! The festival hosts the largest gathering of the Vintage Tugboats of the Puget Sound Show ...

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Free

Alissa Hattman w/ Siloh Radovsky at Browsers

Browsers Bookshop 107 Capitol Way N, Olympia

Browsers is excited to welcome Alissa Hattman, to read from and talk about her new novel, Sift, on Saturday, September 9 at 4:00 PM. Sift is published by The 3rd Thing, an Olympia-based micropress. Siloh Radowsky will read and join Alissa in conversation. Two women set out through the haze of social and environmental collapse ...

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Free

Death by Design

Olympia Little Theatre 1925 Miller Avenue NE, Olympia

Performance dates are September 8 - 24 Fridays and Saturdays at 7:25PM; Sundays @ 1:55PM. Plus one Thursday show, September 21st @ 7:25PM What happens when you mix the brilliant wit of Noël Coward with the intricate plotting of Agatha Christie? Set during a weekend in an English country manor in 1932, Death by Design ...

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Actors needed to play disaster survivors in Olympia

Evergeeen State College 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, United States

  OLYMPIA-- Serve Washington is looking for some volunteer actors to play the role of disaster survivors during an upcoming simulations exercises to prepare Community Emergency Response Teams, CERTs, to help people during disasters. The exercises will take place from noon to approximately 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8 at The Evergreen State College, 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW. CERTs are volunteers ...

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Free

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at Tacoma Little Theatre

Tacoma Little Theatre 210 N I St, Tacoma, WA, United States

Get ready to laugh harder than you’ve laughed before! Welcome to opening night of the Cornley Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show—an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, ...

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$22 – $29

The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson

Harlequin Productions 202 4th Ave E, Olympia, WA, United States

A new play about four very real women who lived boldly in France during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe De Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, lose their heads and try to beat back the extremist insanity in the Paris of ...

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$28 – $43

Olympia Zine Fest Kickoff Zine-a-thon

Olympia Timberland Library 313 8th Ave SE, Olympia, WA, United States

Join us for a special *after hours* event to kick off the 2023 Olympia Zine Fest! Access to the Library's computers, printing, and copiers will be available to finish up your zine in time for the tabling expo the next day, or start something new using provided supplies. There will also be button making, zine-go-bingo, ...

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Free