Tacoma Arts Month: Downtown Events

Tacoma Arts Month: Downtown Events

Tacoma Arts Month: Downtown Events

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Celebrate arts. Experience culture. Embrace community. Connect with creativity. Share joy!

October is Tacoma Arts Month, and to celebrate the city will be brimming with arts and cultural events, exhibits, workshops and more. 

More than 50 arts events will be taking place in Downtown Tacoma throughout the month of October including many activities that are free and family-friendly!

Take this opportunity to experience something new as we celebrate Tacoma’s creative and cultural community.

Tacoma Arts Month Activities in Downtown Tacoma include: 

9/28: Trenton Quiocho at Museum of Glass

10/1: 360 Exhibit at Washington State History Museum

10/1: Family Saturdays at Washington State History Museum 

10/1: REMEMBRANCE: The Legacy of Executive Order 9066 at Washington State History Museum

10/1: Collage Creations with Tacoma Art Museum 

10/5: Pearl Party at Craftopia 

10/6: Tacoma Film Festival at The Grand Cinema

10/6: Free Neighborhood Night at Tacoma Art Museum

10/6: The Animation Academy: From Pencils to Pixels at Washington State History Museum  

10/7: Monoprint Workshop for Children and Families at Children’s Museum of Tacoma

10/8: Family Saturdays at Washington State History Museum 

10/8: Cooking with Jan Parker and Cookie at RAIN Urban Kitchen 

10/8: Craft-N-Go Bobblehead Cat at Craftopia

10/8: Vampire Gnomes Class at Craftopia

10/8: Cityscapes Music Performance with NW Sinfonietta at The Rialto Theater 

10/12: Consular Association Reception w/ Rick Steves at Tacoma Art Museum 

10/12: All the Sacrifices You’ve Made / Todos Los Sacrificios Que Has Hecho: A Closing Conversation 

10/12: Spooky Slime at Craftopia

10/12: Our Truths: BIPOC Voices at ALMA 

10/13: Free Neighborhood Night at Tacoma Art Museum

10/13: Earrings 101 Class at Craftopia

10/14: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at Tacoma Armory

10/14: Monoprint Workshop for Children and Families at Children’s Museum of Tacoma

10/14: Fairy Jars Class at Craftopia

10/15: Family Saturdays at Washington State History Museum

10/15: Free Family Craft Night at Craftopia

10/15: Rachmaninoff & Roses by Symphony Tacoma at The Pantages

10/16: Cirque Mechanics at The Pantages

10/19: Spider Web Shawl Class at Craftopia

10/19: Tacoma School of the Arts Showcase  

10/19: Tree of Life Pendants Class at Craftopia

10/20: Free Third Thursday at Washington State History Museum

10/20: Free Third Thursday at Tacoma Art Museum

10/20: Free Third Thursday at Museum of Glass

10/21: Halloween String Art Class at Craftopia

10/21: Tacoma City Ballet’s Haunted Theater

10/22: Family Saturdays at Washington State History Museum

10/22: Print Art Workshop for Children and Families at Children’s Museum of Tacoma

10/22: Slime Time at Craftopia

10/22: CaTi Plants Class at Craftopia

10/22: Earrings 101 Class at Craftopia

10/22: Haunted Jars Class at Craftopia

10/22: Tacoma City Ballet’s Haunted Theater

10/23: Tacoma City Ballet’s Haunted Theater

10/23: Darlingside at The Rialto Theater

10/26: Packing Party at Craftopia 

10/26: Shrinky Dink Fun at Craftopia

10/27: Beading Happy Hour at Craftopia

10/27: Free Neighborhood Night at Tacoma Art Museum

10/28: Beaded Bobby Pin Class at Craftopia

10/28: Crochet Hooker Happy Hour at Craftopia

10/28: Tacoma City Ballet’s Haunted Theater

10/28: An Evening with Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt at The Pantages

10/29: A Night at the Movies Costume Concert w/ Tacoma Youth Symphony at The Pantages 

10/29: Tacoma City Ballet’s Haunted Theater

10/29: Family Saturdays at Washington State History Museum 

10/29: Walk for Reconciliation Against Racism at Tollefson Plaza

10/29: Magic Wands Class at Craftopia

10/29: CaTi Plants Class at Craftopia

10/29: Haunted Jars Class at Craftopia

10/29: Tacoma Opera’s Drunken Tenor Spooktacular at Theater on the Square

10/30: Tacoma Opera’s Drunken Tenor Spooktacular at Theater on the Square

10/30: Tacoma City Ballet’s Haunted Theater

Learn more about Tacoma Arts Month by visiting www.tacomaartsmonth.org

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