ShowCase Magazine Washington

Fantasy Lights
2025-11-29 - 2026-01-05
Fantasy Lights
November 29-January 5
Drive Through Light Show
Spanaway, Washinton

Gingerbread Jamboree
2025-11-29 - 2025-11-30
Gingerbread Jamboree

Saturday, November 29th
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 30th
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Hotel Murano Pavillion, Tacoma

Red Riding Hood: A Holiday Panto
2025-11-29
Red Riding Hood: A Holiday Panto
November 29 – December 21, with performances on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
Center Stage Theater

Old Cannery Bridge Lighting
2025-11-29
Old Cannery Bridge Lighting
November 29th from 12-6
Reindeer & Food Trucks – DJ & Firework show
Old Cannery – Sumner

Lemay American Car Museum Santa Photos
2025-11-28
Lemay American Car Museum Santa Photos
Fri Nov 28th 12:00pm – 4:00pm
Santa will be visiting ACM three times this Holiday Season! With photos taking place in the lobby, no admission ticket is necessary to get this year’s Santa photos!

Friday, November 28th from 12pm-4pm
Saturday, December 13th from 11am-3pm
Sunday, December 14th from 11am-3pm

Santa visits are made possible by Tacoma Creates
Events at LeMay – America’s Car Museum | Tacoma, WA

Elf - The Musical
2025-11-28
Elf – The Musical
November 28 – December 28
5th Avenue Theater

Zoo Lights
2025-11-28
Zoo Lights
November 28th – January 4th
4:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium | AZA-Accredited | Tacoma, WA

By the Furnace: Hot Shop Experience Workshops
2025-11-28, 2025-11-24
By the Furnace: Hot Shop Experience Workshops
Here is your chance to work on the Hot Shop floor. Assisted by Hilltop Artists, these workshops feature a variety of objects, such as flowers, birds, ornaments, paperweights, and more (each workshop date will feature a specific object). As the gaffer, you will be able to choose colors, block and shape the glass, and add your own twist to the work of art.
Upcoming workshop dates:
August 16 & 17 – Fish

Zoo Lights
2025-11-28
Zoo Lights
NOVEMBER 28 – JANUARY 4
4:30PM – 10:00PM
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
pdza.org

Dressing the Gilded Age: Fashion from the 1870s to 1910s
2025-11-28, 2025-11-24
Dressing the Gilded Age: Fashion from the 1870s to 1910s
Jun 28 – Feb 15 202

Ages:
All ages

Where:
, 1911 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402

Tickets:

Purchase tickets online or at the museum. Admission is free for members!

Boston Harbor Marina Friday Nights
2025-11-28
FRIDAY NIGHT at THE HARBOR (Memorial Day through Labor Day)
Live music and beer – it doesn’t get much better! We host local breweries and local bands every Friday evening in the summer, Memorial Day through Labor Day. Check out our Facebook page for details. We hope to see you there!
For more information go to https://www.bostonharbormarina.com/pages/events

Sensory Inclusive Story & Play Time with Timberland Regional Library
2025-11-28
Sensory Inclusive Story & Play Time with Timberland Regional Library
Stories, music, movement, play, and community building in a neurodiversity-affirming environment for children of all ages and abilities and their caregivers.

Free to attend
Soft lighting
Limited distractions
Small group setting
Visual Schedule
Sensory regulation aids
wandering and flapping encouraged!

415 Tumwater Blvd SW
Tumwater, WA 98501

Centralia Farmers Market
2025-11-28
Centralia Farmers Market
May-September, Fridays 11am-4pm
Pine Street Plaza, Centralia centraliafarmersmarket.org

Olympia Downtown Alliance’s annual Fall Cleanup.
2025-11-27
Olympia Downtown Alliance’s annual Fall Cleanup.
Volunteers will refresh landscaping, tidy the streetscape with sweeping, trash removal, and cleaning.
We’ll provide cleaning and landscaping tools, but volunteers are encouraged to bring their own gloves and non-powered tools to supplement what’s provided.
Date: September 27
Register here

Gig Harbor's Annual Turkey Trot
2025-11-27
Gig Harbor’s Annual Turkey Trot
Thanksgiving morning at 8:00am

The Wake of Annie Grady
2025-11-26
The Wake of Annie Grady
Presented by WhatNot Theatrics
November 26, 28, and 29 at 6:30pm
November 30 at 1:30pm
Stimson Green Mansion, Seattle

Lakewood Farmers Market
2025-11-25
Lakewood Farmers Market
Tuesday, Through mid-September, Tuesdays
Fort Steilacoom Park
There is plenty of free parking at Fort Steilacoom Park and lots of wide-open spaces. Enjoy live entertainment. Grab dinner along with your fresh produce for a picnic in the park. New this year the market will host Pop Up Markets. These events highlight specific themes and vendors.
Fort Steilacoom Park
8714 87th Ave SW, Lakewood
CityofLakewood.Us/FarmersMarket
Lakewood Farmers Market – City of Lakewood
253.983.7887

Childhood's End Gallery presents "Earth / Sea"
2025-11-24
Childhood’s End Gallery presents “Earth / Sea”

Featuring new paintings by Jon Bradham, Chuck Gumpert, and Mary McCann; pastels by Deborah Henderson; raku pottery by Dave and Boni Deal; and metal and glass sculpture by Eileen Lagasse. Explore the gestural ever-changing landscapes through this vibrant group exhibition.

Aug 1 – Sept 14th
Childhood’s End Gallery
childhoods-end-gallery.com

Senior Services Water Color Group
2025-11-24
Senior Services Water Color Group
Lacey with Micheal
Mondays 1pm-3pm
Open to anyone who wants to learn watercolor. Bring your own supplies.
Activities | Senior Services for South Sound

Tacoma City Theaters Presents: O Christmas Tea: A British Comedy
2025-11-23 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Vancouver)
O Christmas Tea: A British Comedy
Nov 23, 2025, 3pm
Pantages Theater
Combining British propriety with an unabashed love for the unexpected, London’s 3-time Impresario Award-winning duo steep an outrageously funny and brilliantly inventive show reminiscent of classic British pantos.
Rich in wordplay, comic physicality, and cleverly crafted interactive elements, O Christmas Tea is uproarious fun, yet it is the duo’s boundless imagination and endearing chemistry that provide the real magic and heart of this play.
When catastrophe strikes at James and Jamesy’s Christmas tea party, flooding the world with tea, the duo conjure wildly funny solutions to stay afloat, and sweep the audience out to sea in this jolly holiday escapade.

Olympia Farmers Market Holiday season
2025-11-23
Olympia Farmers Market Holiday season
Now through December 21, Saturday and Sunday
700 Capitol Way N, Olympia
Contact | The Olympia Farmers Market

Olympia Farmer’s Market Nov Savory Sunday Workshop: Pumpkin Pancakes!
2025-11-23
Olympia Farmer’s Market: Savory Sunday Workshop: Pumpkin Pancakes!
November 23, 11am
Every Sunday from 11am until we run out of ingredients: learn to make affordable, family-friendly recipes! 100% free: all attendees are invited to watch the demonstration/ask questions and will receive a plate and a take-home recipe card; the first 20 attendees also receive a take-home bag of ingredients from our vendors!
Special Events

Harlequin Productions - Rent
2025-11-23
Harlequin Productions introduces – Rent
Set in the East Village of New York City, during the previous pandemic, Rent is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme, Jonathan Larson’s play follows a year in the life of a group of young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rent has become a pop cultural phenomenon, with songs that rock and a story that shaped a generation of audiences and taught us all to measure our life in love.
More information at https://harlequinproductions.org/show/rent/
CULT CLASSIC, MUSICAL JUNE 20-JULY 20, 2025 THE STATE THEATER 2 HRS 30 MINS PG-13

What is Native Art? Eugene Landry and the Creative Spirit
2025-11-23
What is Native Art? Eugene Landry and the Creative Spirit
On view through March 30, 2025
Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe artist Eugene Landry (1937-1988) was a gifted painter who captured local scenery and people. He was largely forgotten outside the Tribe until 2019 when Judith Altruda found nearly 70 of his paintings in a barn. Learn about Landry’s creative spirit and legacy in this exhibition.
Image: Eugene Landry, Decaying Boat, 21“x 24” oil on panel 1964. Photo by Marcy Merrill.

Olympia Farmers Market
2025-11-22 10:00 - 15:00
Olympia Farmers Market
Saturdays, January – March, 10am – 3 pm
Shop at the Market for fresh vegetables, fruit, meat, dairy, seafood, handmade crafts, artisanal foods, wine, baked goods, and more! With eight restaurants and daily live entertainment, The Market is your destination for mid-day lunch and family fun on the weekend!
700 Capitol Way N., Olympia
olympiafarmersmarket.org

Lacey Holiday Market
2025-11-22
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Lacey Holiday Market
November 22, noon-6pm
Community Events – City of Lacey

Grit City Championship Wrestling "Full Circle"
2025-11-22
Grit City Championship Wrestling “Full Circle”
November 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Tacoma Armory, Parade Floor
TacomaArtsLive.org

Christmas in the Forest
2025-11-22
Christmas in the Forest
Gala: Saturday, November 22nd at 5:00pm
Public viewing: Sunday, November 23rd from 9:00am – 4:00pm
Great Wolf Lodge
Providence Southwest Washington Foundation celebrates the 38th annual Christmas in the Forest! Join us this year at the Great Wolf Lodge to view the beautiful trees and wreaths. Christmas in the Forest is the Foundation’s largest fundraising event, generating more than $15.7 million throughout its history.
www.provforest.org
