Mother’s Day Brunch at Indian Summer
May 12, 10am – 2pm
Register by May 3, 360.459.4572
Celebrate mom and join us a brunch buffet featuring bottomless mimosas!
Indian Summer Golf & Country Club Embers Restaurant
5900 Troon Lane SE, Olympia
Guaranteed Education Tuition Now Enrolling
through May 1, 2024
Washington’s popular Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) program opens Wednesday, November 1 for a new enrollment period, providing families a fresh opportunity to start saving for future education and career training costs while their children are young. The 2023-2024 enrollment period runs through May 31, 2024, and provides a unique opportunity to prepay future tuition costs by locking in today’s rates. The unit purchase price for the new enrollment period is $120.16.
GET is a 529 prepaid tuition program, carrying a state-backed guarantee that units purchased today will always keep pace with in-state college tuition costs. “GET savers can literally buy tomorrow’s education at today’s price.
800.955.2318
WA529 Annual Art Contest: What is Your Dream Job?
Now through May 1
Kindergarten – 12th Grades
Students can enter for a chance to win $529 toward their future education goals in a WA529 GET or DreamAhead account.
To enter, students should create a work of original art depicting their future dream career. Entries will be judged based on creativity, unique style, artistic talent, and skill in portraying the student’s “Dream Job”. Two students in each grade level Kindergarten through 12th grade will be selected to win.
Enter online at: 529.wa.gov/art-contest
Tall Tales from Tacoma’s Old Town
April 25, May 23, June 27, 7pm
Free.
Join Old Town Tacoma in hearing tales of Tacoma’s first neighborhood. Presented by Tacoma Historian Michael Sullivan.
A series on the 4th Thursdays.
Slavonian Hall
2306 N 30th St, Tacoma
Classical Tuesdays in Old Town, Old Town Business & Professional Association
Almost Maine
April 26 – May 12, Fridays & Saturdays 7:30pm, Sundays 2pm
Pay what you can performance, May 9
ASL performance May 12
Welcome to Almost, Maine, a town that’s so far north, it’s almost not in the United States—it’s almost in Canada. And it almost doesn’t exist. Because its residents never got around to getting organized. So, it’s just…Almost.
Tacoma Little Theatre
210 N I St, Tacoma
tacomalittletheatre.com, 253.272.2281
City Nature Challenge
April 26 – 29
Free. All ages.
Join Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium staff, plus partners Northwest Trek and Woodland Park Zoo, in finding and documenting as much wildlife as you can! Report your findings on the iNaturalist app.
Get outside. Watch nature. ID and discover.
Help the Puget Sound area (including Tacoma, Seattle, Bellevue, Everett and any place within Snohomish, King and Pierce counties!) show the world how biodiverse our region is by making observations of local species during City Nature Challenge!
Get the iNaturalist app at: City Nature Challenge – Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium (pdza.org)
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
5400 N Pearl St, Tacoma
pdza.org
Mere Mortals
April 26 – June 9
April 26 Opening Reception 5-9pm
>April 27 ArtsWalk 12-7pm | with piano by Ann Finn 1-3pm
“Mere Mortals” is a group figurative exhibition, featuring a diverse body of contemporary figurative and portrait work by Northwest artists. The grouping features sculpture by Simon Kogan, ceramic work by Shari Bray, and a dynamic array of painting by Lynette Charters, Jennifer Lauer, Livia Lynne Miller, Carla Paine, and Amy Scherer.
Childhood’s End Gallery
222 4th Ave W, Olympia
www.childhoods-end-gallery.com
360. 943.3724
The Current, an Artist Award
Through May 3
During the residency, award recipient Kristina Batiste, a Tacoma-based potter, will be creating new work at Tacoma Art Museum
See the Artist: April 18, 5 – 7pm during Free Third Thursday
Wednesday’s & Fridays – quiet peek-ins outside the studio to view Batiste at work
Aoril 24, 3 – 4pm – Headshots & Images Workshop
Tacoma Art Museum
1701 Pacific Ave, Tacoma
tacomaartmuseum.org
The Wedding Singer
April 26 – May 19
Based on the hit Adam Sandler movie, The Wedding Singer is a comedy musical that features retro music that will transport you back to the era of big hair and neon lights.
Western Washington Center for the Arts
512 Bay St, Port Orchard
wwca.us
Tacoma Little Theatre’s Auditions for One Man, Two Guvnors
April 28 – 29
Sunday start times: 6pm
Monday start times: 7pm
Call backs May 2
The production will run from September 6 – 22, 2024.
Brighton, England. 1963. Change is in the air, and Francis Henshall is looking to make his mark. Fired from a skiffle band and in search of work, he finds himself employed by small-time gangster Roscoe Crabbe. But Roscoe is really Rachel, posing as her own dead brother, herself in love with Stanley Stubbers who, in turn, becomes our hero’s other ‘guvnor’.
To reserve an audition time, follow this link (http://castingmanager.com/audition/info/AMXJ3yazZ31wxbs) or call the Box Office for assistance at 253.272.2281.
Tacoma Little Theatre
201 1 St, Tacoma
tacomalittletheatre.com