TeenTix Events Calendar
9:30am
Workshops/Classes
Homeschool Days - Tales from the Crypt - Daytime Edition
If you got IT, haunt it. Become a ghost writer in this workshop where you'll learn horror writing structures, how to make words fun and fearful, and how to shape the characters of a screamingly good story.Activate your fun with…
10:00am
Exhibit
BIG RIVER THE COLUMBIA'S MANY MEANINGS
The Washington State History Museum
Take a journey down the Columbia River at the Washington State History Museum through the new exhibition Big River: The Columbia’s Many Meanings. The exhibition tells the river’s story through the eyes of the many people who have traveled, worked, and lived along its waters. Spanning…
10:00am
Exhibit
REMEMBRANCE THE LEGACY OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 IN WASHINGTON STATE
The Washington State History Museum
REMEMBRANCE: The Legacy of Executive Order 9066 in Washington StateExplore the intergenerational impacts and legacy of the incarceration of people of Japanese descent during World War II.In this gallery, visitors will experience history through photographs, art, objects, letters, and film. …
10:00am
Exhibit
HOME BEYOND EARTH
Imagine living in a place where the night sky is always clear and sparkles with countless stars, and every day the entire world shines outside your windows. Home Beyond Earth is an immersive new exhibition that goes to the heart…
12:00pm
Workshops/Classes
Homeschool Days - Creepy Creators: Design a Ghostly Video Game with DigiPen
Level up this Halloween by creating your own creep-tacular video game with Open World by DigiPen! Learn about game mechanics, animation, and block-based coding, then put your new skills into action as you build a fang-tastic Halloween-themed game. This workshop…
1:00pm
Dance | Visual Arts | Miscellaneous | Food
PNA’s Dia De Los Muertos Celebration
Phinney Neighborhood Association
This Mexican holiday honors the deceased with a cultural extravaganza filled with food, drink, and festivities. This is a time to come together to celebrate the lives of our loved ones and rejoice in the memories shared with family and…
2:30pm
Workshops/Classes
Homeschool Days - Friends in the Attic: Making Monsters
Monsters can be friends, too! Bring imagination out from under the bed in this maker space and create a 3D boo-filled bestie while learning about friendly monsters in movies and how they got their bad rap.
2:30pm
Workshops/Classes
Free Mental Health Support
Free drop-in therapy and mental health support is available for middle and high school students during after-school hours at the Teen Center with mental health therapist, Christina MSW, LISCWA. Contact Christina Yiatchos at cyiatchos@chs-nw.org for more information. Schedule Monday: 2:3…
5:00pm
Exhibit
Free Neighborhood Nights @ Tacoma Art Museum
Tacoma Art Museum is open late and FREE to the community every Thursday, 5 – 8 pm! Neighborhood Nights offer us the space to build programs with community partners, artists, scholars, and entertainers. Stop by TAM Cafe for a bite…
5:30pm
Film
Scarecrowber: HauntedWeen
One Halloween night, a little girl visiting the Burber family’s “House of Horrors” attraction is brutally hacked to pieces by their young son, Eddie. Having fled the scene, Eddie is taken away by his mother to live in solitude at…
6:00pm
Film
Family Cartoon Happy Hour
It's the Happiest Hour for the whole family! Two hours of classic cartoons to get your weekend started off right. Every Thursday 5:00 until 7:00.
7:30pm
Improv | Comedy
The Emerald City Slasher: an improvised live murder mystery
Step into the enigmatic realm of the Emerald City, a mist-shrouded metropolis nestled in the heart of the Pacific Northwest. Here, amidst the verdant landscapes and invigorating aroma of artisanal vegan coffee, a vibrant tech culture thrives, painting a picture…
7:30pm
Theater
The Skin of Our Teeth
Imagine: You’ve been married for 5,000 years, raised a couple of kids, and survived multiple catastrophic disasters. But with the world constantly teetering on the edge of collapse, would you have the strength to save the human race, over and…
7:30pm
Theater
The Park
Seattle Public Theater at the Green Lake Bathhouse
Bev and Libby meet on the same park bench, under the same tree, sharing sandwiches, dreams and memories for the entirety of their lives. Or maybe a century. Or maybe an eternity. Generations of strangers, families, dogs and ghosts share…
7:30pm
Theater
Mrs. Loman is Leaving
Beloved Seattle playwright Katie Forgette returns to ACT with this world premiere first featured at ACT’s inaugural New Works Northwest Festival. This delightful backstage comedy unfolds on the opening night of the Teacup Theatre’s production of Death of a Salesman where…
7:45pm
Film
Scarecrowber: Night of the Living Dead (4K Restoration)
George Romero will argue that having an African-American lead in this movie was no attempt by him at social commentary. I disagree, but what isn’t up for debate is how effective and shocking a film this is, the granddaddy of…
8:00pm
Film
We're All Going To The World's Fair [In-Person Only]
(Jane Schoenbrun, United States, 2021, 86 min, in English)Alone in her attic bedroom, teenager Casey becomes immersed in an online role-playing horror game, wherein she begins to document the changes that may or may not be happening to her.
All Day
Film
19th Tasveer Film Festival
The Tasveer Film Festival is the leading South Asian film festival in North America, headquartered in the beautiful Pacific Northwest city of Seattle in Washington State. We are also the first and only Academy® qualifying South Asian Film Festival in…
All Day
Miscellaneous | Exhibit
Culture is Living @ The Burke Museum
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
The Culture is Living gallery breaks down traditional museum authority and brings the expertise and knowledge of communities to the forefront.Cultural belongings at the Burke Museum aren’t tucked away on shelves. They are alive, embodying the knowledge, language, and stories of…
All Day
Miscellaneous
Daily Admission @ Bellevue Botanical Gardens
The Bellevue Botanical Garden features cultivated display gardens, natural wetlands and a woodland trail, displaying the best plants and gardening practices for healthy, beautiful Northwest gardens. Visitors are welcome any day, from dawn to dusk.
All Day
Exhibit
Daily Admission @ Lakewold Gardens
Lakewold Gardens provides intentional encounters with the life-changing power of nature, fostering peace, creativity, and healing in our communities.
All Day
Miscellaneous
Exhibitions at the Gates Discovery Center
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center
Located next to the global headquarters of the Gates Foundation in Seattle, the Discovery Center is a free public space open to all. Through our exhibitions and programs, we share stories and data from our partners, grantees, and foundation employees…
All Day
Miscellaneous | Exhibit
Fossils Uncovered @ The Burke Museum
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Earth’s 4.5 billion-year history is a continuing saga of dynamic change.Events from ice ages to splitting continents influenced what survived, how life evolved, and what went extinct.See the only real dinosaur fossils on display in Washington state (including one of…
All Day
Film
Free Films For Tacoma Students @ The Grand Cinema!
The Grand Cinema is pleased to participate in a pilot program funded by Tacoma Creates. Students and EBT/Quest card holders living within Tacoma city limits may now attend most* public showings at The Grand Cinema. Any student of any age…
All Day
Visual Arts | Exhibit
Frye Salon
Frye Salon features over one hundred paintings from the Frye Art Museum’s Founding Collection hung floor to ceiling—a display mode referred to as a salon-style hang. The installation approximates the dramatic viewing experience enjoyed by visitors to Charles and Emma…
All Day
Film
In Theatres @ The Grand Cinema
The Grand Cinema is the South Sound's nonprofit home for independent, international, and local film. Our mission: The Grand Cinema enriches lives and enhances the cultural vitality of the Greater Tacoma community through the art of film. As a nonprofit…
All Day
Film | Visual Arts | Exhibit
Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: A Place of Opportunity and Transformation
World-renowned Swedish artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg invite visitors to travel to A Place of Opportunity and Transformation in their most recent exhibition and their first on the West Coast in over a decade.The National Nordic Museum’s Barbro Osher…
All Day
Visual Arts | Museum Tour
Permanent Collection: Nordic Journeys
The National Nordic Museum’s core exhibition, Nordic Journeys, spans centuries, from prehistoric migrations to Viking adventures to modern-day challenges and triumphs. Go on a journey across 1.3 million square miles and twelve thousand years to explore the Nordic region. Then…
All Day
Exhibit
Permanent Collections @ MOPOP
MoPOP's permanent collections feature a wide variety of artifacts and art highlighting the relevance of music, movies, and other popular culture experiences. Exhibits include: Nirvana: Taking Punk to the MassesInfinite Worlds of Science FictionIndie Game RevolutionFantasy: Worlds of Myth and MagicScared to…
All Day
Museum Tour | Exhibit
We Can Be Heroes: Voting and Beyond
There is a long history of discrimination, disenfranchisement, and barriers to voting that have affected AANHPI (and other) communities. These barriers have sparked community movements that have demanded change – and won.Our political system is resistant to change – but…
All Day
Visual Arts
fresh perspectives
The Colorization Collective is an organization that supports teen artists of color from around the world. This exhibition showcases the work of youth from our 2023 and 2024 Summer Mentorship Program, where teens of color worked under the guidance of…