Oct 04 Saturday
Join us October 3-5, 2025, for the annual Oregon Coast Jazz Party!
For more than two decades, Oregon Coast Jazz Party has celebrated great live jazz—and the dedicated fans who love it—on the beautiful shores of Nye Beach at the Newport Performing Arts Center. Enjoy a lively, marvelously music-focused weekend of live jazz in an idyllic coastal location filled with charm, shopping, local brews, and fresh seafood.
Music director Ken Peplowski returns in 2025! As of April 21st, the full lineup of musicians has been announced: Ken Peplowski (Music Director, Clarinet, Sax), Bruce Harris (Trumpet), Lucy Yeghiazaryan (Vocals), Scott Hamilton (Sax), Mariel Bildsten (Trombone), Diego Figueiredo (Guitar), Mark Feinman (Drums), Alejandro Arenas (Bass), John O’Leary (Piano), Katie Thiroux (Bass), Rossano Sportiello (Piano), and Greg Williamson (Drums).
Session 1: Friday, October 3 @ 7pmSession 2: Saturday, October 4 @ 1pmSession 3: Saturday, October 4 @ 7pmSession 4: Sunday, October 5 @ 1pm
Start Tacoma Arts Month off with a Kaleidoscope of movement, storytelling, arts, and creativity for all ages. Join us for a lively afternoon of performances, art-making, and cultural celebration. Find the full schedule of programming at www.tacomaartsmonth.org/2025-kaleidoscope-opening-party
Live Jazz!
Rewind with us for a weekend of adventure, nostalgia, and community spirit at our adult camping fundraiser! Whether you're a former camper, counselor, or a first-timer, enjoy boating, archery, scenic hiking trails, trivia, paint & sip, and cornhole, all while supporting Camp Kiwanilong in the perfect blend of outdoor excitement and giving back to a great cause.
If you are an architect, builder, homeowner, real estate professional, or an eco-conscious person we invite you to The Northwest Green Building Slam with tickets available for in-person or live streaming.
The Slam is a Northwest Ecobuilding Guild showcase featuring a series of innovative and compelling stories of green building in the Pacific Northwest - designed to inspire and engage!
This year's event features the crowd-favorite Slam-style inspiration: 10 speakers with 10 minutes and 10 slides each. Award-winning green builder Martha Rose will set the mood with a look back at some of the Northwest's progressive green building mentors.
Speakers will touch on a variety of topics, including:* Improving Access to Healthy Homes* Transforming Building Codes for Equity, Innovation, and Zero Carbon Emissions* Designing for Disassembly/Reassembly/Rebuilding * Central District Community Social Justice Library* Diverse Pathways for Sustainable Wood Sourcing* Rooted & Resilient: Multi-generational Living* Transforming A Suburban Property
The evening doesn't stop there. Enjoy our no-host bar and light appetizers while mingling with other like-minded green building enthusiasts. Visit with exhibitors demonstrating some of the most innovative green building solutions. This is an event you don't want to miss!
We expect this event to sell out, so don't delay, get your tickets today!
Stage of Fools Written by Joy McCullough Directed by Amy Poisson
A scrappy feminist theater company is about to go under when they receive an offer they can't refuse: has-been 80s action movie star Jake Stone will endow them with more money than they've ever dreamed of, if they'll produce King Lear, with him in the titular role. Never mind that he's an entitled, egotistical blowhard. These women can survive anything for the sake of the theater they love...right?
Evening and matinee performances.
It’s almost like being in love! Dance your way back in time to one of the most romantic musicals ever written, Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon. Americans Tommy and Jeff are hiking the Scottish Highlands, when out of the mists they stumble upon the enchanting village of Brigadoon, which appears for only one day every 100 years. But this dreamlike place is far more than it seems—and those who fall in love there might never be the same.
From the writers of My Fair Lady and Camelot comes this soaring love story, full of glorious ballet and favorite tunes like “Come to Me, Bend to Me,” “The Heather on the Hill” and “Almost Like Being in Love.” This production features an exquisite new adaptation, which enhances all the romance and magic that makes Brigadoon a truly timeless masterpiece.
Welcomed by KNKX. Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world’s top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, John Lewis, Tommy Emmanuel, Lionel Hampton, the Boston Pops, the New York Pops, and guitar legend Les Paul, who named Vignola to his “Five Most Admired Guitarists List:” for the Wall Street Journal.
His dynamic genre-spanning music has brought him to 21 countries on three continents – and still growing – performing in some of the world’s most illustrious venues, including the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, New York’s Lincoln Center, The Blue Note, and the world’s oldest indoor concert hall, Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy.
Pasquale Grasso - It was the kind of endorsement most rising guitarists can only dream of, and then some. In his interview for Vintage Guitar magazine’s February 2016 cover story, Pat Metheny was asked to name some younger musicians who’d impressed him. “The best guitar player I’ve heard in maybe my entire life is floating around now, Pasquale Grasso,” said the jazz-guitar icon and NEA Jazz Master. “This guy is doing something so amazingly musical and so difficult. “Mostly what I hear now are guitar players who sound a little bit like me mixed with a little bit of [John Scofield] and a little bit of [Bill Frisell],” he continued. “What’s interesting about Pasquale is that he doesn’t sound anything like that at all. In a way, it is a little bit of a throwback, because his model—which is an incredible model to have—is Bud Powell. He has somehow captured the essence of that language from piano onto guitar in a way that almost nobody has ever addressed. He’s the most significant new guy I’ve heard in many, many years.”
AEG Presents Laufey's "A Matter of Time Tour" - Saturday October 4th with special guest Suki Waterhouse.
Laufey is an Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician. She rose to prominence in the early 2020s for her success as a jazz-inspired pop artist. Having performed as a cello soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra at age 15, Laufey was a finalist in the 2014 edition of Ísland Got Talent (Iceland's Got Talent), and a semi-finalist on The Voice Iceland the following year. She released her debut EP, Typical of Me (2021), and graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Her debut album, Everything I Know About Love (2022), charted in Iceland and the United States, where it peaked at number 3 on the US Jazz Albums chart along with the US Top albums Sales Chart where it peaked at number 50. Its follow-up, Bewitched (2023), won Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards (2024) and its single "From the Start" found moderate chart success in Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Her third album, A Matter Of Time, is set to be released on 22 August 2025.
In the face of rising censorship and cultural erasure, storytelling is resistance.
Mirror Stage, in collaboration with Humanities Washington, is launching Holding The Moment: A Speaker Series—a bold new series for voices fighting to be heard. Every other month, we host artists, educators, journalists, and activists who challenge systems of silence and invisibility through the power of story.
These interactive events explore identity, memory, politics, and art—connecting personal truth to collective liberation. From confronting anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric to exposing cultural appropriation and reclaiming erased histories, each talk invites us to resist oppression and build belonging.
John Halliday (he/him) is a legally blind Native American artist of Muckleshoot, “Duwamish,” Yakama, and Warm Springs Indian descent. Halliday recently retired from the Bureau of Indian Affairs as Deputy Regional Director for the Navajo Region after serving as CEO for both the Muckleshoot and Snoqualmie tribes. Halliday has shown his art at Lakewold Gardens, ANT Gallery, and the Sacred Circle Galleries of American Indian Art under the artist name “Coyote”. Halliday lives in Steilacoom.
