Community Calendar

Stories are shaped by the ways we tell them. In Shaping the Story: Designs for the Theatre by Carey Wong, go behind the scenes to see how theatre sets bring stories to life. During a career spanning over 50 years, Carey Wong has designed sets and costumes for more than 300 productions, including operas, plays, musicals, and ballets.

This exhibition features scale models of his designs in addition to costumes, set pieces, and stories of Washington’s rich entertainment history. From sketches of an idea to fully realized sets, explore how a designer’s decisions craft the world of a story.

LeMay – America’s Car Museum proudly presents The Birth of the American Supercar, a groundbreaking exhibition guest curated by renowned automotive innovator Steve Saleen. This one-of-a-kind display invites guests on an exhilarating journey through the evolution of American supercars. From early speed pioneers to cutting-edge modern marvels, visitors will experience a stunning lineup of vehicles that have redefined engineering, speed, and style, built by a wide range of American automotive manufacturers like Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Saleen himself, and even some more obscure ones like Vector, Cunningham, and Hennessey. From roaring V8s to sleek carbon-fiber bodies, discover how American automakers pushed boundaries, challenged European rivals, and redefined what a supercar could be. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see some of the most thrilling and historically significant American-made performance vehicles ever built—all under one roof.

Curated by a panel of art jurists, the exhibition features work by more than 20 South Sound artists. With media including painting, drawing, photography and glass art, some of the exhibition’s works provide windows into personal history and collective culture. Other pieces are non-representational.

Taken as a whole, the exhibition challenges us to take an expansive view of Black art as an abundance of unique expressions drawn from the deep well of vibrant community.

The exhibition will run from Feb. 11 - March 13, 2026. Admission is free to the public.

LOCATION:

The Gallery is located in Bldg. 4 at Tacoma Community College, near the corner of 12th and Mildred streets. Visitor Parking is available in Lot G.

HOURS:

Monday: Closed
Tuesday - Thursday: 10am-4pm
Third Thursday of each month: 10am-8pm
Friday: 10am-3pm
Saturday - Sunday: Closed

Childhood’s End Gallery presents its annual Studio Sale, featuring discounted and rarely seen works by beloved local artists including Jon Bradham, Sara Gettys, Kathy Gore-Fuss, Chuck Gumpert, Carla Paine, and Mimi Williams. The sale also includes a selection of unique, limited works by Marc Chagall, William Winden, and others. Begin the year with an exceptional find at a rare discount.

Jan 17 - Feb 22, 2026

Free

Childhood’s End Gallery
222 4th Ave W
Olympia WA 98501

360-943-3724

info@childhoods-end-gallery.com

Welcome the Vietnamese Lunar New Year and 2026’s Year of the Horse at Tết in Seattle – Vietnamese Lunar New Year: a festival celebrating its 30th Anniversary on Saturday, February 14 and Sunday, February 15 at Seattle Center Armory Food & Event Hall and Fisher Pavilion.

This free, multi-generational event brings together the regional community to celebrate rich Vietnamese heritage through art, food, music, and traditional and contemporary expressions. This year’s festival is filled with live entertainment all weekend, including headline performances by singers Hồ Lệ Thu (Saturday) and Trúc Linh &Trúc Lam (Sunday). There will also be six lion dances scheduled throughout the festival, some with firecrackers. Additional activities include dance workshops, a Áo Dài Fashion Show, a kids’ Tết zone full of activities, and a Tết in Seattle Community Art Gallery celebrating this year’s theme, Steadfast Warmth, in honor of the Year of the Horse.

Vietnamese cuisine is always a highlight of the festival! There will be delicious cultural foods from a large selection of local food vendors, a food passport, kids and adult eating competitions, and a “Bánh Tết” (sticky rice cake) wrapping competition on both days for all ages.

Lastly, the annual Health Fair will return to Tết this year. There will be numerous resources and services for all ages, including free vaccines, health education, screenings for vision and bone density, plus much more.

The dynamic two-day event is produced by Tết in Seattle (TIS), a volunteer-based community organization, that honors the culture of Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans in the Pacific Northwest.

Tết in Seattle was formed 30 years ago, in 1996, by four Vietnamese organizations invested in celebrating and preserving traditional Vietnamese culture in the Seattle community. The groups hoped to host an event which would unite the Vietnamese community and introduce that community to the greater Seattle area. Observance of the Lunar New Year, Tết Nguyên Đán, presented the perfect opportunity to do so.

Tết occurs on the first day of the Lunar New Year, typically in late January or early February, and is celebrated for three to five days. During this period, families reunite, put aside the past year’s struggles, and pray for blessings in the year to come. Homes are cleaned, fresh clothes are donned, and streets are decorated in preparation for Tết. In every home, altars are set up to welcome ancestors with a full spread of Vietnamese dishes unique to Tết, such as banh tết, banh chung, and more.

Tết in Seattle – Vietnamese Lunar New Year is part of Seattle Center Festál, a year-round series of 25 free cultural festivals. Learn more about Festál (seattlecenter.com/festal).

Live Jazz!

🎷 Jazz Jam at Butter Notes Café 🎷
📍 Butter Notes Café – Everett, WA
🗓️ Every 1st & 3rd Sunday @ 2 PM

☕ Come sip, snack, and swing!

Join us for an afternoon of live jazz and spontaneous creativity at Butter Notes Café! Whether you’re here to play or just enjoy the vibes, you’re welcome.

🧇 Fresh croffles and warm coffee served all afternoon
🎶 Open to all instruments, all levels
💛 Donations encouraged to support local musicians and future sessions

Bring your instrument, your friends, or just your love for music!

This Valentine's weekend, fall in love with the magic of silent cinema and live organ music. Featuring Buster Keaton’s Seven Chances and The Three Ages. We welcome film fans of all ages to step back in time to revel in the authentically recreated sounds and nostalgia from times gone by. In Seven Chances, a man learns that he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7PM that evening. The Three Ages shares love and romance through three historical ages: the Stone Age, the Roman Age, and the Modern Age.

Featuring some of the best musicians from around the Seattle area, Chicago Transit Experience (www.chicagotransitexperience.com) skillfully recreates Chicago’s unique blend of rock, jazz, R&B and classical with powerful vocal harmonies and a dynamic horn section. Playing all the classic hits along with many fan favorites, they are dedicated to recreating the iconic sound of Chicago. From the acclaimed 1969 CTA debut album, through the hits of the 70’s, to the ballads of the 80’s, The Chicago Transit Experience delivers the very best of Chicago’s music. The band consists of Jeff Heiser, founder and leader on lead guitar and vocals, Arny Bailey on rhythm guitar, vocals and percussion, Tristin Heiser on vocals and percussion, David Joyner on keyboards, Alexey Nikolaev on tenor sax, Greg Schroeder on trombone, Greg Lyons on trumpet, Emmanuel Del Casal on bass, Dave Austin on drums and Jared Connelie and Brett Caughie on sound and lighting. Don’t miss an exceptional evening of music in the beautiful confines of Marine View.

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.”