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Irving Berlin’s White Christmas at Lakewood Theatre

Lakewood Center for the Arts 368 S State St, Lake Oswego

Lakewood Theatre Company, now in its 74th season, stages the Irving Berlin musical about two song-and-dance men, a sister act and a Vermont inn that needs rescuing. Expect the title […]

Ongoing

Nights of the Golden Flower at Lan Su Chinese Garden

Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett St, Portland

Lan Su's chrysanthemum festival opens with four evenings in Old Town's walled garden, lit by lanterns and lined with roughly 81 varieties of mums, including cascading waterfall displays from the […]

$32

Portland Holiday Market

Portland Expo Center, Halls D & E 2060 N Marine Dr, Portland

The season's first big indoor gift market fills two halls of the Expo Center in North Portland the weekend of November 6. Local artisans and small brands sell handmade goods, […]

$13 – $14

Seattle Forest Week Volunteer Plantings

Parks across Seattle (e.g., Mt. Baker Park, Lake Washington Blvd S) Mt. Baker Park, 2521 Lake Park Dr S, Seattle

Every November, the Green Seattle Partnership kicks off planting season with a week of volunteer work parties in parks and natural areas across the city. No experience is needed and […]

Free

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra: Verdi’s Requiem

Skyview Concert Hall 1300 NW 139th St, Vancouver

Verdi's Requiem is one of the most dramatic pieces in the choral repertoire, all thunderous brass and whispered prayers, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra opens its November with it. The […]

Hillsdale Farmers Market

Rieke Elementary parking lot 1405 SW Vermont St, Portland

Southwest Portland's Sunday market, now set up in the Rieke Elementary parking lot on SW Vermont, runs every week until Thanksgiving before switching to a twice-a-month winter schedule. It draws a loyal crowd from Hillsdale, Multnomah Village and the surrounding hills, and the three Sundays before the holiday are the best chance to stock up […]

Free

Ballard Farmers Market

Ballard Avenue NW (22nd Ave NW to 20th Ave NW) Ballard Ave NW & 22nd Ave NW, Seattle

Seattle's first year-round neighborhood farmers market has filled the cobblestone stretch of Ballard Avenue NW every Sunday since 2000, and the produce comes only from Washington farms. In winter the stalls lean toward storage crops, meat, eggs and baked goods, with makers' tables mixed in, and the market runs from NW Market Street down to […]

Free

West Seattle Farmers Market

West Seattle Junction California Ave SW & SW Alaska St, Seattle

In the heart of the Junction at California and Alaska, West Seattle's market runs every Sunday morning through the winter, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Think of it as a neighborhood shop more than a destination: farm produce, meat, eggs and bread, with the Junction's coffee shops and bookstores a few steps away. Nov. 8 […]

Free

King Farmers Market

King Elementary lot, NE 7th & Wygant 4815 NE 7th Ave, Portland

The King neighborhood's Sunday market closes for the year on November 22, so its last three Sundays are a good reason to wander over before Thanksgiving. About 30 regional farmers […]

Free

Lents International Farmers Market

The ZED parking lot, SE 92nd & Reedway 5718 SE 92nd Ave, Portland

Started in 2006 to bring fresh, culturally relevant produce to one of Southeast Portland's most diverse neighborhoods, the Lents market runs its final Sundays through November 22. Around a dozen […]

Free

Fremont Sunday Market

Fremont Sunday Market (Fremont Bridge location) 3401 Evanston Ave N, Seattle

Fremont's European-style street market has run for more than 35 years, and it doesn't take the winter off. From November on it moves under cover at the Fremont Bridge location, […]

Free

Capitol Hill Farmers Market

E Barbara Bailey Way E Denny Way between Broadway & 10th Ave E, Seattle

The Denny Way entrance to Capitol Hill Station opens straight onto this market, which sets up on E Barbara Bailey Way between Broadway and 10th every Sunday of the year. […]

Free

Garden Tea Tastings at Lan Su Chinese Garden

Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett St, Portland

A tea master from Lan Su's Yun Shui Teahouse pours three seasonal Chinese and Taiwanese teas for a group of no more than eight, in one of the garden's pavilions. […]

$37 – $56

Portland Opera: La Traviata

Keller Auditorium 222 SW Clay St, Portland

Portland Opera opens its season's big stage with Verdi's La Traviata, the story of Violetta, a woman who chooses love and her own terms over polite society's verdict, and pays […]