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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 […]

Bellevue Downtown Ice Rink

Bellevue Downtown Park

For a little over nine weeks, a seasonal rink sets up on the plaza at Bellevue Downtown Park, with the waterfall and the downtown towers as a backdrop. Skate rental […]

$12 – $24

Little Shop of Horrors at Portland Center Stage

The Armory (Portland Center Stage) 128 NW Eleventh Ave, Portland

Portland Center Stage counter-programs the season of goodwill with a brand-new production of the cult musical about a shy florist and the bloodthirsty plant that makes him famous. Chip Miller […]

Gingerbread Village at the Sheraton Grand Seattle

Sheraton Grand Seattle 1400 6th Ave, Seattle

For 32 years, architects have teamed with the Sheraton's chefs to build a village of six-foot gingerbread structures in the downtown hotel, each season built around a new theme you […]

A Very Die Hard Christmas

Everett Performing Arts Center 2710 Wetmore Ave, Everett

Seattle sketch troupe The Habit settles the eternal argument about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie by turning it into a holiday stage parody. Expect 1980s jokes, soft-rock songs, […]

$27

A Christmas Carol at Portland Playhouse

Portland Playhouse 602 NE Prescott St, Portland

Portland Playhouse's musical take on Dickens has become a King neighborhood holiday ritual, staged in the company's converted church on NE Prescott. This year director Cassie Greer brings a fresh […]

$5 – $71.95

The Lights of Christmas at Warm Beach Camp

Warm Beach Camp & Conference Center 20800 Marine Dr, Stanwood

For its 30th season, the Northwest's big Christmas light festival at Warm Beach Camp, north of Marysville near Stanwood, becomes mainly a walking event. Guests stroll at their own pace […]

$16 – $35

Holiday Express at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center

Oregon Rail Heritage Center 2250 SE Water Ave, Portland

Heritage rail cars leave the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in the Central Eastside for a short holiday excursion, with Santa and his elves working the heated cars. Morning departures are […]

$25 – $35

Argosy Cruises Christmas Ship Festival

Pier 55, Seattle Waterfront (plus Lake Union, Kirkland, Lake Washington, Edmonds, Everett and Des Moines departures) 1101 Alaskan Way, Seattle

Since 1949, a decorated Christmas Ship has sailed around Puget Sound and Lake Washington with a live choir on board, stopping off waterfront parks for 20-minute concerts piped to shore. […]

Santa Trains at the Northwest Railway Museum

Snoqualmie Depot and North Bend Depot 38625 SE King St, Snoqualmie

The Northwest Railway Museum has run Santa trains through the Snoqualmie Valley every year since 1969. Families pick between two rides. The 40-minute Yuletide Express leaves the Snoqualmie Depot, climbs […]

Ongoing

WildLanterns at Woodland Park Zoo

Woodland Park Zoo 5500 Phinney Ave N, Seattle

Woodland Park Zoo's winter light festival swaps strings of bulbs for large illuminated lanterns shaped like animals and habitats, set along the zoo's paths after dark. It runs from mid-November […]

Seattle Christmas Market

Seattle Center (South Fountain Lawn & Fisher Pavilion) 305 Harrison St, Seattle

Seattle Center's South Fountain Lawn turns into a European-style Christmas village for five weeks, with wooden stalls from local and European vendors, a carousel, a walk-through tree, daily snow showers […]

$6.99 – $21.99

ZooLights at the Oregon Zoo

Oregon Zoo 4001 SW Canyon Rd, Portland

The Oregon Zoo trades daytime animal-watching for a nighttime walk through grounds wrapped in light displays, from the main paths to the hillside trees. Gates open at 4:30 p.m. each […]

$13 – $35

Holiday Weekends at Portland Japanese Garden

Portland Japanese Garden 611 SW Kingston Ave, Portland

For three weekends starting the day after Thanksgiving, the Japanese Garden in Washington Park dresses for the season with traditional winter decorations. Visitors can shop Japanese and Japanese-inspired gifts, have […]

$22.50

Seattle Center Winterfest

Seattle Center (Armory Food & Event Hall and campus) 305 Harrison St, Seattle

Seattle Center's five-week holiday program is mostly free and easy to drop into. The heart of it is the Winter Train & Village in the Armory, a late-19th-century-style model railway […]

Free

Westlake Park Holiday Carousel

Westlake Park 401 Pine St, Seattle

After a six-year break, the downtown holiday carousel is back in Westlake Park, presented by Nordstrom. It turns daily from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. through Jan. 3, a nice […]

$4

Vancouver Holiday Market

Hilton Vancouver Washington 301 W 6th St, Vancouver

The Vancouver Farmers Market moves indoors for Thanksgiving weekend, bringing 126 local makers, growers and small businesses under one roof at the Hilton downtown. It opens Friday afternoon, a few […]

Free

Zoolights at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium

Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium 5400 N Pearl St, Tacoma

Tacoma's long-running holiday light show takes over Point Defiance Zoo after dark, with light displays strung along the zoo's paths above Commencement Bay. It's a walking show rather than an […]

Christmas Festival of Lights at The Grotto

The Grotto (National Sanctuary of Our Sorrowful Mother) 8840 NE Skidmore St, Portland

The Grotto's wooded sanctuary in Northeast Portland turns into a quarter-mile walk of lights each evening from November 27 to December 30. The music is the draw: school, church and […]

$8.95 – $19.95

Winter Wonderland at Portland International Raceway

Portland International Raceway 1940 N Victory Blvd, Portland

A drive-through light show on the racetrack at Portland International Raceway, and the single largest fundraiser for the Sunshine Division's hunger-relief work. Tickets are priced per carload, so pile in […]

$38 – $55

Snowflake Lane at The Bellevue Collection

Bellevue Way between Bellevue Square and Lincoln Square Bellevue Way NE from NE 4th St to NE 8th St, Bellevue

Every night at 7 p.m. from the day after Thanksgiving through Christmas Eve, Bellevue Way between NE 4th and NE 8th turns into a short holiday parade: toy drummers, dancers, […]

Free

Hollywood Farmers Market

NE Hancock St between 44th & 45th Aves 4420 NE Hancock St, Portland

A Saturday market on NE Hancock between 44th and 45th in Northeast Portland's Hollywood district. It keeps its weekly schedule right up to December 19, which makes it one of the more dependable east-side stops for the supporting cast of a Thanksgiving turkey or a few last-minute edible gifts. After the holidays it shifts to […]

Free

University District Farmers Market

University Way NE (the Ave) University Way NE between NE 50th St & NE 52nd St, Seattle

Every Saturday, year-round, farmers take over University Way NE between 50th and 52nd, two blocks from the U District light rail station. Winter is the season for squash, roots, apples and hardy greens, and the market's chef demo series keeps going into December: the Husky Culinary Club on Nov. 7, Anna of Yoka Miso on […]

Free

Proctor Farmers’ Market

Proctor District N 27th St & N Proctor St, Tacoma

Tacoma's only year-round farmers market sets up every Saturday in the Proctor District through Dec. 19. Shoppers come from across the city for local vegetables and flowers, meat and seafood, artisan foods, beer and cider, and prepared food, usually with a local musician playing and plenty of dogs to watch. The surrounding blocks are full […]

Free

Portland Farmers Market at PSU

South Park Blocks, Portland State University SW Park Ave & SW Montgomery St (1803 SW Park Ave), Portland

Portland Farmers Market's flagship keeps its Saturday rhythm all winter in the South Park Blocks on the Portland State campus. The winter market is smaller than the summer crush, which […]

Free

Lake City Farmers Market (Fall Saturdays)

Lake City Farmers Market NE 125th St & 28th Ave NE, Seattle

Lake City's market switches from summer Thursday evenings to Saturday mornings in the fall, and it keeps going until Dec. 19, which makes it one of the few seasonal markets […]

Free

Vancouver Farmers Market (Downtown)

Vancouver Farmers Market, next to Esther Short Park (8th & Esther) 605 Esther St, Vancouver

Vancouver's downtown market stays open through the winter, shifting to a single Saturday session from 10 to 2 next to Esther Short Park. The cold-season lineup is smaller than summer's, […]

Free

Portland Saturday Market

Tom McCall Waterfront Park & Ankeny Plaza 2 SW Naito Pkwy, Portland

Portland Saturday Market is in its 52nd season, and the last Saturdays before it packs up on December 19 are prime gift-hunting weeks. Makers sell their own work from booths […]

Free

Shop Local Saturday at The Reser

Patricia Reser Center for the Arts 12625 SW Crescent St, Beaverton

Beaverton's answer to Black Friday: The Reser and the City of Beaverton fill the arts center with nearly 40 regional artists on Small Business Saturday. It ties in with The […]

Free

Campana Sobre Campana: Christmas in México at The Reser

Patricia Reser Center for the Arts 12625 SW Crescent St, Beaverton

Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar and Ballet Folklórico del Río Grande tell the story of a Mexican Christmas in music and dance: Mary and Joseph's journey, Las Posadas, the Reyes […]

$39.50 – $49.50

Garden d’Lights

Bellevue Botanical Garden 12001 Main St, Bellevue

Bellevue Botanical Garden's holiday display shapes its lights into the garden itself: glowing flowers, plants and small critters tucked into the beds along the paths, with a scavenger-hunt map for […]

$5 – $10

Santa’s Sock Hop at Imagine Children’s Museum

Imagine Children's Museum 1502 Wall St, Everett

Everett's three-story children's museum throws a pajama party to welcome Santa for the season. Kids come in their comfiest PJs for holiday crafts in the Art Hangout, dancing, photos with […]

$18 – $22.50