Irving Berlin’s White Christmas at Lakewood Theatre
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…
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Events for December 13, 2026
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Bellevue Downtown Ice Rink
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…
$12 – $24
Little Shop of Horrors at Portland Center Stage
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…
Gingerbread Village at the Sheraton Grand 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 Christmas Carol at Portland Playhouse
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…
$5 – $71.95
Argosy Cruises Christmas Ship Festival
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…
Pacific Northwest Ballet: George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker
PNB's staging of George Balanchine's Nutcracker fills McCaw Hall from the day after Thanksgiving through Dec. 27, with the PNB Orchestra in the pit and a…
The Lights of Christmas at Warm Beach Camp
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…
$16 – $35
Santa Trains at the Northwest Railway Museum
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…
Oregon Ballet Theatre: George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker
Oregon Ballet Theatre's Balanchine Nutcracker is Portland's big-stage holiday ballet, with Tchaikovsky's score played live by the OBT Orchestra at the Keller Auditorium. Marie's trip to…
Holiday Express at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center
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…
$25 – $35
International Ballet Theatre: The Nutcracker
If McCaw Hall feels far from the Eastside, Bellevue's own Nutcracker plays the Meydenbauer Center Theatre for two weeks before Christmas. International Ballet Theatre roots its…
Ongoing
WildLanterns at Woodland Park Zoo
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.…
Seattle Christmas Market
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…
$6.99 – $21.99
ZooLights at the Oregon Zoo
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…
$13 – $35
Seattle Center Winterfest
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,…
Free
Westlake Park Holiday Carousel
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…
$4
Zoolights at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
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…
Christmas Festival of Lights at The Grotto
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…
$8.95 – $19.95
Winter Wonderland at Portland International Raceway
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…
$38 – $55
Snowflake Lane at The Bellevue Collection
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…
Free
Garden d’Lights
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…
$5 – $10
Portland’s Public Menorah at The Square
Chabad Center for Jewish Life lights Portland's public menorah in Pioneer Courthouse Square across Hanukkah, from Friday, December 4, through Sunday, December 13. The gathering runs…
Redmond Lights
Redmond's winter festival is more art show than Christmas display: a month of illuminated installations by local and regional artists in Downtown Park and Overlake's Esterra…
Free
Holiday Weekends at Portland Japanese Garden
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…
$22.50
ScanFair Old World Nordic Christmas Market
Nordic Northwest's 42nd ScanFair brings a Scandinavian Christmas market to Halls A and A1 of the Oregon Convention Center, the same weekend Crafty Wonderland fills the…
Crafty Wonderland Holiday Art + Craft Market
Portland's long-running indie craft market takes over Hall D of the Oregon Convention Center with more than 250 artists, crafters and designers. This is where the…
Portland Bazaar Holiday Market
A curated maker market that runs across three December weekends in Northwest Portland, with more than 200 makers rotating through over the season. Because the lineup…
Free
Occidental Square Holiday Ice Rink and Holiday Bazaar
Pioneer Square's tree-lined plaza gets a free pop-up ice rink for nine days in December, presented by Alaska Airlines, with loaner skates included. It's open noon…
Free
Oregon Symphony Holiday Pops Spectacular
The Oregon Symphony's big family holiday show fills the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall with seasonal favorites, sing-alongs and a visit from Santa. Conductor Sean O'Loughlin leads…
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Holiday Pops
Clark County's own orchestra gets festive for a family-friendly holiday program under music director Ken Selden. The featured soloist is Noah Geller, concertmaster of the Seattle…
Ballard Farmers Market
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…
Free
West Seattle Farmers Market
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…
Free
Fremont Sunday Market
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…
Free
Capitol Hill Farmers Market
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…
Free
Garden Tea Tastings at Lan Su Chinese Garden
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…
$37 – $56
Tacoma City Ballet: The Nutcracker
Tacoma City Ballet has danced The Nutcracker for 71 years, and its home is the 1918 Pantages Theater on Broadway, an ornate vaudeville house that suits…
Christmas Ships Parade
Volunteer skippers have strung their boats with lights and cruised the rivers every December for about seven decades, and the fleets sail most nights from December…
Free