• Portland Farmers Market at PSU

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

    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 […]

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  • Lake City Farmers Market (Fall Saturdays)

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

    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 […]

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  • Vancouver Farmers Market (Downtown)

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

    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, […]

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  • Portland Saturday Market

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

    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 […]

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  • Portland Bazaar Holiday Market

    Portland Bazaar (Slabtown) 1715 NW 17th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

    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 shifts weekend to weekend, […]

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  • Tuba Christmas at Pioneer Courthouse Square

    Pioneer Courthouse Square 701 SW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

    Nearly 300 tuba players fill Pioneer Courthouse Square with carols in a sound you feel in your chest. Musicians travel from all over Oregon and beyond for this 35th annual […]

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  • Tacoma City Ballet: The Nutcracker

    Pantages Theater 901 Broadway, Tacoma, WA, United States

    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 the story's old-fashioned magic. […]

  • Christmas Ships Parade

    Willamette and Columbia rivers (riverfront parks and restaurants) Portland, OR, United States

    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 3 to 20. The […]

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  • Seattle Symphony: Handel’s Messiah

    Benaroya Hall, S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium 200 University St, Seattle, WA, United States

    The Seattle Symphony's annual Messiah brings the Seattle Symphony Chorale, a quartet of vocal soloists and Benaroya Hall's Watjen Concert Organ together for Handel's oratorio, the one that sends audiences […]

  • Seattle Christmas Bird Count

    Seattle count circle (routes across the city; at-home option) Seattle (15-mile circle centered downtown), Seattle, WA, United States

    Birds Connect Seattle, the former Seattle Audubon, has run the city's piece of North America's longest-running community science survey for more than 95 years. About 300 volunteers split into teams […]

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  • Ballard Farmers Market

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

    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 […]

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  • West Seattle Farmers Market

    West Seattle Junction California Ave SW & SW Alaska St, Seattle, WA, United States

    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 […]

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