Pioneer Square's First Thursday has been the city's monthly gallery night for decades. Galleries, studios and a handful of other venues in the old brick blocks…
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4 events,
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…
$32
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Tacoma Art Museum stays open until 8 p.m. on Thursdays, and admission is free from 5 o'clock on. That's three hours to see Northwest and Western…
Free
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Since 1986, Pearl District galleries have kept their doors open late on the first Thursday of the month for openings, receptions and a chance to meet…
Free
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4 events,
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… 
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…
$13 – $14
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… |
15 events,
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…
Free
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…
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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…
Free
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Beaverton's Saturday market wraps its main season on November 21, filling the west lot of the Beaverton City Library on SW Hall Boulevard between 3rd and…
Free
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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…
Free
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14 events,
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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
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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…
Free
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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
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3 events,
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Seattle's biggest recurring tech meetup has gathered founders, developers, recruiters, investors and the tech-curious every month since 2013. The format is friendly and fast: an hour…
$20 – $27
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4 events,
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On the second Thursday of each month, galleries, boutiques, bars and cafes across Capitol Hill hang new work and stay open late, from about 5 to…
Free
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Tacoma Art Museum stays open until 8 p.m. on Thursdays, and admission is free from 5 o'clock on. That's three hours to see Northwest and Western…
Free
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4 events,
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
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.… |
17 events,
The Hmong Association of Washington closes Seattle Center's year of free cultural festivals with its New Year, which marks the end of the harvest and gives…
Free
Tacoma Arts Month closes with a two-day market in the cavernous 1909 Tacoma Armory, where more than 100 local artists sell fine art, ceramics, fiber, jewelry…
Free
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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…
Free
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Beaverton's Saturday market wraps its main season on November 21, filling the west lot of the Beaverton City Library on SW Hall Boulevard between 3rd and…
Free
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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…
Free
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14 events,
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…
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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
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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…
Free
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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.…
Free
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6 events,
The 2024 Tony winner for Best Musical brings S.E. Hinton's Greasers and Socs to the Keller for 11 performances over Thanksgiving week. Adapted from the novel…
$85.05
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The Greater Vancouver Chamber's monthly after-work mixer moves to a different member business each time, so you get a look behind the scenes along with the… |
6 events,
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Every November, several hundred Eastside business leaders start a workday at the Hyatt Regency to hear where the economy is headed. Bank of America's Joe Quinlan,… |
8 events,
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…
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Tacoma Art Museum stays open until 8 p.m. on Thursdays, and admission is free from 5 o'clock on. That's three hours to see Northwest and Western…
Free
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Downtown Edmonds hangs local art in shops, restaurants and galleries all month, and on the third Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. the businesses open their…
Free
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10 events,
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
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
Renegade, which runs craft fairs in five cities, brings a holiday edition to Magnuson Park's Hangar 30 with more than 180 curated artists and makers. Gift…
Free
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The Phinney market closed for the season in September, but it comes back for one evening the Friday before Thanksgiving. The upper lot at the Phinney…
Free
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23 events,
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…
$27
From late October into early December, chum salmon, and a few coho, push up Piper's Creek in Carkeek Park to spawn, right inside city limits. The…
Free
A historic farm in north Clark County opens for a weekend of old-fashioned holiday cheer before Thanksgiving. Santa is in from 11 to 3 both days,…
$4 – $6
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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…
Free
-
Beaverton's Saturday market wraps its main season on November 21, filling the west lot of the Beaverton City Library on SW Hall Boulevard between 3rd and…
Free
-
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…
Free
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20 events,
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
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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
-
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…
Free
-
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
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10 events, |
10 events, |
10 events,
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Downtown's Wednesday market wrapped its regular season in October, then returns for one day on the eve of Thanksgiving. The annual Harvest Market sets up in…
Free
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11 events,
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Thanksgiving morning in Washington Park: the Oregon Road Runners Club's 5K starts on SW Knights Boulevard between the zoo lot and the forestry center, winds toward…
$30 – $45
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Northwest VEG's Thanksgiving 5K is the relaxed, inclusive option: walkers, strollers and leashed dogs are all welcome on a new course that starts and finishes at…
$20 – $30
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24 events,
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… 
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… 
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Free
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… 
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
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
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
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Downtown's holiday season officially starts the day after Thanksgiving, back in a renovated Westlake Park after last year's move to Westlake Center during construction. From 11…
Free
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Santa arrives in Vancouver by river: he sails down the Columbia with an escort from the Christmas Ships, steps ashore at the waterfront's Terminal 1, then…
Free
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Downtown's holiday season officially starts the night after Thanksgiving, when Santa flips the switch on the city tree in Pioneer Courthouse Square and nearly 10,000 colored… |
33 events,
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… 
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
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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…
Free
-
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…
Free
-
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…
Free
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29 events,
The Sunday after Thanksgiving belongs to Seattle's hometown marathon, now the UW Medicine Seattle Marathon and Half Marathon. Thousands of runners and walkers work off the…
-
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
-
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'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
|
17 events, |
17 events, |
17 events, |
22 events,
Pioneer Square's First Thursday has been the city's monthly gallery night for decades. Galleries, studios and a handful of other venues in the old brick blocks…
Free
-
Before the 2027 session opens in Olympia, Snohomish County's main business alliance gathers employers, elected officials and community partners in Everett to talk through the county's…
$60
-
Tacoma Art Museum stays open until 8 p.m. on Thursdays, and admission is free from 5 o'clock on. That's three hours to see Northwest and Western…
Free
-
Since 1986, Pearl District galleries have kept their doors open late on the first Thursday of the month for openings, receptions and a chance to meet…
Free
|
23 events,
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
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…
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
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
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… 
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
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37 events,
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… 
Seattle's biggest indie craft show fills Seattle Center's Exhibition Hall with hundreds of makers the first weekend of December, and at least 30 percent of the…
Free
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
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
Conductor and orchestrator Charles Floyd brings the Northwest Community Gospel Chorus together with the Oregon Symphony for a holiday concert built on big voices and soaring…
-
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…
Free
-
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…
Free
-
The Edmonds Historical Museum's street market moves into holiday mode on six Saturdays in November and December, filling 5th Avenue North and Bell Street just outside…
Free
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32 events,
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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
-
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'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
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