• 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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  • ScanFair Old World Nordic Christmas Market

    Oregon Convention Center, Halls A & A1 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

    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 hall next door. The […]

  • Crafty Wonderland Holiday Art + Craft Market

    Oregon Convention Center, Hall D 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

    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 city's printmakers, ceramicists, jewelers […]

  • 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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  • Occidental Square Holiday Ice Rink and Holiday Bazaar

    Occidental Square 117 S Washington St, Seattle, WA, United States

    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 to 6 p.m. daily […]

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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. […]

  • Oregon Symphony Holiday Pops Spectacular

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

    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 the orchestra with the […]

  • Georgetown Art Attack: Very Open House at Equinox Studios

    Equinox Studios (Gage Georgetown) 6520 5th Ave S, Seattle, WA, United States

    Georgetown's Art Attack has long brought the neighborhood's studios, galleries and shops out on the second Saturday of the month, and December's edition centers on Equinox Studios, the warren of […]

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  • 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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  • Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Holiday Pops

    Skyview Concert Hall 1300 NW 139th St, Vancouver, WA, United States

    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 Symphony, which gives the […]

  • 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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