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TODAY - Thursday, October 29
Accessibility Session - 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM / People’s Community Center
Macabre Jewelry Workshop - 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM / Fern Hill Library
Night at the Museum - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM / UPS
Nightmare Before Christmas Sing-Along - 7:00 PM / Theatre on the Square
Pipes Spooktakular - 7:30 PM / UPS
Friday, October 30
City Services Expo - 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM / Tacoma Dome
Spooky Organ Concert - 5:00 PM / St. Luke’s Episcopal
Night of the Living Bands (SOTA) - 7:00 PM / Real Art Tacoma
All Hallows' Eve Party - 7:00 PM - 11:59 PM / The Valley
The Cherry Orchard - 7:30 PM / UPS
Saturday, October 31 - Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🦇
Wicked Fast Halloween 5K - 8:20 AM / Dune Peninsula
Proctor Farmers’ Market - 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM / Proctor
Dracula — The Romantic Ballet - 2:00 PM / Pantages
Trunk or Treat - 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM / LeMay - America’s Car Museum
Proctor Treats 2026 - 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM / Proctor
Tacoma Night Market - 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM / The Mothership
Clay Crows - 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM / PLU
Halloweekend - 8:00 PM - Steel Creek
Sunday, November 1
Día de los Muertos Festival - 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM / TAM
Day of the Dead Celebration - 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM / LeMay - America’s Car Museum
Sunday Market - 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM / 915 Broadway
Fall Bazaar - 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM / Tacoma Buddhist Temple
Family Fun Skate - 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM / Armory
Attorney General Nick Brown - 7:00 PM / UPS
Adult Late Skate - 8:30 PM - 11:00 PM / Armory
Monday, November 2
Día de los Muertos: Ofrenda - 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM / PDZA
Lunchtime Concert - 12:00 PM / UPS
MNF View Party - 5:15 PM / Spanish Ballroom
Jason Salmon - 7:00 PM / Tacoma Comedy Club
Tuesday, November 3 - ELECTION DAY
Diwali Lamp Lighting Ceremony - 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM / Municipal Building
Kacey Evans - 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM / El Gaucho
Keyboard Students Recital - 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM / PLU
Wednesday, November 4
Babies on the Trail - 10:00 AM / Point Defiance Park
Art Workshop with TAM - 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM / Moore Library
CheapSk8 - 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM / Armory
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TODAY - Thursday, October 29
📱 High School Sports Events - Volleyball, Soccer, Swimming, Water Polo
Friday, October 30
📱 High School Sports Events - Football, Tennis, Volleyball
PLU vs Lewis & Clark (Women's Volleyball) - 7:00 PM / Olson Gym
UPS vs Linfield (Women's Volleyball) - 7:00 PM / Memorial Fieldhouse
Saturday, October 31
PLU vs Linfield (Men's Soccer) - 11:00 AM / East Field
UPS vs Lewis & Clark (Men's Soccer) - 11:00 AM / Baker Stadium
PLU vs Whitworth (Football) - 12:00 PM / Sparks Stadium
PLU vs Linfield (Women's Soccer) - 1:45 PM / East Field
UPS vs Lewis & Clark (Women's Soccer) - 1:45 PM / Baker Stadium
UPS vs Lewis & Clark (Women's Volleyball) - 6:00 PM / Memorial Fieldhouse
PLU vs Linfield (Women's Volleyball) - 6:30 PM / Olson Gym
Sunday, November 1
PLU vs Lewis & Clark (Men's Soccer) - 11:00 AM / East Field
UPS vs Linfield (Men's Soccer) - 11:00 AM / Baker Stadium
PLU vs Lewis & Clark (Women's Soccer) - 1:45 PM / East Field
UPS vs Linfield (Women's Soccer) - 1:45 PM / Baker Stadium
Monday, November 2
There are no local high school or college sports events scheduled for November 2, 2026.
Tuesday, November 3
📱 High School Sports Events - Volleyball
Wednesday, November 4
TCC vs South Puget Sound (Women's Volleyball) - 6:30 PM / Titan Gym
Tacoma Has More Than One Way to Spend Halloween
Tacoma won’t be short on Halloween plans this weekend. The News Tribune has assembled a guide spanning family activities, costume contests and after-dark celebrations around the city.
Our full story offers a taste of the lineup, including a Sixth Avenue comic shop’s milestone celebration and an afternoon of treats, music and costumed pets on Antique Row. Those are only two of the options waiting in the complete guide.
Read our full Tacoma Local Minute article here.
Tacoma’s Past Is Moving Into a Historic Downtown Warehouse
After months of packing and preparation, the Tacoma History Museum will open its new permanent home at 2122 Commerce St. with a public grand opening on Saturday, Nov. 21. The museum is moving into the historic Hunt & Mottet warehouses in the Brewery Blocks, placing Tacoma’s past inside a building that is part of that history.
Visitors will get their first look at a new exhibit built around 20 artifacts from the city’s past. The celebration will also include history-themed games, a community art project, cookies and tea, a sidewalk book sale and limited-edition Tacoma Historical Society stickers.
Read our full Tacoma Local Minute article here.
What Remains Turns Grief Into Art in Downtown Tacoma
More than a dozen Tacoma artists are exploring life, death, grief and the things people carry forward in What Remains, a new group exhibition opening Nov. 2 at TygerWolf Tattoo.
The show brings together painting, photography, textiles, printmaking and mixed media on the studio’s second floor. Its opening reception will also include a guided writing experience inviting visitors to put their own encounters with grief into words.
Read our full Tacoma Local Minute article here.
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