Arts & Entertainment

Whether you’re looking to be entertained or enlightened, Gig Harbor Now covers fun and informational events taking place in the community.

Day Tripper | Wright Park and Tacoma’s Stadium District

Feb 26, 2025 | By: Mary Williams

Wright Park and the Stadium District in Tacoma were the setting for a number of 1990s movies.

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Harbor Happenings | Bremerton Symphony Orchestra visits Gig Harbor

Feb 25, 2025 | By:

The Tacoma Youth Symphony, featuring many locals, and Harbor Winds’ Young Artists Concert are also this weekend.

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Summer Sounds at Skansie lineup set for 2025

Feb 24, 2025 | By:

Who’s playing at Summer Sounds at Skansie in 2025? Here’s the lineup.

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Gig Harbor Now and Then | Gig Harbor Garage was the area’s first car dealership

Feb 24, 2025 | By: Greg Spadoni

The previous Gig Harbor Now and Then column gave the answers to four questions concerning early local telephones. One question that was not asked or answered last time concerns how to cope with one of today’s internet providers on the Gig Harbor and Key peninsulas, CenturyLink. Having had multiple extensive, unwanted, unsatisfying, and unfathomably bad experiences

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Gig Harbor fire station, firefighters get a cameo in this movie with a message

Feb 21, 2025 | By:

“Sense of Emergency,” filmed partly at GHFMO’s Station 51, focuses on how CPR can save a life — and on the trauma paramedics and other responders face.

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Harbor Happenings | Lots to learn this week

Feb 18, 2025 | By:

A discussion of African folktales, an octopus talk and a poetry reading — and that’s all just Wednesday.

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Rick Bleiweiss still rocking and writing after move to Heron’s Key

Feb 12, 2025 | By:

The new Gig Harbor resident spent a career being creative in the music and publishing industries. He’s not stopping now.

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Harbor Happenings | Warm up with some Chowder on Feb. 15

Feb 11, 2025 | By:

The Greater Gig Harbor Foundation’s Chowder Social, with dishes prepared by top local chefs, is Saturday at the Vintage Aero Museum.

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Gig Harbor Now and Then | The local history of telephones, cars and telephones in cars

Feb 10, 2025 | By: Greg Spadoni

Cross-Narrows phone service has been available since 1907. To call a car dealer, people in those times needed only to dial ‘1’.

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Harbor Happenings | Free trees available on Saturday

Feb 04, 2025 | By:

The Tacoma Tree Foundation and the Greater Gig Harbor Foundation’s EnviroCorp are holding a tree giveaway at Donkey Creek Park from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8.

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