Arts & Entertainment

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

ArtWalk off for September, and its future is in doubt

Aug 21, 2024 | By: Carolyn Bick

Asked if ArtWalk would have continued if Gallery Row had not closed, Lea Basile-Lazarus’ first instinct is to say, “No.” But the more she thinks about it, she mused in a recent interview, the more she realizes this isn’t true. “When I really think about it, if we still had one more gallery, and we

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Harbor Happenings | Airport Day buzzes Gig Harbor on Saturday

Aug 20, 2024 | By:

Get an up-close view of the workings of the Tacoma Narrows Airport during the second annual Airport Day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24. The free, family-friendly event begins with a ceremony by Peninsula High School’s NROTC color guard. Activities  include STEM experiences for kids, hands-on displays, aircraft fly-bys, informational booths, food

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Shakespeare (ish) takes the stage at Sehmel Homestead Park

Aug 19, 2024 | By:

It’s Shakespeare in the park, with some artistic license. Ghostlight Performing Arts gave its first live performance for a crowd of around 60 with a parody called “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) revised, (again)” at Sehmel Homestead Park on Aug. 10. And if you missed it, you’ll have another chance on Saturday, Aug.

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Gig Harbor Film Festival offering complimentary passes starting Sunday

Aug 16, 2024 | By:

Editor’s note: Film fans snapped up the 400 available free passes in 11 hours. Tickets are now available on the film festival’s website for the usual price of $50. Tickets for the Gig Harbor Film Festival usually go on sale around this time. But not this year. Because for a limited time starting Sunday, Aug.

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Our Fisherman, Our Guardian remains broken, with mold growing

Aug 14, 2024 | By: Carolyn Bick

Mark Anderson’s voice is a bit crackly on the phone and sometimes drops in and out — the reception isn’t great where he is. But his voice is clear when he says: “‘Our Fishermen, Our Guardian’ — this was a community-based effort and community-funded, and a cooperation with the Puyallup Tribe to remember the first

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Harbor Happenings | Americana Music Festival in Olalla

Aug 13, 2024 | By:

There’s music to fit ’most every mood on this week’s dance card. The Olalla Americana Music Festival brings traditional American music — incorporating elements of country, rock, folk, blues and bluegrass — to South Kitsap County from 11 a.m. to dusk on Saturday, Aug. 17. The festival is at the South Kitsap Southern Little League

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Gig Harbor Now and Then | Park, church and more now stand at former railroad crossings

Aug 12, 2024 | By: Greg Spadoni

Our last question of local history concerned one of the several Peninsula logging railroads of the early 20th century. With the continuing development of the Peninsula, more of the old logging railroad grades are being destroyed nearly every year, leaving the remaining ones harder to find. But we know they crossed a number of state

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Form, function and fun at the Cruise the Narrows Car Show

Aug 08, 2024 | By:

The love affair between man and machine was on full display on Saturday, Aug. 3, at Uptown Gig Harbor for the the 26th annual Cruise the Narrows Car Show. The Gig Harbor Cruisers Car Club event showcased the timeless lines and acute styles of some of this area’s most beautiful automobiles. Henry Ford would have

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Harbor Happenings | Sportsman’s Club hosts tribute to Woodstock

Aug 06, 2024 | By:

Six local bands will play Saturday with proceeds going to Permission To Start Dreaming Foundation for healing veterans and first responders.

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Day Tripper | Mermaids, the sea, and a tree

Jul 31, 2024 | By: Mary Williams

I live I the Pacific Northwest for a reason.  Well, truthfully, for many reasons, but one of the primary reasons I love Western Washington is because I really dislike hot weather.  So, on a recent weekday, when all the weather prognosticators were predicting temperatures approaching the century mark, I decided to escape for a day.

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