Hello Olympia! I usually write a few sentences that pull in the weather or something seasonal but this time of year our packed calendar doesn’t need much introduction. Enjoy the season.
This is only a partial list of the wide variety of activities happening in Olympia this weekend. Use our full event calendar to see everything that’s going on.
Here’s what is going on around Olympia this weekend:
- Save your dollars and step inside the Hands On Children’s Museum for Free Friday Night.
- Attend the tree lighting in the Capitol Rotunda on Friday evening. Details can be found here.
- Step inside Providence St. Peter Hospital Foundation’s Christmas Forest.
- Catch a performance of Harlequin Productions’ Stardust to put you in the holiday spirit.
- Select a Christmas tree from one of these local U-Cut farms.
- Support South Puget Sound Community College’s choir and band during their concert on Friday night. The orchestra performs on Saturday evening. Tickets can be purchased at www.olytix.org.
- Take the chance out of shopping for guys on your list. Use our men’s shopping guide.
- Enjoy Olympia Family Theater’s performance of A Charlie Brown Christmas throughout the weekend.
- Listen to live music during Saint Martin’s University Chorale Christmas Concert on Friday evening.
- Shop local at a holiday bazaar. Find a list of weekend bazaars here.
- Lace up your sneakers for Saint Martin’s University’s Jingle Bell Run on Saturday morning.
- Say hello to Santa. A complete list of where to find Santa around Olympia can be found here.
- Drive our Christmas light tour.
- Wave to motorcycle riders as they travel on the Toy Run on Saturday morning.
- Post your letter to Santa at Captain Little.
- Visit Oly Lightstravaganza.
- Let Masterworks Chorale Ensemble entertain you at The Washington Center on Saturday evening. Concert information can be found here.
- Hang out at Percival Landing on Saturday night and watch the Olympia Yacht Club’s parade of lights. Read more about their community events here.
- Dance at Rhythm and Rye on Saturday night with the Oly Mountain Boys.
- Take a tour of some of Olympia’s finest historic homes on Sunday afternoon.
- Kick off the first night of Hanukkah with a menorah lighting in Sylvester Park at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday.
- Taste something off Iron Rabbit’s new menu.
- Learn the history of the Christmas Island display in Thurston County.
- Cheer for Tumwater High School’s football team as they compete in the state championship game on Saturday morning.
- What happens next after the isthmus demolition project?
- Take the kids on a hunt to find Olympia Police Department K9 Melnic.
- Review a complete list of 2015 holiday events happening around Thurston County.
- Visit an open house event this weekend. Click here to see the list of Van Dorm Realty’s open houses.
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*Photo credit: Kim Merriman.
