2021 Events Calendar




Throughout the year, Revels celebrates community through traditional (and not so traditional) arts. Events and gatherings include dances, sings, concerts, salons, The Christmas Revels and more.
Autumn
September 6

Abbots Bromliad       1:30 - 2:45 PM | Peoples Park, Tacoma | All Ages | Free 
Dancing with antlers!
People who come to The Christmas Revels are fascinated (or mystified!) by the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance.  So, just for fun, we hold a Bromliad. Come learn the dance. Bring your own antlers (branches can make pretty good antlers – or hands). Or just bring a picnic and watch. We’ll also play some games, sing a few rounds, and have an art project with Mauricio Robalino for children to do.
FUN!
September 23

Tacoma Sings

6:30 - 7:30pm | Chihuly Bridge of Glass
​Singing on the Bridge of Glass to sing-out summer and sing-in autumn. We’ll distribute song sheets and encourage everyone to join in. After singing at various places on the bridge, we'll wrap up with a few lovely rounds in the amphitheater beside the History Museum. Bring a lantern. We’ll light them as the sun sets. Beautiful.



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October - Tacoma Arts Month
Have a quick listen of our 2020 "Covid" Bridge Sing.
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Our Truths returns with another extraordinary lineup of Tacoma's Global Majority Storytellers.
Join us for An evening of storytelling by local Black Indigenous People of Color -
sharing truths through many gifts.
October 18 @ 6PM
Featuring Ben Hunter, Deanna Martinez
& B. Lyte.
Created and curated by
Michelle Matlock

Location: Courthouse Square, Downtown Tacoma
We will also live stream the event. Either way you must RSVP, which you can do HERE.
For age 18+
Proof of vaccination and masks are required for all in person audience members.

Funded by Tacoma Creates

Winter

December
We're planning Dragon Parades again and will participate in Tacoma's Light Trail (New Years Eve through mid January...). We'll share specifics as we have them.
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 The Christmas Revels
Performances December 18 - 22 
This year we're off to the wilderness of 18th century Canada.

Expect magical storytelling; toe-tapping tunes; high energy clogging; the rousing and poignant songs of les voyageurs; Le Temps des Fêtes (a time that includes both the solemn and beautiful songs of Christmas Eve and the boisterous, secular songs of the new year); a flying canoe and a hasty bargain with the devil that creates a tricky predicament.

Expect music, stories, dancing, singing, celebration... Revels!

More information and ticketing here.

Spring

March 18
Spring Equinox Sing
7:00 - 7:45 PM
​​Sing in the spring! Fun Revels song leaders will gather us together (virtually) to sing. A couple of surprises as well.

March 31
Our 2nd Our Truths evening - An evening of BIPOC stories, music, poetry - an evening of truth.

7pm
RSVP here (and we'll send you a zoom link). Please RSVP by 5:30pm March 31 in order to receive the link.
Last October we presented our first Our Truths event. Here's a link to the recording of that powerful evening.
May 1st - May Day Celebration


Virtual Again - All ages. Free.
​We're sorry not to celebrate in the park as we have done for years, but we managed some merry-making to welcome lovely May. Here we are passing a
"branch of May."
View Past May Day Celebrations
May 15

Our Annual Brunch

Virtual, as it was in 2020, but still fun. We celebrated Puget Sound Revels and our mission to spread communal celebration through song, dance, and story. Great thanks to all those who underwrite our joyful activities in the community.

Summer

June 19 and June 20

A Double Celebration - Juneteenth and Summer Solstice

All ages | FREE
​ Virtual celebrations in 2020 and 2021 - in 2020  included spoken word artist B.Lyte with Breakthrough, a new piece honoring both Juneteenth and the Summer Solstice.

Add YOUR OWN SUBMISSIONS. What might you add to the celebrations? A song, poem, dance, photo... Tell a story; paint a picture or a chalk art masterpiece and send us a photo of it; video your parrot saying "Welcome Summer! Happy Juneteenth!"; video or send a captioned photo of a Juneteenth and/or Summer Solstice greeting; write and recite a paean to the sun!
Tap into your creativity and sense of communal joy... Send your contributions by June 17.
Have some fun and add some joy! 
Here's the Upload link
August 6 & 7 - Auditions (children and adults) for The Christmas Revels. Information here.
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August 17, 21, 22 - Have a laugh as you buy your fruits and veggies.... a small troupe of players presented a Farmers Market Mummers Play at several Tacoma Farmers Markets. Info, dates, times, locations HERE.
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