Events open to the local community

POSTPONED: South Sound Hybrid Hub Launch

Join us on Wednesday, March 26, at the University of Puget Sound to celebrate the launch of the university's innovative new partnership with Seattle University to increase access to legal education in Tacoma and the South Sound region.

Puget Sound Women's League Fieldhouse Flea Market

The University of Puget Sound Women’s League Fieldhouse Flea Market is happening Saturday, March 22 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Memorial Fieldhouse. Held since 1968, we are Tacoma’s original vintage and creative market. The $5 entry for 5 years and above goes towards our goal to raise funds for student scholarships. This year the Women’s League celebrates 125 years of service to the University and Puget Sound students.

THE ORESTEIA - Spring Mainstage Play

In this fast, fresh, and feminist adaptation of Aeschylus’s ancient trilogy of plays, Ellen McLaughlin invites us to question what justice looks like in action. In The Oresteia, each member of a family enacts a kind of violence intended to right a wrong. Instead, violence perpetuates violence and a cycle of harm makes each person “morally unrecognizable” even to themselves.

THE ORESTEIA - Spring Mainstage Play

In this fast, fresh, and feminist adaptation of Aeschylus’s ancient trilogy of plays, Ellen McLaughlin invites us to question what justice looks like in action. In The Oresteia, each member of a family enacts a kind of violence intended to right a wrong. Instead, violence perpetuates violence and a cycle of harm makes each person “morally unrecognizable” even to themselves.

Special Guest Lecture: Dr. Jing Xu – "Unruly" Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village

Join us for a special guest lecture by Dr. Jing Xu, an anthropologist at the University of Washington, as she presents insights from her latest book, Unruly Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village (Cambridge University Press, 2024). This talk explores unpublished fieldnotes from the late anthropologist Arthur Wolf, focusing on children's moral development, disobedience, negotiation, and peer dynamics in a Taiwan village from 1958 to 1960.

Eyewitness to Climate Change

David Thoreson is a professional photographer, sailor and explorer who has logged over 65,000 ocean miles. David shares stories of adventure as the first American to sail the Arctic’s Northwest Passage in both directions. He has sailed over the Arctic Circle six times and below the Antarctic Circle. Thoreson provides an eye-witness account of how climate change impacts sensitive polar and ocean environments.

THE ORESTEIA - Spring Mainstage Play

In this fast, fresh, and feminist adaptation of Aeschylus’s ancient trilogy of plays, Ellen McLaughlin invites us to question what justice looks like in action. In The Oresteia, each member of a family enacts a kind of violence intended to right a wrong. Instead, violence perpetuates violence and a cycle of harm makes each person “morally unrecognizable” even to themselves.

THE ORESTEIA - Spring Mainstage Play

In this fast, fresh, and feminist adaptation of Aeschylus’s ancient trilogy of plays, Ellen McLaughlin invites us to question what justice looks like in action. In The Oresteia, each member of a family enacts a kind of violence intended to right a wrong. Instead, violence perpetuates violence and a cycle of harm makes each person “morally unrecognizable” even to themselves.

THE ORESTEIA - Spring Mainstage Play

In this fast, fresh, and feminist adaptation of Aeschylus’s ancient trilogy of plays, Ellen McLaughlin invites us to question what justice looks like in action. In The Oresteia, each member of a family enacts a kind of violence intended to right a wrong. Instead, violence perpetuates violence and a cycle of harm makes each person “morally unrecognizable” even to themselves.

THE ORESTEIA - Spring Mainstage Play

In this fast, fresh, and feminist adaptation of Aeschylus’s ancient trilogy of plays, Ellen McLaughlin invites us to question what justice looks like in action. In The Oresteia, each member of a family enacts a kind of violence intended to right a wrong. Instead, violence perpetuates violence and a cycle of harm makes each person “morally unrecognizable” even to themselves.