Tacoma Night Market
What is the Tacoma Night Market?
The Tacoma Night Market is a place where Tacoma gathers to tell stories, eat food, hear music, and shop hyper-curated vendors for unique objects. You can be a part of it.
What's the best way a visitor can experience the Tacoma Night Market?
Spend a day exploring Tacoma's museums, where northwest art prevails.
Spend the evening at the Tacoma Night Market meeting the artists - the musicians, photographers, poets, builders, painters, bakers, glassblowers - that make up the unique art scene here.
Spend the next day exploring your own creativity with one of our ready-made itineraries.
Why the Tacoma Night Market?
When you meet the mind that envisioned an object and shake the hand that crafted it, you have a connection to a person and a place that's absolutely unique to you and the thing you took home.
In just one weekend, you can immerse yourself in the culture of industry and creativity that's at the heart of Tacoma.
How much effort and preparation does it take to feed between 100 and 160 people in one evening? How if you feed them only fresh Filipino food, out of a 10x10 temporary, outdoor kitchen with an audience? The sheer scale what Jan Parker Cookery sets out to do at each Tacoma Night Market is enough to make even the most experienced chefs start to sweat…
Alexis Devine is a self-taught armorer. Until the 1300s, her chainmaille creations would have protected the soft bits of wealthy bodies from literal arrows. Now, she says Squirrel vs. Coyote's metalwork and chainmaille-based jewelry, accessories, and garments are painstakingly put together to "provide an internal strength through external…
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