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December 5, 2026

Found 22 events

Prosperity Grange's Annual Christmas Craft Sale

9:00 AM

Prosperity Grange Hall
3701 Steamboat Island Rd NW
Olympia, WA

The Nth Annual Handcrafted Items from real local people, and this year, the event also has a professional photographer from 12-4 for your holiday (or other) portraits.

Rainy Crafternoon

10:00 AM

WET Science Center
500 Adams Street NE
Olympia, WA

Whether it falls as snow, sleet, hail, or just plain-Jane rain, precipitation is what keeps this region so verdant and bursting with life!

Arts Olympia Holiday Show

12:00 PM

The Olympia Art Gallery
121 State Street NE
Olympia, WA

Come enjoy and purchase handcrafted items from Arts Olympia artists at The Olympia Art Gallery in downtown Olympia.

Call with Santa

12:00 PM

Women's Empowerment Center
415 Olympia Ave NE
Olympia, WA

A Magical Call From Santa! Make the holiday season extra special with a 5-minute personalized phone call from Santa! 

Holiday Gift Gallery

12:00 PM

119 Washington Street NE
Olympia, WA

Celebrate the season at the Holiday Gift Gallery, a welcoming showcase of locally made art and one-of-a-kind handmade gifts from Olympia-area artists.

Early Bird Beer N Browse

1:00 PM

Eastside Club Tavern
410 4th Ave E
Olympia, WA

Get a head start on holiday shopping at this historic downtown Olympia bar!

Pokémon Club

2:00 PM

Tumwater Timberland Library
7023 New Market Street
Tumwater, WA

Join the event and battle it out, trade cards, and make new friends with other trainers.

Game Day

3:00 PM

Olympia Timberland Library
313 8th Ave
Olympia, WA

Play games with your friends and neighbors! The library will have a variety of games to choose from each time, including board games, card games, and games on the Nintendo Switch. You can also bring your own if you'd like!

SoundCore Exchange: Nature Poetry Showcase

4:00 PM

Olympia Timberland Library
313 8th Ave SE
Olympia, WA

Visit the library's meeting room for a showcase of poetry created at the Puget Sound Estuarium’s recent nature poetry workshops! Featured poems are written by teens and adults, and will include …

SoundCore Exchange: Poetry Workshops

4:30 PM

Puget Sound Estuarium
309 State Ave. NE Olympia, WA 98501
Olympia, WA

Express your unique estuary experiences through poems and creative literature under the guidance of professional poets!

A Sherlock Carol

7:30 PM

State Theater
202 4th Ave E
Olympia, WA

Moriarty is dead, to begin with. And Sherlock Holmes is a haunted man.

Hope Will Not Fail

7:30 PM

The Washington Center For The Performing Arts
512 Washington St. SE
Olympia, WA

Watch the Hope Will Not Fail concert on Dec. 5, 2026, from 7:30 p.m. at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts.

Singular

7:30 PM

Kenneth J Minneart Center for Performing Arts
2011 Mottman Rd SW
Olympia, WA

The orchestra will play Gustav Mahler's “Urlicht” (Primeval Light) from his second symphony with mezzo-soprano Crystal Zimmerman, and Swedish composer Franz Berwald's Symphony No. 3 in C, "Singulière."

A Sherlock Carol

State Theater
202 4th Ave
Olympia, WA

Harlequin Productions presents A Sherlock Carol by Mark Shanahan, starring Artistic Director Aaron Lamb* as Sherlock Holmes. Gerald B. Browning will direct.

A Sherlock Carol

State Theater
202 4th Ave
Olympia, WA

Harlequin Productions presents A Sherlock Carol by Mark Shanahan, starring Artistic Director Aaron Lamb* as Sherlock Holmes. Gerald B. Browning will direct.

A Sherlock Carol

State Theater
202 4th Ave
Olympia, WA

Harlequin Productions presents A Sherlock Carol by Mark Shanahan, starring Artistic Director Aaron Lamb* as Sherlock Holmes. Gerald B. Browning will direct.

Christmastown: A Holiday Noir

Battleground Productions presents Christmastown, Wayne Rawley's hard-bitten comedy that reimagines your favorite holiday fantasy as a detective story.

CSMoFA: Indigenous Takeover at TCMOFA Celebrates “Temporal”

Thurston County Museum of Fine Arts (TCMOFA)
120 Olympia Ave NE
Olympia, WA

This multi-media event opens on October 2 for Fall Arts Walk, at the Thurston County Museum of Fine Arts (TCMOFA) and serves as a radical act of reclamation for Indigenous stories and arts.

Hope Will Not Fail Concert

Washington Center for the Performing Arts
512 Washington St
Olympia, WA

Masterworks Choral Ensemble is an adult Southwest Washington chorus dedicated to performance, community service, music education, and leadership in the arts. The mission is to perform sacred and …

OCC Winter Makers' Markets Series

Oly Creative Coop
112 4th Ave E
Olympia, WA

Come shop from a variety of small businesses, artists, designers and makers, all handmade.

Oly on Ice

Isthmus Park
529 4th Ave W
Olympia, WA

Oly on Ice is returning to downtown Olympia for the 2026–27 season, Nov. 20, 2026–Jan. 18, 2027!

The Gifts of the Magi

Olympia Little Theatre
1925 Miller Ave NE
Olympia, WA

It’s the middle of the Great Depression and newlyweds Della and Jim each want to make their first Christmas together special for the other.

December 5, 2026

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