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Get your ticket to the Gig Harbor Film Festival where movie makers and movie watchers collide for a reel good time. This film festival is still an infant and growing fast, so be sure to be on time to get your front-row seats to see the best lights, camera and action in town.

The Tacoma Glassblowing Studio invites you to experience the magic of hot glass. Step inside the studio for a hands-on class where you select and apply colors to twist and turn and then blow them or shape them into your distinctive piece of art glass.

Polar bears high five at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. Bring the family for a fun-filled day where you can get nose to nose with a giraffe, cagey with a wild cat, high five a polar bear and even ride atop a camel. Dive deeper into nature when you find exhibits and attractions like the 24,000-gallon Lagoon swimming with sharks, octopus and all kinds of sea creatures.

The stage is set, the audience settles in, and an evening of symphonic harmony and entertainment unfolds at the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra. Enjoy the sweeping sounds of the 80-piece symphony as they play musical wonders like Beethoven's Ninth and Hollywood's Greatest Melodies at the hands of Maestro Harvey Felder, noted as "one of America's promising conductors," by Symphony Magazine.