Aberdeen Events Calendar

This calendar is the place to find fun events happening throughout Grays Harbor County including Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Westport, Ocean Shores, Elma, Montesano and beyond.

Have an event that isn’t listed? Please email events@GraysHarborTalk.com with the following information:

  • Name of Event
  • Date, time and location (name of business if applicable and complete address)
  • Organizer(s) name
  • Cost
  • URL to purchase tickets
  • Website URL
  • SHORT description of event
  • Photo

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Jan
10
Tue
Relay for Life Kick-Off Party @ D & R Event Center
Jan 10 @ 6:00 pm
Relay for Life Kick-Off Party @ D & R Event Center | Aberdeen | Washington | United States

What is your Super Power? We Relay!

Everyone is invited to learn about the Grays Harbor Relay for Life. Refreshments, fun and giveaways for registered teams.

Anyone can be a Hero? Are you? Create a team or join an existing team to help raise funds for the American Cancer Society.

Feb
11
Sat
Pair of Hearts Ball @ Quinault Beach Resort & Casino
Feb 11 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

The Pair of Hearts Ball is a fundraiser benefitting the Children’s Advocacy Center of Grays Harbor. Expect music, an auction and dinner. For more information, visit the GHCAC website or the event Facebook page.

Mar
3
Fri
Top Dog Agility Trial @ Elma Fairgrounds
Mar 3 @ 2:00 pm

Come watch or participate in this all-breed dog competition. Admission is free!

Mar
4
Sat
Top Dog Agility Trial @ Elma Fairgrounds
Mar 4 @ 8:00 am – 8:00 pm

Come watch or participate in this all-breed dog competition. Admission is free!

Mar
5
Sun
Top Dog Agility Trial @ Elma Fairgrounds
Mar 5 @ 8:00 am – 7:30 pm

Come watch or participate in this all-breed dog competition. Admission is free!

Mar
18
Sat
Voices from the Harbor – Giving Voice to Experience @ Driftwood Players Theater
Mar 18 @ 2:00 pm
Voices from the Harbor - Giving Voice to Experience @ Driftwood Players Theater  | Aberdeen | Washington | United States

Listen to selections from oral histories gathered by Harbor area students come to life through readings and narrator panels. Through these voices we will explore what draws us to this place, what helps us persevere during times of struggle, and what cultivates our sense of belonging to the area known as “The Harbor.”

Voices from the Harbor is an event series produced with funding from Humanities Washington. This is the first in a series of three events.

Voices of the Harbor Project: Giving Voice to Experience @ Driftwood Players Theater
Mar 18 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

The public is invited to join local historians and students from the Evergreen State College as they share selections from oral histories collected by and from Harbor residents. Participants will learn about the craft of composing oral histories as they listen to stories about the Harbor Region from the perspective of local residents.

Giving Voice to Experience is the first of three events planned for the Voices of the Harbor project – produced through a collaboration between the Evergreen State College and Window Seat Media; with support from Humanities Washington.

Mar
25
Sat
History Talk: The Evergreen State in World War I @ Westport Timberland Library
Mar 25 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Historian Lorraine McConaghy will begin the program with an illustrated introduction to the war’s themes. Following that, guests may participate in a scripted “Readers’ Theater,” designed to portray the turmoil of the years 1914 – 1919.  The script is drawn from first-person sources such as letters, diaries and news paper stories. It allows modern readers to speak aloud the words of a past generation, and gain an sense of how Washingtonians of that era experienced the great social, economic and political changes: industrialization, immigration, women’s rights, radical labor, epidemic disease, and worldwide turmoil.

Mar
26
Sun
Book Signing: Washington Remembers WWII @ Temple Beth Israel
Mar 26 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Join us as we salute Arnold Samuels, a local legend, and meet his biographer, John C. Hughes, chief historian for the Office of the Secretary of State.

Samuels’ remarkable Army service during WWII found him serving in Counter Intelligence Corps, helping liberate the horrific concentration camp at Dachau and working with another young Jewish G.I., Henry Kissinger.  Arnold Samuels is also the only person ever elected to the Ocean Shores City Council as a write-in.

Don’t miss this opportunity to own a signed copy of Washington Remembers WWII! Be there for this extraordinary presentation!

Apr
5
Wed
Kicks and Sticks Kids Soccer Match @ Crescent Park
Apr 5 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Head on over to Crescent Park at 4pm to join in on some friendly soccer! We will split the group into teams based on age and experience, kids under 13 only please. *
(*Older kids can start up a game of their own after the smaller kids get done, thanks! )

We will provide some community s’mores goodies from The Sweet Life candy shop right here in Seabrook at the large firepits, fun for the whole family.

Apr
8
Sat
Rainier Agility Dog Trials @ Grays Harbor County Fair and Event Center
Apr 8 @ 7:00 am – 6:00 pm

Dog agility is a fun and exciting sport in which handlers direct their dogs through a complex course of challenging obstacles. Agility is enjoyed by people and dogs of all ages. So, come on out to the Grays Harbor Fairgrounds Saturday and Sunday, April 8th-9th starting at 7am. See what the woof is all about.

Apr
9
Sun
Rainier Agility Dog Trials @ Grays Harbor County Fair and Event Center
Apr 9 @ 7:00 am – 6:00 pm

Dog agility is a fun and exciting sport in which handlers direct their dogs through a complex course of challenging obstacles. Agility is enjoyed by people and dogs of all ages. So, come on out to the Grays Harbor Fairgrounds Saturday and Sunday, April 8th-9th starting at 7am. See what the woof is all about.

Apr
12
Wed
Kicks and Sticks Kids Soccer Match @ Crescent Park
Apr 12 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Head on over to Crescent Park at 4pm to join in on some friendly soccer! We will split the group into teams based on age and experience, kids under 13 only please. *
(*Older kids can start up a game of their own after the smaller kids get done, thanks! )

We will provide some community s’mores goodies from The Sweet Life candy shop right here in Seabrook at the large firepits, fun for the whole family.

Apr
15
Sat
Grays Harbor Relay For Life @ Immanuel Baptist Church
Apr 15 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am

Our theme this year is “Super Heroes”, and we are inviting our Survivors to our annual free Survivor Social. All Survivors and their family/friends are encouraged to come join us as we celebrate our Survivor Super Heroes!

At the Social we will serve them breakfast. There will be live entertainment, guest speakers, an opportunity for Survivors to share their stories, and lots of good fellowship and love.

Survivors will receive their 2017 Survivor t-shirt, and will be able to register for this year’s Relay For Life at the Survivor Social. Pre-registration allows them to go straight to the table at Relay on June 2nd to receive their 2017 Survivor medal, without having to stand in line.

Apr
19
Wed
Kicks and Sticks Kids Soccer Match @ Crescent Park
Apr 19 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Head on over to Crescent Park at 4pm to join in on some friendly soccer! We will split the group into teams based on age and experience, kids under 13 only please. *
(*Older kids can start up a game of their own after the smaller kids get done, thanks! )

We will provide some community s’mores goodies from The Sweet Life candy shop right here in Seabrook at the large firepits, fun for the whole family.

Apr
22
Sat
Historic Hoquiam Memories @ Historic Hotel Emerson aka Emerson Manor
Apr 22 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

A get together of local history and memorabilia. Hotel Emerson was opened in April 1924 and will be 93years old on the 30th of the month. Stop in and tour the lobby and what is now the Hoquiam Senior Center, which was a part of original hotel building.
Several local buildings will be represented at this event.

To date the following have made a commitment to attend and share the time relating stories of the buildings and history of Hoquiam events.

Their will also be several Hoquiam Memorabilia Collectors attending and sharing stories and their memorabilia of local historic events. Bring your stories and memorabilia and share. Please contact me if you would like to participate.

Apr
29
Sat
Grays Harbor Horse Council Hairy Horse Show @ Grays Harbor Fair & Event Center
Apr 29 @ 9:00 am

The Grays Harbor 4-H Horse Council Horse Show and Clinic is free and open to the public.

Layers of Meaning: Community Mapping Activity and Self-Guided Tour @ The Polson Museum
Apr 29 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Layers of Meaning: Community Mapping Activity and Self-Guided Tour @ The Polson Museum | Hoquiam | Washington | United States

What gives us a sense of place and belonging on the Harbor? Participate in a community mapping project to tell your story of what makes the Harbor…home. To participate, visit here to add to our online map or pick up a mapping kit at the Hoquiam Library beginning on Saturday, April 15.

We will compile community contributions from the mapping activity into a self-guided tour. The link to the tour will be available online or pick up a paper copy at the Hoquiam Library.

Join us for a reception at the Polson Museum on April 29 at 2:30 p.m. to discuss insights and perspectives sparked by the activity and learn about other historic walking tours in the area.

Voices from the Harbor – Layers of Meaning: Experiencing the Built Environment @ The Polson Museum
Apr 29 @ 2:30 pm
Voices from the Harbor - Layers of Meaning: Experiencing the Built Environment @ The Polson Museum | Hoquiam | Washington | United States

Origins. Remnants. Renaissance. Peel back the layers of meaning of places and spaces of special significance to the Harbor region’s identity along a self-guided tour. Then, join us for a reception at the Polson Museum with local historians and discussions of insights and perspectives sparked by the tour. Tour guides and information will be available on April 29 beginning at 10:00 a.m. at the Hoquiam Library.

Voices from the Harbor is an event series produced with funding from Humanities Washington. Layers of Meaning: Experiencing the Built Environment is the second event in a three part series.

May
13
Sat
Habitat for Humani-Tea @ Seabrook Town Hall
May 13 @ 1:00 pm

We will host the 3rd annual ladies Habitat for Humani-Tea in the town hall to benefit our local Habitat for Humanity non-profit organization. Each year, Seabrook Community Foundation grants money to this organization to do the good work they do in our community. The ladies tea is a celebration of that work and also a way to increase fundraising beyond what the SCF grant money can accomplish.

You will enjoy tea, great food, great company, live music, a mimosa bar, dessert auction, and fabulous guest speakers!

Jun
2
Fri
East Grays Harbor Relay For Life @ Grays Harbor Fairgrounds
Jun 2 @ 4:00 pm – Jun 3 @ 12:00 am
Relay For Life of Grays Harbor @ Hoquiam High School
Jun 2 @ 6:00 pm
Relay For Life of Grays Harbor @ Hoquiam High School  | Hoquiam | Washington | United States

The American Cancer Society Relay For Life movement is the world’s largest and most impactful fundraising event to end cancer. It unites communities across the globe to celebrate people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and take action to finish the fight once and for all. With the support of thousands of volunteers like you, the American Cancer Society is helping save more than 500 lives a day. Please join us and take action against a disease that has taken too much!