First Night Tacoma is back! The Tree of Life represents new beginnings, nature, harmony, and the connections of a community. Join us in downtown Tacoma on New Years’ Eve as we celebrate what these virtues represent in the south sound.
First night is an alcohol-free, family friendly New Year’s Eve event.

Purchase your admission button at Tacoma Arts Live Box Office or at Stadium Thriftway:
Button Pricing: Advanced Buttons: $14, Day of: $18
Children 11 and under are FREE
$1 of each admission button purchased will go to the Metro Parks Tacoma Foundation for the Arbor Fund, which helps to plant new trees in public parks.

SCHEDULE WILL BE POSTED IN THE DISCUSSION – Please keep an eye out! Lineup includes:
Pantages Theater – Bands include Baby Gramps Stephanie Anne Johnson Barleywine Revue Girl Trouble

Outdoor Stage – The Pazific Maya Soleil Brass Band Tacoma Alejandro Fleites & Sin Embargo, Global Heat Tacoma Refugee Choir (with Kids’ Countown at 9:00 p.m.)

Theater on the Square – Metro Arts – Tacoma Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center Ballet Folklorico de Tacoma, Tacoma Center YMCA Vision Step Team Asia Pacific Cultural Center Sabor Flamenco Tacoma ECHO The BareFoot Collective

Pythian Temple – Spoken Word Performances, Open Mic

Rhodes Building – Live Music Performances & Tacoma Night Market

KNKX Public Radio – BrandonLee Cierley Quartet & The Kareem Kandi Band

Seabury School – STEAM Activities

Mary Bridge Studio 1 – Family Activities

On Broadway – Norwegian Ice Walk, Kids’ Tent, Tree Artistry,  & More!

Antique Row Tacoma – Food trucks, performances at various
buildings between 7th & 9th St on Broadway

Presenting Sponsors:
City of Tacoma Government
Puyallup Tribe of Indians
Metro Parks Tacoma
Tacoma Arts Live
First Night Tacoma Pierce County
Pierce Transit

Event Sponsors:
Agility AVL
Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital
KNKX Public Radio
Greater Tacoma Community Foundation
Ben B. Cheney Foundation
Forest Foundation
Bamford Foundation
Stadium Thriftway
Pierce Transit