This community events calendar is the place to find fun activities and things to do throughout Lewis County, including Centralia, Chehalis and beyond.
Indoor Dodgeball Tournament at the NW Sports Hub!
About this Event:
Six full sized dodgeball courts playing at once with upper-deck spectator seating, a full bar, restaurant, vendor area, and more!
The Red Rubber Shootout will feature 6 Class Divisions each featuring 24 Teams:
The Peace Maker Division – Military & First Responder Teams
The Strong Arm Division – Gym & Fitness Club Teams
The Young Guns Division – Sports & School Teams (Youth Division)
The Church Bell Division – Church & Youth Group Representative Teams
The Outlaw Saloon Division – Bar, Brewery, and Winery Teams
The Wild West Division – No Restrictions. All Team Entries Welcome.
Recruit Your Team, Choose Your Division, and Start Stretching. The Shootout Begins on April 5.
Indoor Dodgeball Tournament at the NW Sports Hub!
About this Event:
Six full sized dodgeball courts playing at once with upper-deck spectator seating, a full bar, restaurant, vendor area, and more!
The Red Rubber Shootout will feature 6 Class Divisions each featuring 24 Teams:
The Peace Maker Division – Military & First Responder Teams
The Strong Arm Division – Gym & Fitness Club Teams
The Young Guns Division – Sports & School Teams (Youth Division)
The Church Bell Division – Church & Youth Group Representative Teams
The Outlaw Saloon Division – Bar, Brewery, and Winery Teams
The Wild West Division – No Restrictions. All Team Entries Welcome.
Recruit Your Team, Choose Your Division, and Start Stretching. The Shootout Begins on April 5.
Lunafest is a festival of films by, for and about women. Films are provided by Lunabar Company. This showing is organized by Lewis County Branch of American Association of University Women. Proceeds will benefit Human Response Network and local scholarships for women. Before the showing, attendees can enjoy complimentary appetizers and purchase raffle tickets for an assortment of baskets and other items.
The Borsts and other families built a “New Church” in c. 1872 … to gather together in fellowship and for weddings. Two of the Borst children were married in that church. As well as many other life events. Etta Keller, Reenactor has made a lovely mid-19th century wedding dress and will talk about weddings in that day. Miss Etta will lead the talk.
Winlock will be holding an event June 15, on Egg day. It’s a one-mile kid dash with prizes. We will also be holding a three miles walk/run.”Let’s make Winlock Great Again!”
$15 kid dash
$25 three mile walk run
Planning on lots of prizes this year!
An Independence Day Celebration … mid-19th century style!
Putting up the bountiful harvest for a long winter. Activities and discussion of how to put up and store foods in the mid-19th century. Panel of our Living Historians. Mary Borst had a lovely, in that day, very modern cook stove. Joseph also built her a state of the art pantry, which kept things cool ~ one of my personal favorites in the house.
Join storyteller and Quinault Tribal Ambassador Harvest Moon to hear tales from the Northwest Coast Indian tradition. This program is part of Timberland Reads Together, featuring “There There” by Tommy Orange and Native Voices, focused on Indigenous Peoples history and culture.
Living Historian Beverly York will present Friendship Quilts, how the pioneers moving west would take a part of their friends and family history with them. Volunteer Coordinator Sara Light-Waller will show how to put a signature on the quilt block, as they did in the mid-19th century.
Gather Green, a local women powered sustainable event planning company, is hosting a women-led rewilding retreat, Women of the Woods, September 20-22 at Camp Singing Wind, in Toledo, WA. Over 250 women from the Pacific Northwest will attend to celebrate sustainability, nature, natural healing, art, and community building. All presentations and vendors are women led.
Lyla June and Bibi McGill are headlining the event. Lyla June is a nationally and internationally renowned public speaker, poet, hip-hop artist and acoustic singer-songwriter of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages. Her music and message centers around intergenerational and inter-ethnic healing, as well as an articulation of Indigenous Philosophy. Bibi McGill is a DJ, producer, musician, and yoga instructor from Portland, Oregon. Bibi served as Beyonce’s lead guitarist and musical director for almost a decade, leading the ten-piece all female band that literally rocked the world.
Many skilled and engaging women will be presenting at Women of the Woods in the tracks of art, healing, sustainability, and connection with nature. A land blessing will be performed by the Cowlitz Tribe and an equinox celebration will be held Saturday evening. Music, yoga, and hiking with goats will also be a part of the retreat.
Camping for the weekend retreat will be held onsite at Camp Singing Wind, an ex-Campfire Girl camp with over 180 acres of natural beauty.
Tickets are available on a sliding scale basis. More information about the retreat can be found at www.gathergreenevents.com. Vendors, sponsors, and musicians are still being accepted for this event and can contact Gather Green through their website, Facebook page, or Instagram.
