Chehalis Centralia Events Calendar

This community events calendar is the place to find fun activities and things to do throughout Lewis County, including Centralia, Chehalis and beyond.

Jun
15
Sat
Blackberry Pull at Discovery Trail! @ Discovery Trail
Jun 15 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Blackberry Pull at Discovery Trail! @ Discovery Trail

Join the Chehalis River Basin Land Trust for a day on by river removing invasive plant species along the Discovery Trail. For all work parties, please dress for the weather and wear sturdy shoes. Volunteers are encouraged to bring a reusable water bottle. Youth under age 14 must be accompanied by an adult and all youth under 18 years of age must have a signed waiver to participate.

When: June 15th, 10 am- 1 pm

Where: Discovery Trail (1545 Goodrich Rd Centralia WA, 98531)

Tools, Gloves, Coffee, Water, and Snacks will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Jun
29
Sat
Community Crafting @ Vernetta Smith Chehalis Timberland Library
Jun 29 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Make arts and crafts with members of your community! Collaboration encouraged. For all ages. This event is part of the Summer Library Program, a Timberland Regional Library district-wide program.

Jul
13
Sat
Restoration Work Party @ Discovery Trail
Jul 13 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Restoration Work Party @ Discovery Trail

Join us for a day by the Chehalis River. Come prepared to pull blackberry with appropriate gear for the weather, sturdy shoes and a reusable water bottle. We will provide snacks, coffee, and water. Register today for this exciting volunteer opportunity. Help us conserve, protect and restore!

Jul
20
Sat
Community Crafting @ Vernetta Smith Chehalis Timberland Library
Jul 20 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Make arts and crafts with members of your community! Collaboration encouraged. For all ages. This event is part of the Summer Library Program, a Timberland Regional Library district-wide program.

Sep
20
Fri
Women of the Woods Rewilding Retreat @ Camp Singing Wind
Sep 20 – Sep 22 all-day
Women of the Woods Rewilding Retreat @ Camp Singing Wind

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.

Sep
21
Sat
Zonta Club of Oympia’s Tenth Annual Murder Mystery @ South Puget Sound Community College - Lacey Campus
Sep 21 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Zonta Club of Oympia's Tenth Annual Murder Mystery @ South Puget Sound Community College - Lacey Campus

If you are looking to have an evening of super duper fun where you can just laugh, gab and grub then this is the event for you! Zonta Club of Olympia collaborates with Open Road Productions and this year’s theme is an interactive 70s murder mystery. Costumes are encouraged but not required.

The cost for this fun evening is $75 which includes appetizers, dinner and the play. There will be a no-host cash bar.

Nov
9
Sat
Invasive Removal Work Party @ Discovery Trail
Nov 9 @ 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Invasive Removal Work Party @ Discovery Trail

Join other volunteers to attack blackberry! This is WORK, but when you leave you know you have done something to help this riparian area along the Chehalis River. A healthy river in your backyard is worth a little work.

Coffee, water and snacks provided. Please dress for the weather, bring leather gloves if you have them. Suggested for 12-year-olds and up.

Nov
18
Mon
Tarot and Coffee and Books, Oh My! @ Shakespeare & Company: Coffee and Used Books
Nov 18 @ 3:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Tarot and Coffee and Books, Oh My! @ Shakespeare & Company: Coffee and Used Books

Hosted by Coffee Table Tarot. Grab a tasty treat or cup of coffee or tea and find Angel in Tarot Corner under the stairs.

Jan
19
Sun
Cultivating Voices: Putsata Reang & Michele Bombardier @ Shakespeare & Company: Coffee and Used Books
Jan 19 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Cultivating Voices: Putsata Reang & Michele Bombardier @ Shakespeare & Company: Coffee and Used Books

Please join us on Sunday, January 19 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. for this incredible literary event!

Putsata Reang is an award-winning author and journalist, born in Cambodia and raised in Corvallis, OR. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Ms, The Seattle Times and the San Jose Mercury News among other publications. She has lived and worked in more than a dozen countries including Afghanistan, Cambodia and Bangladesh.

Putsata is an alum of residencies at Hedgebrook, Kimmel Harding Nelson and Mineral School. She is a current fellow of the Jack Straw Writers program. She graduated with  bachelor of arts degrees in English and journalism at the University of Oregon. Her memoir, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, explores themes of debt and duty as the child of immigrants and the displacement of being a gay refugee

Michele Bombardier’s debut collection What We Do was a Washington Book Award finalist and described by Ellen Bass as “a call to empathy”. Her work has been published in dozens of journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review and others. Michele has been a fellow at Hedgebrook, Mineral School and Centrum. She earned her MFA at Pacific University and is the founder of Fishplate Poetry, a social-purpose organization that offers workshops and retreats while raising money for humanitarian relief, specifically medical care for refugees in the Middle East and Northern Africa. She teaches poetry at BARN in Bainbridge Island and Hugo House in Seattle.

THIS IS A FREE EVENT; however, space is LIMITED so please call Shakespeare & Co. call 360-748-4652 to RESERVE A SEAT.

Jan
20
Mon
Twin Cities Babe Ruth Sign-Ups @ Quesadilla Factory
Jan 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Twin Cities Babe Ruth is holding sign-ups on January 20 at the Quesadilla Factory from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.Bath Ruth Baseball