Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences at Tacoma Community College

We're proud to announce that former TCC Fresh Start student and current City of Tacoma Government strategist Chelsea Talbert is the TCC 2024 Distinguished Alumnus! Congratulations, Chelsea! https://www.tacomacc.edu/about/newsroom/_summer2023_spring2024/chelsea_talbert

The final concert for the TCC Symphonic Band in the 2023-24 academic year! The program, Explorations, includes exciting and innovative music that leads the listener through a journey across places real and imagined.

The world premiere of "No Intelligent Life" is a centerpiece of the concert. Composer Piero Ramirez is a TCC graduate, and composition major at PLU. His work tells the story of a UFO visiting earth, and prominently features a theremin in the performance.

This concert is FREE (donations encouraged).

PROGRAM:
Copley - AYO
Tveitt - Old Mill By The Brook
Mackey - Undertow
Thomas - SHenandoah
Ramirez - No Intelligent Life (World Premier)
Nishimura - In Dreams
Karrick - Bayou Breakdown

Explorations - TCC Symphonic Band
7:30 PM - Thursday, May 23, 2024
Tacoma Community College, Building 2 (close to South 12th and Mildred)
FREE (donations encouraged)

Summer classes are open for registration!
https://www.tacomacc.edu/academics-programs/continuingeducation/class-finder/

As the end of the school year approaches, we have some fun and exciting performances for you. Please mark your calendars, and come support music at Tacoma Community College!

TCC Orchestra with Dr. Isabella Jie
Monday, 5/20 @ 7:30 PM
TCC Building 2 (close to South 12th and Mildred)
FREE (donations encouraged)
Dr. Jie is the featured piano soloist, and will perform Tchaikovsky’s epic Piano Concerto No. 1.

TCC Symphonic Band
Thursday, 5/23 @ 7:30 PM
TCC Building 2 (close to South 12th and Mildred)
FREE (donations encouraged)
The Symphonic Band will perform a world premiere of Piero Ramirez’s No Intelligent Life - a tone poem for band about a UFO visiting Earth. Piero earned an Associate of Music Degree from TCC, and is currently studying music at PLU.

See you at our concerts next week!

John Falskow, Ph.D. (he/him)
Music Professor - Director of Instrumental Music
Tacoma Community College

Do you love art and art markets?
Tacoma Community College invites you to our 1st annual art market!
May 18th, Saturday, from 11 AM to 4 PM

This event is open to the public, not just students and faculty!

This year's event focuses on student artists, offering them a platform to display and sell their work.

Additionally, clubs including The Black Student Union and Phi Theta Kappa will be fundraising for their causes.

Alongside amazing artists, enjoy food for sale, free face painting, meet-and-greets with princesses, and a possible visit from Renaissance fair performers.

Join us on May 18th, Saturday, from 11 AM to 4 PM at Tacoma Community College, Building 20, Health and Wellness Center.

Free entry and parking in Lot K.

Come out and support our art community.

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to all of our great TCC teachers! And double-happy National Nurses Week to our Nursing faculty, because they're both nurses AND teachers!

Interested in applying to the TCC Nursing program? Here's an update on how the admissions process is changing to remove barriers for students: https://www.tacomacc.edu/about/newsroom/_summer2023_spring2024/nursesweek24

If you have not register you can buy tickets at the door. Cash or check only.
2nd Annual Poetry In the Harbor April 18 6-9p $25
https://www.tacomacc.edu/tcc-life/events/pith

The 2024 Diversity Film Festival starts April 24! The first three films will be shown at TCC, and the next four will be shown at The Grand Cinema. Find the lineup here: https://www.tacomacc.edu/tcc-life/events/diversity-film-festival

TCC's John Falskow conducts the Seattle Wind Symphony

3-2-1 Blastoff! Journey through ALL SEVEN movements of The Planets with us on May 11, plus the world premiere of Beneath the Heavens by PNW’s own Dr. Daniel Barry. Don’t miss out on this stellar lineup! Link in bio for details