Make books at the Collins Library

Meet the artists and learn how to make tricky books, paper toys and paper party décor at the opening of a new books-and-letterpress exhibit at the University of Puget Sound’s Collins Memorial Library. The show features Purgatory Pie Press, a husband-and-wife team (Dikko Faust and Esther K. Smith) from New York who’ve shown at museums worldwide. Workshop 4-6 p.m. Aug. 13; exhibit runs daily through Oct. 1. Free. UPS, 1500 N. Warner St., Tacoma. 253-879-3669, http://www.pugetsound.edu/library.xml

Chastity Belts and Boudoirs on Puyallup Avenue

Art gets racy this month at the 301 Puyallup Ave. artspace. …

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Victoria Adams’ “Landscapes” at TAM

Opening this weekend at Tacoma Art Museum is an exhibition of the cloudy, luminous Northwest landscapes of Vashon artist Victoria Adams. Artist reception 5:30-8 p.m. July 15, artist workshop 10 a.m.-1 p.m. July 10. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sun., 10 a.m.-8 p.m. third Thursdays from July 10-Oct. 3. $9/$8/free for five and under and on third Thursdays. 1701 Pacific Ave., Tacoma. 253-272-4258, www.tacomaartmuseum.org

Art on the Ave

This 6^th Avenue street art fest is into its 12^th year, celebrating local talent and the quirky neighborhood. Events include live music and dance stages, celebrity dunk tank, …

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“Extension” at Barefoot

The Barefoot Dance Collective is inviting companies from around the country to perform in their contemporary dance event “Extension.” Puget Sound companies include Stone Dance Collective, Northwest Dance Syndrome, Tindance, and Stimulate Dance; plus Somebodies Dance Theater from San Diego and Donna Davenport from New York. 8 p.m. tonight and June 12. $12/$15. Merlino Arts Center, 508 6^th Ave., Tacoma. 253-777-8728, www.barefootcollective.org

New work at the Telephone Room gallery

A collector-mania installation by Julie Rivera, a reworked chandelier by Ben Hirschkoff and playful garden sculpture by Nicholas Nyland make up the June show at the world’s second-smallest …

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Second Series offers “Trout” songs and quintet

Hear Schubert’s famous “Trout” quintet, along with the song that inspired it and other 19^th-century lieder and chamber music from the Second City Chamber Series. 7:30 p.m. Jan. 15. $35/$30/$15. Great Hall at Annie Wright School, 827 N. Tacoma Ave., Tacoma. 253-572-TUNE, www.scchamberseries.org

Sinfonietta’s “The Golden Trumpet” at TAM

The Northwest Sinfonietta’s principal trumpet Judson Scott plays solos by Enesco, Hutchinson, Debussy and more with pianist Cristina Valdes in the second concert in the “Music Off the Walls” chamber series at Tacoma Art Museum. 7:30 p.m. Jan. 16. $28/$23. TAM, 1701 Pacific Ave., …

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“Mozart Meets Beethoven” at the Sinfonietta

The Northwest Sinfonietta kicks off a two-concert festival of the two iconic composers, with conductor Christophe Chagnard sharing the baton with Tacoma Symphony’s Harvey Felder. 7:30p.m. Nov. 14. $19-$49. Rialto Theater, 310 S. 9^th St., Tacoma. 253-383-5344, www.nwsinfonietta.com

King’s Books Poetry Marathon

Like poetry? You’d better, since there’ll be 13 poets of renown reading their work throughout Saturday at King’s Books, interspersed with three open mic sessions for the rest of us. It’s all courtesy of the Puget Sound Poetry Connection. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Nov. 14. Free. King’s Books, 218 St. Helens Ave., …

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