Events and Engagement

Events & Exhibits

EXHIBIT | Exploring East Asia’s Cultural Heritage Through Illustrated Works

ENDING SOON!
September 19, 2024 – December 13, 2024

Tateuchi East Asia Library Reading Room, 322 Gowen Hall

Painting of East Asian people on a pier
This exhibit brings together a rich array of illustrated materials from China, Japan and Korea, highlighting the cultural, technological, and artistic achievements of each region.
More information about the exhibit.

NEW HOURS | SENSORY-FRIENDLY STUDY SPACE

Fall Quarter – open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2pm-4pm
UW Tacoma Library, Room TLB 115

UW Tacoma Sensory-Friendly Space logo
Your feedback on UW Tacoma Library’s sensory-friendly space can help us build on the room’s resources. Though created with our neurodivergent community in mind, everyone is welcome to use the space to chill out, relax, and escape the sensory overload that can be school and life!
Learn more about the Sensory-Friendly UWT Library Space.

EXHIBIT | ZEITGEIST! Seattle in the ’20s

September 25, 2024 – March 20, 2025
Special Collections Reading Room, Allen Library

Fall 2024 UW Libraries Special Collections will be exploring the zeitgeist of Seattle in the ’20s–100 years ago and today! Join us in exploring popular culture and current events of Seattle in the 2020s and 1920s.
More information about Zeitgeist.

EXHIBIT | THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

September 25, 2024 – September 25, 2025
Special Collections Lobby, Allen Library
Enjoy the changing seasons with Special Collections through our annual lobby exhibit, The Language of Flowers. Each quarter will feature new material related to our botanical collections, local plants, and more. Launching September 2024 for the year. Details about Language of Flowers.

EXHIBIT | CELEBRATING THE ROCKET, Seattle’s music magazine

January 6, 2025 – February 15, 2025
Allen Library

Front cover of an issue of The Rocket
Explore 20 years of music and culture as told through the pages of “The Rocket,” the influential Seattle publication that covered music venues and regional bands during the 1980s and 1990s.

We celebrate “The Rocket” and its late, long-time editor and publisher Charles Cross, by presenting its covers and coverage of the music industry and local culture. The exhibit highlights how the UW Libraries and the Washington State Library preserve and make it accessible to all.