"Noir Black Noir" by Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center and Northwest Sinfonietta

Program Locations

This interactive map shows the locations of the programs and events that happened throughout the City of Tacoma with Tacoma Creates funding support during the 2022-23 program year.

You can find the map legend below – click on the list icon in the green bar on the top right corner of the map. The blue dots on the map indicate where Youth Education Programs took place, and the orange dots represent General Public Programs. Click on the dots for more information, including names of events, producing organization(s), and locations. There are many locations where multiple events took place; use the arrows in the pop-up windows to scroll through to see the details of different events.

The purple layer is from the City of Tacoma's Equity Index, an interactive tool that visually highlights disparities in Tacoma. This tool supports data-informed decision making to improve access to opportunity for all community members. The areas of the city with darker shading have higher levels of equity/opportunity; lighter shading indicates lower levels of equity/opportunity.

You can toggle additional layers by clicking the layer icon, which is found in the green bar on the top right corner of the map. This will allow you to show or hide different program years, program types, and other visual layers on the map. You may also zoom in or out, or reset the map by using the green navigation buttons found on the left side of the map.

This map was created by Matt Kelley and the Action Mapping Project at the University of Washington-Tacoma.

PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING Tacoma Creates is partnering with the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department’s Centers for Excellence to provide community-driven, Participatory Budgeting (PB) projects in East Tacoma (98404) and South Tacoma (98409). Tacoma Creates has allocated $100,000 towards Participatory Budgeting projects in each neighborhood. East Tacoma and South Tacoma residents will have the opportunity to decide how to invest money to make a lasting change in their communities. Participatory Budgeting is a democratic process where community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. This process gives community members real decision-making power over allocated funds. These neighborhoods were chosen based on the Health Department’s Communities of Focus, which is also in alignment with the City of Tacoma’s equity index. The Tacoma Creates Participatory Budgeting project has been on hold since March 2020 due to COVID-19, and will resume in the fall.