Club Craft: Rx Beer, Bottles & Bling
Your prescription for the evening: rhinestones.
Join us for Club Craft: Rx Beer, Bottles + Bling, where we’ll be turning ordinary prescription bottles into glittering works of art. Bring your empty bottles or grab one from our stash and go absolutely feral with gems, charms, and sparkle.
✨ $10 includes all supplies
💊 No medical knowledge required
🍻 Craft beers, ciders & NA drinks available
Sip + Spell: Adult Spelling Bee
Were you a Words With Friends GOAT? A wiz at Wordle? Did you dominate your 4th Grade Spelling Bee?
Join us for Ground Control’s Sip + Spell: Adult Spelling Bee!
Free to compete.
There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place contestants.
REGISTER BELOW TO COMPETE
Pinball Tournament
Flippers up, no experience required.
We’re hosting a beginner-friendly pinball tournament designed for all skill levels- whether you’re a casual player, a first-timer, or a seasoned flipper.
For a $10 buy-in, you’ll get:
– Free play on tournament machines
– Entry into the prize pool (winner takes the pot)
– A guaranteed spot in our round robin format (no immediate eliminations—everyone gets multiple chances to play)
We’ll rotate players through rounds, track scores, and keep things moving so it stays fun, low-pressure, and just competitive enough.
🏆 Prizes for top players
🎯 No skill level required
🍻 Drinks flowing, vibes high
Whether you’re here to win it all or just keep the ball alive for more than 10 seconds, you’re in good company.
Come flip, hang, and maybe accidentally become a pinball legend.
Show + Tell
Remember bringing your coolest rock to school and feeling like a legend?
We’re bringing Show & Tell back… but for adults.
Bring something interesting, weird, sentimental, or mildly concerning and take the mic for a few minutes to tell us about it.
Cool rocks. Plants. Odd collections. Tattoos and the story behind them. Scars from questionable decisions. Mysterious thrift store finds. That one thing you’ve been waiting for an excuse to show people.
Sign up when you arrive, grab the mic, and teach the class something.
made by HER
Pop-Up Market + Artist Showcase
A Celebration of Women Through Art
Made by HER is a curated evening celebrating women’s creativity, artistry, influence, and impact within our community.
This event blends market + gallery + interactive installation, transforming Ground Control into a space that highlights and honors women from multiple angles.
Super Nerd Trivia
This February…
The fandoms collide. The questions get deep. And the bragging rights are forever.
Stack your team with super nerds. Assemble your trivia avengers. Prepare to defend your fandom.
Thank You For Being a Friend: Galentine's Party
💖 Thank You for Being a Friend: Galentine’s Party 💖
Grab your favorite people and join us for a cozy, joyful Galentine’s celebration inspired by friendship, sweetness, and a little Golden Girls energy. This is a come-as-you-are, linger-as-long-as-you-want kind of night — all about connection, creativity, and treats.
Spread the Love: Craft Night
Join us for a cozy craft night making handmade valentines for local seniors. We’ll provide all supplies, pour specialty drinks, and set the mood with a power ballad mixtape. Come create something heartfelt and help us share the love beyond our walls.
Unhinged Crowd Bangers Karaoke
Unhinged Crowd Bangers Karaoke is all about the songs that make the whole room lose it.
Big choruses. Zero shame. Screaming encouraged.
If everyone knows the words, it belongs here.
UNO Tournament
Shuffle up and deal — we’re hosting a UNO Tournament that’s all about fun, not early knockouts. This is a points-based, non-elimination format, which means everyone plays multiple rounds and no one is out after a single bad draw.
Players will compete in several short rounds, earning points based on how they place each game. At the end of the night, the top scorers face off at a final table to crown our UNO champion.
Whether you’re ruthless with a Draw Four or just here for the chaos, this tournament is designed to keep things social, low-pressure, and entertaining from start to finish.
Club Craft
Club Craft is our club-adjacent craft night — self-guided making with a playlist that hits a little harder. Bring your own project or grab a day pass to our shared craft stash.
cut, glue, vibe.
Part(y)On! Dolly Birthday Bash!
Join us in celebrating the icon, the legend, the QUEEN’S birthday with a night full of Dolly themed fun!
Belt out your favorite Dolly tunes at karaoke, sip specialty drinks inspired by our favorite Backwoods Barbie, and compete in our Dolly look-alike contest!
Get ready to two-step the night away and celebrate the world’s sweetheart!
Science on Tap: Engineering a Mars Rover
Presentation: Engineering the Mars Perseverance Rover
Description:
Have you ever wondered how to keep a robot alive on a frozen desert planet 140 million miles away? We’ll talk nuclear batteries, daredevil landings, and a tiny helicopter named Ingenuity that changed planetary exploration. Come hear the story of Perseverance from someone who worked on its power source, and find out what the rover has been up to on Mars.
Presenter:
Amanda Gates, she/her, is a Mechanical Engineer who spent six years at Idaho National Laboratory working on the nuclear power source for NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover ahead of its 2020 launch and landing. She currently works here in Wenatchee as a Manufacturing Engineer at Diamond Foundry where lab grown diamonds are fabricated for jewelry and tech applications.
Ground Control offers a small discount for folks who bring their own reusable cup for on tap orders. Outside food is also welcome, as Ground Control does not sell food or snacks.
off the record
it’s just a quieter night to enjoy a beverage, read a book, work on a project, or just sit and relax.
Quiz the Season: Holiday Movie Trivia
Get ready for a night of festive fun as we dive into all your favorite holiday movies—from the classics to the chaotic. Gather your crew, flex your film knowledge, and compete for gifts, glory, and serious bragging rights.
We’ll be serving up seasonal specialty drinks, and you can upgrade your night with an optional festive beer + holiday treat pairing curated just for this event. Cozy vibes, holiday magic, and friendly competition await—come make a merry memory with us!
The Holiday Edit
It’s giving ✨ holiday glam ✨
Step into The Holiday Edit — a curated evening of cozy glamour and creative joy. Your ticket includes hands-on holiday crafts, festive bites, a self-care station, a souvenir cup, and a holiday photo-op.
Come craft, sip, and sparkle your way through the season.
Space is limited, so grab your ticket early and get ready for a night of creativity, connection, and pure holiday magic.
Sip + Snip: Zine Night
Join the creators of The Rag and Strange Garden Zine for a night of creativity, collage and creating your very own zine.
Along with Strange Garden and Ground Control (The Rag), Crowded Table Craft will have all of the supplies and tools you could ever need to create your masterpiece.
Learn about different collage types, composition, and what goes into putting together and publishing your zine.
You’ll also have an opportunity to submit one or two of your pages to our collaborative zine, which will be projected on a loop at Ground Control during December’s First Friday Art Walk.
Feel free to bring old magazines/books/newspapers if you have them to spare.
This is a free event, but we are asking those who can to donate towards supply costs- so we can keep doing fun events like this.
Science on Tap: What Our Emissions Tell Us
Come join Wenatchee River Institute for Science On Tap! This casual, free event is a great opportunity to gather, socialize, and learn about an exciting science topic from a member of our community. No prior science knowledge necessary! Speakers will give a talk on their latest research or a science topic they are passionate about, with some time afterwards for discussion or Q&A. Presentations start at 7pm – arrive early to grab a drink and get a seat!
Presentation: What Our Greenhouse Gas Emissions Tell Us
Description: The presentation will focus on the findings from the first-ever greenhouse gas emission inventories for the City of Wenatchee and Chelan County. Topics will include where and how much greenhouse gas emissions are originating in the city and county, the role hydropower and carbon capture in the Wenatchee-Okanogan National Forest play in keeping emissions lower, and what potential new strategies can be enacted to reduce local emissions in the future.
Presenters:
Marlene Farrell is the Executive Director of Sustainable NCW, a nonprofit focused on fostering stewardship of our environment and community through education and opportunities for action that reduce waste, lower our carbon footprint, and strengthen the health of people and place.
Steve Maher is the Coordinator of Our Valley Our Future, a regional outreach, visioning, and planning nonprofit that guides the development of community Action Plans. Prior to his current role, he was an editor and reporter with The Wenatchee World for more than 20 years.
