Category: Featured Activities

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The Islands are Calling – Come get Creative!  This year the Eye of the Whale arts gathering is on San Juan Island and offers fourspecial days to get away, unplug, and enjoy using your hands and body tocreate, to soothe your mind, tend your heart, and step into the natural world.   Take a workshop, […]

San Juan is first Rural County in WA to create Cultural access Program. Great News for San Juan County Arts, Cultural, Heritage and Science access!   San Juan County Council has passed the new Cultural Access Initiative that will invest 1/10th of 1% of sales tax in valuable programs that enrich all ages of our […]

Winter Artisans Market in Eastsound Village The Beloved Orcas Island Winter Market returns – Friday, December 6th – Sunday, December 8th at Odd Fellows Hall Gift Market, Makery Classes, and a Silent Auction   Community Holiday Spirit, Island Style December is starting off with lots of festive fun on Orcas and the Village of Eastsound […]

Stretch your creativity and learn a new art form! Join us for a small group class learning to construct luminaries using natural reed and papers. Classes for beginner to intermediate makers. Winter Luminary Classes – Free for Orcas Residents Create your own beautiful paper lantern to shine a warm light during the winter.   Classes […]

Luminary Teacher Training Workshop, Nov 2-3, 2024 Stretch your creativity and learn a new art form! Join us for a small group class learning to construct luminaries using natural reed and papers. These 3D forms can be carried in the Winter Solstice parade or hung in your home. Appropriate for teachers of young children, teens-adults, […]

Celebrating San Juan Islands Farms and Foods Agriculture on the San Juans doesn’t come easy. On remote islands, with exceedingly high land costs and limited water, transforming soils depleted from over grazing is more than a work of love to forge food from the land. It is a Heroic Act! In 2022, the Makers Guild […]

Location:  San Juan Island Grange. Date: Fri. Sept. 27th. Time: 5-8pm. San Juan Island Food Heroes Celebration. Fun Farm Tour Launch night with a sneak peek of the new Island Grown film featuring dozens of San Juan County farmers. Enjoy small plate appetizers as a fundraiser benefiting the new Overmarsh Farm Commons increasing local access to […]

Orcas Food Heroes Celebration, Dinner and Film. Location: Orcas Island Winery. Date: Fri. Oct. 4th. Time: 4:30-8pm. Join us in celebrating Orcas Island Food Heroes for a delicious local grown dinner, fun new San Juan Islands Ag short film, with art and music. Catered by The Kitchen, local food plate options 4-7pm; enjoy the Island […]

‘Sheep to Shawl’ weaving workshop introduction to Island yarns and weaving. Come enjoy on-the-farm yarn and weaving activities to create your own take home woven good.  Hosted on the beautiful Warm Valley Orchard homestead. Your space reservation includes the take-home materials costs for island grown yarns used in the 2 hr small group workshop. (Instructor […]