Category: Featured Events

Gardening, Workshops, Food Classes, and Plant Sales The Pacific Northwest grows an amazing crop of gardeners – and plants – every year. Catch the spirit, gather your seeds and plants, and join the garden lovers community of food, floral and plant makers. Lopez Plant Sale! Saturday, May 1310:00 to 1:00 Lopez School (west side)   […]

SJI Islands Makers at Markets & Classes Island Makers are Open for Business and selling hand crafted arts, crafts, wines, ciders and foods at local pop-up events and farmers markets.  DIY classes too!  If you or your organization have an event to promote to our readers, please write to support@sanjuanmakersguild.com  Pop-Up Arts Events Orcas Mothers […]

SJI Islands Performances – Spring 2023 – Recommended Musical and Theater Performances on Orcas, San Juan and Lopez Islands – Orcas, May 4-20 What Dreams May Come   Grace McCune and Jake Perrine are coaxing Rock on the Rock Choir (Moulin Rouge, Across The Universe, Rock of Orcas, Teatro Titikookoo, Cirque Us) out of hibernation […]

Islands Art and Music festivities are celebrating Earth Day on the Eastsound waterfront, Sat. April 22, 10-3 with Poet Laureate reading at 3pm. Join the Earth Day Orcas festivities at Emmanuel Episcopal Churchand along Main street with visual and performing arts and music in Waterfront Park, The Parish Hall, Benson Hall, around the Labyrinth. Organic FormNatural […]

Enjoy a day filled with literature inspired by the Salish Sea – poetry, prose and invocations that deepens and celebrates the natural wonders of the Salish Sea bio region. Indoors and outdoors on the Eastsound waterfront at Emmanuel Episcopal Church.

– Decarbonization Strategies & Technologies – From the global down to the hyper-local, learn about technologies at work changing the world in response to climate change and fossil fuel transition animal protection and oil spill response.

Celebrate Earth Day on the Eastsound Waterfront, April 22nd. Art, Music, Science and Literature are great ways to honor and celebrate our earth, ecology and community. Come enjoy a wonderful day of indoor and outdoor visual art, musicians, poets, and science & technology experiences. Base camp and Events are at Emmanuel Episcopal Church – check in […]

Build a Maker Directory Profile – 1 hr class Create your Maker Profile listing in the San Juan County Makers Directory. Professional/Organization and DIY/Learner options. Easy 1 hr class guides you through building your own listing. Free class via Zoom. Sign-up using the link below.   2nd and 4th Thursdays, 6:30pm   Click here to […]

Listen, to the Wild. Summary     Listen, to the Wild is a literature, science and cultural arts program on the remote San Juan Islands in WA. Island libraries, classrooms, history, science and cultural groups are invited to engage island residents in thought provoking conversation on intersecting themes of eco-literature, environmental and wilderness protection, climate […]

Lopez Community Visioning Circle March 19th, 2023  Community Visioning Circle Notes Location: Lopez Public Library   “Had a meeting at the library today for the maker’s guild and there are some great things being done by some wonderful people for makers of the San Juans. I encourage people to look into what they are doing […]