Category: Learning By Doing

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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, […]

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, […]

‘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 […]

Lopez Food Heroes Celebration Dinner, Garden Tour & Film. Location: LIFE School Garden. Date: Sat. Oct. 12th. Time: 3:30-7pm. Join us in celebrating Lopez Food Heroes who are growing a local food agricultural movement across San Juan County. Get to know the LIFE Garden with a tour and refreshments, followed by a screening of the […]

Get Your FOLK ON! Come to the Salish Sea Folk Arts Fest on Orcas Island   Registration is OPEN!    Saturday pass includes a full day of music, folk dancing, kids camp, and a Makers Fair. Plus add-on Fri and Sat workshops in drum making, cedar basket making, wood carving, blacksmithing, voice and music, spinning, […]

Welcome to Earth Day Orcas 2024. This popular Eco Fair offers activities for all ages with art, music, science, poetry and returns to the Eastsound Waterfront on Saturday, April 20th. The two day event opens with a wonderful poetry reading on Friday evening on the 19th.   NEW this year:   A Procession of the […]

Earth Day Parade Celebration! Come join a Procession of the Species parade on Orcas Island, Washington on April 20th. The Procession is a delightful event full of imagination, gratitude, and activism focused on celebrating the rich biodiversity of our Earth. We encourage all ages to participate with creative costumes and props that honor favorite creatures […]