• Solstice Sips: Summer Cocktail Tasting

    Solstice sips: summer cocktail tasting JUNE 25 | 6PM-8PM | $60/Person Kick off the season with a spirited celebration of summer. Our Summer Solstice Tasting brings together 3 bright, seasonal cocktails and perfectly paired bites for an evening that’s all about sunshine, flavor,...

  • Summer Solstice Party

    Chuckanut Drive officially reopens and Taylor Shellfish Farms is celebrating with a Summer Solstice Party at the Samish Bay location. From...

  • North Sound Voices Film Festival

    The North Sound Voices Film Fest will be the first of its kind in our region – a compelling event to educate, inspire, and motivate advocacy about the most crucial issues of our time. During...

  • Sips of the Summer

    The Last Bag of the School Year Since 2019, Wild Bird Charity’s #1 purpose has been to provide meals to school children in Whatcom County via our Weekend Food Bag Program. More than 900 food bags were given out EACH WEEK this school year. The last food bags of the school year have been packed and delivered to 32 schools in Whatcom County. For kids it’s the start of summer vacation. For Wild Bird volunteers,...

  • Bellingham Bike Swap

    The Bellingham Bike Swap allows the community to purchase preowned bikes or gear at a lower cost, enabling our community to experience the joys and benefits of...

  • Skagit Symphony’s Art in the Garden Bash

    Skagit Symphony’s Art in the Garden Bash June 29th, 2025, 2pm-5pm Experience the enchantment of Briarwood Estate’s flowing gardens, as you discover and enjoy choral, theatrical, Shakespearian, musical, and fine art displays...

  • Summer Art & Dance Camp: Heros & Heroines 4th of July

    Heroes and Heroines 4th of July - Art & Dance Camp #1: June 30-July 3, Mon- Thurs, Ages 7-12, $250 with Rachel Simpson for Art and Tara Reiter for Dance. Get a heroic mixture of Dance and Art in this full day, 4th of July themed camp! Join us on the last day for a Dance Performance and Art Show! Students Bring: Lunch, Water Bottle,...

  • Paper Whale Presents: The Immersive Experience Project

    The Immersive Experience Project is a series of four pop-up art installations located within vacant storefronts in downtown Bellingham. Be transported to alternate realities meant to captivate your senses, like a glowing forest of neon fungi or a...

  • Puzzles in Pigment

    Exhibition run: July 3rd & 5th-26th July 3rd Opening Reception: 6-9PM Regular Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat, 11am - 4pm At: 1213 Cornwall Ave, Bellingham, WA 98225 AAoWC presents an exhibition celebrating the diverse language of abstract art through the work of four distinctive local artists. The show features Brett Sandström's balanced compositions emphasizing mindfulness and simplicity alongside Jake Gombis's large-format conversational paintings that explore both tangible and abstract relationships through pedestrian...

  • Summer Art & Dance Camp: Where the Wild Things Roam

    Where the Wild Things Roam- Art & Dance Camp #2: July- 7-11 10am-4pm Mon-Fri Ages 5-8, $300 with Rachel Simpson for Art and Tara Reiter for Dance. Get a Wild Fun mixture of Dance and Art in this full day camp!! Join us on the last day for a Dance Performance and Art Show! Students Bring: Lunch, Water Bottle, Weather appropriate clothing, clean soled sneakers. Learn a full dance routine, lots of dance games and amazing art projects including: Clay...

  • Early Childhood Resource Fair

    Please join us for our Early Childhood Resource Fair, hosted by the Bellingham Public Library, Peace Centers & Childcare Spaces, and Animals as Natural Therapy! Nonprofits from around Whatcom County will be there to share their programs with guardians and offer activities and crafts for children in attendance. July 10th at the Bellingham Central Library Lawn (Lee Memorial Park) 2:30-4:30. Mobile ANT's animal therapy program will be available starting at 3:00PM. This event celebrates the official launch of our program’s...