• Dine Out for Maple Alley Inn

    5/14/25 - 5/21/25 One of Whatcom County’s longest-running community fundraising events, Dine Out for Maple Alley Inn is a weeklong celebration to support local restaurants, strengthen the community, and help end local hunger. All you have to do is visit any of the restaurants at oppco.org/dineout, and a portion of your purchase will go to support Maple Alley Inn, Opportunity Council’s hot meals program. Enjoying meals in your community...

  • Spring Wine Release

    Join winemakers to introduce two new wines: Vintage Port and Rose of Cabernet Franc! At 6PM on Wednesday, May 14th: 1678 Boblett Street in Blaine (exit 275) -- free pizza, live music, wine tasting and a special announcement!

  • The 2025 La Conner Guitar Festival presents… Tracy Spring’s workshop::”Unpacking Great Songs”

    A great lyric. A lovely bridge. An unexpected melodic line or chord structure. What caught your ear or captured your heart? We'll bring our favorite songs to this workshop and learn about songwriting by exploring the great moves that someone else made. Bonus points if you bring a song you love, and then play a song you've written that incorporates one of those great moves! No prior songwriting experience is...

  • Kat Eggleston and Tracy Spring in Concert

    The 2025 La Conner Guitar Festival presents a special late morning concert with songwriters and long-time friends Kat Eggleston and Tracy Spring on Saturday, May 17, 11:30am-1:00pm. The two women will “swap tunes” back and forth in an intimate concert setting: the Club House of the Swinomish Yacht Club, (310 N. 1st St.) Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the Festival Box Office (Maple...

  • Skagit Symphony – Timeless Elements:Fire

    Skagit Symphony – Timeless Elements: Fire Saturday, May 17th, 2025, 7:30pm McIntyre Hall, 2501 E College Way Mount Vernon WA "Music is the spark that lights the fire of the soul." Skagit Symphony starts the festivities by setting off Handel's Fireworks. Marta Szlubowska dazzles with Tchaikovsky's violin concerto, and Erica Montgomery will Raise the Roof on our brand-new set of...

  • Wild Brushstrokes: An Expressive Acrylic Workshop

    TICKETS: https://www.lifedrawingbellingham.com/workshops An Expressive Acrylic Workshop Saturday, May 24 • 10AM–4PM at Karate Church, 519 E Maple St, Bellingham, WA $150 – All materials included This is expressive painting—where the photo reference fuels instinct, and every choice is a potential to turn up your inner voice. I will teach you how I paint from a photo reference of a wolf: My approaches, my mindset, and the practical tools to make expressive painting an...

  • Digital Photography: Take Better Pictures with your Cell Phone!

    The great thing about phone cameras is that they’re always with us. But we’ve all cursed them for failing to get that once-in-a-life-time picture. In this two-hour-long class, I will help you to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of the little lensed miracle that lives in your phone. And that understanding will help you to capture more pictures that you love. I will use an iPhone in class but people...

  • Ski to Sea

    Ski to Sea is the original multisport relay race, from Mt. Baker to Bellingham Bay. Organize your team of 3-8 racers and join us on Memorial Day weekend! Teammates and spectators await finishing racers in Bellingham’s scenic Marine Park and can experience the Historic Fairhaven Festival, the all-day street party just up the hill. Returning racers tell us their favorite parts of Ski to Sea are camaraderie and community. From organizing your team to training, racing, and trading stories...

  • Women on the Water

    On May 26th, from 1:00-4:30PM, join the Community Boating Center for a gathering of woman-centered boating! This is the perfect event for beginner and experienced boaters to...

  • Outsiders Inn presents Jon Fosse’s “deathvariations”

    Outsiders Inn Theater presents the West Coast Premiere of Nobel Prize Winner Jon Fosse’s riveting drama, deathvariations, directed by Greg Berry and featuring Karen Edland, Sar 'Roman' Feltman, Robert Frederiksen, Byron Priebe, Emily Riley, Anwyn Thompson. When her daughter dies, a woman digs through her past, unearthing each of the losses in her...

  • BMC matinee program with baritone Richard Hodges and pianist Jay Rozendaal

    BMC June program features baritone Richard Hodges, renowned opera performer, composer and educator, and Jay Rozendaal, a world-class voice coach and pianist who calls Bellingham his home, in a special performance to close its 109th season. They present a varied program that covers a wide scope of styles and genres. It includes works by Verdi,...