• The Orcas Island Lit Fest

    The Orcas Island Lit Fest is an annual celebration of literature and community held in an inspiringly beautiful place. This April 17-19, 2020, we’ll bring together renowned authors and avid readers for three days of panels, readings and...

  • Sips & Suds: A Beer, Cider and Wine Social

    Please join us for an evening of beer, wine & cider tasting. Guests will also enjoy appetizers, raffles and live music by the Walrus! We will have tastings from Boundary Bay Brewing, Twin Sisters Brewing, Dunham Cellars, La Chanterelle Winery, Herbs Cider, Lost Giants Cider Co., and more!! All proceeds support WHS and the animals in our care. Friday, April 17 @ 6:00pm-10pm at the Holiday Inn & Suites in Bellingham. This is...

  • Laugh Your Tail Off!

    Big laughs are on the way Saturday, April 18, 2020, at The NOAH Center’s 7th annual Laugh Your Tail Off comedy show and auction featuring comedian Collin Moulton. The fun begins at 6 p.m. Laugh Your Tail Off is a fun evening designed to bring passionate community members together for an evening of laughs to help save lives. All the proceeds raised will...

  • Blue Skies for Children’s 13th Annual Casino Night

    Come enjoy a night out with friends while supporting Blue Skies for Children! This event will include mock gaming such as, Blackjack, Texas Hold'Em, High Card Flush, Spanish 21, as well as appetizers, desserts, no host bar, raffle and gaming prizes. Tickets can be purchased for $65.00 each by visiting https://www.blueskiesforchildren.org/annual-casino-night-fundraiser.html or calling (360) 756-6710 April 18, 2020 6:30pm-9:30pm

  • Kulshan Youth Choir Concert

    The Kulshan Youth Choir invites you to celebrate the songs that nature sings at their upcoming concert, "O Colored Earth," on Thurs., April 23 at 5:30pm at the First Congregational Church in Bellingham (2401 Cornwall Ave). We are a new youth chorus in Whatcom...

  • Habitat for Humanity Trashion Show April 24, 2020

    Call for Entries for the Annual Trashion Show! Make fashion from trash, or “Trashion!” Do you want to participate as an artist or fashion designer in this year’s Habitat for Humanity annual “Trashion...

  • Tour de Lopez

    This very popular non-competitive bicycle tour of Lopez Island is brought to you by the Lopez Island Chamber of Commerce and is the kickoff event for cycling in the beautiful San Juan Islands. Whether you make it a day trip or make it a weekend getaway you will not be disappointed! Many of our riders return every year for this event. There are four routes (5, 12, 17 & 31 mile) that are marked with our unique recycled bicycles with...

  • FUNDrive benefiting Blue Skies for Children

    Ready for spring cleaning but unsure where to donate your items? Drop them off at Blue Skies for Children! We are conducting a FunDrive through Value Village and collecting items now through April 26th. Blue Skies receives funding for every pound you donate. Accepted: all clothing, shoes, towels, sheets, blankets, pillows, curtains...

  • Go Wild Photo Contest

    The Whatcom Humane Society's Go Wild Photo Contest is an online photo contest to recognize and appreciate photos of wildlife in the wild, where they belong! Starting May 1, 2020, we invite you to enter your favorite wildlife photos to our contest. It's easy to participate! Submit your...

  • Cascadia Poetry Festival

    Seattle Poetics LAB (SPLAB), a literary arts-oriented nonprofit organization and the organizing entity of the Cascadia Poetry Festival, is presenting the seventh Cascadia Poetry Festival at the Multiverse on San Juan Island May 1-3, 2020. The Multiverse, a gallery and island cultural center, will provide an intimate setting for festival attendees to deep-dive into the intersection of poetics and bioregionalism. In addition to poetry...

  • Kulshan Chorus Presents: Carmina Burana

    Kulshan Chorus, Cantabile Chamber Choir, Kulshan Youth Choir, Sno-King Community Chorale, and orchestra join forces under the artistic direction of Dustin Willets to perform Carl Orff’s masterpiece cantata, Carmina Burana. Orff selected twenty-four poems from the medieval collection, Carmina Burana, covering a variety of familiar topics: the fickleness of fortune and wealth, the ephemeral nature of life, the joy of the return of Spring, and the pleasures and perils of...