As we wrap up a dynamic season overflowing with activity, preparation for 2025 is already well underway!
Orcas Center is proud to be the home for the creative community on Orcas and we strive to create a supportive environment for youth to experience the arts.

Help us keep going strong for generations to come by donating today!

Support Community

Orcas Center partners with a wide variety of arts and community-centered organizations to help promote the arts on Orcas, such as Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, Orcas Dance Collective, Orcas Island Jazz Festival, Orcas Island Film Festival, Woman in the Woods Productions, Orcas Choral Society, Orcas Island Community Band – not to mention a plethora of private and public classes and events!

These groups offer concerts, festivals, performances, conferences, films, and literary adventures for our island population. The one thing they all have in common is that they can depend on Orcas Center to offer a beautiful, comfortable, safe space in which to make art, gather with friends new and old, and further the sense of community that is so vital and unique to Orcas Island.

Orcas Center is proud to partner with so many creative organizations on Orcas and we strive to create a supportive environment for our community. Help us continue providing space for our community by donating today!

Donate to our End-of-the-year Fundraiser and Help us Thrive in ’25!

Here are some of the amazing organizations that call Orcas Center home:

Now in it’s 10th season, the Orcas Island Film Festival was co-founded by Jared Lovejoy and Carl Spence. The first festival was presented to film lovers in October 2014 to much love and success.

Since then it has been praised by film and arts critics, it has encouraged young filmmakers through grants and programming, and has spawned more inspired programming through the year leading up to the festival.

OIFF runs October 16-20, 2024 with films at the Seaview, and on Orcas Center’s main stage and Black Box theatres!

The Madrona Club is Eastsound’s longest lived women’s club. It began October 25, 1906, and stressed the importance of education. The women studied art, music, poetry, and the world around them.

By 1908 they built a club house on Madrona Point across from the Odd Fellows hall, on property donated by Dr Agnes Harrison.

The Madrona Club has been meeting monthly at Orcas Center since it’s opening – nearly 40 years ago!

Founded by Michell “Mitch” Marshall, Woman in the Woods Productions reflects her experience as an African-American woman and a lover of the arts. Mitch set out to build an organization that would embrace and present cultural inquiry and conversation by inviting to the island performance artists with diverse ethnic and cultural perspectives.

WITW Productions has brought many innovative, ground-breaking artists and productions to the Orcas Center main stage including Ladies of Hip Hop, Michela Marino Lerman, Paul Rucker, The Just and The Blind, Jon Boogz, DJ Spooky, and more!

Donate to our End-of-the-year Fundraiser and Help us Thrive in ’25!

Support Youth Programming

The study of the arts – music, theatre, dance, and visual arts – promotes creativity, encourages physical movement and flexibility, enhances socialization and problem-solving skills, and gives children an outlet for self-expression as they are finding their way in the world.

Our tiny island lacks dedicated resources for schools to provide the type of arts education that many adults experienced, and Orcas Center is proud to support and work with organizations that fill that gap for our island youth.

The Orcas Dance Collective has its home at Orcas Center, and schedules hundreds of classes each year with performance opportunities for students of all ages!

A*OK – Art for Orcas Kids is a regular fixture at Orcas Center throughout the school year, with weekly classes and dedicated yearly art shows to exhibit fantastic creations!

Orcas Center provides an annual Summer Theatre Camp for school-aged children, as well as a youth talent show to celebrate budding artists and performers!
We couldn’t do any of this without your support!

Please consider donating to our End-of-the-year Fundraiser and Help us Thrive in ’25!

Click on the image below to watch young dreamers from 1982 express their desires for a home like Orcas Center – Many of the kids in this video now have children of their own, who also perform the Orcas Center stage!