Since 1952, the dedicated volunteers of the Port Angeles Community Players have presented a great variety of stage productions for the enjoyment of the community. Through dedicated community effort, the Port Angeles Community Playhouse, located on Lauridsen Blvd., became a reality in 1971. Website: www.pacommunityplayers.com

The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center is the westernmost center for contemporary art in the contiguous United States. Located in the shadow of Olympia National Park, its superlative physical setting provides an inspiring frame for cultural offerings. Phone: 360-417-4590  Website: www.pafac.org

The gallery is open year round and has presented over 125 gallery exhibitions since 1986 featuring recognized masters and innovative emerging artists using a wide range of art media and aesthetic approaches.

On a Memorial Day Weekend in 1994, the very first Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts was launched and Port Angeles was never quite the same. Eighteen wonderful years later, we want to welcome you once more to this annual celebration that will amaze and delight you with its quality, diversity and just plain fun.

The Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to providing outstanding and diverse performances, creating educational opportunities for students, and offering economic and quality of life benefits to the North Olympic Peninsula community.

For more info visit their website: http://jffa.org/

The Story People of Clallam County is a registered 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, organized as a Guild in 1992 to promote the art of storytelling on the Olympic Peninsula. The Story People believe that stories are an invaluable treasure of every culture because they represent and pass along the collective folklore and wisdom of the ages. The Guild sponsors a monthly story swap in the Raymond Carver Room at the Port Angeles Library. All attendees, local residents as well as visitors, are welcome to share a story, poem, or even a song just for the fun of it, or to improve storytelling techniques. Many people come only to listen, and they represent a very important aspect of this event that is open to the general public and offered at no cost. For those interested in further development as tellers, the Guild offers periodic workshops that are led by experienced professional tellers. Members volunteer regularly in area schools, promoting literacy through storytelling.

Arts Northwest is one of the finest booking conferences and performing arts organizations in the United States. It is most well known for its superior showcase format that has tremendous presenter participation and only the highest of artistic quality.

Arts & Minds is a non-profit, creative arts based early intervention program for people interested in strengthening or maintaining their cognitive abilities in a supportive, cooperative, social environment. This is the only Brookdale Foundation sponsored group in the area, recipient of the 2010 Clallam County Public Health Hero Innovative Program Award. A music therapy focused adult day care is also available.

We are always seeking artist volunteers to share their process with us. Please contact  JCouture@olycap.org website: http://www2.olycap.org/Adult_Care.php

It’s your brain. Do something about it. Join Us!

The Port Angeles Light Opera Association (PALOA) is a non-profit organization 501(c3) whose purpose is to produce musical theater of a professional quality on the North Olympic Peninsula in Western Washington. PALOA enhances the community’s cultural environment by providing entertainment, performing and educational opportunities.PALOA encourages participation from individuals of all ages and backgrounds living on and around the Olympic Peninsula.

P.O. Box 327, Port Angeles, WA 98362 – (360) 457-5630

Artists and lodgers from the Washington State coastal town of Port Angeles have teamed together to offer a variety of intensive workshops. There are several two- to five-day workshops focusing on subjects such as: glass blowing, jewelry making, metal sculpting, ceramics and pottery, weaving, painting, bronze casting, light fixtures, photography, art welding and many more!

More info at their site: http://www.paacworkshops.com/

The North Olympic Library System  has a collaborative library/community art project with monthly opening events at both the Sequim and Port Angeles libraries. These Art in the Library receptions coincide with Sequim’s First Friday ArtWalk and Port Angeles’ Second Weekend Art Event. Both libraries will be open for artistic viewing “after hours,” from 5pm until 8pm. The work of several local artists  are on display, and refreshments are served.

The Sequim Branch Library is located at 630 N. Sequim Ave in Sequim. The Port Angeles Main Library is located at 2210 S. Peabody in Port Angeles. For more information, contact Margaret Jakubcin, Assistant Director, at 360.417.8505 or mjakubcin@nols.org or go to www.nols.org and click on “Events.”

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The House of Learning Art Gallery is a place to showcase artists from the region and beyond.  The museum setting greets all visitors as they first enter the Longhouse.

The House of Learning is a gathering place to teach, learn and share cultural traditions, knowledge, and identity.  It is a place to acknowledge and respect our unique differences and diversity.

Northwind Arts Alliance is a nonprofit 501(c)3 volunteer organization dedicated to promoting the arts in our region by sponsoring educational programs, lectures, readings and workshops, and by providing juried and invitational venues for displaying the work of regional artists, both visual and literary.

Location: Northwind Arts Alliance is located at 2409 W. Jefferson St., Port Townsend WA

More info at their site: http://http://northwindarts.org

The Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1932 to provide performers and the public of the North Olympic Peninsula an opportunity to enjoy, participate in, and grow through the enriching experience of quality, live music.

A 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, the Orchestra began with a few fiddlers and horn players performing light opera and Sousa marches in each other’s homes and has become today’s award-winning orchestra consisting of ±80 volunteer musicians.

More info at their site: http://www.portangelessymphony.org