Please join us for the artist reception when the show opens on Friday, August 6, 6-8pm.

Have fun and support the arts at the same time! Enjoy live MUSIC from local band Ten Thirty ... a vignette from the THEATRE event "Controlling Interest" ... ARTISTS painting ... ART AUCTION ... great WINES from no-host bar ... and more!  

Tickets are only $20. Click to learn more & to purchase tickets online: Live from the Ruins: Party for the Arts

A musical based on the beloved classic by Lacy Montgomery.  Directed by Julie Raefield-Gobbo with musical direction by Mark Steighner, the local cast brings to life a family-centered story with many loveable characters.The unlikely heroine, Anne Shirley, is mistakenly sent to live with a plainspoken farmer and his spinster sister, who thought they were adopting a boy!

Learn more: Anne of Green Gables.

Here's your opportunity to preview this highly anticipated Plein Air Gallery Show as a Collector's Award Sponsor. Catered by our Collector Sponsor Celilo Restaurant + Bar, there will be an exceptional variety of local wines and beer. Your $30 ticket will reserve your place and a purchase ribbon to buy the painting of your choice.

Learn more & to reserve your place online: Plein Air Collectors Preview Party

Join a full day adventure and create stunning works of visual and literary art while exploring the grounds of a wonderful, organic flower and vegetable farm. Student work will become a part of the Plein Air Show at Columbia Arts on First Friday, September 3rd.

Learn more & to register online: Plein Air Class for Children

Sign up for additional summer art classes for kids ... Visual, literary and theatre classes. Ten classes to choose from. Details and to register: Summer Art Classes for Kids

Choose four out of five new plays scheduled for the 2010 / 2011 season. Buy your season tickets now and get 20% off the purchase price.

• Sept: The Year of Magical Thinking
• Oct: Same Time, Next Year
• Dec: The Emperor's New Clothes
• Feb: A Night of One Act Plays
• May: All My Sons

Learn more & to purchase tickets online: Season Theatre Tickets.

This one woman play starring Sharon Laughlin, chronicles what the author, Joan Didion, did after her husband died of cardiac arrest at the dining room table while their only daughter lay intubated and comatose in a nearby hospital bed.

Please join us for an Opening Night Reception, September 9 at 6:30pm, hosted by Hospice of The Gorge. Appetizers will be provided.

Learn more & to purchase tickets online: The Year of Magical Thinking

We're looking for talent of all kinds, local to the Columbia River Gorge ... musicians, dancers, comedians, jugglers, improv ... you name it! Show is scheduled for Nov. 7, auditions on Sept. 19 & 20.

Spend five days visiting some of the most visually remarkable sites in the Columbia River Gorge, and put your impressions on paper.  Following the five-day "Paint Out / Write Out," participating writers and artists will have opportunities to share their works with the public — writers via a public reading and online anthology, and painters via a month long art show.

Learn more & download application: Pacific Northwest Plein Air Write-Out.

4th annual event for teachers. Free to any K-8 teacher employed by the HRC School District. $100 tuition for pre-service or out -of-district teachers. Contact Shelley Toon Hight for details: education@columbiaarts.org or 541-387-8877 ext 114.