The WhatcomTalk Events Calendar shares things to do around Whatcom County including Bellingham, Ferndale, Lynden, Blaine and beyond. Find fun activities and adventures throughout the region on our comprehensive events calendar. Have an event that isn’t listed? Click the green “Post your Event” button and our editors will review and approve within two business days.
Scarecrow is thrilled to once again partner with Humanities Washington for this series of FREE online presentations exploring the intersection of art, culture, and history.
Registration is required for these events. Register at: bit.ly/scarecrowsaturdays
Please join us for these fun and informative talks!
SEPTEMBER 7 AT 2:00PM
Un-American Activities: The Blacklist Era and Hollywood
With Robert Horton
SEPTEMBER 14 AT 2:00PM
They Want Our Rhythm, but Not Our Blues: African American Innovation through Pop Culture
With LaToya Brackett
SEPTEMBER 21 AT 2:00PM
Resisting Erasure through Storytelling
With Putsata Reang
A night of songwriter Guy Clark’s music. Performed by long time friends and road companions, Verlon Thompson and Shawn Camp. First hand stories and accounts of the origins of Guys music, entwined with personal perspectives from both Verlon and Shawn. Enjoy a journey into the lives of these three songwriters , singers and master guitarists.
Wonderlick (members of Punk indie legends TOO MUCH JOY) Acoustic Set & Exclusive Beer Release Party at The Great Northern Bottle Shop & Lounge
Bellingham, WA – Get ready for an unforgettable evening of music and craft beer as Garden Path Fermentation proudly presents a special acoustic performance by Wonderlick, featuring Jay Blumenfeld and Tim Quirk from the legendary band Too Much Joy.
This exclusive event will take place on Saturday, September 14, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM PDT at The Great Northern Bottle Shop & Lounge, located at 1319 Commercial Street, Bellingham, WA 98225.
To celebrate the release of Garden Path Fermentation’s newest beer, (This Is A) Crush Story, a unique collaboration with Too Much Joy, we invite you to join us for an evening filled with live music, exceptional brews, and an atmosphere brimming with joy.
Event Highlights:
• Live Acoustic Performance: Enjoy an intimate acoustic set by Wonderlick, featuring Jay Blumenfeld and Tim Quirk from Too Much Joy.
• Exclusive Beer Release: Be among the first to taste (This Is A) Crush Story, our latest collaboration beer.
• VIP Experience: VIP ticketholders will receive a 750ml bottle of Crush Story to take home.
• Drink Voucher: Each ticket includes a drink voucher to enjoy during the event.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wonderlick-ft-jay-blumenfeld-tim-quirk-of-too-much-joy-beer-release-tickets-982867421917
Join your community in celebrating healthy water, healthy habitat, and healthy people during the 12th annual Run with the Chums 5K Fun Run! This free event welcomes people of all ages and speeds. The 5K course has beautiful views of Whatcom County shoreline and beaches. Children 10 and under can enjoy the Smolt Sprint obstacle course. This year Run with the Chums will be held on September 14th, as a kick off event for Whatcom Water Week at the BP Highlands. The 5K will start at 10AM, and the Smolt Sprint at 9:45 AM. Learn more and register today at www.whatcomcd.org/run-with-the-chums. Register before September 1st to receive a free Run with the Chums T-Shirt while supplies last.
Join Sustainable Connections for a month-long celebration of local food and those who grow, raise, fish, make, and cook it to share with us! All month long we’ll be highlighting opportunities to meet your chef, farmer, fisher, and grocer and experience the unique flavors of our region.
Honoring the fact that water is essential to life and vital to our cultural well-being, join the Whatcom Watersheds Information Network (WWIN) in celebrating “Whatcom Water Week” from Saturday, September 14th through Sunday, September 22nd.
A series of fun, free, family-friendly events throughout Whatcom County offer residents a chance to celebrate the importance of water. In all, there will be many events to choose from, including some which require pre-registration.
Events include:
• Family activities
• Tours and explorations
• Contests and prizes
• Special community events
• And much more!
Visit WhatcomWaterWeeks.org for a full list of events.
Join us in welcoming local author Patricia Alarcón Missler as she shares Border Town Chica! All readers will glean something from Missler’s inspiring stories, and there’s something for everyone to relate to.
In Border Town Chica, A Memoir, Patricia Alarcón Missler paints colorful stories portraying a young girl growing up in a small south Texas border town. Readers see the author as a six-year-old picking out a special pastry, and as a young woman picking out a special boyfriend. A trip to the racetrack with Papi. Bandidos on the road. Two sisters on their own in Mexico City. Standing atop the Teotihuacán Pyramids. Fortunetellers in a cave bar, and more… Share the camaraderie and adventures of her familia and friends. Readers from diverse backgrounds will relate to these poignant stories, which transcend cultures. Inspiring, humorous, and insightful—at times intimately personal—Border Town Chica, A Memoir, breaks from the stereotype of the Mexican American experience.
After almost four decades of calling the island of Hawaii home, Patricia Alarcón Missler, and her husband, moved to Bellingham, WA in 2021, where she continues to unfold her creative journey. As an artist, she is well-known for large abstracts and also vibrant and whimsical watercolor paintings with collectors all over the world. As a writer, she published her first book in 2014 and a decade later is publishing a revised edition of her book now titled, Border Town Chica, A Memoir.
Elaina Ellis (she/her) is publisher and cofounder at Generous Press. She owns and operates A Trusted Reader, providing literary book editing services for brilliant writers of all stripes. For ten years she worked at the Pulitzer Prize-winning publishing house Copper Canyon Press where she served as editor. She is the author of Write About an Empty Birdcage, and has received support from Artist Trust, Mineral School, Vermont Studio Center, Jack Straw, Tent, 4Culture, and Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.
Join Sustainable Connections for a month-long celebration of local food and those who grow, raise, fish, make, and cook it to share with us! All month long we’ll be highlighting opportunities to meet your chef, farmer, fisher, and grocer and experience the unique flavors of our region.
Honoring the fact that water is essential to life and vital to our cultural well-being, join the Whatcom Watersheds Information Network (WWIN) in celebrating “Whatcom Water Week” from Saturday, September 14th through Sunday, September 22nd.
A series of fun, free, family-friendly events throughout Whatcom County offer residents a chance to celebrate the importance of water. In all, there will be many events to choose from, including some which require pre-registration.
Events include:
• Family activities
• Tours and explorations
• Contests and prizes
• Special community events
• And much more!
Visit WhatcomWaterWeeks.org for a full list of events.
Saddle up and support affordable housing for local families at Habitat for Humanity in Whatcom County’s 22nd Annual Raise the Roof Auction!
This year’s event consists of a week-long online auction that opens to the public on Friday the 13th, followed by an in-person ticketed event at Barnstar Events in Ferndale on Friday, September 20th. Between the live music, great food, games, and 200+ unique raffle items, it’s sure to be a rip-roaring good time!
Dust off your denim and don your favorite cowboy hat – there may even be a prize for best dressed!
Register today to try and lasso the top bid on our variety of auction items; from local goodies to adventurous excursions and more, there’s something for everyone in our online and in-person auctions! Any contribution helps Habitat blaze a trail toward affordable homeownership for Whatcom County families.
Purchase your tickets to the in-person party or register in advance and preview our auction items at auctria.events/GiddyUp
A guided walking tour of Bayview Cemetery, founded in 1887. We’ll explore the history of the cemetery and how it has changed over time, visiting the older sections of the cemetery and some of the most intriguing monuments. We’ll say hello to a lot of interesting folks who were laid to eternal rest in days of yore. This tour will last around two hours and covers less than one mile in distance. Terrain is mostly paved and level, however parts of the tour may include unpaved trails, uneven ground and slight inclines. (Tour Content Warning: Death, of course.) Meeting location and further details upon registration.
Join us on Sundays throughout the summer for Trivia in the beer garden. Host Jeff Zwiers presents brain-busters about history, sports, science, pop culture, music, and more! Compete with your friends and test your knowledge, while enjoying local craft beer!
The garden bar opens at 4 pm, registration at 5 pm, trivia starts at 5:30 pm. Trivia is $2 per person, with teams of up to 10 players! The top 3 teams will split the pot!
Experience the vibrant coffee culture that Whatcom County has to offer! The Coffee Crawl is a digital passport program designed to percolate the senses and support locally owned businesses all in the same cup of goodness. Coffee, tea, and beverage lovers of all kinds are invited to visit the numerous local coffee shops and cafes in Whatcom County and be rewarded along the way! At each stop, visitors simply check in on their phones, collect points, and earn prizes.
This local promotion coordinated by Sustainable Connections and Visit Bellingham & Whatcom County is not just about indulging in delicious brews, it’s about supporting local businesses and contributing to the community’s growth – all while caffeinating at your own pace. Don’t miss out on exploring Whatcom County’s coffee hotspots while supporting local businesses all summer long!
Join Sustainable Connections for a month-long celebration of local food and those who grow, raise, fish, make, and cook it to share with us! All month long we’ll be highlighting opportunities to meet your chef, farmer, fisher, and grocer and experience the unique flavors of our region.
Honoring the fact that water is essential to life and vital to our cultural well-being, join the Whatcom Watersheds Information Network (WWIN) in celebrating “Whatcom Water Week” from Saturday, September 14th through Sunday, September 22nd.
A series of fun, free, family-friendly events throughout Whatcom County offer residents a chance to celebrate the importance of water. In all, there will be many events to choose from, including some which require pre-registration.
Events include:
• Family activities
• Tours and explorations
• Contests and prizes
• Special community events
• And much more!
Visit WhatcomWaterWeeks.org for a full list of events.
Saddle up and support affordable housing for local families at Habitat for Humanity in Whatcom County’s 22nd Annual Raise the Roof Auction!
This year’s event consists of a week-long online auction that opens to the public on Friday the 13th, followed by an in-person ticketed event at Barnstar Events in Ferndale on Friday, September 20th. Between the live music, great food, games, and 200+ unique raffle items, it’s sure to be a rip-roaring good time!
Dust off your denim and don your favorite cowboy hat – there may even be a prize for best dressed!
Register today to try and lasso the top bid on our variety of auction items; from local goodies to adventurous excursions and more, there’s something for everyone in our online and in-person auctions! Any contribution helps Habitat blaze a trail toward affordable homeownership for Whatcom County families.
Purchase your tickets to the in-person party or register in advance and preview our auction items at auctria.events/GiddyUp
Join us on Monday, September 16th for a special brewery tour to celebrate our 29th Anniversary!
Boundary Bay Brewery opened our doors on September 16th, 1995 and we wanted to celebrate with a special brewery tour! This brewery tour (21+) will give you a look behind the scenes at Bellingham’s oldest brewery – and you’ll get lots of fun tidbits about our history these past 29 years.
This tour will take you into the heart of the brewery and guide you through the beer making process and our history as a brewery, while offering exclusive tastes of our beer along the way. You’ll also be joined by our owner Ed, who’ll raise a toast to 29 years.
The tour will start at 5:30 pm on September 16th. Meet in the lobby and let our hosts know you’re here for the tour.
Brewery Tour tickets are $15 each. Each ticket includes the tour, exclusive beer tastings, and a pint. There are a limited number of tickets available for this anniversary tour!
Join Eve Rickert and Andrea Zanin for a reading of their book, More Than Two, Second Edition. Masks are encouraged for this event.
“Can you love more than one person?” A lot of conversations about nonmonogamy start this way. When we discuss “opening” relationships, contemplate whether we want to be exclusive with our partners, or introduce multiple partners to friends and family, we are asking the people in our lives, and ourselves, to contend with this question.
The answer is obvious, and misleading. The love one feels in their heart and the love one expresses through daily acts of care and affection are both “love” in the true sense, but they have different requirements, present different options and produce different outcomes.
More Than Two can’t promise outcomes, but it is a guide to the paths—from anchor or nesting partnerships to relationship anarchy—possible within nonmonogamy. This long-awaited second edition bridges emerging theories on attachment and relationship diversity with authors Eve Rickert and Andrea Zanin’s insight and experience. The arcs of nonmonogamous partnerships bend towards complexity, introspection and compromise—or at least they can, if we work at it.
Eve Rickert is a Gen X, queer, solo polyamorous, relationship anarchist, neurodivergent cis woman living on unceded WSÁNEC and Lekwungen territory on the west coast of the place currently known as Canada. She is the curator of the More Than Two Essentials series and the nonmonogamy resource site morethantwo.ca, the founder and publisher of Thornapple Press, and the founder and mastermind of the science communications firm Talk Science to Me.
Andrea Zanin, MA, is a white, nonbinary, middle-aged queer writer who lives in Tkaronto (Toronto, Ontario), on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. Andrea is the author of Post-Nonmonogamy and Beyond, part of the More Than Two Essentials series, and has written for the Globe and Mail, The Tyee, Bitch, Ms., Xtra, IN Magazine, Outlooks Magazine and the Montreal Mirror. Andrea blogs at sexgeek.wordpress.com, where they created the 10 Rules for Happy Nonmonogamy and coined the term “polynormativity.”
Experience the vibrant coffee culture that Whatcom County has to offer! The Coffee Crawl is a digital passport program designed to percolate the senses and support locally owned businesses all in the same cup of goodness. Coffee, tea, and beverage lovers of all kinds are invited to visit the numerous local coffee shops and cafes in Whatcom County and be rewarded along the way! At each stop, visitors simply check in on their phones, collect points, and earn prizes.
This local promotion coordinated by Sustainable Connections and Visit Bellingham & Whatcom County is not just about indulging in delicious brews, it’s about supporting local businesses and contributing to the community’s growth – all while caffeinating at your own pace. Don’t miss out on exploring Whatcom County’s coffee hotspots while supporting local businesses all summer long!
Join Sustainable Connections for a month-long celebration of local food and those who grow, raise, fish, make, and cook it to share with us! All month long we’ll be highlighting opportunities to meet your chef, farmer, fisher, and grocer and experience the unique flavors of our region.
Online trivia through Zoom, every Tuesday night, featuring a mix of gallery and breakout rooms allowing you to socialize while you play several rounds of trivia including a weekly suggested category.
Zoom link available each week at http://Facebook.com/WorldsBestTrivia.
Teams or individuals can play. To participate in scoring, teams designate a scribe who submits answers using google forms. Players of all ages welcome!
Honoring the fact that water is essential to life and vital to our cultural well-being, join the Whatcom Watersheds Information Network (WWIN) in celebrating “Whatcom Water Week” from Saturday, September 14th through Sunday, September 22nd.
A series of fun, free, family-friendly events throughout Whatcom County offer residents a chance to celebrate the importance of water. In all, there will be many events to choose from, including some which require pre-registration.
Events include:
• Family activities
• Tours and explorations
• Contests and prizes
• Special community events
• And much more!
Visit WhatcomWaterWeeks.org for a full list of events.
M.A.D. H.O.P.E. (Making A Difference, Helping Other People Everywhere) is looking for volunteers for our Youth Suicide Prevention and Mental Well-Being Program, 2024-2025!
If you care about Whatcom youth, have availability during the school day, and are looking for a way to help our community, please join us for this impactful and in-person training series.
Each volunteer is required to attend the following training dates:
Tuesday, September 17, 11 am to 3 pm
Wednesday, September 18, 11 am to 3 pm
Thursday, September 19, 11 am to 3 pm
Wednesday, September 25, 11 am to 3 pm
Join us for an engaging panel discussion featuring Whatcom Land Trust, Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association, Whatcom Marine Resources Committee, and Whatcom Conservation District. Discover the efforts of local organizations to enhance water quality and habitat in Whatcom County and learn how you can contribute to these important initiatives.
This event includes:
A moderated panel discussion
Time for questions
Opportunities to socialize
Enjoy complimentary non-alcoholic beverages and hot dogs (with vegetarian options). Alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase at the bar. No RSVP required.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Saddle up and support affordable housing for local families at Habitat for Humanity in Whatcom County’s 22nd Annual Raise the Roof Auction!
This year’s event consists of a week-long online auction that opens to the public on Friday the 13th, followed by an in-person ticketed event at Barnstar Events in Ferndale on Friday, September 20th. Between the live music, great food, games, and 200+ unique raffle items, it’s sure to be a rip-roaring good time!
Dust off your denim and don your favorite cowboy hat – there may even be a prize for best dressed!
Register today to try and lasso the top bid on our variety of auction items; from local goodies to adventurous excursions and more, there’s something for everyone in our online and in-person auctions! Any contribution helps Habitat blaze a trail toward affordable homeownership for Whatcom County families.
Purchase your tickets to the in-person party or register in advance and preview our auction items at auctria.events/GiddyUp
