Events

Bainbridge Arts & Crafts is proud to present its annual showcase of Bainbridge Island student art. We're thrilled to celebrate the creative spirit of our local student community, and we hope you'll join us to experience the inspiring work featured in this year's exhibition.

BAC's student art showcase is more than an opportunity to appreciate the artistic talents of our local teens — it's also a moment to lift up and support student artists. At the High School Opening Reception, we will hand out award checks for both the BHS Spring Arts Festival Awards and the BAC Best of Student Show (BOSS) Awards. We’ll also announce this year's two BAC Student Scholarship winners!

Participants of the Middle School show are Sakai Intermediate School, Woodward Middle School, and Commodore Option School students. Participants of the High School show are Bainbridge High School, Eagle Harbor High School, and Hyla High School students.

- Middle Schools Opening Reception: First Friday, May 1, at 4:30 pm.
- High School Opening Reception: Thursday May 28, at 4:30 pm.

Visit Bloedel Reserve's Japanese Garden, Japanese Guest House and don't miss the Ikebana Display, May 9-14.

Bainbridge Arts & Crafts is pleased to participate in the Bainbridge Island Asian Art & Heritage Festival with an exhibition and workshop on the Asian sumi art tradition.

Puget Sound Sumi Artists (PSSA) will exhibit sumi art, both traditional and contemporary, at BAC. Co-founded by the late BAC artist Fumiko Kimura, PSSA members study, practice, and teach Asian art traditions such as ink painting (sumi-e), calligraphy (shodo), and flower arranging (ikebana).

Participating artists in the May BAC exhibit: Sara Blauman, Judy Kalin, Alice Liou, Dorothy Avery Matthews, Heather Rosborough, Mitsuko Toyama

The concert promises to enchant audiences with a repertoire as varied as the season itself. The program features a mix of soaring Broadway classics and high-energy pop hits, highlighting the choir’s versatility. Featured selections include the iconic "Something’s Coming/Tonight" from West Side Story, a zesty performance of "Orange Colored Sky," and a show-stopping rendition of "You Can't Stop the Beat." From the driving rhythm of Elton John’s "I’m Still Standing" to the cinematic "A Million Dreams," the evening offers a musical journey for every listener.

Crescendo! is led by Wendi Olinger, with piano accompaniment by Avery Wong. The choir features over 30 local singers and operates under Ovation! Performing Arts Northwest, a respected Bainbridge-based nonprofit. Admission is free, with donations gratefully accepted to support future programming.

Join us at Red Pine Park to maintain garden beds, the historic fruit orchard, edible perennials, and other historic plantings in this former homestead in the heart of downtown. All levels of garden enthusiasts are welcome!

Please note: there is limited parking available at this park.

Jeffrey Moose Gallery is proud to welcome sculptor Dick Strom and painter Sophie Frieda for our Spring exhibition, April and May 2026. Receptions will be held on First Friday, April 3rd and First Friday, May 1st from 6 to 8 PM. A Facebook Livestream will happen previous to the April event from roughly 5:20-5:40.

Dick Strom was born and raised in West Port Madison on Bainbridge Island, learning welding and metal working as a teenager. His family founded Modern Collision auto repair business in 1974. He attended High School on Bainbridge and then spent three years in the US Marine Corps. His sculptures and commissioned works have graced the Island for decades. Strom works both representationally and abstractly, creating fanciful animals and figures with the same ease as he creates abstract compositions from gears, wheels, chains and just about any type of scrap steel. Most often sited outside, Strom’s sculptures are quite comfortable both in landscape and in homes. Self taught and modest, he often demurs when called an artist.

Sophie Frieda, a classically trained painter of British origin, concentrates on plant life, some local and some tropical. She works primarily in oil on canvas, focusing tightly on foliage and flowers, creating intimate views from the perspective of a rabbit or bird. Her work is refined and precise, created with fine strokes and accurate color yet not cold and photographic. A sort of sympathetic realism thats immediately appealing. Her education includes a BA from Central St Martins college in London and another BA Honors Degree from California College of the Arts

In San Francisco. Her work has been shown at Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, BIMA, Bloedel Reserve as well as in local galleries and is held in collections in the UK, France, Australia, Washington state, California, Texas, D.C. and Connecticut.

For more information, please contact Jeffrey Moose at 360 598 4479 or jmoose@jeffreymoosegallery.com

https://jeffreymoosegallery.com

“Open Mic Science” invites the community to an evening at The Treehouse Café on Bainbridge Island to explore ideas in all aspects of science and technology in an informal, social setting. Talks are held the second Tuesday of every month at 7:00 PM. Enjoy pizza and beer, and stay abreast of current knowledge. Open Mic Science, A Bainbridge Science Café, is based on the principles of Cafe Scientifique and is committed to the public understanding of science.  For May we will be meeting at the Lynwood Theatre.

For May, Dr. Fred Ramsdell will discuss the work that resulted in the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  This will involve  the basic mechanisms by which our immune system responds to pathogens without, in most cases, attacking our own tissues - as well as the implications of this work for the development of a new therapeutic paradigm.

Cultural Futures is a free policy, advocacy, and funding workshop for cultural businesses, organizations, and supporters of any kind, hosted by Inspire Washington. The workshop will focus on what happened during the 2026 Legislative session, upcoming funding and legislative opportunities, and more! Beyond just being informative, Cultural Futures is an open conversation with those who work in the cultural sector, who care about the sector, or who are just curious about what’s happening at the State level in Washington.

Inspire Washington is the state-wide advocacy organization for the cultural sector, promoting the value of science, heritage, and arts programming within every city, town, and hamlet.

Laura and the Blue Revue - live music with Laura Wichman on vocals with guitar and bass.

Opening in May is the Bainbridge History Museum’s newest exhibit – Dearly Departed.

The exhibit explores life, illness, and death on Bainbridge Island between 1900 and 1950. From discussion of early pioneer doctors to the establishment of clinics and medical plans, Dearly Departed documents 50 years of changing conditions on our Island that affected residents throughout their lives. From childbirth to funeral practices, the exhibit addresses difficult living conditions, sparse access to frontier medicine, and Bainbridge Island’s sometimes violent past through the sharing of stories alongside archival evidence.

Join us as we dive into Bainbridge Island’s medical history and discover unexpected causes of death, hazardous working environments, and our Island’s historic cemeteries.

The exhibit will run May - December 2026.

We’ll be open all weekend long to give you a break from the crowds. Speed puzzling on Friday and Music Bingo on Sunday.

Open until 10pm Friday & 11pm Saturday for Viking Fest!

How to play:
- Teams of up to four compete to finish a new puzzle every month, the fastest
- Top two winning teams score a gift card from The Sip plus 1st place team gets 10% off their tab for the night, plus all the glory
- Keep the puzzle when you’re done!

Got a group of 5? Sure – but that’ll cost you 10 extra minutes on your finish time. (Plus a $10 extra player fee).

Tickets on sale now!

Snacking culture in Taiwan is renowned. If you've never had a chance to visit Taiwan, you're missing out on a lot of great xiao chi ("small eats").

Explore some of the instructor's family favorites:

Bubble/boba/pearl milk tea: Milk tea with brown sugar tapioca balls.
Cong you bing (scallion pancakes): Learn a technique for creating layers in these crispy and chewy savory pancakes.
Spicy chili wontons: Learn to wrap pork wontons and craft your own spicy dressing.
Fan tuan (sticky rice roll): Sticky rice wrapped around an egg omelet, pork floss, and a fried donut (the true breakfast of champions).
Smashed cucumber salad: Simple and refreshing, you may start smashing all of your vegetables1

Join the Park District, Bainbridge Island Land Trust, and the BI Parks & Trails Foundation at Grand Forest East this Summer!

Volunteer with us every third Saturday in May, June, or July to help improve the trail system. Projects could include social trail closure, tread work, improving drainage, or pruning back the spring flush.

These work parties are well suited for children ages eight and up who are comfortable using some tools and walking a mile or so throughout the two-hour work party.

Park & Meet at Grand Forest East Trailhead

Free Washi Tape Art Event

Join us at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art's Spring Family Day on May 16, 2026.

From 11am - 2pm, in the upstairs Classroom, people of all ages are invited to drop in and participate in creating a large-scale collaborative artwork using Japanese washi tape – a colorful, expressive medium that is accessible, low-barrier, and joyful to work with.

Artist Melody Maleitzke has designed this community art project to be inclusive, beginner-friendly, and welcoming to all ages and skill levels. She will introduce you to washi tape as a fine art material and guide you in creating individual and collective components of the final piece. You'll also have an opportunity to create a "make and take" washi artwork

Washi Wonder: A Community Tapestry is a community-engaged art project funded by an Arts & Humanities Bainbridge Artist Grant. The final piece will be publicly exhibited during the Bainbridge First Friday Art Walk on June 5, 2026.

Spark your curiosity at Storytime in the Store, happening throughout Family Day!

Experience a mix of wonder, science, and fun during readings by local author and science-communication expert Lynn Brunelle—who Bill Nye describes as “a geek, a lover of science, and its process of discovery. She makes it so fun!” Participants can also dive deeper with a hands-on art activity during the session.

Stop by during any (or all!) of the readings and stay afterwards to meet Brunelle and get a signed copy of her books.

Storytime in the Store is happening at 11 AM and 1 PM! 

Lynn Brunelle brings more than 30 years of experience writing across multiple mediums and making science engaging and accessible for audiences of all ages.

She is a four-time Emmy Award-winning writer for Bill Nye the Science Guy and the author of more than 60 titles, including Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall, illustrated by Jason Chin, which received the 2025 Robert F. Sibert Medal, the Flora Stieglitz Strauss Award, and an Orbis Pictus Honor Award. In addition, she has contributed to NBC’s New Day Northwest, Martha Stewart Radio, NPR’s Science Friday, National Geographic, Sesame Workshop, The Discovery Channel, Disney, and more.

Learn more about Brunelle here.

Follow Brunelle: Facebook | Instagram: @lynnbrunelle

This fun, whirlwind introduction to all things wine, includes the basics of growing grapes, turning grapes into wine, wine types and styles, and understanding wine labels. Then there's storing and pouring wines, the basics of tasting and sensory evaluation, wine faults to look out for, and busting the top wine myths.

Taste a selection of eight wines from around the world to better understand key principles.

Gain a better understanding of wine - principle styles, how different types are made - as well as practical knowledge about selecting, storing, opening, pouring, and tasting it. Bring your questions and an open mind, and get ready to take your enjoyment of wine to the next level!

Connect with your neighbors and celebrate culture at this Melanesian and Pacific Islander gathering! This community-led event will feature a mix of storytelling, creative expression, and cultural sharing from local Melanesian and Pacific Islander voices. All are welcome to the celebration!

Pacific Island Melanesian Events

Explore the living traditions of Melanesia through an evening of storytelling, visual art, and dance. Melanesian cultures and kastom are among the world’s oldest continuously practiced Indigenous cultures, with roots extending back tens of thousands of years and remaining alive today.

This program highlights cultural expressions from Fiji, Vanuatu, and West Papua, sharing how ancestral knowledge continues to shape contemporary life.

Guests will experience:

Stori Telling – Oral storytelling that carries personal and ancestral knowledge.

Sand Drawing (Vanuatu) – Symbolic designs traced in sand, mapping story, kinship, and connection to land.

Fiji Lewa Dance – A joyful expression of Fijian identity and relationship to vanua.

West Papuan Dance – Movement that carries cultural memory, resilience, and sovereignty.

Organizations Involved: Melanesian Women Today (MWT), Fiji Women Association of Washington (FWAOW), and West Papua Campaign US (WPCUSA)

Experience the intimate stories of the Indipino, Filipino, and Indigenous berry pickers during this film screening and panel discussion. From the camps and cabins they lived in to where they came from and their relationships, these stories shaped generations of these communities.

A shokado bento box is designed to tell a story. In this class, we'll use ingredients and flavors that reflect the Japanese immigration experience here in the Pacific Northwest and the ancient washoku food traditions that traveled the world with those Nikkei wherever they settled.

Our May menu includes Japanese classics, plus flavors and ingredients significant to Bainbridge Island’s Japanese history. Salmon, strawberries, cherry blossoms, and a yakitori-style teriyaki sauce all make an appearance.

Practical techniques include rolling a Japanese omelette, folding Filipino lumpia, making onigiri, and cutting decorative spring vegetables. As in all proper shokado bento boxes, we'll experience all five cooking methods of traditional Japanese cuisine: yakimono, agemono, mushimono, nimono, and namamono.

On the menu

Teriyaki chicken
Cherry blossom onigiri (rice balls)
Dashimaki (delicate rolled omelets)
Lumpia (pork and cabbage spring rolls)
Salmon Inarizushi (stuffed aburaage pockets)
Seasonal bento vegetables and pickles

Local Asian American artists, authors, poets, and performers take center stage to share pieces from Their Story, Their Glory, and Their Struggle. Presented as a series of 10-minute vignettes, the performances offer a range of personal narratives and perspectives, inviting audiences to listen, reflect, and engage with stories drawn from lived experience and shared with the community.

Recommended contribution of $20.