The following was submitted by Orcas Center

Our 2013 Membership Drive theme reflects your importance to Orcas Center and the arts in our island community. With your support, everything on our island rises a little higher and shines a little brighter. With your help, every gallery event and on-stage and on-screen event becomes an intergalactic celebration of the arts and culture, with you as its star.

Your membership does many essential things for our center. You can provide a major source of operating funds for Orcas Center arts programming, keep ticket prices affordable for everyone, and support the maintenance of our facility.

Dedication, hard work and an enthusiastic base of support brought this art center to life, and built it into the fantastic community treasure it is today. In the face of the difficult economy, attendance, memberships and event sponsorships are down. We need everyone’s help to continue to produce the range and quality of events and programs you have come to expect.

We are a venue for: our youth to perform on stage and to display their art, the Orcas Choral Society, Orcas Horns, The Olga Symphony, Orcas A Capella Choir, The Orcas Island Community Band and the many talented dancers, singers, musicians and actors who live on our island. Crossroads Lecture Series, as well as many community organizations, use our facility as a classroom, meeting place, venue for fundraising and non-Orcas Center sponsored events.

Memberships are always available online at www.orcascenter.org, in the Orcas Center Box Office and at the membership table in the lobby before performances. Individual memberships begin at $25.  Please join or renew today and “Join our Cast of Stars” to keep the arts alive and well on our island!