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🐹 Markets and Murals 🎨🎨
Good morning, Bellingham. This is your Friday update from The Hamster Wheel.
It’s going to be a wet weekend. Possibly VERY wet (some predictions say 1.5 inches, others say 2), so bring your bumbershoot when you’re out on adventures. ☔️
Have fun, and stay safe out there!
Nature, Community, Sasquatch, UAP
Photos From the Hoods
Smoke from the Vancouver Island fire at sunset - 📷 by Duffy Brook
Madrones on Clark Island - 📷 by Jodi Broughton
Beats on the Bay aboard the Zodiac - 📷 by Richard Scott
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Weather Forecast
Friday: 70°F 🌡️ 61°F | 🌩️ Thunderstorms | 🌧️ 98% | 💨 SSE 7 to 17 mph
Saturday: 74°F 🌡️ 59°F | 🌧️ Rain Showers | 🌧️ 77% | 💨 S 5 to 9 mph
Sunday: 73°F 🌡️ 56°F | ⛅ Partly Sunny | 🌧️ 18% | 💨 SW 2 to 6 mph
Moon Phases
Events, Updates & News Around Town
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Art And Community By The Bay
The Noisy Waters Mural Festival is back at Bellingham's Waterfront for a third year of friendly competition in which artists will have three days to paint murals on 8’x’8’ portable walls for the community to enjoy. As an attendee, you get to vote for your favorite mural, and the top three winners will receive cash contracts to paint large murals in Bellingham next year.
This free, family-friendly celebration, produced by local nonprofit Paper Whale, offers more than just murals. Look for live music, a makers market, upcycled fashion shows, DIY spray camps, yoga, bike-powered art tours, kids’ walls, and interactive workshops. All in service of activating underused public spaces with creativity.
It’s going to be drizzly this weekend so pack your light rain gear in your day bag and find your way down to the waterfront. Here’s the full schedule for the festivities.
In other news…
🖼️ It’s another market filled weekend in Whatcom County with at least five options to choose from. Or, heck, hit them all!! 😉
Waterfront Arts Market at Waypoint Park - An opportunity to shop for art, jewelry, pet supplies, textiles, candles, food, and sustainable products. This market is running alongside the Noisy Waters Mural Festival so prepare for congested parking. Sat 2-8 pm.
Blaine’s Market by the Sea - An open-air market sitting on G Street Plaza in Downtown Blaine, featuring an eclectic mix of local produce, handmade crafts, jazzy accessories, handcrafted jewelry, wood crafts and baked goods. Sat 10 am to 2 pm.
Creative Corner Artisan Market - A creative corner artisan market featuring local Whatcom County artists every Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm at 201 E Chestnut Ave Bellingham, WA. This event is free and supports local small businesses and artisans. Sat 10 am to 2 pm.
Local Crafter's Market at Bellis Fair Mall - Hosted by The Cusp Creative, this handmade market will feature up to 30 local vendors offering unique, handcrafted goods. 11 am to 3 pm.
Bellingham Farmers Market - More than just a place to buy fresh produce and hand crafted products. Find a sense of community and gather with friends and family. Sat 10 am to 2 pm.
🍺 All good things must come to an end, but not quite yet for Boundary Bay’s delicious Scotch Ale and a few other favorites. The brewery announced this week, that while the brewery and bistro on Railroad Ave will be closing at the end of September, the beer will live on through a partnership with Black Raven Brewery.
“After carefully exploring all the options we are excited to announce we have chosen to contract brew with Black Raven Brewing and sell a few of our most popular beers in stores, restaurants, and pubs! What that means for our customers is that you will continue to see and be able to purchase Scotch Ale, Cedar Dust IPA, NW Original IPA and select seasonals.”
🦪 Whatcom County Health and Community Services (WCHCS) has announced the second recreational shellfish harvest closure due to elevated biotoxins on the north Whatcom County coastline. This effects all species of molluscan shellfish from Sandy Point north to the Canadian border, including all of Drayton Harbor and Point Roberts.
WCHCS warns that “paralytic shellfish poisoning and other naturally occurring biotoxins are not destroyed by cooking or freezing. Crab meat is not affected, but “crab butter” and crab entrails can harbor biotoxins and should always be discarded.”
Garage & Estate Sales
Your Source For Vintage Can Openers
5218 Filbert Ln, Bow (Fri, Sat, Sun, 10 am)
Wow! Whomever built this collection had an extraordinary eye. It looks like this home is filled with art, Chinese rosewood furniture, jade carvings, and lovely homeware. Plus it’s an excuse for a morning drive to Samish Island. 🥰 map
903 13th St. (Sat, Sun 10 am)
“Everything must go” they say. Well, there’s a lot of cute stuff mixed into everything at the final weekend for this south hill estate sale. map
Bellingham Dockside Market
Seafood From The Salish Sea
The Bellingham Dockside Market is open tomorrow (Saturday), from 10 AM to 2PM at GATE 5 in Squalicum Harbor.
FRESH AT DOCKSIDE
DJ Fish Co
💙(Fresh) King Salmon, 💙(Fresh) Sockeye, 💙(Fresh) Salmon Roe Skeins
Drayton Harbor Oyster Co
💙(Fresh) Pacific oysters, 💙(Fresh) Taylor Shellfish clams and mussels
Fifth Generation Fisheries
💙(Fresh) Fresh troll-caught WA whole king salmon, 💙(Fresh) Fresh troll-caught WA whole Coho salmon
Fish Fed Foods
💙(Fresh) Veggies
Lummi Seafood Market
💙(Fresh) King Salmon, 💙(Fresh) Sockeye, 💙(Fresh) Live Dungeness crab
Slack Tide Fisheries
💙(Fresh) Sockeye, 💙(Fresh) Salmon Roe Skeins
LUNCH AT DOCKSIDE
Drayton Harbor Oyster Co
Grilled Oysters! There’s nothing better 🦪🦪!!
It's the Sweet Things
Bellingham’s own It's the Sweet Things will serve Smoked Salmon Pastries, Dungeness Crab Pastries, Smoked Salmon Spread, and more!
Seashells Coffee Co
Hot coffee and tea beverages, Iced coffee, Lotus, Italian sodas, smoothies, and specialty drinks.
Food & Drink
Hamsters Gotta Eat
Because it’s fun to be a lookie-loo
Crash an Open House
9175 Cornell Creek Road, Glacier (Open Sat 12-2 pm)
Loving this little home in Glacier. The style falls somewhere between mountain cabin, and chalet, with a sweet nestled-in-the-woods vibe. Sounds like it’s currently being used as a short term rental, so no conversion necessary if you’re looking for a income property.
5575 Coquitlam Drive, Blaine (Open Sun 12-2 pm)
Check out this waterside home in Birch Bay Village. You get all the normal amenities associated with the gated community alongside your own 50ft cement dock! Add to that almost 4000 square feet of living area and you’ve got a heck of a home here. 😉 Listing.
Performance Arts This Week
Dance of The Hamsters
A Tourist's Guide to the End of Magic
LIVE ARTS & FILM
New Prospect Theatre
Cabaret | Fri 5:30 pm, Sun 9:00 pm
iDiOM Theater
A Tourist's Guide to the End of Magic | Fri, Sat 7:30 pm
The Upfront Theatre
Various performances.
PARTICIPATORY DANCE
Sunset Silent Disco - Zuanich - Sat 7:30 pm
Salsa Collective - The Majestic - Sun 5:30 pm
Open Floor Movement - Presence Studio - Sun 10:30 am
Family Dance Party - Boom! - Sun 10 am
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Events & Nightlife
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Join the Bellingham Symphony Orchestra for its summer serenade at the Jansen Art Center with a golden hour of music. This imaginative program features members of the BSO String Quartet and friends. Tickets and details.
Flow Motion will be hosting a free yoga class in Pioneer Village at 10:00 am on Sunday. Open to all ages who would be interested. Ages 18 and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. This is the perfect thing to help you Namasta-y healthy and flexible! 🧘♀️ Bring your own mat and water bottle.
A night of circus and spectacle! Vaudevillingham is a monthly community open stage that’s uncurated, unexpected, and UNBELIEVABLE! Every month is a completely new & amazing show. The best part is that you never know what might happen... Axe juggling? Aerial silks on roller skates? A mad-lib singalong? A symphony made purely from conch shell noises? You'll have to show up to find out!
7pm - Family Friendly, All Ages. 9pm - (Almost) Anything Goes, Adult(ish) show. Highlights for this month: The 9pm show features some fantastic burlesque and cabaret acts from local troupes, including Love Handles Burlesque, Cabaret Atelier, & Kali Duality, the performance lead for local band Energy Pyramid). Grab tickets for tonight’s shenanigans.
FRIDAY
Southside Comedy Hour, Corner Taphouse - Jaci Terjeson will be headlining the show, bringing her hilarious stand-up comedy to the stage. Also look for Annie Sutherland, Gib Strange and featuring all the way from Salem, OR, Southside comedy favorite Tony Meyer. The evening is hosted by Nikki Kilpatrick and Venus Comedy. Get ready for a night filled with jokes, stories, and plenty of good vibes. Giggles begin at 8 pm.
Blanchard Auction, Blanchard Community Club - Join community members to raise funds for the restoration of the Blanchard Community Hall. There will be a live and silent auction, appetizers & desserts, and outdoor fun. 6 pm in one of the cutest little communities in the PNW.
SATURDAY
Himalayan Paintings and Cascadian Basketry, It's About Time Cultural Arts Center - On display are seldom shown traditional works by Nepalese artists alongside captivating baskets from the Basket Weavers of the Salish Sea. The paintings embody the warmth and spirituality of Himalayan culture, ranging from intricate Thangka paintings of Deities to delightful depictions of Sherpa village life. Opening event starts at 1 pm.
SPARK in the Park, Squalicum Park Shelter - Spark your curiosity this summer with the SPARK Museum’s series of science pop-ups! These drop-in experiences are free to attend and great for all ages. Craft our own hoop glider and see how far you can fly it. This event will explore the physics of flight with a variety of paper based flight machine activities. Sparks fly from10:30 am to noon.
SUNDAY
Bird Watch & Sketch with Rachel Rothberg, Whatcom Museum Lightcatcher bld. - Join local artist Rachel Rothberg (they/them) for an afternoon of birding and sketching in the neighborhood. Start by observing birds on a short walk in Maritime Heritage Park, then shift gears into a bird anatomy and drawing lesson with taxidermy references from the John M. Edson Hall of Birds Collection. Signup to paint!
Vegan Community Potluck, Squalicum Creek Park - Bellingham VegFest and Elf Sanctuary are teaming up for a vegan potluck focused on community connection. Guests are encouraged to bring a plant-based dish to share (no animal products) and, if possible, their own plate, cup, and utensils to help reduce waste. The evening will include a “Connection Corner” for meeting new friends, a casual music circle for acoustic jamming, and opportunities to learn more about both organizations’ work. Gobble some veg at 1 pm.
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