Explore . Discover . Create . Play . All ages of wonder welcome at Folk Fest on Orcas Island!
Registration is Open for Day and Overnight Activities
Salish Sea Folk Arts Fest
Come learn heritage skills, celebrate PNW folk arts, and enjoy the beauty of Moran State Park. Hands-on learning workshops are May 17-18 and the pop-up Makers Village Festival and concerts are May 18th.
Saturday festival, workshops, and evening fireside dinner and concert!
Folk Fest Features
Hands-on Workshops
Day Pass & Registration
Day Pass & Registration
2-3 hr sessions with experts, Friday and Saturday morning and afternoon.
Day Pass & Registration
Day Pass & Registration
Day Pass & Registration
Purchase tickets for festival, workshops, and parking passes (required).
Meals & Lodging
Day Pass & Registration
Meals & Lodging
Ala carte meal options to select for 1 or 2 days. Private or shared bunkhouse cabins.
2024 Salish Sea Folk Arts Festival at Moran State Park
World Music . Hands on Workshops . Heritage Artisan Crafts Festival . Folk Dances . Food & Fun
Come celebrate the Salish Sea through folk music, dance, hands-on artisan crafts, poetry and nature walks at Moran State Park on Orcas Island. Enjoy great music, study with a master maker, learn a new dance, try your hand at a new instrument – or bring your own! Two days of festive activities offer something for all ages at this pop-up Makers Village of artisans and performers. Nature trails, waterfall, and lake activities nearby.
Stroll the Festival. Join a workshop. Take part in group music, poetry and dance events.
See demonstrations and try your hand at blacksmithing, printmaking, ceramics, wildcrafting, wood carving, fiber arts, drumming, singing and string instruments. Gain folk skills from food preservation and herbalism to boat and timber building, or welding to spinning to instrument making. And enjoy being surrounded by the forest, mountains, and Salish Sea in the Folk Festival Community.
October 2023 at Camp Moran
Mushroom Discoveries
Mushroom and lichen gathering and dyeing retreat with Alissa Allen of Mycopigments
Wonder Camp at the 2023 Imagine Music & Arts Festival
Wonder Camp was a key sponsor for Imagine Music & Arts Festival Sept 8-10 at Doe Bay Resort
Four great Wonder Camp instructors joined the Imagine Festival to offer classes featuring hands-on music, writing and visual arts experiences. Located at the Doe Bay Resort on the east side of Orcas Island, Imagine is an annual festival of music, arts and wellness experiences with lodging options.
Free Classes for Imagine Festival Goers of all Ages
Folks registered for the Imagine Festival were welcome to join in these free classes to make and play a Didgeridoo, explore writing and painting in Journaling the Journey, enjoy island flowers and watercolor Still Life Painting, try wildcrafted Botanical Banner printing, and check out handcrafted Blacksmithing.