Hello Bird Lovers, This year’s CBC (Christmas Bird Count) on Cortes Island is planned for Sunday, December 17, 2023. Please mark your calendars and watch for more announcements. This date may change if the weather is not cooperating. We are planning … Continued
Category 2 and Category 3 open fire ban effective 12 p.m. (PDT) on Thursday, May 18, 2023 Check this BC Government site for more information.
Everyone is welcome to help us celebrate new exhibition – Wayfinding: Stories of Maps and Place – opening on Sunday, March 26, at the Cortes Island Museum, Main Gallery, 957 Beasley Road, starting at 1 p.m. Listen to Roy Hales … Continued
My name is Meinsje. I live and work on Cortes Island as an independent artist in many disciplines. My art education is best described as autodidact, self-taught, selecting myself the courses I felt were needed in my development as an … Continued
Wednesday, August 11, 7:30 pm, The Courtyard, Marnie’s Book Bring a folding chair! Marnie’s Books and Cortes Island Museum invite you for a book launch: Brian Hayden– The Eyes of Leopard Katie Welch – Mad Honey The Eyes of the Leopard is … Continued
Cortes Island Museum and Marnie’s Books invite you to Oriane Lee’s book launch, The Geography of Belonging. A Love Story, on Wednesday, August 3, 7 pm, in the Museum’s Heritage Garden. Event is free. Donations gratefully appreciated. Refreshments will be … Continued
IS THERE HOPE FOR BEES? Manson’s Hall, Sunday, July 31, talk starts at 7:30 pm The Cortes Island Museum invites you to learn about the latest important scientific discovery: The positive impact of mushrooms on the health of honey bees. Join … Continued
Join Kathleen in the Heritage Garden of the Cortes Island Museum. 957 Beasley Road, one block up the hill from Manson’s Hall. Bring a picnic and your artistic mood. I am an artist on Cortes Island. I am a … Continued
Sail from Cortes Island back into an earlier era in Desolation Sound on interpretive voyages aboard the schooner Misty Isles. Famous for its spectacular mountains and fjords, much of Desolation Sound is designated as a marine park and is … Continued
