COVID-19 POLICY

★ OUR COVID POLICY AS OF mar 1, 2022 ★

Amended covid policy: In accordance with updated state mandates, proof of vaccination or negative tests will no longer be required starting March 1, 2022. Masks will no longer be required starting March 12, 2022, but are strongly encouraged indoors. These policies may be modified based on updated state and county health department guidelines.

★ HVAC SYSTEM ★ 

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The WICA Staff and Board of Directors are working hard and earnestly exploring new ways for us to produce, present, and support exceptional works that celebrate our community’s artistic excellence. And, at the heart of every conversation and every decision, is a singular focus on your experience and safety.

Be assured that the fundamentals of your experience will be the same as they always have been: we will gather together, we will be energized by the connection between artist and audience, we will share a collective thought or emotion, and we will give thanks through our applause.

What will be different is how we navigate once familiar exterior and interior spaces, recognize old friends, and create a sense of community and intimacy while we follow public health guidelines.

SAFETY AND CLEANING

We have developed a Health and Safety Manual that follows the COVID-19 cleaning procedures and protocols recommended by national and regional public health guidelines and adheres to federal safety standards.

 
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.