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The Sanctuary is a playground for creative action and artful living. Housed in the Arcata Women’s Club historic building, the Sanctuary is a space dedicated to making and experiencing art in community. We produce gallery exhibitions, live music, community events, workshops and much more. Our printmaking lab, ceramics studio, food garden, reference library, communal kitchen, general workshop, sewing studio, great hall and stage serve as venues for creative community-building. The Sanctuary is a project of Creative Sanctuary, a 501c3 nonprofit, incorporated September 4, 2015.

10/12/2026

Get your tickets today at sanctuaryarcata.org

10/07/2026

Thanks Compass Carpentry for helping to keep it all rolling!

10/07/2026

In collaboration with Playhouse Arts and City of Arcata, Creative Sanctuary is happy to be curating city hall’s hallway gallery through the end of the fiscal year!

First up is a group show…from the Sanctuary collection or donated pieces. Art by Katie Belknap, Elaine Benjamin, Violet Crabtree, Michael Moskowitz, Lee Mothes, Brooks Otis, Brenda Tuxford, and James Zeller.

All art sale proceeds benefit rebuild efforts of our building so please check it out! If you live locally, City Hall is open Monday through Thursday 9-5 and Friday 9-1. If you live far away, we will be posting the pieces online soon.

If you are interested in exhibiting or donating art for future fundraisers, please reach out!

09/26/2026

Come share a meal, laughs and mobilize to organize and keep our money in the local economy. We can flip the script and prevent the Amazon warehouse from coming to mckinleyville.

Delicious local supper made by Jess and Melinda with the abundant produce donated by Wild Mountain Farm , rain frog farm , Luna Farm , Sun and Fin Farm, and Trident Lightning Farm
Thank you so much!

Yes Jesters! No Amazon!Monday * September 28 * doors and supper 6 pm * show at 6:15 pm Pay what you can $5 or more inclu...
09/24/2026

Yes Jesters! No Amazon!
Monday * September 28 * doors and supper 6 pm * show at 6:15 pm
Pay what you can $5 or more includes soup NOTAFLOF
at the Arcata Playhouse 1251 9th St.

“Yes Jesters! No Amazon” brings community together for an evening that begins with dinner and some Dada-Italo Calvino-clown inspired Cabaret that will eventually end when a public meeting breaks out. There will be a presentation of proposed action items, art and zine making prompts and supplies, group discussions, and room for . All activities will center around what we can do to oppose corporate rule in Humboldt County, in particular, you guessed it, a certain monopolistic megacorporation that wants to build a warehouse in Mckinleyville.

The Cabaret opens… on a stage… an actor is attempting to write a script for a play they hope will inspire a community to come together and defeat, against seemingly impossible odds, an exploitive corporation attempt to build a warehouse in their backyard… and suck the lifeblood from their local economy… but they’ve run out of time… the show is starting…

Expect clowns attempting to explain the economic effects of corporations on local economies, alternate realities where script writers are writing a script about a dangerous giant orange snake, an Amazon version of the board game Monopoly and… whenever our hero struggles with writers block and the play grinds to a halt… expect amazing local poets, singers, and players of instruments to bail the beleagured playwright out… by jumping on stage and performing their own salient-to-the-evenings-theme pieces…

Featuring James Zeller and Katie Belknap with special guest appearances by Jerry Martien, Katy Gurin, Jax and more to be announced.

After about 45 minutes the cast and playwright will begin to wonder what the heck they are doing. They’ll all agree, this is a serious topic and what we need is a public meeting to make some plans. The audience agrees, and as the curtains close, expect a real life public meeting to break out!

09/19/2026

Creative Sanctuary’s Fall Rummage Sale
Saturday 9 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
September 19 & 20
at Arcata Bay Self Storage * 250 E St

Creative Sanctuary is at it again…helping redistribute things and make some scratch for the rebuild efforts. Items will include things culled from all departments from the Sanctuary collections as well as things from the community!

Books, tools, art supplies, furniture, kitchen and household goods, electronics, music equipment, clothing, bedding, lamps galore, toys, board games, and more!

Free pile including lots of packing paper! Super deals on Sunday!

09/02/2026

This Friday September 4th at the Arcata Playhouse! Miles Schmidt’s Sun Up to Sun Down
Tickets at SanctuaryArcata.org

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05/24/2026

Come on down to SALEABRATION @ 250 E St. Arcata Ca. Come see the bargains we have… just show up! Have a good time with good friends and good music and good food!! now we’re going to

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Arcata, CA
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