Become an essential Culture Tour stop!

Each year, the public is invited to explore and enjoy studios, galleries, museums, events and more through the free, self-directed Columbia Basin Culture Tour. We invite you to become one of the essential stops!
This year, the tour takes place:
- August 9 and 10, 2025
- 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.
Register now if you’re an artist, or an organization or venue focused on arts, culture and heritage, anywhere in the Columbia Basin. Your venue will receive a listing in the 2025 Culture Tour brochure, a profile on our website and a social media spotlight; our tour promotions help you extend the reach of your cultural practice!
Ensure your spot now:
- Early bird rate ($50): register by March 23, 2025.
- Regular rate ($60): register by March 31, 2025.
View venue terms and conditions here.
NEW THIS YEAR!
There will be one-step registration. Therefore, prepare to have all your information and photos on hand when you register. If need be, you can adjust your information up until the registration deadline of March 31, 2025.
We heard your feedback! We’re shortening the tour days by one hour. Instead of being open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the 2025 venues will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Think about these questions before you register
- In small towns or rural areas, it may be hard to draw the public to your more isolated location. Should you collaborate with other artists to create one venue in a central hub?
- Note: If each artist registers separately, you each get your own listing—simply make sure the venue location information remains the same for everyone. If you register as one collective venue, you get one listing in the Culture Tour brochure and website.
- Alternately, do you want to be a venue of your own?
- Where will your venue (individual or collective) take place?
- It can be on your own property, such as your workshop or studio.
- Or you can hold your event at a location like a community hall, gallery, library or café (with its permission, of course).
- Which choice is best for you and would interest the public the most?
- If your location is open regularly to the public, how can you make the weekend special so that people have a reason to check it out during the Culture Tour?
To prepare the best venue, read the following before you register
For more information, contact [email protected] or 250-352-2421.