Action Alert for week of Feb. 25, 2026

Funding arts and reading programs.

For quick and easy action you can take, visit inspirationleague.org/advocate.

HUMANITIES WA'S PRIME TIME FAMILY READING PROGRAM: Support Humanities WA’s Prime Time Family Reading program by sending a message to your Representatives: click here

ARTSWA GRANT FUNDS: The Governor’s budget proposed a $600K reduction in ArtsWA’s grant program. The Senate proposed cutting the funds by $300K while the House’s budget maintains ArtsWA’s funding level.

Click to send a letter to your Senator asking them to eliminate the cuts to ArtsWA’s grants program AND click to send a letter to your Representatives thanking them for restoring ArtsWA’s grants budget.

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Did you know that some of the most delicious coffee you can find locally is funding the building of a medical center in rural Africa? RichlandHub Coffee Roasters works directly with cooperatives and small-scale coffee farmers in Africa, ensuring they receive a fair and stable income. With all profits returning to the place the coffee comes from, RichlandHub is more than just a place to buy coffee - it's a community working together to make a difference.

🗺️ Visit them at RichlandHub.com | Instagram | Facebook

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🎉 This episode also celebrates the Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce

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Muralist Ana Gabriela (Ana the Artist) shares her journey from photography and portrait work to creating large-scale public art and murals across Southwest Washington. In this episode, she talks about what it takes to paint at such a large scale, build a sustainable career, and use public art to create connection, dignity, and beauty in shared spaces.

🗺️ Visit her at anatheartist.net

• Instagram
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Or see her murals in in person at all around the county

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🎉 This episode also celebrates:

• Hill Kent
• Michael Walker
• Vancouver Downtown Association
• Jennifer Williams
• Open Studios

This episode is sponsored by Oregon Children's Theatre's Summer Camp. Learn more here!

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Meaningful Movies inspires audiences to take civic action towards justice and peace. Through open discussion, the organization’s branches across the nation are changing the world for the better. The Ridgefield branch brings this connection to its own community (and hopefully beyond, too!), inspiring local audiences and high school students to make change for good right in their own backyards.

🗺️ Visit them at:

• Meaningfulmovies.org
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Or come to a showing at Old Liberty Theater, 115 N Main Ave, Ridgefield, WA, 98642

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🎉 This episode also celebrates:

• Old Liberty Theater / Seasons Coffee
• Ridgefield Multicultural Initiative
• Front Porch Books
• Unite Ridgefield, High School Club
• Pacific Island Community of Oregon / NW

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Are you ready to get loud? Arts, Heritage, and Science Week happens every February, and you’re invited. Inspire WA hosts constituents from every district in the state to go to Olympia to advocate for arts, heritage, and science. Adriana’s heading to the capitol on Wednesday, but before she goes, she’s giving us an overview of some of the important bills to keep an eye on during this legislative session, including the WAVE Act, a new bill to support public radio and media called HB 2579, and tax bill SB 5814. Can’t make it to Olympia? You can still make your voice heard. Let’s go!

Resources:

• Join us in Olympia for Arts, Heritage and Science Week
• Sign up for Inspire Washington’s Inspiration League
• Sign up for news from ArtsWA
• The WAVE Act 1-sheet
• Tax Bill SB5814 Resources and Information
• HB2579 Promoting and funding public media and digital equity
• Comment on HB2579
• Advocate resources to use during the legislative session & 2026 Legislative Session Cultural Agenda including bills related to SB5184
• Arts WA FY2027 Budget Requests 1-sheet
• Washington State Historical Society 1-sheet
• Register your pro/con vote on state bills.
• Click here to leave public comment on a bill

Find more on the episode page.

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What keeps people coming back to a local theater year after year? Adriana sits down backstage at Magenta Theater in downtown Vancouver with Managing Artistic Director Caleb Bourgeois to talk about community, creativity, and the quiet magic of live performance. It’s a conversation about belonging, collaboration, and why theater still matters - especially now.

🗺️ Visit them at Instagram | Facebook | magentatheater.com

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🎉 This episode also celebrates Syrup Trap.

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Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Beth Harrington has spent decades telling true stories. But why does she choose the subjects she does? What does it mean to live with a story for over 10 years, wondering if it'll ever be seen by the light of day? And why is independent documentary filmmaking at such a difficult crossroads? Our conversation about artists who focus on the past uncovers what's going on in the present and what we can hope for in the future.

🗺️ Visit her at bethharrington.com | ourmrmatsura.com | Instagram | Facebook

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🎉 This episode also celebrates:

• Okanogan County Historical Society
• ArtsHub
• Husubis’ Poke Shop
• Brian Tashima
• Kiggins Theatre

You can see an exhibit of Frank Matsura’s work at the Japanese American Museum of Oregon through February 8, 2026.

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Sharon Svec was a dancer who was told she couldn't dance any more. Instead of letting that shut down her artistic life, she discovered a way to make 2-D visual art that could move like a dancer did. And her world cracked wide open. She became a textile artist making enormous prints with solar dye, embraced her Roma background, and discovered a passion in curation where she turns "silos into a conversation and into a community."

🗺️ Visit her at smsvec.com | Instagram

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🎉 This episode also celebrates:

• Erin Dengerink
• Jason Litts
• Sarah Lynn Hunter
• Chas Martin
• Art at the Cave
• Aqua Gallery
• Corridor Gallery

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