The Campaign for the Wild Rivers Performing Arts and Civic Center
Built to Protect. Designed to Connect.
A once in a generation investment in students, community, resilience, and opportunity across the Wild Rivers Coast.
Building Momentum Together
The vision is no longer just an idea. Thanks to the leadership of early supporters, years of planning, feasibility studies, architectural design, and regional collaboration have brought the Wild Rivers Performing Arts and Civic Center closer than ever to becoming a reality.
$
70,000,000Campaign Goal
$
6,000,000Secured to Date
ROOTED IN PARTNERSHIP
Honoring Culture. Building Together.
The Center stands on the ancestral and unceded homelands of the Tolowa people.
From the beginning, the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation, Elk Valley Rancheria, and Yurok Tribe have helped shape this vision.
Their voices continue to influence the Center’s design, programming, governance, and long term future.
Together, we are creating a place where Indigenous culture, storytelling, performance, and education are celebrated as an essential part of the region’s identity.
Because the future we’re building belongs to every generation.
WHY NOW
Ready to Move Forward
This campaign is no longer asking people to believe in a dream.
It’s inviting people to help finish what’s already underway.
- Design work under final review.
- Independent feasibility study is complete.
- Regional partnerships continue to grow.
- $6 million has already been secured.
- Governance agreements are signed.
Every milestone brings the project one step closer to construction and opening day.
The time to build is now.
COMMUNITY SUPPORT
A Vision Shared by the Region
Community surveys show overwhelming support for the Center.
87
%
Believe the project is very or extremely important.
97
%
Would attend performances and events.
The Center reflects what happens when educators, Tribal nations, businesses, local governments, nonprofits, and residents unite around one shared vision.
Our Community.
Our Future.
LEGACY CLUB
What Will Be Your Legacy?
Every generation has the opportunity to shape the future. The Legacy Club is a special group of supporters who are investing in arts, education, and community by helping bring the Wild Rivers Performing Arts and Civic Center to life.
By committing $1,000 annually for 10 years (approximately $83 per month), Legacy Club members provide the long-term foundation needed to create a place where students discover their potential, artists inspire audiences, and the community comes together for generations to come.
A Shared Commitment
Our goal is to bring together 100 Legacy Club members who each pledge a minimum of $1,000 annually for 10 years. Together, those commitments will provide $1 million to help build the Center and strengthen its long-term financial sustainability.
Why Join the Legacy Club?
- Create a lasting legacy. Your investment will benefit students, families, artists, and our community for decades to come.
- Choose your impact. Direct your pledge toward construction costs today or future debt reduction to strengthen the Center’s long-term financial stability.
- Give with confidence. Legacy Club gifts are held in a restricted fund and managed with careful financial oversight to ensure they are used as intended.
- Be recognized. Legacy Club members will receive permanent recognition in the Performing Arts and Civic Center as founding supporters of this transformational project.
Leave Something That Lasts
The greatest legacies are measured not by what we leave behind, but by the opportunities we create for others. Your Legacy Club commitment is an investment in future generations and a lasting gift to the Wild Rivers Coast.
Become a Legacy Club member and help shape our community’s future.
BUILT TO PROTECT
Preparedness Isn’t Optional
Life on the Wild Rivers Coast means planning for the unexpected.
Located outside the tsunami zone, the Center has been intentionally designed to strengthen regional resilience.
In addition to performances and community events, the facility will support:
- Emergency communications
- Public information meetings
- Disaster coordination
- Resource distribution
- Community response
When not serving as a performing arts venue, the Center will serve as critical civic infrastructure, helping communities stay connected when it matters most.
Room to Grow
Completing What’s Been Missing
The Wild Rivers Coast has never lacked places where community happens.
Our school stages, community halls, outdoor venues, and gathering spaces have served generations of performances, celebrations, and civic events—and they will continue to do so.
What our region has never had is a professional quality indoor venue large enough to match what our students, performers, and community have grown into.
Many touring productions bypass the region.
Students perform in spaces never designed to showcase their talent.
Families travel hours to experience performances that should be available close to home.
The Center doesn’t replace what already works.
It fills the one gap our community has long recognized as missing.
Our students deserve opportunities that most other communities take for granted.
The Center will provide professional quality spaces for:
- Music
- Theater
- Dance
- Speech & Debate
- Poetry & Spoken Word
- Educational workshops
- Guest artists
- Career exploration
- School assemblies
- Graduation ceremonies
But this story didn’t begin with a building.
For years, Partnership for the Performing Arts has invested directly in students through instrument donations, educational partnerships, youth leadership opportunities, scholarships, and nationally recognized music programs.
The Center simply allows those opportunities to grow.
Imagine what’s possible when students finally have a stage where every voice, every talent, and every dream has the opportunity to shine.
SERVING THE WILD RIVERS COAST
More Than a Crescent City Project
The Wild Rivers Performing Arts and Civic Center is designed to serve communities throughout Del Norte County, Curry County, and neighboring Tribal nations.
From Crescent City to Brookings…
From Smith River to Gold Beach…
From the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation to the Yurok Reservation…
The Center will serve more than 50,000 residents, while welcoming visitors throughout Northern California and Southern Oregon.
This is a regional investment with regional impact.
Every Gift Builds Opportunity.
The Wild Rivers Performing Arts and Civic Center represents more than a building.
It represents opportunity.
Connection.
Education.
Resilience.
Arts.
Culture.
Community.
Together, we’re creating a place where future generations will gather, perform, learn, celebrate, and thrive.
