Raymond Conners · The Agency Bainbridge Island

The Week Ahead
with Raymond Conners

Every Sunday, I put together a digest of real, verified community events across the three regions I know best, Bainbridge Island, the rest of Kitsap, and Gig Harbor. Not aggregated listings. Not sponsored noise. Just the events I think are worth your time, described the way I'd describe them to a friend.

New digests published every Sunday for the week ahead

Current Issue

May 11–17, 2026

This week: AAPI Cultural Days at BIMA with The Agency Bainbridge Island as presenting sponsor, Viking Fest in Poulsbo, the Virginia V arriving in Gig Harbor, and much more.

Bainbridge Island

The Week Ahead on Bainbridge Island

May 11–17, 2026

6 events AAPI Cultural Days TABI Sponsor

There is a quality to early May on Bainbridge Island that I find genuinely hard to describe to anyone who hasn't stood here watching the morning ferry pull away from the dock with the Olympic foothills just beginning to catch light behind it. This week, the island's cultural calendar is as full and generous as I've seen it in years, and I'm especially proud that The Agency Bainbridge Island is the presenting community sponsor of BIMA's AAPI Cultural Days.

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Rest of Kitsap

The Week Ahead in Kitsap

May 11–17, 2026

5 events Viking Fest Admiral Theatre

Here's the thing about Kitsap County that I try to convey to every buyer who tells me they're considering "somewhere on the peninsula", it is not one place. This week, that story is dominated by something extraordinary happening in Poulsbo: Viking Fest, the beloved annual celebration of the city's Norwegian heritage, returns for its traditional mid-May weekend and fills downtown with a level of joyful, chaotic, deeply genuine community spirit that I do not think you can find anywhere else in Washington State.

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Gig Harbor

The Week Ahead in Gig Harbor

May 11–17, 2026

5 events Virginia V Beer Festival

I have a particular affection for Gig Harbor that I suspect anyone who has spent real time there will understand. It is a harbor town in the most complete sense of that phrase, water-centered, community-rooted, genuinely proud of its history without being sentimental about it. This week, the Harbor History Museum hosts two extraordinary maritime programming days, Gig Harbor High School closes its run of Into the Woods, and the 15th Annual Beer & Cider Festival returns to Uptown.

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About This Series

Why I write these digests

I've been practicing real estate on Bainbridge Island and across Kitsap for years, and one thing I've come to believe completely: you don't really know a community until you know what it does on a Saturday afternoon. The restaurants and the hiking trails matter, but so does the farmers market that's been running since April, the theater that stages Sondheim with genuine ambition, and the museum that takes its maritime history seriously enough to restore a 19th-century rowing gig.

These digests are my attempt to share what I know about these three regions as someone who lives and works here, not as a marketing exercise, but because I genuinely think the communities I serve deserve better coverage than an event aggregator can give them. Every event I write about is verified. Every event has a real source. When something can't be confirmed, I don't include it.

My office hosts the First Friday Art Walk every month at 168 Winslow Way W on Bainbridge Island, free, open to all, 5–8 PM, with rotating local art. Come by and say hello.

New digests published every Sunday · Bainbridge · Kitsap · Gig Harbor

Connect

Ready to make one of these your community?

Whether you're drawn to the ferry life of Bainbridge, the heritage festivals of Poulsbo, or the harbor mornings of Gig Harbor, I'd love to help you find the right fit. Let's start a conversation.

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