Who We Are

The Columbia Theatre Association for the Performing Arts is a non-profit organization that operates the Columbia Theatre, an architecturally significant 1925 historic venue restored by the citizens of Cowlitz County.

Our Mission

The mission of the Columbia Theatre Association for the Performing Arts is to enrich and celebrate the cultural life of the community through the performing arts and to provide leadership in the preservation of its historic theatre.

Our Vision

To be a gathering place that builds community by providing diverse programming, arts education, and a venue for artists.

Core Values

Enrichment - Bringing the arts to people’s lives.

Engagement – Fostering a diverse connected community.

Lifelong Learning – Appreciation and education of the arts.

Preservation – Caring for our beloved 1925 theatre.

Stewardship – Effectively planning and managing resources through governance.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Columbia Theatre Association acknowledges, with humility, that the land it occupies is the ancestral homeland of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and the Peoples of the Lower Columbia Valley, whose lands were taken but whose cultural claim as stewards of these lands and waters endures, as it has for generations.