Mission Statement • Services • Impact • Support
Mission Statement
The Battelle Performing Arts Business Center is dedicated to improving coordination, collaboration, and cooperation among the non-profit performing arts groups of the Mid-Columbia area.

The Center also houses the offices of the Mid-Columbia Symphony and Washington East Opera.

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Services

The Center provides the following services to member groups:

  • Ticket and gift certificate sales
  • Phone line staffed from 8 a.m. through 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday (509.943.ARTS)
  • Meeting space
  • Use of a fax machine (509.946.7917)
  • Use of a photocopy machine
  • Space to display brochures and posters
  • Nominal fee toward use of a bulk mailing permit (optional)
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Impact
The Center opened in June 2002. Now, more than 15 groups are using it as a central location to offer tickets and conduct business. The number of member organizations continues to increase, as word spreads about the convenience of the central location and as the public increasingly contacts the Center expecting it to carry tickets for a wide variety of arts organizations.

Thousands of tickets are sold annually. Staff answer numerous calls about performances and tickets.

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Support
  • Performing arts member organizations do not pay a fee for the services the Center provides.
  • Battelle, which operates Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, generously funds the Center's operation.
  • A grant from the City of Richland also contributes to the Center’s staffing. Students from Columbia Basin College occasionally help staff the Center under a work study program.
  • The Mid-Columbia Symphony operates the Center.
  • Web Site Contributors:
    • Layout and Design: Justin Yonk
    • Art Center logo: Shauna Anderson and Chris DeGraaf
    • Arts Calendar: Fred Mann
    • Map: Melanie Hess-Robinson
    • Photos: Hipolito Velez/Digital Perceptions, Roy Gephart, and arts groups
    • Content and updates: Andrea McMakin and Carma Kimball
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