The Music Department has both instrumental and vocal performance groups and encourages participation in both for music and non-music majors. Students have opportunities to perform and tour locally as well as internationally. The Clackamas Print is the CCC weekly paper. It is written, edited, and produced entirely by students. Students involved in The Print can receive transferable credit for their work.
Editors receive tuition waivers.
The magazine features student winners of the annual Writers' Club contest. In fall 1998, Synesthesia was awarded second place by the American Scholastic Press Association. The Banyan Quarterly is an interdisciplinary, campus-wide scholarly electronic journal highlighting faculty nominated student essays of exceptional scholarly value or artistic merit. The Theater Department produces one full-length play and several student theater projects each term. Workshop-type courses focus on the production of live theater for public performance, and everyone in the community is welcome to participate.