(Permanent Exhibit | Photo Courtesy The Museum at Warm Springs) The Museum at Warm Springs has begun its 2023 year-end fundraising campaign, capping off its 30th anniversary. The Museum’s 2023 successes included: A “Spring Clean-Up Day” at The Museum on March 18 that drew more than 150 enthusiastic Museum Members, Warm Springs Tribal members, Board…
(Photo by Nathan Bang on Unsplash ) The Bend Food Project’s founders, Sue and Larry Marceaux, announced today that the Bend Food Project will donate $23,243.17 to The Giving Plate’s Kids Korner program. The money was raised at the October 2023 quilt sale organized by local quilters Sandra Henderson and Judy Johnson in collaboration with…
(Photo courtesy of The Suttle Lodge) Tickets are now on sale for the fifth annual Suttle Lodge Winter Beer Festival, taking place Friday, February 23 through Sunday February 25, 2024, benefitting CASA of Central Oregon. Set under the snow dusted pines in the Deschutes National Forest, on the shore of Suttle Lake, The Suttle Lodge…
(Previous Brewfest crowd | Photo courtesy of Old Mill District) Here’s an early Christmas gift for craft beer lovers in Central Oregon and beyond. The Bend Brewfest is set to return to the Hayden Homes Amphitheater October 3-5, 2024. “The Bend Brewfest is back home,” said Beau Eastes, the Old Mill District’s marketing director. “We’re…
The Queen’s Cartoonists Live music and vintage cartoons! Presented by Tower Theatre Foundation Saturday, December 16 at 2pm These charismatic and comedic musicians perfectly synchronize soundtracks and sound effects to half a dozen festive animated short films. Holiday Hurrah includes an interactive game show plus the band’s take on the bizarre featurette Santa Claus Conquers…
(Photo by Todd Carey) Andy Warhol’s Endangered Species Exhibition OPEN at the Museum The much-anticipated exhibition Andy Warhol’s Endangered Species: From the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is officially open at the Museum! A key component of the Museum’s yearlong recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, Andy…
((Left) Oregon jewels by Karla Proud, (right) Snow Falling by Marjorie Cossairt) Let’s face it. We already have plenty of stuff. We don’t need more gloves, or slippers, or robes! We want something unique — good stuff that no one else has! We want the Gift of Art! Let your shopping be a joy at…
((L-R) Spencer Knight, Kurt Fisk, Hunter Dahlberg, Mark Manley, Heather Higgins, Anton Yakushev, Joe Elliott | Photo taken by Kat Yakushev) In mid-September of this year, a blacksmithing workshop was held for the purpose of teaching and honing in skills, as well as creating a life-sized, steel sculpture of an eagle in flight. The two…
((Left) Journal page by Jacqueline Newbold, (right) Orvieto by Jacqueline Newbold) For Jacqueline Newbold, a watercolor and mixed media artist, adapting to the social distancing of the COVID-19 pandemic meant reviving her interest in a childhood hobby: bird watching. On trips to locales such as Mexico and South Africa, she was inspired to paint tje…
(Author Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts, whose book Black Joy will be the focus of community-wide discussion groups, is providing the COCC Season of Nonviolence keynote on February 20 | Photo courtesy of COCC) Central Oregon Community College’s (COCC) 16th annual Season of Nonviolence — held mid-January through early April — will feature an engaging lineup of…
