(Photo | Courtesy of The Environmental Center) Introducing a new experience featuring two weekends of spectacular films from the comfort of home! Check out Mountainfilm’s inspiring program from wherever you are, at a time that works best for you! This year, we’re offering two great programs for you to enjoy. Each program will be available…
Theatre/Film
Cascades Theatrical Company Has Classes & Competitions for All Ages
Miss the arts? We miss you. Here’s a chance to get involved from home. Cascades Theatrical Company is offering online classes and competitions for adults and teens this winter. cascadestheatrical.org
Watch Our Streamed Version of A Christmas Carol Now From Home!
(Photo | Courtesy of Cascades Theatrical Company) Cascades Theatrical Company presents A Christmas Carol. Cozy up by the fire and enjoy this classic holiday story with your family, told through local performers, with our yearly Christmas Production brought to you through Broadway On Demand. Set in a future of societal poverty and pandemic. Follow Ebeneza…
How Should We Wrap Up the Year? Support BendFilm!
(Photo | Courtesy of BendFilm) We need independent film in our community now more than ever. Independent film acts as a voice for artists, visionaries and storytellers to share insight on the world around us. We need documentaries. We need creative storytelling. We need the big screen to show us what we often cannot see…
COVID Transformed the Nutcracker Ballet — Clara’s Tri-Cities Nutcracker Dream
(The Mid-Columbia Ballet in Richland, Washington transformed the classic Nutcracker ballet | Photo courtesy of Mid-Columbia Ballet) The Mid-Columbia Ballet in Richland, Washington, did something truly remarkable this year. Unable to perform their traditional, annual Nutcracker ballet at Richland High School due to the pandemic, they decided to capture the popular holiday story at locations…
Ridgeview High Students Stream It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
(Poster | Courtesy of Ridgeview High School) The drama students at Ridgeview High School have created a socially distanced, masked version of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry. Tickets are available here: bit.ly/3mTOCF8, and those who want to watch can stream the play on demand. The show ran December 11…
We Will Be in the Theater Again
(Photo | Courtesy of BendFilm) Unfortunately, yet necessary, due to Governor Kate Brown’s new COVID-19 mandate, we will be shut down until December 2. As soon as we are open again, we are offering private rentals of the theater for you and your pod with unlimited popcorn for as little as $100! You can book…
Tower Theatre Calls on Community for #GivingTuesday
Tuesday, December 1, the nonprofit Tower Theatre Foundation joins the #GivingTuesday movement — a global day of unity to unleash grassroots generosity, inspire citizen engagement and encourage corporate giving. Money raised December 1 will help make up the nearly $800,000 the Tower has lost in rental revenue and ticket sales since the first COVID shut-down…
BendFilm Urges End-of-Year Giving
2020 will be remembered as the year where uncertainty is the new norm for everyone. It has been a year of challenges and heartache, a year of learning, listening and questioning what needs to change and how we can do better — as individuals, as organizations, as a community. 2020 will also be remembered as…
Coming To AIFF’s Virtual Best of The Fests — The Dilemma of Desire
Ashland Independent Film Festival (AIFF) Best of The Fests virtual film series announces The Dilemma of Desire, presented in collaboration with Ashland’s boutique, As You Like It: Love Revolution. The film will screen on AIFF’s Eventive film channel, accessible from ashlandfilm.org, from November 13-19, and will be accompanied by a Q&A with director Maria Finitzo…