15 years of winter celebration with Winter Wildlands Alliance Join Discover Your Forest, the local non-profit partner of the Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests and the Crooked River National Grasslands for the 15th Annual Backcountry Film Festival. Produced by the Winter Wildlands Alliance, Backcountry Film Festival is a renowned production featuring professional and grassroots filmmakers…
Five sold out shows and standing O’s! The Sunriver Stars Community Theater (SSCT) opened its sixth season with all five shows sold out and all five receiving standing ovations. Forty five local residents age five to 86 brought their audience to their feet with the production of Oliver, under the direction of Artistic Director Victoria…
(Photo above courtesy of Tower Theatre) This December the Tower Theatre Foundation and Bend Radio Group invite you to Christmas Movie Nights! Join us for holiday laughs, costume contests, seasonal sentiments, a toy drive, and—of course— classic Christmas films. On Friday, December 7 watch nine interwoven holiday stories examine the one emotion that connects us…
This version of Chaucer’s Literary Masterpiece has a large dose of Monty Python styled humor to create a raucous yet educational comedy. You’ll see many of the 14th Century Pilgrims who ventured to Canterbury to visit the shrine of St. Thomas Becket. These pilgrims drift across many centuries, so, among them you’ll meet The Miller,…
Seven actors, a Foley artist, a musical director and a stage manager. Is he Santa Claus? Or is he just some delusional old man? Some people want to believe he is and others want to prove he is not. This seems to be the central theme of Cascade Theatrical Company’s Christmas production of Miracle on…
Piano Sensation brings A Joyful Christmas to Bend on Monday, December 3 Be a part of the holiday concert tradition of the season with Grammy nominated songwriter and piano sensation Jim Brickman as he celebrates A Joyful Christmas at the Tower Theatre. Special guest female vocalist Anne Cochran. Jim Brickman delivers the sounds and spirit…
(Photo above courtesy of BendFilm) 16 Films Received Awards Including Nancy Schwartzman’s Feature Documentary Roll Red Roll Which Won $5,000 for Best In Show BendFilm announced today 16 films and filmmakers awarded jury prizes at the 2018 BendFilm Festival. BendFilm created two new film categories this year to recognize impactful environmental or outdoor adventure focused stories…
(Photo above from Leave No Trace by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini) Granik and Rosellini Awarded Inaugural (indie) Women of the Year Award & 4 Film Retrospective During the 15th annual BendFilm Festival, BendFilm will screen Leave No Trace and Winter’s Bone back-to-back on opening night with an on-stage discussion and award presentation. They announced…
(Photo courtesy of Tower Theatre) Wild Kingdom’s Peter Gros Brings the Jungle to the Tower Theatre On Monday, October 22 at 7:30pm the nonprofit Tower Theatre Foundation presents an evening with Wild Kingdom’s Peter Gros. Peter will share his exciting animal world, and travel tales from Siberia to the Amazon. He highlights his adventures with…
(Photo courtesy of High Desert Community Theater) The High Desert Community Theater Presents! Altar Egos (The I Do’s and Don’ts of an American Wedding). “All we want is a simple wedding,” agree Mark and Colleen as they get engaged. And their simple wedding stays simple, for about two minutes. Then the families get involved. There…
