The world’s only film festival dedicated to mushrooms and molds – The Fungi Film Fest (FFF) – has announced the premiere dates and 20-film program for its 2024 incarnation. This year the FFF will feature works representing 17 countries, including Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Poland, India, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, and USA. With a total…

(Photo courtesy of CMNW) Chamber Music Northwest (CMNW) is proud to present Dover Quartet for a concert featuring string quartets by Mendelssohn and Dvořák, and a much-anticipated new work by Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate at 7:30pm on Saturday, November 23 at The Old Church. For this concert, violinist Jonathan Ong will join Dover Quartet members Bryan…

(Rose Covert’s “Elemental Connections” is a site-specific installation in the 2024–26 Gallery Without Walls rotating exhibition in Lake Oswego) The City of Lake Oswego invites artist submissions of up to three works of art per artist to be considered for outdoor public display in Lake Oswego’s nationally recognized outdoor Gallery Without Walls rotating collection. In…

(Photo and graphic courtesy of Sunriver Music Festival) Violinist Aaron Meyer’s “Concert Rock” style of performance blends his classical training with a passion for rock music. Inspired by a fusion of classical and rock, Aaron’s music features arrangements from Vivaldi to Led Zeppelin; Aerosmith to Wieniawski; and Mozart to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. A student of…

Oregon Poet Laureate Ellen Waterston will present from her forthcoming book, We Could Die Doing This: Dispatches on Ageing from Oregon’s Outback, at Paulina Springs Books in Sisters on Thursday, November 14 at 6:30pm. She will also read a selection of new poems and from her books of poetry including Via Lactea: A Woman of a…

((L-R) Reinaldo Alcazar, Brent Walters and Charity Riley. Artwork by Lisa Alcazar-Hagen) It was a destined partnership, and when Reinaldo Alcazar entered the Bend Latino Community Association (LCA) at the end of 2022, holding a box of the highly coveted Inglés Sin Barreras (English without barriers: A once coveted English as a Second Language curriculum…