Tickets are on sale now for our 2024 Theater in the Park Showing of Mamma Mia! For over ten years, Theater in the Park has put on performances in Drake Park, such as La Cage Aux Folles, Into The Woods, Spamalot and last year’s moving performance of Rent. We can’t wait to welcome you and share…
Maragas Winery Partners with NeighborImpact to Raise Funds for Central Oregon’s Food Bank
For over a decade, Maragas Winery has been raising food and money for NeighborImpact during their holiday season events. This year, Doug Maragas, winemaker, has expressed increased concern over the lack of food for many people in Central Oregon. He stated “just after Thanksgiving, I spoke with Scott Cooper, director at Neighbor Impact. He gave…
Tower Theatre Foundation Announces Central Oregon A Cappella Festival
(Deke Sharon | Photo courtesy of Tower Theatre) The nonprofit Tower Theatre Foundation announced their 2024 Central Oregon A Cappella Festival will take place Saturday and Sunday, February 24-25, 2024. The festival will move to a new destination this year, the Homestead Ballroom at Sunriver Resort. On Saturday, attendees can participate in a masterclass workshop,…
Rock Violinist Aaron Meyer Returns to Sunriver’s Three Rivers School
(Aaron Meyer and kids | Photo courtesy of Sunriver Music Festival) Concert Rock Violinist Aaron Meyer spent all day on December 5 conducting educational performances at Bend-La Pine School District’s Three Rivers School for every single student. Aaron has worked with Three Rivers students multiple times over the past 20+ years through Sunriver Music Festival’s…
RACO Pottery Show & Sale
(Pottery by RACO members) The second weekend of December, Raku Artists of Central Oregon (RACO) will share unique, handmade decorative and functional ceramic ware by local artists at their pottery show and sale. RACO originally began with an interest in the Raku process, and has now expanded to include other forms of high-fire and alternative…
Call for Art
The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon’s (UUFCO) Art Resource Team invites artists to submit a limit of three pieces for consideration in the upcoming exhibit in our Linus Pauling Gallery from February 4 through April 7, 2024. Shadows and Reflections will feature art in any medium that can be hung on the walls of…
Applications Open for Art in the High Desert 2024
Hello Artists! Art in the High Desert is BACK in BEND!! The 2024 show will take place at Riverbend Park. Riverbend Park is close to the original site in the Old Mill District — right across the road. Situated along the Deschutes River, it has public parking, on-site bathrooms, and picnic areas. It is a…
Artist Applications Open for 2024 Sunriver Art Fair
Fourteenth Annual Sunriver Art Fair Returns August 9-11, 2024. Artist applications for the 2024 Sunriver Art Fair opened December 1 and close on March 9, 2024. The art fair is a nationally recognized, juried fine arts and crafts event which has been very popular with Sunriver residents and Central Oregon visitors alike. If you are…
The Spirit of Central Oregon
(Photo courtesy of Cascade Camera Club) The Cascade Camera Club announces the release of a 224-page coffee table book, The Spirit of Central Oregon. During the pandemic year of 2020, the Cascade Camera Club was concerned about remaining in existence. The former president, Bob Bush, suggested we make a book from a year’s worth of…
Watch Music on the Metolius, Season 2
(Photo courtesy of Sisters Folk Festival) For the second year, between camp programming and impromptu songwriting sessions at the Americana Song Academy, we recorded casual conversations between the artists and watched as they discussed their creative processes and performed original songs. We were blown away by the talent of these musicians and the ease at…