The Sunriver Music Festival invites a Central Oregon artist to create the 41st Season poster for the coming 2018 summer and join the esteemed ranks of our contributing artists of the last 4 decades. Benefits: – 300 posters are displayed on storefronts and businesses all over Bend, Sisters, Redmond and Sunriver. -A press release published in multiple local…
(Photo of gray fox courtesy of Jen Obsburn Eliot) Museum acquires a gray fox from Wildlife Images in Grants Pass The High Desert Museum has a new wildlife ambassador: a juvenile gray fox from Wildlife Images Rehabilitation and Education Center in Grants Pass, Oregon. The young male fox was brought to their rehab center in…
Robust offerings to serve writers of all levels and genres Best-selling author Stephen King is often asked how one could become a better writer. Two of his commonly shared beliefs are to take your writing seriously and to write consistently. Writers in Central Oregon have expanding opportunities to heed King’s advice thanks to Deschutes Public…
(Photo above: Below 0 | courtesy of Winter Wildlands Alliance) 14 years of Winter Celebration Grab your winter adventure listand goggles to tune into a night of human-powered winter celebration at the 14th Annual Backcountry Film Festival. Mark your calendars for two screenings February 2 at the Volcanic Theatre Pub in Bend at 6pmand 9pm,and…
(Photo courtesy of Mt. Bachelor Riverhouse Jazz) Our fourth weekend of world-class jazz is this weekend, January 12-13, featuring a killer trio of jazz heavyweights – George Colligan, Buster Williams and Lenny White Trio. Two legends, bassist Buster Williams (Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Bobby McFerrin, Sonny Fortune), and drummer Lenny White ( Miles David, Chick Corea’s Return…
Welcome 2018! CELEBRATE with ART Come Party with the Artists Second Saturday January 13, 4-6pm Food, Wine & Fun — Meet Two of our Newest Central Oregon Artists Janet Akers uses clay to communicate her love of nature. Janet’s work is primarily clay and sometimes she incorporates other materials, be it metals or wood or…
To Tell the Truth, the popular storytelling show that debuted last year, will return on Friday and Saturday, November 24 and 25 with an all new program of true life monologues performed by local performers. As they have done in the past, the mysterious and secretive impresarios, Two Twisted Sisters, will produce this all-new collection…
at Madras Performing Arts Center The High Desert Community Theater will be performing the fall production, She Was Only Marginally Modest, by Vern Harden, in Madras at the Madras Performing Arts Center, in November. This classic melodrama is wonderfully entertaining and has an array of amusing characters, plot twists and exaggerated scenes. Performance dates are November…
Dinosaurs Take Flight bridges the span between dinosaurs and birds Which came first, the feather or the bird? Learn the answer in Dinosaurs Take Flight: The Art of Archaeopteryx, a new exhibition that opened at the High Desert Museum in October. Art meets science in this exhibition, which features more than fifty pieces of original…
Screenwriting Workshop with Denise Hughes Sat November 4 10:00 am – 2:00 pm ASPEN RIDGE 1010 NE Purcell, Bend, OR Second Floor Meeting Room Denice will share her simplified and creative processes for writing a great script. Think you can write a screenplay for a movie? You can. Denice will show you where to start…
