John Kvapil and his four Cell mates—Larry Jabobs, Don Kunz, Peter Lovering and John Martin—will read their work at the Downtown Bend Library on Sunday, January 11, for Second Sunday, the library’s monthly celebration of the written word. The reading is free and open to the public, and books will be available for sale. Don’t…
Happy New Year
by RENEE PATRICK Cascade A&E Editor I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don’t really need to have New Year’s resolutions. Tom Ford I love our cover image this month. Dorothy Eberhardt’s Smith Rock Snow to me represents a…
Oregon’s Only Arts Magazine Turns 20
by PAMELA HULSE ANDREWS Cascade A&E Publisher 2015 will mark the twentieth year that Cascade Arts & Entertainment has been published in Central Oregon. I created the magazine in Bend, Oregon in 1995 as a special addition to Cascade Business News. It began as a newsprint tabloid, but the arts and cultural amenities…
True North at Sunriver Nature Center
True North will be performing at Sunriver Nature Center on Saturday, January 10, 7-9pm. True North features award winning singer/song writers Kristen Grainger and Dan Wetzel and bluegrass superstars Dale Adkins and Suzanne Pearce Adkins. Their most recent album, Elsebound, has been in the national charts top 10 for more than 20 weeks after…
Your Week Starts Here
January 7Dead Winter Carpenters at McMenamins7pm Emerging from Northern California’s fertile music scene, Dead Winter Carpenters is a rollicking, high-energy, roots-bluegrass infused five-piece band from North Lake Tahoe, CA.Location: 700 NW Bond St Bend, OR 97701541-382-5174http://www.mcmenamins.com/ January 8Bend Comedy at Summit Saloon8pmBend’s most talented comedians make up the best comedy showcase in Central Oregon,…
First Friday ArtWalk January 2
Art in the Atrium at Franklin Crossing 50 NW Franklin Ave.Art in the Atrium, Franklin Crossing celebrates First Friday, with paintings by Susan Busik. Busik grew up in Sisters and resides in Bend. Influenced in her love of art by parents who owned an art gallery, she studied weaving in the ‘70s. Her artistic study…
Dorothy Eberhardt Captures Magic in her Photographs
by RENEE PATRICK Cascade A&E Editor Dorothey Eberhardt has had a long and varied career as a professional artist and her current journey into landscape photography truly captures not only the majestic beauty of Central Oregon’s wild places, but a sense of the magic that can be found in nature. Art has always played…
A Whole New World
January is a great time of year to make commitments, loose unhealthy patterns or to “re-do.” Commonly aresolution ismade in which a person makes a promise to do an act of self-improvement or something slightly nice, such as opening doors for people. It has more history than our personal experiences trying to get children to…
Helen Brown & Susan Harkness Williams at Sunriver Library
Two longtime members of the Friends of the Library Art Committee in Sunriver are showing their work together over the holidays. Helen Brown’s watercolors describe land and cityscapes, while Susan Harkness-Williams’ gourds depict local wildlife. The show runs through January at the Sunriver Area Library. Brown uses a batik method on Japanese rice paper resulting…
Know Art: Primitivism & the Early Modern Avant-Garde
Explore the art and the artists, including Matisse, Picasso, Gauguin and Van Gogh, of the Early Modern Avant-Garde movement with COCC art instructor Jason Lamb January 3, 2pm in Sisters and January 6, 6pm in Downtown Bend.. The programs at the Sisters and Downtown Bend Libraries are part of the Know Art series throughout January….