(Owl Armor – 5’ Tall 3’ wing span – Forged Steel by Kellen Bateham) Bend native Kellen Bateham is a contemporary blacksmith and self-proclaimed ‘nonprofit junkie’ currently serving as president of the Northwest Blacksmith Association (blacksmith.org). An incredibly active member of the blacksmith community, Bateham is a three time, first place winner of the Oregon…
(Photo | Courtesy of BendFilm) In celebration of Women’s History Month, BendFilm, Scalehouse and World Muse are partnering to bring you a weekend of creativity, conversation and connection through the art form of film. These virtual celebrations include three film programs, panel discussions, the Spotlight Program — No Man’s Land Film Festival’s Diversify Our Outdoors…
Greetings from the High Desert Museum! We hope you are well and looking forward to a well-deserved spring break. (Flyer | Courtesy of High Desert Museum) The submission deadline for the Waterston Student Essay Competition is fast-approaching on May 1. The Student Prize comes with a cash prize and interaction with an amazing writing community….
(Photo | Courtesy of Oregon Adaptive Sports) It boils down to access. Access to the transformative, healing powers of the outdoors. It is not a disability that our athletes overcome, but the barriers to the outdoors placed in their way. At Oregon Adaptive Sports, we are working to help individuals with disabilities breakdown these barriers….
It has been announced that Hunger Ward, Oscar/Emmy-Nominated Director Skye Fitzgerald’s film on the tragic war and famine in Yemen, will be the screened at BendFilm Festival on Saturday, October 24, 6:30-8pm. The screening will be held at the BendFilm Drive-in, located next to the Deschutes Brewery facility, at the corner of Shevlin-Hixon Road and…
(A woman painting at Indian Ford Meadow Preserve | Photo by Jay Mather) Local artists are celebrating 25 years of conservation in Central Oregon by painting Deschutes Land Trust protected lands. During the month of August, Plein Air Painters of Oregon (PAPO) will be out and about at Land Trust Preserves, painting these beautiful places…
(Photos | Courtesy of Central Oregon Center for the Arts) A plan to build the Central Oregon Center for the Arts, a regional visual- and performing-arts center, was announced today in Bend by the Central Oregon Center for the Arts Executive Board. Initial plans for this comprehensive arts center include the following: A theater large…
(True North, from left: Dan Wetzel, Kristen Grainger, Josh Adkins and Martin Stevens) (Down Range, Loren Irving and Jay Bowerman | Photos Courtesy of the Family Kitchen) A benefit concert for the Family Kitchen food program will feature True North, a Northwest bluegrass-folk quartet, on Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 3pm in St. Helens Hall,…
(Photo / Courtesy of High Desert Museum) The High Desert Museum has plenty going on this fall. Have you experienced Desert Reflections: Water Shapes the West? The original exhibit just won the 2019 Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Award for Exhibition Excellence, and the exhibit is in its final days, closing on September 29….
(Photo | Courtesy of High Desert Chamber Music) New this season, High Desert Chamber Music (HDCM) will host an inaugural Solo Social during its opening night concert at the Tower Theatre. Recognizing a growing trend of solo individuals purchasing concert tickets, this is an effort to bring together chamber music enthusiasts with like-minded individuals. A…
