(Photo | Courtesy of Sunriver Area Chamber of Commerce) The Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory is offering a slate of family friendly activities: Saturday, May 8 at 10am: Family Birding Adventure Join a naturalist in search of Sunriver’s birds. Learn how to spot, identify and count common birds in the area. This family friendly program…
(Heideken’s Display at Red Chair Gallery | Photo by Kenneth Marunowski ) The economic, social and cultural history of Oregon is intimately connected to its landscape and specifically to one of its primary resources: wood. In the early 1900’s, lumber mills were key to establishing what is now the city of Bend. Logging persists throughout…
(The Shadows Beneath by Michelle Lindblom) There is a little personal philosophy in every painting Michelle Lindblom creates. “I’m always expressing what’s inside of me,” she explains. Lindblom writes a monthly blog about her inner reflections and then uses them for artistic inspiration. Her abstract acrylic paintings and monotypes are showcased at Red Chair Gallery…
(Travel Memories, mixed media drawing, 10”x20” by Pat Clark) This month of May, Sage Custom Framing and Gallery presents Whatever Floats Your Boat, a series of mixed-media images by master printmaker Pat Clark. As the exhibition title suggests, boats, in a variety of guises both obvious and subtle, serve as the common denominator in the…
(Graphic | Sunriver Music Festival) This is the 5th in a series of 44th Season previews of Sunriver Music Festival. Read all stories here: sunrivermusic.org. Can musical talent be inherited? Concertmaster Ruth Lenz makes a case for it. Lenz hails from what has been called Reno’s ‘first family’ of music. Ruth’s parents were early members…
(Artwork by Yoonhee Choi, Trace 0 | Courtesy of Scalehouse Collaborative for the Arts) Join us for the opening of Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Prints from the Permanent Collection, this Friday, May 7 from 5-7pm at the Scalehouse Gallery. This will be a safe and socially distanced event — masks are required and…
(Graphic | Courtesy of BendFilm) New Tin Pan Theater Restrictions Last week, the Governor announced tighter restrictions on theaters to better align with new public health priorities. We at the Tin Pan want to make all of our film lovers safe, while still providing the rich theater-going experience you’ve all been missing… and we’re not…
(Photo | Courtesy of High Desert Chamber Music) High Desert Chamber Music (HDCM) is offering hanging flower baskets to fund Educational Outreach efforts. Grown in the valley, orders will be taken through this week, with delivery of these beautiful baskets to the HDCM office in Downtown Bend this Friday, May 7. These 12-inch diameter baskets…
(Photo | Courtesy of Bend Concerts) It’s our first new concert announcement of the year! Indie folk rockers Lord Huron will make their Les Schwab Amphitheater debut on Sunday, September 26 with special guest Allison Ponthier. General on sale for tickets starts Friday, May 7 at 10am in person at the Ticket Mill in the…
The Oregon Music Hall of Fame is pleased to remind all of you that applications for our college scholarship program are available with a final deadline of May 15. Each applicant should be a student studying music and graduating spring 2021 from an Oregon high school and continuing to college in the fall of 2021…
