(Elizabeth Woody, Jarold Ramsey, and Kim Stafford  | Photos courtesy of COCC) Kim Stafford, Oregon’s poet laureate and the director of Lewis & Clark College’s Northwest Writing Institute, is bringing his poetry to Central Oregon, together with Elizabeth Woody, past poet laureate of Oregon, and Madras poet Jarold Ramsey, as part of Central Oregon Community…

(Photo Courtesy of Cascade Publications, Inc.) “I hope my hair really comes back in that color!” yearned Katy as she admired her own beauty in the fine art portrait before her. As a teenager dealing with hair loss from chemotherapy, Katy was getting used to being defined by her cancer. She had simply forgotten that…

From rich and colorful children’s picture books to diverse stories of challenge and empowerment in young adult (YA) fiction, today’s youth literature blurs genre boundaries and appeals to people of all ages. In fact, approximately 55-percent of YA readers are adults (Bowker Market Research), and people of all ages read and collect picture books. It’s…

(Dan Tepfer,  Sean Chen, Arthur Migliazza and  | Photos courtesy of Sunriver Music Festival)  A dynamic two-day piano celebration returns to Bend’s Tower Theatre this April for its third annual performance. It is the Sunriver Music Festival’s Piano Showcase: From Bach to Boogie to Jazz featuring a trio of exceptional pianists celebrating the versatility and virtuosity…

(L-R) Zachary Lenox, Kari Burgess, Jocelyn Claire Thomas, Korland Simmons and Adrian Rosales | Photos courtesy of OperaBend Ross Halper of San Francisco, California is directing OperaBend’s production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and has also created the English translation for the spoken recitative for this performance.  Besides serving as director in residence at North Bay…