(Hot Club of San Francisco | Photo courtesy of the Tower Theatre) On Sunday, April 7 at 7:30pm the Tower Theatre Foundation invites you to celebrate imagination and innovation during the Hot Club of San Francisco’s Cinema Vivant. It’s an evening of vintage silent films accompanied by live gypsy swing! The musicians match every movement…
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Oregon Poet Laureates in Madras for National Poetry Month
(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…
Theater in the Park Returns — First Call for Auditions
(Theater in the Park, 2018 – Jesus Christ Superstar | Photo courtesy of Lay It Out Events) Lay It Out Events announces the 2019 production of Theater in the Park — La Cage aux Folles, the hit musical by Harvey Fierstein and Jerry Herman that inspired the 1996 film, The Birdcage with first call for…
Power of Art ~ Portraits 2019
(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…
Youth Literature Takes Center Stage at Deschutes Public Library’s Youth Lit Fest
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…
Third Annual Piano Showcase Returns April 12-13 to Bend With Three World-Class Pianists
(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…
Michelle Kim ~ Violinist with Seoul
(Michelle Kim | Photo courtesy of High Desert Chamber Music) New York Philharmonic Assistant Concertmaster, Michelle Kim, was already earning attention as a musician by the time she moved to the U.S. from Seoul at the age of 16. As a student at the prestigious Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences in Santa Monica, California,…
OperaBend Presents Don Giovanni
(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…
Flip Festival at Bend Habitat for Humanity ReStore
(Artwork made at a previous Trashformations created by Bleu Turrell that is installed in front of the Environmental Center in Bend | Photo courtesy of Bend Habitat for Humanity) The Fifth Annual Furniture Flip Design Challenge, sponsored by DIY Cave, has returned to the Bend ReStore. This year, the popular community event — during which creative…
KPOV Screens This is Spinal Tap for Its Second Movie Night
(Photo | Courtesy of KPOV) KPOV 88.9 FM, High Desert Community Radio, has announced the second movie in its monthly series Movie Night with KPOV. On April 1, an appropriate date, KPOV will be screening This is Spinal Tap, a comic mock documentary spoof about a rock band on tour in the 1980’s. The film…