Friday, February 16 kicks off President’s Day weekend with the Tower Theatre Foundation’s presentation of Canada’s hottest guitar ensemble, Montreal Guitar Trio. These classically trained acoustic guitarists have an entire world of musical influences, and brilliantly perform classics from The Beatles, Rush, Radiohead, plus original compositions. Their musical creativity and impressive stage presence — where humor and virtuosity go hand to…

A series of facilitated book groups scheduled throughout Central Oregon in February, coordinated by Building Common Ground and Central Oregon Community College (COCC), is open to the community to discuss My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive by Julissa Arce, a political commentator and immigrant…

(Photo: Art piece painted by a third grader after his teacher, Becca Reel, using the online course first previewed the videos to learn the painting process herself, then showed them to her class. The students followed the videos, first practicing techniques, then applying the techniques to create their own work of art. Painting courtesy of…

Husband and wife glassblowing team Jeff and Heather Thompson have been creating sculpture in molten hot glass together for over 17 years. Their artworks are an intelligent blend of contemporary, traditional and custom techniques that they compliment with a diverse taste in modern sculpture. Their style is based in the traditional Italian method of glassblowing…

Each August since 2008 the welcoming banks of the Deschutes River in the Old Mill District in Bend come alive for one of the premier fine art shows in the country: Art in the High Desert (AHD). In its short ten years Art in the High Desert has been nationally recognized year after year accumulating…

This summer, the Tower Theatre Foundation presents Get Your Act Together, a first-of-its-kind audition workshop. Director and veteran performer Mollie Tennant will run the workshop July 10-14. It’s designed especially for singers, dancers and actors 13 to 19 years old interested in a collaborative and productive week spent sharpening performance skills in their audition “tool…