(“An Evening with Author TJ Klune” is set for April 9 in Wille Hall, staged with a livestream option | Photos courtesy of COCC) Central Oregon Community College’s (COCC) 2024 Season of Nonviolence concludes with “An Evening with Author TJ Klune” at 6pm on Tuesday, April 9, in Wille Hall on the Bend campus, a…
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2024 Creative Released for 21st Annual Bend Film Festival
The Bend Film Festival, at its core, is homemade and homegrown. The festival is made possible by our hard-working staff, devoted volunteers and amazing community of supporters. This year the festival creative and poster were designed in-house by our talented BendFilm team — led by Marketing Manager Elise Furgurson with help from Christina Rosetti, Doone…
Trish Smith’s Cookbook Feeding My Friends Now Available
(Photos courtesy of Old Mill District) Feeding My Friends Trish Smith, the Old Mill District’s original curator of community, recently published her first cookbook Feeding My Friends. Inspired by Julia Childs, world travels, family holidays, philanthropic ventures, and the love of her husband Bill, Trish curated more than 200 pages of recipes to treat your…
Call for Artists
Sculptural Screen Wall & Campus Entry Sculpture – City of Bend Public Works Campus The City of Bend in partnership with Art in Public Places (AiPP) seeks to commission a large-scale Sculptural Screen Wall located along the south boundary of the campus and a smaller-scale Entry Sculpture located at the main entrance of the Public…
Happening NOW at the High Desert Museum
(Photo by John Williams) Sky Hunters is BACK for a Limited Time! Happening twice daily at 11am and 1:30pm, Sky Hunters allows Museum visitors to get nose to beak with some of the Museum’s most inspiring creatures. Several raptors take flight overhead in this intimate, indoor demonstration as our wildlife specialists showcase the birds’ agility…
Calling All Student Filmmakers
(Image courtesy of BendFilm) Hey Students! Win $1,000 with your Environmental Video The City of Bend, BendFilm and Central Oregon Daily are hosting the 2024 Student Video Contest, and this year the PRIZE MONEY is even better, $1,000 to the Grand Prize Winner! Bend students in 6th-12th grades are encouraged to submit videos about why or how…
BEAT The Heat Summer Camps 2024!
(Photo courtesy of BEAT Children’s Theatre) BEAT — Summer Camps!!! We have added four new camps. Yes, yes and yes! It’s time to sign up for BEAT the Heat Summer camps! Registrations are now open, so go online now and sign up soon as space is limited. More classes will be added in the coming…
High Desert Chamber Music Offers Hanging Flower Baskets for Educational Outreach
(HDCM Educational Outreach | 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 until mid-May, with the delivery of these beautiful baskets to Bend on Thursday, May 23. These 12″ diameter baskets will at…
COCC Partners with Local Choral Group & Needs Your Feedback
(Photo | Pexels) Dear Music & Community Enthusiasts, Central Oregon Community College is partnering with the arts community and Central Oregon Mastersingers on a project to help raise awareness of this local, talented musical group. Our Marketing Research class (BA237) offered through the COCC Business Department is working with the Mastersingers Board on activities that support student learning…
Spring Break Brings Popular Wildlife Program & Warhol-Inspired Event with Local Artist
(Young visitors engage with the exterior of the new exhibition, Sensing Sasquatch. Visitors are invited to put their own Sasquatch sticker on the back of the vehicle | Photo by Todd Cary) Spring break kicks off at the High Desert Museum this Saturday, March 23, with special programming throughout the week and the opportunity to…