(Photo | Courtesy of Faith, Hope & Charity Vineyards) Faith, Hope & Charity Vineyards announces its latest news and upcoming events. Crush Cancer Run 2022 Registration is OPEN! May 22, 2022 Put on your running shoes, and start training now for the FHC Crush Cancer 5K, 10K and Half Marathon! Register here: secure.getmeregistered.com/get_information.php. Valentine’s Day…
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New Perspective for 2022
(Graphic | Zodiac Signs Vectors by Vecteezy) ARIES — Shine your light brightly in January even when life gives you challenges. Significant changes in February is good news for you financially. Make a decision in March and be ready to follow through. Slow down a little in April and let yourself catch up. May brings…
Updates from Jon Deshler & TUNE TOURS
(Graphics | Courtesy of Jon Deshler & TUNE TOURS) After taking our music outdoors last summer, and creating TUNE TOURS, we’ve kept our efforts going with gigs, and production of our humble grass roots social media music videos. Over the last couple weekends we performed in a trio at Methven Family Vineyards Tasting Room in…
ART OR CRAFT? The Makers Chime In! Featured Maker: Kellen Bateham
(Owl Armor – 5’ Tall 3’ wing span – Forged Steel by Kellen Bateham) Bend native Kellen Bateham is a contemporary blacksmith and self-proclaimed ‘nonprofit junkie’ currently serving as president of the Northwest Blacksmith Association (blacksmith.org). An incredibly active member of the blacksmith community, Bateham is a three time, first place winner of the Oregon…
IndieWomen Film Festival Opening Today + Tin Pan is Set to Reopen
(Photo | Courtesy of BendFilm) In celebration of Women’s History Month, BendFilm, Scalehouse and World Muse are partnering to bring you a weekend of creativity, conversation and connection through the art form of film. These virtual celebrations include three film programs, panel discussions, the Spotlight Program — No Man’s Land Film Festival’s Diversify Our Outdoors…
Invitation to Students to Enter the Waterston Student Essay Competition
Greetings from the High Desert Museum! We hope you are well and looking forward to a well-deserved spring break. (Flyer | Courtesy of High Desert Museum) The submission deadline for the Waterston Student Essay Competition is fast-approaching on May 1. The Student Prize comes with a cash prize and interaction with an amazing writing community….
When Access is Equal, Potential is Limitless
(Photo | Courtesy of Oregon Adaptive Sports) It boils down to access. Access to the transformative, healing powers of the outdoors. It is not a disability that our athletes overcome, but the barriers to the outdoors placed in their way. At Oregon Adaptive Sports, we are working to help individuals with disabilities breakdown these barriers….
Hunger Ward, a Short Documentary, to be Screened at BendFilm Festival
It has been announced that Hunger Ward, Oscar/Emmy-Nominated Director Skye Fitzgerald’s film on the tragic war and famine in Yemen, will be the screened at BendFilm Festival on Saturday, October 24, 6:30-8pm. The screening will be held at the BendFilm Drive-in, located next to the Deschutes Brewery facility, at the corner of Shevlin-Hixon Road and…
Join Us for a Plein Air Painting Exhibition
(A woman painting at Indian Ford Meadow Preserve | Photo by Jay Mather) Local artists are celebrating 25 years of conservation in Central Oregon by painting Deschutes Land Trust protected lands. During the month of August, Plein Air Painters of Oregon (PAPO) will be out and about at Land Trust Preserves, painting these beautiful places…
Central Oregon Center for the Arts Plan Unveiled
(Photos | Courtesy of Central Oregon Center for the Arts) A plan to build the Central Oregon Center for the Arts, a regional visual- and performing-arts center, was announced today in Bend by the Central Oregon Center for the Arts Executive Board. Initial plans for this comprehensive arts center include the following: A theater large…