Bend Design is a two-day creative event convening artists, designers and creative thinkers from a diverse range of practices and professions for talks, shows, workshops, screenings, and problem-solving sessions. For more information on speakers, workshops, schedule and tickets, visit here. We’re returning to the Tower Theatre on Thursday, October 26 with six speakers followed by a…
(Piece by George Johanson) Those who teach what they love are lucky indeed. Those who inspire are more fortunate still. George Johanson spent a lifetime doing both. A painter, printmaker and ceramic tile artist, George studied at the Museum Art School (now the Pacific Northwest College of Art) in Portland with further study in New…
This year’s 2023 First Interstate Bank Bend Fall Festival promises to be a groundbreaking celebration of art and creativity with the addition of two remarkable features: an interactive installation by renowned artist HOTTEA and collaborative installations and presentations by Joel Stockdill and Yustina Salnikova. The installations and presentations will take place on Saturday, September 30,…
(Photo courtesy of BEAT Children’s Theatre) Three classes for actors being offered . . . Junior BEAT — Let’s Make a Spooky Play! Ages 7-9 Let’s Act Scary! — Performance Workshop! Ages 10-12 Success and Skills Improv and Acting Class! Ages 4th-8th grade Click the link below to see all the offerings at BEAT and…
((L-R) SSCT Board President Michele Hans, recipients Andrew Whitworth and Samuel Soyster and SSCT Artistic Director Victoria Kristy | Photo courtesy of Sunriver Stars Community Theater) Sunriver Stars Community Theater (SSCT) is pleased to announce the recipients of its inaugural scholarship, Stars Scholars, to two local high school students, Andrew Whitworth and Samuel Soyster. The…
A Luminous Tribute to Women & Scientific Discovery This September, Ellipse Theatre Community (ETC) will tour Silent Sky by acclaimed playwright Lauren Gunderson on select dates from September 8 through 24. Decades before the ‘Hidden Figures’ made famous by the Academy Award-nominated film, astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) and her female colleagues at the Harvard…
(Rick Steber) Bart Manning is a hardworking cowboy who gets sideswiped by the American Dream. Along the way he loses a son and a wife, and damn near everything he holds dear. Then one day he comes across a poem, Man in the Mirror, and everything changes. He meets a man, or maybe it is…
Last chance! Friday and Sunday festival tickets almost gone! Calling the young and young of heart! Meet us at the second annual SFF KidZone on Saturday, September 30 at Fir Street Park for interactive art activities, live musical performances, face decorating, and fun with Smokey Bear. The event is free to the public and fun…
High Desert Chamber Music (HDCM) presents an annual Concert Series that brings some of our nation’s most prominent classical musicians to Central Oregon. As part of their visit to our area, every performer participates in outreach events that include a public Master Class, school visits, or performances at local retirement communities. To ensure equal access,…
(Valley by Alex Drury) Alex Drury Taking Risks to Pursue Her Creative Passion Alex Drury, a painter who experiments with mediums but primarily sticks to watercolor, has taken more than one leap of faith to get herself and her art to where it is today. Born and raised in England, Alex began drawing with her…
