Students came from virtually everywhere in Oregon to compete online in this year’s Oregon History Day state contest, a qualifier for the National History Day Contest being held virtually from June 13-19. For the second year, the contest moved to a digital format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With most state competitions having participation down…
(Detail of Fall in Blue Meadow by jasna guy | Photo courtesy of High Desert Museum) Bees, butterflies and other pollinators are essential to thriving High Desert ecosystems and agriculture. Yet their numbers are declining. A new High Desert Museum exhibit offers visitors an opportunity to learn more about the art, intricacy and importance of…
(Photo | Courtesy of Deschutes Public Library) Step outside this spring to experience the new and improved StoryWalk installations at your library. Read, sing and play outside while enjoying a children’s book to help young readers develop a strong vocabulary, passion for reading and familiarity with sounding out words. StoryWalk is an outdoor reading experience…
(Registration for Sisters Folk Festival’s in-person music and creativity camps opens today | Photo courtesy of Sisters Folk Festival) Registration opens today, Wednesday, May 19 for Sisters Folk Festival’s (SFF) in-person music and creativity camps for middle- and high-school-aged students taking place this summer at the Sisters Art Works building in Sisters. These day camps…
(The full 24-member cast of Les Miserables School Edition | Photo courtesy of Summit High School) Theatre is alive and well at Summit High School, where students are staging a streamed version of the beloved epic Les Miserables: School Edition, using safe social-distancing practices and filmed outdoors. Based on the Victor Hugo novel of the…
The Les Schwab Amphitheater, Central Oregon’s riverfront music venue in Bend’s Old Mill District, and Live Nation Entertainment, the world’s leading live entertainment company, have agreed on a historic partnership that will bring more music and events to the High Desert than ever before. Located along the Deschutes River, the partnership makes Les Schwab Amphitheater…
(Redmond students experience a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) program during a High Desert Museum visit | Photo courtesy of High Desert Museum) The Institute of Museum and Library Services has named the High Desert Museum in Bend as one of six recipients of the 2021 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the…
(Aubrey Luse | Photo courtesy of RPA) Redmond Proficiency Academy (RPA) junior Aubrey Luse was recently awarded a Superior rating for her play, The Plant Crusade, from the Educational Theatre Association, an international organization dedicated to providing high school students access to theatre education. The Plant Crusade is about an awkward, poetry-loving student named Ophelia,…
((L) Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (R) Modest Mouse | Photos courtesy of Les Schwab Amphitheater) Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats with Delta Spirit will play August 17 and Modest Mouse will be here August 29. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats with Special Guest Delta Spirit Tuesday, August 17 Growing up in…
The Rising Star and Fortissimo awards are for students who have been nominated by their teachers for showing talent, effort, achievement and great promise as musicians due to perseverance and commitment to their craft. Fortissimo Winner — Calvin Schwarz Calvin Schwarz (17 years old) jumps at any opportunity to expand his experience and musicianship, outside…
