The Clay Guild of the Cascades welcomes you to its annual showand sale in a new location November 4 (10am-5pm)and 5 (10am-4pm) at Westside Village Magnet School at Kingston Elementary. Because of the collapse of the gym at Highland Elementary during last winter’s snow, Central Oregon ceramic artists have relocated to nearby Kingston School. This…
(Zuni dance group) Jumping in and discussing an unfamiliar subject, Zuni artwork for instance, is like telling a newcomer from the Amazon about powder conditions on Mt. Bachelor and snowboard racing. While art or an exotic sporting event can be a portal for visualizing the beyond, context about what’s viewed reduces confusion. However, there are…
(Lise Hoffman-McCabe) Lise Hoffman-McCabe is an award winning plein air pastel painter, founding partner of Red Chair Gallery and committed world traveler who is always looking for the next great subject to paint. She loves the plein air technique which requires painting quickly, as the light and weather conditions change as she paints. This method…
(Sonia Warshawski) Big Sonia is the story of an unlikely hero: Sonia Warshawski survived the Holocaust to make a new life. Standing tall at 4’8” Sonia is one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors in Kansas Cityand one of the only survivors there who speaks publicly about her wartime experience. Sonia’s enormous personalityand fragile frame…
Culture is everywhere in Central Oregon. From the amazing music embraced by large audiences at the Les Schwab Amphitheater, the Festival of Cultures in Centennial Park in Redmond, Munch & Music, Music on the Green, Country Music Gathering in Prineville to the small more intimate venues at Old Stone, High Desert Chamber Music, Fat Tuesdays…
Nod to Inspiration, Suffragette Alice Paul Cheryl Parton has organized a whirlwind of activities November 2-5 taking a page from suffragette Alice Paul’s playbook who said, “I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone.” “The Little Stone Project will be four days of art, education…
(Photos courtesy of BEAT Children’s Theatre) Mark Twain said, “The two most important days in your life are — the day you were born, and the day you find out why.” At BEAT Children’s Theatre we love to explore the why! The classic tale The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain may have originally been…
Evil Dead the Musical Opens Friday the 13th in October Stage Right Productions presents the return of Evil Dead the Musical by Frank Cipolla, Melissa Morris and George Reinblatt, October 13-28. This marks the sixth production of the fake blood-soaked zombie musical, voted Best of Central Oregon by its fans in 2015. The story remains…
THE SECRET GARDEN The Secret Garden will be presented by the Sunriver Stars Community Theater at The Door in the Sunriver Business Park. Directed by Victoria Kristy, with Gail Gibson as assistant director, the musical is a charming, upbeat adaptation of the literary classic by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Mary Lennox is sent to live in…
((L-R) Cassondra Schindler, Holly Higdon-Woodand René Mitchell at Bend Design. Photo courtesy of René Mitchell) 2017 Convenes Creative Thought Leaders Who Shape Our Future BEND DESIGN 2017 is being presented by ScaleHouse in Bend October 26+27, as a two-day event for creative thinkers, designersand disrupters who seek to explore the processesand practices that enable design…
