(Photo | Pexels) Check out First Friday events, new exhibit openings and artist meet and greets for October’s First Friday in Bend. Bend Senior Center 1600 SE Reed Market Rd. 541-388-1133 • bendparksandrec.org/facility/bend-senior-center The Bend Senior Center at the new Larkspur Community Center is showing art by members of the SageBrushers Art Society. Come visit…

(Photo | Courtesy of Hood Avenue Art Gallery) March is an all-gallery show at the Hood Avenue Art Gallery, with the theme Exploring Possibilities, focusing on the imagination of our artists, the examination of their mediums and the connection you have with their work. Some artists are exploring new subjects, others new techniques. Some are…

(Poster | Courtesy of Redmond Downtown Association) Downtown merchants and businesses are sponsoring the Redmond Downtown Association’s annual scarecrow contest and fundraiser. Businesses and merchants are encouraged to partner with a charitable organization to create a scarecrow. This will be a fundraiser for DeMolay, Pilgrim Chapter, as decided by the nonprofit applications that were received…

The Venardos Circus, a touring Broadway-style, animal-free production, is thrilled to announce it will return to the stage in Redmond at the Deschutes Fairgrounds with live, socially distanced audiences over Halloween weekend, October 29-November 1, for first shows in front of a live audience since COVID-19. Tickets will be sold only in pods for up…

You are invited to the fourth annual Christmas and Crafts Bazaar, for fall and holiday gifts and decorations at Highland Baptist Church in Redmond, from 9am to 4pm on Saturday, November 10. More than 40 vendors will be offering unique handmade gifts and decorations – many one of a kind – for the holiday season…