(Photos | Courtesy of Sunriver Music Festival) Get to Know Your Festival: Introducing Maestro Brett Mitchell (This is one of a series of previews of the upcoming 44th Season of the Sunriver Music Festival). Communications, collaboration and making sure a festival reflects the community are the priorities that Brett Mitchell, a finalist for Sunriver Music…
(Photo | Courtesy of Sunriver Area Chamber of Commerce) Discounted Winter Admission To better serve our local community, we are offering discounted admission through February at the Nature Center. Tickets are just $5 each. The center is open Thursday through Sunday from 10am-3pm. Daytime Observatory Experience Friday and Saturdays from 11am-2pm: Enjoy a daytime visit…
(Photo | Courtesy of Sunriver Music Festival) Sunriver Music Festival, Central Oregon’s classical music experience, is proud to announce two finalists for their new Artistic Director: Maestros Kelly Kuo and Brett Mitchell. The Festival’s current Maestro, George Hanson, successfully ended his ten-year tenure with the Festival earlier this year after accepting a position in Washington,…
(Photo | Courtesy of Sunriver Music Festival) LOOK WHO’S BACK! A Central Oregon favorite, concert rock violinist Aaron Meyer and pianist Jean-Pierre Garau will warm up our winter in an intimate concert at the Great Hall. Accomplished Young Artists Scholarship recipient John Fawcett opens the concert. A very limited amount of tickets are available for…
(Gala performers John Fawcett, Isabelle Senger and Mateo Garza | Photo courtesy of High Desert Chamber Music) High Desert Chamber Music (HDCM) announces their 13th Annual Gala will be going virtual and held on Saturday, December 12, at 7pm. This online event will be free to attend in the comfort of your own home. Bob…
What: Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory will host the fourth annual FungiFest in partnership with Central Oregon Mushroom Club. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s event will be presented throughout the month of October as a series of small-scale outdoor programs, virtual lectures and workshops and with an outdoor Mushroom Marketplace. A virtual Mushroom…
Coronavirus Relief Fund Cultural Support (CRFCS) grant awards totaling $998,668 will be distributed to 25 cultural organizations across Deschutes County through a partnership between the Oregon Cultural Trust and the Deschutes Cultural Coalition. The funds, allocated to the Cultural Trust for Oregon cultural organizations facing losses due to the COVID-19 health crisis, were made available…
(Photo | Courtesy of Sunriver Area Chamber of Commerce) Join members of the Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory team as they share their passion for science through a series of engaging twilight talks throughout the fall. Talks will take place outdoors in the amphitheater and a different topic will be presented each night. Questions are…
(Meagan Iverson, Julie Webber, Alisa (AJ) Jimenez | Photos courtesy of Sunriver Music Festival) The Sunriver Music Festival is pleased to announce the appointment of Meagan Iverson as the organization’s new executive director. Joining Meagan is new ticket office manager Julie Webber, who replaces Robin Burford who has retired. Rounding out the new team is…
(Mountain in Spring | Photo courtesy of Sunriver Area Chamber of Commerce) International artist and photographer Marjorie Wood Hamlin, a resident of Bend, is represented at the Merchant Trader gift shop in the Lodge at Sunriver Resort. Her feature for this week is the very popular Mountain In Spring, a framed limited-edition print of one…
