(Photo courtesy of The Oregon Garden Resort) Expands to 1 Million Lights, Larger Ice Skating Rink at The Oregon Garden Families create holiday memories at annual outdoor event November 23 – December 31; children 10 & under are free. The seventh annual Christmas in the Garden event expands and returns to The Oregon Garden’s Rediscovery…
Special Events
Sunriver Art Fair with Arts & Crafts Galore
The Sunriver Women’s Club will be sponsoring the eighth Annual Sunriver Art Fair on August 11-13, with over seventy artist booths exhibiting art in 11 different mediums: ceramics, glass, jewelry, painting, photography, sculpture, textiles, gourd art, woodwork, metalwork and mixed media. The artists are coming from as far away as the east coast and right…
Art in the High Desert Nationally Acclaimed, Locally Embraced
Each August since 2008 the welcoming banks of the Deschutes River in the Old Mill District in Bend come alive for one of the premier fine art shows in the country: Art in the High Desert (AHD). In its short ten years Art in the High Desert has been nationally recognized year after year accumulating…
Art on the River
May 5-6 is the ninth annual Art on the River, show and sale at Eagle Crest. Art on the River has provided grants and funding to the seven elementary schools, several middle schools and a high school art class in Redmond. The last four years has been a partnering with A6 Studio & Gallery in…
Sisters Folk Festival FAR-West Best of the West Award
The Folk Alliance Region West (FAR-West) awarded Sisters Folk Festival Inc. (SFF) the Organizational Achievement Award. FAR-West is a chapter of Folk Alliance International, who fosters and promotes traditional, contemporary and multicultural folk music, dance, storytelling and related performing arts in the U.S. SFF grew from an annual folk festival into an arts organization that…
Civil War Coming to Central Oregon
The Northwest Civil War Council will present a full Civil War reenactment at The House on Metolius Meadow, May 20-21. The reenactment and living history camps include over 300 Civil War reenactors presenting living conditions and circumstances of the 1860s, as well as battle reenactments. This is the only event of its kind in Central…
5th Annual Bend Follies: Music, Mayhem & Money Benefit the Tower Theatre Foundation
It’s time to put the “fun” back in fundraising! Saturday, April 29 at 7:30pm the Tower Theatre Foundation presents its major fundraiser- Bend Follies. It’s a night of comedy starring local civic, business, education and media personalities performing sketches and singing parodies — plus, live and silent auctions all benefitting the programs and mission of…
Opening Japan Exhibit Closes Nov 20
Opening Japan Exhibit at A6 Gallery in the Box Factory View a special collection of original Japanese woodblock prints at A6’s Opening Japan” exhibit, on display through November 20. Starting with classic images from the Floating World, see the artistic shifts in Japanese prints with the opening of Japan in the 1850s, and observe the…
Passion Within the Performance – 50 Years of Central Oregon Symphony
Stepping back into the late 1960s, Central Oregon was a vastly different place. Rugged, it was still considered the untamed wild west of America. Populations were sparse, farm land was abundant, and few thought that classical music withstood even a chance of surviving, let alone thriving, in the relatively unknown mill town of Bend. “If…
Christmas Season in Redmond
Per annual tradition, the Redmond Chamber of Commerce & CVB will celebrate the holiday season by hosting a slew of family friendly and festive events, with a colorfully decorated downtown Redmond serving as the ideal backdrop. From the Starlight Parade, Community Tree Lighting and the Holiday Village Market to the Giving Tree, the Downtown Holiday…