Apr 26 Friday
Join us for the 12th Annual Oregon Fringe Festival! April 24-28, 2024.
Each spring, the Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University produces the Oregon Fringe Festival, a multi-day event celebrating bold, innovative, and outrageous creativity in the arts. The festival is first and foremost a crossroads for emerging artists and professional practitioners to engage with each other’s creative work. Our roster includes music, theatre, visual art, film, physical theatre, dance, circus, spoken word, and more, as well as panels and workshops for students and the greater community. Now in its eleventh year, the Oregon Fringe Festival is aligned with the rich history of The Fringe, an international movement exploring our innate creative spirit.
Mission Statement
The Oregon Fringe Festival is a boundary-breaking platform for free expression. We celebrate unconventional art and unconventional space. We work to secure a tolerant space for the sharing of ideas through the arts.
Join us for our new 2024 Community Playwriting Retreat taking place April 26-28 in beautiful downtown Ashland, Oregon.
Retreat tickets include playwriting classes, a playwright's tea, wine reception, Q&As with renowned playwrights and viewings of Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Born With Teeth and Macbeth.
Join the Grants Pass Museum of Art for its next exciting new exhibit featuring the fabulous regional abstract artist, Eileen Bowie. Her art is provocative and will be a catalyst for many conversations.
Southern Oregon University’s Schneider Museum of Art (SMA) is thrilled to announce its upcoming exhibition, "Moving Pictures: A Survey Exhibition of Works by Deborah Oropallo and Collaborators." Opening April 18 at 5 p.m., the exhibition invites art enthusiasts to delve into the captivating world of Deborah Oropallo and witness her artistic evolution spanning montage, sculpture, installation, and media work.
More than just a retrospective, "Moving Pictures" amplifies Oropallo's artistic journey, shedding light on her significant contributions to contemporary art. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1954, Oropallo received her BFA from Alfred University and her MA/MFA from the University of California at Berkeley. Initially trained as a painter, she seamlessly integrates mixed media techniques such as photomontage, video, printmaking, and painting into her practice.
For adults (18+). Did you know that coloring is a great way to relieve stress? It calms the mind and body, and can promote mindfulness, reduce anxiety and depression, and improve motor skills. Join us in a calm atmosphere and de-stress your afternoon. Materials will be provided, or bring your own. Program is sponsored by the Central Point Friends of the Library.
In this introductory class, each class will have a short instruction time, a demonstration, followed by practice time with help from the instructor. The students will work through a sketch book which includes lessons, practice pages, and each week’s drawing assignment. At the end of the course the sketch book will serve as the students ‘textbook’ and will showcase all they learned.
Fundraiser Dates:Friday, April 26 - Sunday, April 28
Opening Reception:Friday, April 26, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Location and Hours:88 North Main Street, Ashland, OregonSaturday - Sunday: 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
About the Fundraiser:The 8x8 at 88 Fundraiser will bring together fifty original artworks where creativity flourishes within the confines of 8 inches by 8 inches. Each artwork showcased in this exhibition will serve as a testament to the limitless creativity that can be encapsulated within a small space. From intricate paintings to complex illustrations, each artwork has been crafted with meticulous attention to detail, offering viewers a glimpse into the vast imaginations of our members.
The 8x8 at 88 Fundraiser will serve as a fundraising initiative to support future programming and operations for the Ashland Gallery Association. All artworks will be priced at $88.00.
Currently, The Haines and Friends Visual Arts Grant Program has a vacant and empty space that they would like to utilize to enhance our visual arts community as a whole. Until the space has been leased, they have generously partnered to collaborate with the Ashland Gallery Association to provide members with a physical space to display and sell their artwork.
More Information:www.ashlandgalleries.comwww.hainesandfriends.org
Vocalist Vanessa Finney & Seven-string Guitarist Mark Hamersly perform live music together as LoveNotes. The duet covers great 20th century composers from the U.S, Brazil, and Europe (think Duke Ellington, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Kurt Weill…) as well as songwriters like Melody Gardot, Leonard Cohen, Sting, and Stevie Wonder — all in a jazz style.
Three full length classic films
MOTHER TERESA 3/15ST ANTHONY 3/30 (SAT) ST PHILIP NERI 4/12
The quote, "Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over" has been attributed to Mark Twain and frames the controversy over western water policies. Euro-American settlement of the west cannot be separated from the moving of water from sources to distant mines, farms, and cities. While California is the most plumbed of all states, Oregon has a fair share of dams, ditches, and water diversions -- including in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
Western water development went into high gear with the 1902 passage of the Newlands Reclamation Act. Under the act, the Bureau of Reclamation began development of projects all over the west, including the Rogue Basin Project. This project saw water storage on both sides of the Cascade Crest and deliverance of a secure supply of water to the orchards and towns in the Rogue Valley. Many projects also include flood control and hydroelectric power generation. This presentation will look at the overall history of western water development up to the current removal of dams on the Klamath River.
John Schuyler is a retired forester who received a B.S. in forestry from the University of California at Berkeley. During his 32-year career with the USDA Forest Service, he worked on national forests in Oregon, California, and Arizona -- working in timber management, recreation, minerals, planning, and administration.
Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is a nonprofit organization and our mission is to support the protection, restoration and conservation of the monument through service, advocacy and education. Our Hike and Learn programs are designed to introduce the public to different topics and locations within the Monument. Hike and Learns are co-created with local scientists, historians, artists, students, and more.