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  • Pumpkin Smash!

    Ponderosa Park 225 SE 15th St, Bend, United States

    Don't trash it, smash it! In an effort to keep pumpkins out of the landfill, join other halloween lovers to smash your pumpkins and compost them properly! November 1, 2025 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Ponderosa Park and Skyline Park 225 Southeast 15th Street / 19617 Mountaineer Way Community effort to keep pumpkins out of…

  • Beautiful Strengths of Indigenous Communities

    Wille Hall, Coats Campus Center, Central Oregon Community College, Bend 2600 Northwest College Way, Bend, OR, United States

    Dr. Michelle Jacob emphasizes that understanding Indigenous history must go hand in hand with celebrating the vibrant contributions of Native peoples today. Rooted in Yakama traditions and the wisdom of Elders, her talk will highlight the resilience and brilliance of Indigenous communities while offering a message of hope, love, and collective strength to inspire a…

  • 10th Annual Fill Your Pantry

    This is the last hoorah for farmers, ranchers, and makers for the 2025 season so let's go big! Fill Your Pantry is an annual bulk buying event at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds - OSU Extension Parking Lot. Pre-orders will open near the end of October for folks wanting to purchase larger quantities or secure limited…

  • Wild Ones Training: Turning Passion into Advocacy

    Worthy Brewing 495 Northeast Bellevue Drive, Bend, OR, United States

    Are you someone who enjoys spending time in nature, loves public lands, cares about wildlife, and wants to do more to protect the environment? Are you ready to step up your environmental activism? With the current attacks on our public lands and waters, we need more voices collectively pushing back and speaking up for nature.…

  • The Museum at Warm Springs to Host Opening Reception for the “32nd Annual Warm Springs Tribal Member and Youth Exhibit”

    The Museum at Warm Springs 2189 Highway 26, Warm Springs, United States

    The Museum at Warm Springs to Host Opening Reception for the “32nd Annual Warm Springs Tribal Member and Youth Exhibit” on Wednesday, November 12 at 5:30 p.m.  The Museum at Warm Springs will host the opening of the “32nd Annual Warm Springs Tribal Member and Youth Exhibit” on Wednesday, November 12. Museum Members and the…

  • A Shift in Thinking 

    Open Space Event Studios 220 NE Lafayette Ave, Bend, OR, United States

    Michelle Nijhuis — a High Country News contributing editor, frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in the Age of Extinction — will walk us through 20 influential books that can help us shift our thinking away from systems of ecological oppression and toward a…

  • Community Conversations-Natural Resource Management

    Downtown Bend Library 601 NW Wall St., Bend, OR, United States

    Registration is required. Light supper provided. Please join us in a discussion about our Natural Resources – What are the current conditions, current concerns, and how can you play a role. Let's ask ourselves...what can one person do? Envision a community that understands the upstream and downstream impacts of using Earth's resources and makes responsible…

  • Kids’ Entrepreneur Marketing

    Downtown Bend Public Library 601 NW Wall St, Bend, OR, United States

    Join the Kids’ Entrepreneur Marketing in November. The Kids’ Entrepreneur Market is an entirely kid-run, eco-friendly market, for ages 7-17 to learn entrepreneurship by creating and selling their own products and services, all while considering the protection of our beloved planet. FREE to attend. $12-24 to participate.