Events
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Mountainfilm on Tour – Bend: Night One
Tower Theatre 835 NW Wall St., Bend, OR, United StatesJoin us for Mountainfilm on Tour - Bend—an annual fundraiser for The Environmental Center. Each year, The Environmental Center brings Mountainfilm on Tour to Bend to showcase incredible documentary films, thoughtfully curated for our Central Oregon audience. This film event features stories of adventure, climate change, culture, and resilience from around the world. Doors open…
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BLACK HISTORY EMPOWERMENT RETREAT
COCC Redmond 2324 NE College Lp, Redmond, OR, United StatesA student-led retreat — with breakfast and lunch provided — that explores creativity and resilience, wellness, and personal branding/business acumen. Includes a powerful conversation with OSU-Cascades’ Human Development professor Shandell Landon. *Priority registration for students
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Moutainfilm on Tour-Bend: Night Two
Tower Theatre 835 NW Wall St., Bend, OR, United StatesJoin us for Mountainfilm on Tour - Bend—an annual fundraiser for The Environmental Center. Each year, The Environmental Center brings Mountainfilm on Tour to Bend to showcase incredible documentary films,…
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FILM SCREENING: TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM
Wille Hall, Coats Campus Center, Central Oregon Community College, Bend 2600 Northwest College Way, Bend, OR, United StatesAn intimate portrait of Toni Morrison, Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, editor and cultural force, from her upbringing in Lorain, Ohio, to the front lines of activism. Stay for a…
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Forged in Fire: The Volcanic Activity that Shaped Oregon’s High Desert
Oregon Natural Desert Association’s High Desert Speaker Series continues as we uncover the dynamic geologic forces that created eastern Oregon’s stunning landscapes. Dr. Ellen Bishop, author, photographer and geologist, will discuss a…
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Nature Nights: Caring for Our Rivers and Streams
Streams and their surrounding lands are critical to Central Oregon’s plants and animals, from trees and flowers to elk and the tiniest bugs. This is just one reason the Deschutes…
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Everyday Revolution: Building a World of Respect, Ijeoma headshotDignity and Liberation
Join acclaimed author and speaker Ijeoma Oluo for a powerful keynote conversation on transforming the world through everyday action. Drawing from her latest book, Be a Revolution, Oluo will challenge us to reimagine activism—not as a distant ideal, but as a daily commitment to respect, dignity and liberation. This event will celebrate the transformative power of…
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BLACK HISTORY DINNER CELEBRATION
Wille Hall, Coats Campus Center, Central Oregon Community College, Bend 2600 Northwest College Way, Bend, OR, United StatesAn inspiring dinner event honoring the strength, brilliance and legacy of Black women whose resilience continues to move communities forward. Curated and emceed by COCC Afrocentric students.
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A Tribal Family History of the Wadatika’a Band of Northern Paiutes
The final event of Oregon Natural Desert Association’s High Desert Speaker Series features Dr. Diane Teeman, an archaeologist, scholar and tribal elder of the of the Wadatika’a Band of Northern Paiutes. Dr. Teeman will share the history and culture of her family and discuss her work as an anthropologist. She will also highlight the deep connection between…
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Nature Nights: The Water Remembers
Tower Theatre 835 NW Wall St., Bend, OR, United StatesJoin the Deschutes Land Trust and Amy Bowers Cordalis (Yurok)—attorney, author of The Water Remembers, and Executive Director/Co-Founder of Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group—for a talk on the largest dam removal and river restoration project in world history. Amy will share the story of the Klamath River, from its creation teachings and Indigenous stewardship…