Skip to content
  • Energize Bend Public Comment Workshop

    805 SW Industrial Way 5, Bend, OR

    In a time when our government has hardly been more dysfunctional, kick off February with a healthy dose of civic engagement 🙂‍↔️ We are working to pass a Climate Pollution…

  • Mountainfilm on Tour – Bend: Night One

    Tower Theatre 835 NW Wall St., Bend, OR, United States

    Join 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…

    $22 – $25
  • BLACK HISTORY EMPOWERMENT RETREAT

    COCC Redmond 2324 NE College Lp, Redmond, OR, United States

    A 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

  • Moutainfilm on Tour-Bend: Night Two

    Tower Theatre 835 NW Wall St., Bend, OR, United States

    Join 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,…

    $22 – $25
  • 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 States

    An 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • BLACK HISTORY DINNER CELEBRATION

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

    An 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.

  • 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…