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Crafty Group Creates Yarn Art for Gifts, and Joy

With between one and 70 years of experience, local group has 200 years of knitting under its belt
by Becca Murphy

To any passerby, the needle’s flick and the hook’s soft swing might not look like anything special. But to this group of yarn workers, it’s a meditation—a type of metamorphosis that is only understood by picking up needles and giving it a go. Every Tuesday morning inside Bend coffee shop Spoken Moto, a group of […]

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30 Events in 30 Days

Joslyn Bryant set out to explore the Central Oregon event scene and set up a community-engaged challenge for herself
Avatar photo by Allie Noland

This past month, Bend local Joslyn Bryant challenged herself to go to a different event every single day. She set out a number of rules: one event every day for 30 days, the event must be open to the public, the event must be on some sort of public calendar and no skipping allowed. Bryant […]

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Making the Holidays Merry and Bright… and Tidy

A local company gives back with free junk removal and a holiday light display
Avatar photo by Nicole Vulcan

About a year and a half ago, then-20-year-olds Brett Williams and Adam Jorgensen had a pickup truck and a rickety old trailer, and the beginnings of a plan. With those assets at their disposal, Williams and Jorgensen started hauling away junk for people who were not able to do so themselves. Over time, the word […]

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Finding Fellow Travelers

Author Raquel Gutierrez on making meaning in a shifting landscape
by Kiyomi Appleton Gaines

There’s always a history that’s gestured towards when you’re in the act of self-naming. Or that you take certain aspects of those histories as launching points for your own self-formation,” Raquel Gutierrez says. A cultural landscape encompasses the art, narrative and lifeways of people interacting with the local environment and in turn, being transformed by […]

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Larger Than Life

In memory of Joe Leonardi, April 24, 1945 – September 20, 2022
Avatar photo by Ellen Waterston

The upcoming gathering on Nov. 13 won’t be the first time The Belfry in Sisters has staged a rockin’, Joe-inspired “Party for Leonardi.” Since the ’70s, countless music venues throughout the region, as well as Joe Leonardi’s own geodesic dome home, have taken turns showcasing his impressive talent as songwriter, vocalist (think Van Morrison), bass […]

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Now You’re Talking, Holiday Edition

Silent Echo goes live again with short play series
by Elizabeth Warnimont

Opening on the heels of the 2022 BendFilm Festival, a popular short play bundle brings Silent Echo Theater Company back in action, performing live theater again after a two-year pandemic-driven hiatus. The show features seven holiday-themed one-act plays written by six playwrights, two of whom are also from Central Oregon. Because this story appears in […]

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Spooky Books for the Season

Curl up by the fire and let these books take you on a journey
by Dudley's Bookshop Café

If you’re a fan of things that go bump in the night, then this list of books geared toward all things spooky and Halloween-y should be right up your alley. . . your dark, doomy alley. “Slewfoot” by Brom If you’re a fan of A24’s “The Witch,” we have the perfect book for you from […]

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Calling Oregon poets: It’s contest time!

Submit your entries in the adult or youth category by Oct. 27!
by The Source Staff

Hey there, Oregon poet! It’s time again for our annual Poetry Contest 2022, brought to you by the Source Weekly, the Deschutes Public Library and the Oregon State University-Cascades Master of Fine Arts program. Get all the details you need in the poster below, and submit your work by Oct. 27, 2022! Winners will read […]

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A Theater State of Mind

‘A Tapestry of Arts’ unfurls at Cascades Theatrical Company
Avatar photo by Jared Rasic

The pandemic shut down theaters across the globe (including Shakespeare’s Globe in London) and ever since they slowly started reopening…I’m guilty of not attending. It’s terrible how hypocritical that makes me because at the height of the pandemic, The Globe and several other theaters across the world put their plays on YouTube to try to […]

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Filling the Creative Cup

A Q&A on the upcoming Bend Design conference
Avatar photo by Nicole Vulcan

Rene Mitchell is the executive director of Scalehouse, a collaborative for the arts in Bend that annually puts on the Bend Design conference. Mitchell co-produces Bend Design with Martha Murray each October, bringing fresh ideas for creatives who live in the local area, as well as those who come just for the event. The Source […]

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