Last week, we chatted with Get Lit-Words Ignite founder Diane Lane, who is in Bend this weekend for the MUSE Women’s Conference. Her program uses poetry to encourage teen literacy and empowerment. (Scroll down to the video to see those results in action.) Lane had more to say then we could fit in print, so […]
Muse Women’s Conference
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Our Picks 3/5-3/11
thursday 5 Central Oregon Sportsmen’s Show OUTDOORS—Get past the irony of spending a day indoors to gear up for the outdoors, and feast on this four-day smorgasbord of tents, boats, cross-bows, and rods-n-reels. (See page 24 for more information about this year’s cooking presentations.) Noon-8 pm, Thursday & Friday, 10 am-8 pm Saturday, 10 am-4 […]
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MUSE Worthy
Year Two of Bend’s Bigger Better Women’s Conference
Last month, the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, an international effort to correct the heavy male bias in Wikipedia pages, created over 100 new entries for women in just 24-hours, and bulked up the collective knowledge with a more complete gender representation. Reading the lineup for Bend’s second annual Muse conference feels like the organizers are trying […]
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2014 Festival Forecast
With the economy returning, so goes area conferences
Here are the facts: In 2013, BendFilm ticket sales increased by 26 percent, World Muse hosted Bend’s first women’s conference, packing the Tower Theatre with high profile voices of empowerment and inspiration, and TedxBend sold out for a second year running. The assessment: Local nonprofits had a good year as hosts. What to expect in […]