BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — High Desert Chamber Music just announced the six students selected for this year’s Spotlight Chamber Players program. They are: Elizabeth Cape (piano), Peyton Cape (cello), Parker Carlson (violin), Ezra Oncken (violin), Harper Renfroe (piano), and Samuel Weed (cello). HDCM Spotlight Chamber Players and all Educational Outreach programs are sponsored by the
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REDMOND, ORE. (KTVZ) — The Redmond Commission for Art in Public Places will host a ribbon cutting ceremony to unveil its latest public art installation on Friday, July 3, at 5:45 p.m. The ceremony, located at the southwest corner of Centennial Park in Redmond, is an integral part of the city’s 250 Community Block Party.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Jonathan Moore has been appointed Music Director and Conductor of the Central Oregon Symphony. Moore will also serve as Music Director of Cascade Winds, Principal Conductor of OperaBend and Assistant Professor of Music at Central Oregon Community College. Moore brings extensive artistic and leadership experience to his new roles, succeeding Maestro
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The High Desert Chamber Music (HDCM) Spotlight Chamber Players will present their final performance of the season on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. at Whispering Winds Retirement in Bend, Ore. This concert, which is free and open to the public, marks the culmination of the ensemble’s intensive chamber music study. The Spotlight Chamber
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BEND, Ore (KTVZ) – The Hixon Mortgage Bend Summer Festival will return to downtown Bend, Ore., from Friday, May 29, through Sunday, May 31, 2026. This year marks the event’s first-ever move to late May and introduces Hixon Mortgage as the new title sponsor. The annual community festival, produced by Lay It Out Events, will
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Inside a Bend manufacturing facility, thousands of guitars are handcrafted each year. They’re played on stages around the world, but built from the ground up in Central Oregon. At Breedlove Guitars, the process is equal parts precision and artistry. The sounds of sawing and sanding fill the workshop as raw wood
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Bend Cultural Tourism Fund (BCTF), a program of Visit Bend, recently awarded $300,000 in grants to 22 organizations in Bend. This funding supports arts and cultural tourism projects to increase participation in cultural experiences and spur economic activity during Bend’s shoulder seasons. The BCTF has now reinvested more than $2.8
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A new prize honoring innovative solutions to challenges across the American West was awarded Sunday evening at the High Desert Museum in Bend. Brad Parry, vice chairman of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, was named the inaugural winner of the Schnitzer Prize of the West. The $50,000 award was
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MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Art Adventure Gallery in downtown Madras is celebrating its 40th anniversary this Thursday, May 7th, with a special event. The celebration, marking four decades as a permanent art space, is scheduled from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The gallery first opened in 1986 following an art show hosted by the
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(Update: adding video and comments from cast member, theater director) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Caldera High School Theatre invites the community to experience Disney’s “Newsies,” a high-energy production with an impressive display of student talent, both on and off stage. The musical, set in turn-of-the-century New York City, follows a determined group of young newsboys
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — On July 4, 2026, America250 will bury the Semiquincentennial Time Capsule in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia. And a Warm Springs artist’s work will be in it. The stainless-steel cylinder, designed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is designed to safely store commemorative objects for 250 years until the capsule’s opening
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WARM SPRINGS, Ore. (KTVZ) — “Lillian Pitt: Art, Memory, Home” — a major exhibition featuring the art of celebrated artist Lillian Pitt (Warm Springs, Wasco, Yakama) and the art of a number of the artist’s closest friends from her personal collection and collections of other art institutions — will open Thursday, May 21, at The Museum at Warm Springs. The exhibition will be on view through Saturday, October 10.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The interactive art exhibit “Seeds of Abundance” has been transformed by the public. The exhibit, which was first reported on by KTVZ last month, features two distinct interactive elements. People were invited to contribute bits of nature, tying them together with string and sharing their thoughts on art, Central Oregon’s nature,
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Governor Tina Kotek has appointed Ellen Waterston of Bend to a second term as Oregon’s poet laureate, Oregon Humanities announced Thursday. A celebrated poet/writer, educator and speaker who founded the Writing Ranch and the Waterston Desert Writing Prize, Waterston will serve a second two-year term, ending in August 2028. Waterston is
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The City of Redmond’s Commission for Art in Public Places announced Thursday a call for Oregon artists to submit digital images of original two-dimensional paintings for an art display at Centennial Park that will honor America’s 250th birthday. The selected artworks will be enlarged into 5-by-5-foot Aluminum Composite Material panels and displayed outdoors for about two
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(Update: adding comments from Paul Cowsill and board member of historical society) MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) — A classic American pop-rock group is heading to Central Oregon, but their upcoming concert is about more than just music — it’s part of a community push to bring a long-awaited historical museum to life. In Jefferson County, history
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The High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon has broken ground on a $40 million expansion project, which will add a new wing to the museum and feature new classrooms, expanded gallery space, and new event and gathering spaces for the community.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The High Desert Museum will begin its Spring break programming on Saturday, March 21st, featuring the return of live flight demonstrations and several new exhibitions. The museum will also transition to summer hours, staying open daily from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. The seasonal schedule includes the Sky Hunters bird of
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Scalehouse Gallery in Bend is currently hosting “Seeds of Abundance: Limits, Loss & Regeneration,” a solo exhibition by artist Michele Guieu. The exhibition, which is sponsored by the City of Bend, opened March 6th and will run through April 24th. The show invites visitors to reflect on ecological limits, loss and
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SALEM, Ore. — High school students from across the state will gather in Salem this weekend for the 2026 Poetry Out Loud Oregon State Championships. The event is scheduled for Saturday, March 7, at the Historic Grand Theatre from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Hosted by the Oregon Arts Commission, the competition features 11 finalists
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