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Wednesday, February 12th - Thursday, February 13th
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SOU Outdoor Program presents:
The Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival
Wed, Feb 12 - Thu, Feb 13, 6:00pm Doors / 6.30pm Show
Pre-Show Dinner 4:00pm (in Stevenson Union)
at the
SOU Music Recital Hall
450 S Mountain Ave, Ashland

Pre-Show Dinner (catered by Caldera Brewing Co.)
4.00pm in the Rogue River Room in Stevenson Union

Admission:
$18.00 Advance / $20.00 (cash only) at the door at 6.00pm

Advance Tickets:
https://commerce.cashnet.com/SOU-OP

All tickets purchased will be held at will-call to be picked up at the dinner
between 4.00-6.00pm or at the venue between 6.00-6.30pm

Facebook Event:
www.facebook.com/events/509401646357308

The Outdoor Program is excited to announce that we will be hosting the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour for our 9th consecutive year! Each night of this event will be showcasing different films, so be sure to get both tickets so you don't miss any of the amazing films that BCMFF has to offer!

You can go to the SOU Outdoor Program website at the end of January for the final film list: https://inside.sou.edu/outdoorprogram/banff.html

The Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world. The Festival is held each year in November in Banff, Canada and features a collection of thought-provoking films from all over the globe. Hot on the heels of the festival each year, the best films head off on the Banff Mountain Festival World tour with stops in about 285 communities and 36 countries across the globe. Traveling from remote landscapes and cultures to adrenaline-packed action sports, the World Tour showcases the efforts and talents of the world’s finest mountain filmmakers.

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Thursday, February 13th
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United Nations Club presents:
Movie Night - Documentary Film
"1948: Creation and Catastrophe"
Rescheduled to:
Thu, Feb 13, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
at
SOU's Hannon Library, Meese Room
1250 Siskiyou Blvd, 3rd floor, Ashland

Rescheduled from 1/30 to 2/13

"1948: Creation and Catastrophe" is a documentary film to understand the Palestinian struggle for freedom.

Based on 8 years and 1000's of hours of research, this amazing fim utilizes archival footage and personal interviews to powerfly document the events of 1948 and why they were so wonderful for some and so catastrphic for others.

Co-sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace and Native Studies (NAS).

Contact: Gamerk@sou.edu for questions.

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Thursday, February 13 - Monday, February 24 (8 of those days)
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Water Made to Rise
Thu Feb 13, Fri Feb 14, Mon Feb 17, Thu Feb 20, Sat Feb 22, & Mon Feb 24 at 7:30pm
Sun Feb 16 & Sun Feb 23 at 2:00pm
at
Wesley Hall
175 N. Main St, Ashland

Free Parking in lot on Laurel St

Appropriate for audiences ages 11-111

Admission:
$20:00 / $15.00 Students and Oregon Trail Card Holders with valid ID

Tickets Available at:
Paddington Station & Tree House Books in Ashland
at the door, and online at https://barretobrien.com

Award-winning international choreographer comes to Ashland for "Water Made to Rise."

At the end of 2018 three Oregon Shakespeare Festival actors mounted the new play Water Made to Rise at the Historic Ashland Armory to raise awareness for climate change. The play was a hit and enjoyed a sold out run. So the team got ambitious and after an invitation to perform this summer at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival came to them, they decided to remount the show for a full run in Ashland before heading to Europe.

"Our intention is to offer highly physical theatre dedicated to the restoration of the natural world," says O’Brien.

To elevate the production to where it needs to be to, O’Brien has enlisted the award-winning international choreographer SheenRu Yong to travel to Ashland and helm the remount. Yong has choreographed pieces all over the world, including New York, Berlin, Hawai’i, and Taipei. She has toured internationally with world renowned Legend Lin Dance Theatre. Her specialization is choreographing community collaborative projects, most notably The Re-source Project and body portal theatre. She is the recipient of the Asia Pacific Leadership Program Fellowship at the East West Center. Under the auspices of Taiwan’s LuoManFei Dance Fund and the Taiwan Ministry of Culture, Yong also spearheaded "Flood / turn the tide," a cross-cultural collaboration between community artists in Hawai'i and Taiwan. It’s her work on international water issues that brought her to "Water Made to Rise" and this production, her Oregon premiere.

O’Brien continues, "Theatre has the capacity to expand the limits of our climate conversation. At its finest, theatre provides a venue whereby people of wildly different world-views can sit side-by-side and become more open-minded, more open-hearted, more equipped to roll up their sleeves and get to thrilling work that is calling to be done right now."

Water Made to Rise is a "zero waste" production, meaning all props, sets, and costumes are "upcycled" (built from found or repurposed materials). There are no programs or paper cup concessions. After its Ashland run, the Water Made to Rise team envisions sharing the work in this zero waste fashion in traditional and non-traditional venues all over the country (community centers, schools, environmental conferences, Grange associations, hospitals....

Water Made to Rise is the tale of three strangers trapped in an abandoned bar by a catastrophic flood. Part comedy, part thriller, the work adds theatre to the many imaginative ways people all over the world are writing the story of our sustainable future.

"The opportunities facing the world today require new avenues of conversation. Theater provides one such avenue, one that not only helps us cognize new solutions, but also feel them."

O’Brien is an award-winning playwright and actor from New Orleans whose family home was leveled by Hurricane Katrina in 2003. As an actor he has performed all over the world including London, Paris, Bonn, Tbilisi, New York, Los Angeles, and, most recently, six seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. His works as a playwright, poet, and novelist have been staged in New York, Louisiana, Texas, Connecticut, Montana, Oregon, and Washington and published by Smith & Kraus, the Jefferson Journal, Yale Palimpsest, and American Dog Books.

Contact: artistscollective@live.com or (917) 553-1174 for further information, to schedule an interview, or for photo opportunities

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Friday, February 14th
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Valentines Dance with the Frankie Hernandez Band
Fri, Feb 14, 8:00pm Doors / 8:30pm - 11:00pm Show
at the
Applegate River Lodge
15100 Highway 238, Applegate

Admission:
$10 at the door

21 +

www.facebook.com/events/608171159946535

Soul, Funk, Reggae Rock Adventure

(music for your spirit and your butt)

Come be loved!

www.facebook.com/frankiehernandezmusic

www.youtube.com/channel/UCLeQUdowN1RPlXEF84xsySw

Come join us at the Lodge this Friday the 14th for a fun filled night with Music by the Frankie Hernandez Band. The restaurant open for dinner. Sonny K will be playing the Ukelele at the restaurant until 9:00pm.

A $10.00 cover for the lodge show, with Frankie Hernandez. 

You can call the restaurant at 541-846-6082.

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Friday, February 14th - Saturday, February 15th
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Figment Friday
Overnight Valentines Celebration
Formal Dinner, Traffic Light Party, and Ecstatic Dance
with Dance Music by:
Marcus Fire • Yaalini Devi • Akal Dub • Jaya (Raise)
and Dinner Music by:
David Duret
Fri, Feb 14, 5:30pm Doors / 6:30 Dinner & Music - Sun, Feb 15, 11:00am
at
Pacifica: A Garden in the Siskiyous
14615 Watergap Rd, Williams

Admission:
$25 - $100 Sliding Scale

Free Parking
Advance Tickets & More Info at:
www.eventbrite.com

Facebook Event:
www.facebook.com/events/1087747044897058

Love is in the air and is the very fabric of the universe. On this Valentines day, let’s step outside of the usual capitalistic holiday and drop into connection with each other and ourselves. It’s a chance for us to focus our love around building community and caring for each other so we are strong and resilient as we navigate forward. This is an invitation to follow your heart.

For this Figment Friday we’d like to create a night for the adults to play the Traffic Light game to open the floor for deeper connection and do something outside of the normal holiday practices while still offering a space for something fun to do. The intention for this is to create a fun and playful environment for single folks and couples alike.

Here’s how it works: At the door, you’ll choose a custom RED, YELLOW, or GREEN wristband made specially for this event. Red signifies that you are in a closed relationship or are not open to new romantic connections. Yellow signifies that you are unsure or are in an open relationship, and that others should proceed slowly. Green signifies that you are single and open to new connections/relationships. Feel free to dress formal and accessorize with the color you are representing.

In order for this game to be safe, we will need everyone to be respectful of each other and use consent. Remember that no means no, yes means yes, and maybe means no until you get a yes. Remember to give silence and space to allow the person you are asking to check in with themselves on what they want.

Figment Friday is a space for growth, expression, connection, and community to come together through arts, music, and workshops. This event is also always experimental and open to feedback from the community (so let us know what you like and don’t like). Let’s expand our consciousness, lean into our edges, have fun, and create the world we all want to dance in.

Schedule:

5:30 Doors Open! Come early to drop in and order delicious vegan food from the Stardazzle Cafe. 20 spots available for 4 course meal including ginger miso soup, salad wraps, veggie sushi, teriyaki veggie stirfry, gf mac and cheese and choice of desert. First come, first serve; reserve your spot by choosing the Four Course Dinner and Event Ticket.

6:30 Dinner and Upright Bass with David Duret (buy dinner from our food vendor, sit down in the great hall with loved ones, and soak up music magic from David.)

7:30 Connection Workshops (Details TBA)

8:30 Cacao Ceremony to open our hearts

9:30 Opening Ceremony for the Ecstatic Dance

10:00 Ecstatic Dance with Marcus Fire
Enjoy a one of a kind music journey with his one-man-band Didgeridoo , genre bendin' Banjo, fancy feet percussion, and soulful vocals. A multi genre producer, looper, and beatboxer.

12:00 Ecstatic Dance with Yaalini Devi.
Yaalini Devi is a multi-faceted DJ that specializes in world music, downtempo, bass and soundscapes to create an ecstatic experience. Merging the worlds of electronic and organic instrumental music to tone and raise the vibration of any setting.

2:00 Ecstatic Dance Closing Circle. After this you are free to talk on the dance floor.

2:30 Akal Dub
Bradley (Akal Dub) was born in Misawa, Japan and moved almost every three years with little time to root into any one place. This blessing in disguise has helped curate his sound into something wonderful, beautiful, inspiring and definitely fresh. He spent the last 15 years of his life studying music every day and crystallizing the art he feels deep in his heart.

4:30 Jaya (Raise)
Jaya (Raise) is an M.C., D.J., producer, and songwriter that blends positive hiphop, big bass, and electronic dance beats. His songs always have a sense of soul, poetry, lyricism, melody, and groove.

6:30 Community Acoustic Jam into the sunrise. Bring your instruments and contribute to the magic we all created.

• Epic visuals and projection mapping by Kendall Jorgensen
• Delicious food by Stardazzle Cafe: www.facebook.com/sushistarbrigade
• Tea Service by Sylvain Brown
• Decor by Shiloh Gilliland
• Cacao Ceremony by Andrew Hanuman Jones
• Sacred Fire
• Fire Spinning by Rogue City Flow Arts
• Workshops (focused around connection and communication) TBA
• Healing space in the Studio by Jose Luis Morales and Mathew MckeeZ
• Vendors TBA

Dance Music by

• Marcus Fire: www.reverbnation.com/marcusfire/songs

• Yaalini Devi
(Last chance to see her before she moves to Nevada City!)
www.facebook.com/yaalinimusic
https://soundcloud.com/yaalini_devi

• Akal Dub
www.spotify.com

• Jaya (Raise)
www.spotify.com

When we have more energy we are able to make the event better and better each time. It allows us to invest in more traveling artists, add more sound and lighting equipment, and give local people the space and resources to bring their passions and dreams to reality. 20% of ticket sales also go directly to supporting Pacifica, our beautiful nonprofit hub of art, music, nature education for children, and community. Sorry, no refunds.

As always, the guidelines for ecstatic dance are there are no shoes and no talking on the dance floor. please respect yourself and others. No photography on the dance floor and if you want to take photos in other areas, please ask consent (we will have a professional photographer roaming around taking picture of the event, but not of anyone dancing during the ecstatic dance).

This is a No Alcohol and Drug Free Event!

No smoking in the building or right outside the doors.

Any questions can be answered by TheElementalProduction@Protonmail.com

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Friday, February 14th - Sunday, February 16th
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Womb of Pearls
Healing our Sexuality workshop for Women
Guides:
Shannon Tinder and Totem
Fri, Feb 14, 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Sat, Feb 15, 10:00am - 6:00pm
Sun, Feb 16, 10:00am - 5:00pm
at
Hidden Springs Wellness Center
635 Lit Way, Ashland

Cost:
$222
We welcome: Cash, Checks, PayPal, Venmo

To register reach out via FB messenger or text either:
Totem: 808.344.027
Shannon: 541.363.7436

www.facebook.com/events/2608801302565850

This healing circle of Women will dive into the watery depths of the unconscious that is held in the cauldron of the womb.

Dance, Ritual and Vocal expression woven with Oracular Womb Care will carry you on the barge of remembrance to the sacred pearls gathered when permission is granted to share the Shadow.

   • Witness ~ Be witnessed ~
   • Shed ~ Reclaim ~
   • Scream ~ Welcome Silence ~
   • Hear your voice ~  

🌹Cultivate and welcome healing your Sacred Sexuality 
thru dance, ritual, and voice by allowing ourselves to explore our feelings and emotions in honoring our wounds.

🌹We welcome you to enter a sacred safe space to truly tune in with your own Shadows around your Womb and what has landed in it thru your consent and non-consent.

This journey shall offer tools around exploring the ways you can embrace your wounds as pearls.

We bow to you and your bravery to join us.

This enriching 2 and a half days Immersion in the Shamanic Arts of digging deep and growing wide, is a profound gift to yourself, your partner, your child, and your practical “next steps” on celebrating all you have become.

We are open to work with you if you need some flexibility around a payment plan.

Shannon Tinder is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Holistic Pelvic Care Practitioner, Biofield Tuning Practitioner, and Nutritional Herbalist offering deeply intuitive, therapeutic care.  She and her husband own the wellness center Sacred Living Center in Ashland, OR.    Shannon’s offerings are a culmination of somatic bodywork, womb presencing, and vibrational balancing, helping women heal within the physical, emotional, and soul level.

Totem is a Dance/Movement therapy facilitator that has been studying, exploring and researching the world of Dance for many years as a way of healing and deep transformation. She is offering tools and unique technic/approach which she developed to help support solid, grounded inner personal processes and spiritual practice through Dance, Movement and voice exercises. she believe in our body's wisdom and in our inner wild world of emotions to lead us to our deepest truth. She is currently offering personal sessions, workshops and classes at her home studio in Talent Oregon.

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Saturday, February 15th
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Korean Natural Farming Hands-On Competency Course
Mon, Feb 17 - Sat, Feb 22, 11:30am - 5:00pm each day
at
Pacifica: A Garden in the Siskiyous
14615 Watergap Rd, Williams

Cost:
$199.00

40% discount for students with the discount code "brokestudent"
Valid student ID required upon admission

Registration:
www.eventbrite.com

Space is limited – sign up today!

Facebook Event:
www.facebook.com/events/506125333633594

This Korean Natural Farming Hands-On Competency Course will give you the skills, knowledge and confidence you need for this year’s upcoming season! This is the first time this course has been offered in Southern Oregon!

Topics Covered:

• The 9 Core Solutions of Korean Natural Farming - all of which you will be making yourself.
• A brief introduction to JADAM Organic Farming
• How to make Biochar
• An Introduction to the Soil Food Web
• KNF Cannabis
• Forays into Permaculture, and other topics from the world of Regenerative Agriculture
• The course also includes optional morning field trips.

Whether your a hobbyist gardner, professional farmer, raise animals, or bees, there is something here for you. This is scalable to your needs! I’m continuously amazed at how broad reaching the applications are for this system. Hope to see you in beautiful Williams, Oregon.

Got Questions? Contact Jason at: jason@choglobalnaturalfarminghawaii.org

Accommodations are available on-site.
Contact Harmony at 541-659-7499 for more information.

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Tuesday, February 18th
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Ashland Folk Collective presents:
Songwriting Workshop
with
Anna Tivel & Jeffrey Martin
Tue, Feb 18, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
at the
ReMix Coffee Bar
1602 Ashland St, Ashland

Cost:
$15.00

Registration:
https://songwriting.bpt.me

Facebook Event:
www.facebook.com/events/832488260543395

"Singer-songwriters are often called poets. In truth, only a few deliver the deep insight and sense of the new that breaking through the predictable achieves. Anna Tivel is one."
~ Ann Powers, NPR

Join us for the First Ashland Folk Collective Music Workshop hosted by our performers! Song Writing masters Anna Tivel and Jeffrey Martin will lead you on a journey through performance, hands on creative writing activities, and a Q & A session.

Tivel and Martin will share their incredible talents, skills, tricks, stories, and wisdom about storytelling and songwriting. All Levels Welcome & no experience necessary, this will be an all inclusive event of learning and creativity. 

ReMix Coffee Bar will be open for alcoholic & non-alcoholic drinks & sweet treats for purchase.

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Wednesday, February 19th
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Taylor Kingman & The Resolectrics
Wed, Feb 19, 8:00pm - 11:00pm
at the
Talent Club
114 Talent Ave, Talent

www.facebook.com/events/593897508098042

resolectrics.com

www.facebook.com/resolectrics

Petunia & The Vipers
Jason Dea West (of Intuitive Compass) & Aurelia performing aerial arts
Wed, Feb 19, 8:00pm Doors / 9:00pm -11:30pm Show
at the
Applegate River Lodge
15100 Hwy 238, Applegate

Admission:
$12.00 Advance / $15.00 at the Door

Advance Tickets Available at:
www.liveatthegate.com

Facebook Event:
www.facebook.com/events/213463929667853

Petunia and the Vipers + Jason Dea West And Aurelia Cohen of Intuitive Compass, with the accompanyment of Chari Washboard Weatherford will bring you an unforgettable evening of delight at the infamous Applegate River Lodge. Reserve a room and party like it is 2020!!! Dance drink and dine while making unforgettable memories, doors at 8, show at 9, see you there!

Intuitive Compass
Intuitive Compass combines the diverse talents of song writer and guitar pioneer, Jason Dea West, and old time circus freak and accordionist, Aurelia Anne Cohen. Purveyors of Original Western Folk Music, they offer a timeless sound, which evokes a musical America of the past without ever sounding dated. The duos provocative lyrics and dynamic arrangements include elements of country western, old-time, swing, frontier balladry,  and the perpetuation of traditional folk songs.

They sing of travel, freedom, corruption, love, liberation, and personal experiences. Dea West and Aurelia Anne hail from the remote, wild lands of Southern Oregon. Intuitive Compass was formed in 2011 and has toured extensively, covering the lower 48 coast to coast, and much of New Brunswick and Alaska. Appearing in major cities and backwoods mountain towns alike, from taverns to theaters, coffee houses to barn dances, street corners to major music festivals, they always bring the essence of the nomadic soul. Their live show frequently includes some genuinely eye-catching theatrics, contortion, fire, aerial acrobatics , and dance numbers. Averaging 200 shows a year, they have been honored to share the stage with many esteemed acts, including Lost Dog Street Band, Hot Damn Scandal, Lucas Hicks, The Resonant Rogues, The Crux, and countless others. Off the road, they spend time with wild folk who live free with no compromises (blacksmiths, fur trappers, cowboys, vaudevillians, buskers, farmers, medicine men & women and other troubadours).

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Thursday, February 20th
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Public Film Screening of "Final Straw: Food Earth Happiness"
Hosted by:
Good Earth Gardens
Thu, Feb 20, 6:45pm Doors / 7:00pm - 9:00pm Film
at
Williams Grange
20100 Williams Hwy, Williams

Admission:
$5 Suggested Donation

This event is open to the public

www.facebook.com/events/516607322310932

Join us for a public screening of this film showcasing Natural Farming, including interviews with Larry Korn

A majestic journey through Japan, Korea, and the United States that turns our perceptions of food (and life) upside down in a simple and poetic way. Solutions for our most pressing social and ecological issues come from unexpected places in a bite-sized film that New York Times bestselling author Alicia Bay Laurel calls “beautiful ... both art and documentary.”

Inspired by the work and philosophy of Masanobu Fukuoka, artist Patrick M. Lydon (USA) and editor Suhee Kang (South Korea) spend four years meeting and studying with multiple generations of modern day natural farmers. The result is a film that weaves breathtaking landscapes and an eclectic original soundtrack together with stories and insights from an inspiring cast of natural farmers, chefs, and teachers. The film gives modern-day relevance to age-old ideas about more sustainable, regenerative, and harmonious ways of living with the earth.

Current-day leaders in the natural farming movement featured in the film include Yoshikazu Kawaguchi (Japan), Seonghyun Choi (Korea), Larry Korn (United States), and a dozen others. Their stories illuminate a brilliant-yet-maddeningly-simple path to sustainability and well being, one popularized by the late Masanobu Fukuoka, author of the seminal environmental text "One Straw Revolution."

Far-reaching in its application, "Food, Earth, Happiness" offers philosophical seeds to grow solutions for social and environmental justice.

For more info contact: goodearthgardens1@gmail.com.

For info on the project please visit www.finalstraw.org.

Great Northumbrian Smallpipe, Irish Song Concert
with
Dick Hensold & Patsy O'Brien
Thu, Feb 20, 7:00pm
at
ECOS
(Formerly the Headwaters Building)
4th and "C" St, Ashland

Admission:
$15.00 - $25.00 donation for the musicians

RSVP to Kevin Carr at:
kcccarr@gmail.com or 541-301-5306

A concert of traditional Celtic music, but with unique and innovative arrangements, including a variety of songs from Britain and Ireland, accompanied by guitar and Northumbrian smallpipes (a quiet bagpipe from Northeast England), or various whistles. It also features traditional and historical tunes from Cape Breton Island, Scotland, Ireland and Northumberland, with a good measure of original music in the traditional style. As well as a broad range of styles of Celtic music, this program also features an impressive range of expression, from the jaunty and humorous to soulful, led by Patsy’s warm and multi-colored baritone voice, Dick’s variety of pipes and whistles, and the nimble instrumental virtuosity of both musicians. (Please note that None of the various bagpipes used in this concert are very loud.)

Dick Hensold, Northumbrian smallpipes, Scottish reel pipes, whistles and recorder. The leading Northumbrian smallpiper in North America, for the past 20 years Dick Hensold has performed and taught in England, Scotland, Japan, Canada, and across the United States. He is an active composer, writing both music in the traditional Celtic idiom, and in more elaborately-scored pieces. This repertoire is featured on his solo CD, Big Music for Northumbrian Smallpipes, released in 2007. He is also a studio musician and theater musician, and is a 2006 Bush Artist Fellow.

www.dickhensold.com

"The piping is fluent and assured...
his technique is impressive...
delightfully interpreted."
~ FolkWorld CD Reviews ~

"Long-awaited solo CD from North America’s foremost smallpiper
presents Dick's expressive piping in a variety of settings...
Well presented with good notes...."
~ fRoots May 08, No.299 ~

Patsy O'Brien, vocals, guitar. As well as supplying the driving guitar rhythms of Celtic/World Music diva Eileen Ivers' last European tour, and collaborating with many giants of the Celtic/World music scene (Paddy Keenan, Cathie Ryan among them), award-winning artist Patsy O'Brien hosts guitar workshops all over the country, and NPR saw fit to feature one of his song arrangements on the prestigious All Songs Considered. With 4 critically-acclaimed solo albums under his belt, along with numerous live and studio collaborations, Patsy's songwriting reflects his penchant for seamless genre-hopping, and a strong interest in roots Americana as well as jazz. Veteran Irish music critic Paul Dromey declared Patsy "Ireland's best-kept musical secret."

http://patsyobrienswebsite.com

https://youtu.be/sm9DvpLX1BE
https://youtu.be/OThg4kG19OQ
https://youtu.be/3xKnxjSvSC4

A Taste of Two Engaging Learning Opportunities
Programs: The Land Steward & Oregon Master Naturalist Programs
Thu, Feb 20, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
at
Southern Oregon University Building, Room 161
1250 Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland

Free and open to the public

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Join botanist and OSU faculty Rachel Werling for a taste of two engaging learning opportunities offered through OSU’s Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center (SOREC). The Land Steward and Oregon Master Naturalists (OMN) programs are both dynamic field-based courses dedicated to improving stewardship of our region. Both are volunteer programs.

The Master Naturalist program has two parts. The nine-week online course is an overview of the state’s ecology. The field requirement of the course is one of several ecoregion offerings across the state. Our own Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion course is an inspiring and educational 7-day journey with regional experts exploring the natural history and ecology of our diverse Klamath-Siskiyous. The six field days take place over two long weekends and cover geology, oak habitats and Traditional Ecological Knowledge, serpentine habitats, watersheds, montane habitat, and the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument.

The Land Steward training takes place over 11 weeks in the fall.  This program focuses on how to care for the land you live on.  Eight field days take participants to local properties with experienced land owners and natural resource experts showcasing management practices around forest health, fire preparedness, streams, wildlife habitat, pastures, soils, rural economics and infrastructure.  Participants learn to assess their properties and build a stewardship management plan of their own. They connect with local technical, institutional and community resources that can help them reach their goals. Join OSU for one or both and enrich your life and your world! Location: Southern Oregon University Building, Room 161. Free and open to the public.

The Sam Chase and Willy Tea Taylor
Thu, Feb 20, 8:00pm Doors / 9:00pm Show
at the
Talent Club
114 Talent Ave, Talent

Admission:
$10 at the Door

www.facebook.com/events/486007732299210

The Sam Chase & Willy Tea Taylor return to the Talent Club

www.thesamchase.com

www.facebook.com/thesamchasemusic

http://willyteataylor.com

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Thursday, February 20th & Sunday, March 15th
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Rogue Riverkeeper's Clean Our Greenway Events
Help Restore Bear Creek
• Thu, Feb 20, 9:00am - 11:00am
at Hawthorne Park, 501 East Main St, Medford
* Sun, Mar 15, 12:00pm - 3:00pm
Special Event: Volunteer picnic & clean-up
at Hawthorne Park, 501 East Main St, Medford

New in 2020, be part of the change taking place on Bear Creek! Urban streams like Bear Creek are a valuable resource, yet, they often face unique and complicated challenges. As the creek travels through Ashland, Talent, Phoenix, Medford, and Central Point before reaching the mighty Rogue River just upstream from Gold Hill, the Bear is influenced by a patchwork of landowners, land uses, and user groups that impact its water quality. 

Want to get involved in improving water quality, riparian areas, and the community experience on Bear Creek? Become an ambassador for Bear Creek. Volunteer monthly or yearly (or anytime!) to pick up trash along a designated, one-mile stretch of Bear Creek in downtown Medford. We will supply gloves, grabbers, and trash bags - you supply the person power!

Sign up here:
https://secure.everyaction.com/Izy7KNim5UeGR7gaepxyJw2

Check our website calendar www.rogueriverkeeper.org/calendar for monthly clean-up events. Upcoming events include:

Thursday, February 20th, 9:00am - 11:00pm
Hawthorne Park, Medford
* Work alongside folks from Rogue Retreat's successful Clean Sweep program!

Come to our monthly events from 9AM to 11AM near Hawthorne Park and trek one mile north toward McAndrews Rd and remove trash. We will supply water, gloves, grabbers, and trash bags - you supply the person power! We need all the help we can get!

Sunday, March 15th, 12:00pm - 3:00pm
Hawthorne Park, Medford
* Special Event: Volunteer picnic & clean-up

March brings a unique monthly clean-up event. Join Rogue Riverkeeper and KS Wild to recruit new volunteers and celebrate our current ambassadors with a picnic and service event!

Picnic and presentations from 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Clean the Greenway from 1:30Ppm - 3:00pm

April
Earth Month Celebration clean-up event TBD.

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Friday, February 21st
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4th Annual Community Cider Tasting & Release
Fri, Feb 21, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
at
Ashland Food Co-op
237 N 1st St, Ashland

www.facebook.com/events/783631568781143

Remember back in the fall when you donated your backyard fruit to the Co-op? For the last few month, Apple Outlaw has been fermenting your apples, pears and plums into the 4th annual Backyard Orchard Community Cider!

Join us Friday, February 21st, 4pm - 6pm, at the Tasting Kiosk to sample the fruits of your labor, literally. You'll meet the makers and chat how all the unique flavors came together to make the 4th annual Community Cider. 

With the help of Summit Beverage, the Ashland Food Co-op and You, Apple Outlaw is able to donate proceeds from this cider to benefit the Ashland Food Project! Truly a full circle community effort!

Cheers!

Williams Community Forest Project presents:
National Geographic: "A Legend Returns to Yellowstone"
Community Movie Night
Fri, Feb 21, 7:00pm
at the
Williams Grange
20100 Williams Hwy, Williams

www.facebook.com/events/486800758647253

This amazing documentary depicts the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park.

The movie is a beautiful story of how wolves transformed Yellowstone into a balanced ecosystem, and you are given a heart warming view into the wolves' lives.

Free Popcorn! Family fun, come on down ! 🤗
Donations accepted

Hosted by Williams Community Forest Project
www.williamscommunityforestproject.org
www.facebook.com/WilliamsCommunityForestProject

Danielle Kelly Soul Project
Fri, Feb 21, 9:00pm - 11:30pm
at the
Brickroom
35 N Main St, Ashland

$10 cover

21+

www.facebook.com/events/1149588351910303

DK Soul Project is a rogue valley based, female fronted retro soul dance party band covering Stax/Atlantic Motown favorites and their own neo-soul originals, here to make you dance!

www.daniellekellymusic.com

www.facebook.com/Daniellekellymusic

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Saturday, February 22nd
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The Foundations of Learning with Nina Gallwey
Sat, Feb 22, 9:00am - 3:00pm
at
The Siskiyou School
631 Clay St, Ashland

Fee:
$75.00

Registration:
Call 541-482-8223 to sign up

Facebook Event:
www.facebook.com/events/545347616067610

Workshop offered by Nina Gallwey. Academic learning and healthy social interaction come with ease when built on the natural foundation of sound physical and neurological development in early childhood. Encouraging and providing integrative movement/activity in the classroom and at home enhances the capacity for learning in every child. The Foundations of Learning workshop provides a fascinating look at what systems strengthen academic learning and support organized behavior through understanding and nurturing the natural developmental priorities of the child.

The workshop also offers a hands-on experience of how to bring integrative movement/activities into the classroom and home to support the healthy neurological development of the child.  Nina Gallwey has special education degree and has been a teacher for 31 years, working with children ages 3-14. Nina was a class teacher for 12 years, and she has 19 years of experience working in remedial education, serving hundreds of children with learning challenges through her private practice. Nina currently runs the Ohana Program at Siskiyou School, which offers educational support to children ages 7-12.

Miso Making: Japanese Traditional Healthy Condiments
Sat, Feb 22, 5:45pm - 8:45pm
at
Bestow & Bloom
1606 Ashland St, Ashland

Cost:
$65.00

Registration:
www.bestowandbloom.com/shop-1/japanese-condiments

Facebook Event:
www.facebook.com/events/168429461054694

Miso is essential condiments that has thousands of years of history in Japan. Homemade Miso will bring you the greatest health benefits rather than any kind of Miso you can find.  Learn the tips and secrets of Miso including Miso tasting, recipe ideas, and learn about what Umami is in Miso. You will bring a quart jar of Miso back home with you. You will ferment it at home, and will have a one of a kind of Miso in this world.

Come join us with Midori Uehara, as we learn about the ancient and delicious Japanese tradition of miso making.

Together, we will create, from scratch, a big batch of miso. Yum!

Mardi Gras 2020
Benefit for The Dome School
Sat, Feb 22
7:00pm: Dinner Service and Doors
9:00pm: Donna & The Fringe
at
The Dome School
9367 Takilma Rd, Takilma (Cave Junction)

Admission:
$10:00 - $20.00 Sliding Scale
More if you can, Less if you can't

18+ Event. No Minors Allowed
Prepare to show ID.

Local Craft Beers on Tap as well as a selection of wine and champagne.

Late Night Dance Party and Blackjack

Call Chad @ 971-208-3054 to get involved, or email chad@domeschool.org

Talia Rose & Friends
A Miracle of Love
A Musical Celebration of Winter & the Coming of Spring
Original & Irish Traditional Tunes
Sat, Feb 22, 7:30pm
at
Trinity Episcopal Church
44 N Second St, Ashland

Admission:
$15 at the door

You are invited to enjoy an evening of resonant Celtic harp music interwoven with vocals, Native American flute and stories that will take you to the magical realms within. Come and journey to Tir de M'og ("Land of the Ever Burning Heart" in Irish).

25% of proceeds donated to the legal fund of the migrant children on the border

To hear Talia Rose's music:
emeraldfireproductions.com

Yoga For Your Ears presents:
The Winter Community
A Hip Hop Social
Sat, Feb 22, 9:00pm - 1:00am
at
TonTon's Artisan Affections
109 Talent Ave, Talent

Admission:
$7.00

21+

www.facebook.com/events/167663507797488

The Winter Social

featuring performances by:

• Bremer Baden: https://soundcloud.com/therealbremer
• Namid Wolf: https://soundcloud.com/namidwolf
• Angelo Florez: https://soundcloud.com/iamangeloflorez
• The Roomy Depth: https://soundcloud.com/theroomydepth
• Tony Lxor: https://soundcloud.com/user-150393184
• Whim
• Linkletter: https://soundcloud.com/linkletter
• and live painting from Miles Frode

The Fruits are Coming:
Sweet N' Juicy
Sat, Feb 22, 9:00pm - 12:00am
at the
Talent Club
114 Talent Ave, Talent

www.facebook.com/events/490272961890090

Sweet N' Juicy brings their Songwriter Funk in Fruit Suits back to the Talent Club. Ask around about their previous shows and you will wanna be there. It will be Sweet, it will be Juicy, it will be N'. Let's Party!

Here is a preview for you:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jY7kdEIhaA

"If the Talking Heads were a funk band"
~ Daria Eliuk ~

www.sweetnjuicymusic.com

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Saturday, February 22nd & Sunday, February 23rd
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Olox
• Sat, Feb 22, 8:00pm: Concert
at The Havurah,185 N Mountain Ave, Ashland
• Sun, Feb 23, 10:30am - 12:30pm: Special Workshop
at Jackson WellSprings, 2253 Hwy 99 N, Ashland

Admission:
Concert: $22.00 Advance
Workshop: $33.00 Advance
Combo Concert & Workshop: $50.00 Advance

Advance Tickets Available at the:
Music Coop in Ashland and Online HERE

Facebook Event:
www.facebook.com/events/990625918004068

So much excitement to bring Olox back to Ashland 2-22-2020
You'll be amazed, transformed, moved & inspired at the deepest level

Olox is a musical collaboration that integrates traditional shamanic traditions from the arctic circle with electronic music and world rhythms. Bringing together ancient roots with modern music creates a bridge that is both uniquely transformative & reconnecting.

Olox is glad to share with you an enthralling trip into the mysterious, enigmatic spiritual world of The People of the Far North - The Sakha People, who believe that all the Universe is divided into three worlds: The Higher (Overhead) the Middle and the Lower.

Zarina Kopyrina is a walker between worlds. A verifiable enigma, often baffling and mesmerizing her audiences with profound vocal ranges from the primal chaos of underworld creatures, to soaring heights of birds and angels. Adept at overtone throat singing, reindeer breath and mouth harp, she effortlessly lulls people into non-ordinary states of trance and healing. She grew up in a small village of 900 people in Arctic Siberia and remembers from 3 years old, singing traditional songs and talking to animals. In 2012, a Tungus Siberian shaman blessed her with permission to play the shamanic drum and sing sacred songs. Zarina has travelled all over the world offering mind blowing concerts and instructional workshops. Zarina and Andreas Jones have founded the Olox Project, an electro-shamanic music project which bridges traditional knowledge with modern technologies: the Olox project - the bridge between ancestral wisdom and new generations, traditional knowledge married to new technology. The musical content of the creative unio­n of Andreas Jones & Zarina Kopyrina blows­ the mind. And they are returning to Ashland after their extraordinary December visit.

With the flexibility to offer Acoustic Live performances, Ecstatic Dance, Electronic Music, Sound Healing - all in immersive unfoldings, Olox brings live concerts and follow-up workshops of the highest vibration on grounded earth-based planes.

Workshop
A Special Workshop will be held 2/23 at 10:30 am-12:30 pmat Jackson WellSprings (Community room). This workshop will introduce you to some of the ancient songs and rituals of the shamanic arctic Siberian Sakha people. Shamanic sound healing has been used by first peoples to attain altered states and communicate with the spirit world. This workshop will introduce you to moving through and working with the three worlds: The Lower, the Middle and the Higher. You will explore the traditional song Toyuk of the Shamanic Arctic Siberian Sakha communities, a reindeer breath work (arctic throat beat-box), the sounds of northern birds and animals, and learn how to dance sacred geometry dance called "Pattern" and traditional Northern people's dance. Closing the workshop, we will join in the ancient collective Salama ceremony connecting to universal energy and putting our prayers together for the earth and for all beings to have healing.

Watch and Listen here:
Olox performed for President of Russia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_MJBSC_W3g
Olox Arctic Sound Healing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=99L6tqTFQAk
Olox Arctic Ecstatic Dance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA-78ZAWkp4

Presented by Lloyd Barde Productions
For more info, call: 541.488.8282

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6 Weekends:
Saturday, February 22nd & Sunday, February 23rd
March 7th & 8th • March 21st & 22nd
April 4th & 5th • April 18th & 19th
May 2nd & 3rd
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Sunday, February 23rd
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Hugelkultur Workshop
Hosted by:
Good Earth Gardens and Siskiyou Field Institute
Instructor:
Lion Waxman
Sun, Feb 23, 10:00am - 3:00pm
at
Siskiyou Field Institute
1241 Illinois River Rd, Selma

Cost:
$70.00 / $63.00 for SFI Member

Registration Required:
To register, go to:
https://siskiyoufieldinstitute.org/product/hugelkultur-workshop
or Phone: (541) 597-8530

Facebook Event:
www.facebook.com/events/574463116441667 

In this hands on workshop we will learn to design and implement this Regenerative Agriculture Practice.  

Hügelkultur (German pronunciation: [ˈhyːɡl̩kʊlˌtuːɐ̯]) is an agricultural technique where a mound constructed from decaying wood debris and other compostable biomass plant materials is later (or immediately) planted as a raised bed.

Benefits of Hugelkultur:

• Great alternative to burn piles
• Great for use in areas with poor soil
• Retains moisture like a sponge reducing watering needs
• Soil Warms up quicker in spring
• Sequesters Carbon

The first half of the workshop will focus on Soil, Soil Health and the theory, benefits, and design techniques behind Hugelkultur. The second half of the workshop will comprise of hands-on building actually go out and implement what we have learned, building a new hugelkultur garden. 

Things to bring:

• Pen and paper for note taking
• Appropriate attire: work clothes, and gloves.
• Lunch: There will be a break for lunch, though food is not provided, so please come prepared.

Wishcraft: Adey Bell and Venus Exalted
Music ~ Divination ~ Intention
Sun, Feb 23, 6:00pm Doors / 6:15pm - 7:15pm Show
Every last Sunday of the Month thru April 2020
at the
Church of Divine Transformation
748 Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland

Free ~ Donations Appreciated
Childcare and Tea Provided

www.facebook.com/events/914516645609454

When darkness descends there is nowhere to hide.
As light returns, we re-emerge.

If we can make friends with our churning, bubbling, inner unrest then we may be able to transform the heavy lead of Being
into the golden dawn of Becoming.

"If we own the story, then we get to write the ending."
~ Brene Brown ~

That's what I think anyway.

This is my intention; on the first Sunday after the New Moon,
let us create a monthly sanctuary to inquire within.

Let's come together during the dark of the Moon,
and lay down our weapons & our agendas
and ask the Universe to illuminate the part of the unfolding mystery that we cannot see with our eyes.

May the light of our curious consciousness dispel the shadow
of our ignorance.

I wonder-
Can we come together and consider that we have the choice to live by default or by design?
Can we be open to the idea that we co-create our lives with the life force intelligence that surrounds us? 

Can we strengthen our heart-knowing, cultivate spiritual resiliency and begin to redefine American Spirituality?

Ambitious, I know.
But I'm going for it.
And I hope you join me.
-Adey

Ashland Folk Collective presents:
Anna Tivel & Jeffrey Martin Co-bill
Sun, Feb 23, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
at
ECOS
(formerly: The Headwaters Building)
84 4th St, Ashland

Admission:
$15.00

Advance Tickets
https://tivelmartin.bpt.me

Facebook Event:
www.facebook.com/events/199006077817749

Join us to welcome back acclaimed songwriter Anna Tivel and friend and fellow songwriter/ instrumentalist/singer Jeffrey Martin. Through the years Tivel and Martin have shared the stage and we are excited to host them for the first time together.

Anna Tivel
Anna Tivel reaches for that thread of understanding with her music, that moment of recognition, of shared experience. There are thousands of miles on her touring odometer and each town is a tangled web of heartache and small reasons to believe. She gravitates toward the quiet stories of ordinary life. A homeless veteran sitting on a bench to watch the construction of a luxury hotel. A woman wondering about the life of the daughter she had to give up for adoption. Someone changing shape, someone falling in love, someone all alone.

www.annativel.com

Jeffrey Martin
Jeffrey has put out bunches of music since 2009, but he's most proud of the more recent stuff.  He's fortunate to be a part of the great and loving family that is Fluff and Gravy Records in Portland, OR. "One Go Around," which released in October 2017, is his 3rd full length album. At his luckiest, he's shared shows with the likes of Sean Hayes, Gregory Alan Isakov, Courtney Marie Andrews, Jeffrey Foucault, Joe Pug, Peter Mulvey, Amanda Shires, Sean Rowe, Tracy Grammer, David Wilcox, and others.

www.jeffreymartinmusic.com

www.ashlandfolkcollective.com

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Saturday, March 14th - Sunday, March 15th
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