It occurred to me that it’s already the First Friday of May already, and that means downtown will be swarming with Art Walk folks tonight! Shop, stores and galleries in both Downtown and the Old Mill will be open from 5 to 9 tonight, featuring special art exhibits and many include live music and/or refreshments (snacks and wine!).
Deschutes Brewery is back into First Friday as well, featuring Beer and Back-alley BBQ tonight for the evening, with artist Cristina Acosta on hand as well as live music.
And, you can catch the free GETIT shuttle to take you back and forth from downtown Bend to the Old Mill District. The shuttle runs from 5 to 9:30 and leaves from 900 Wall St. beginning at 5. The loop is about an hour and is free for riders, and shuttles leave every half hour.
This is one of those polls that roll around every year… Beer City USA! The usual suspects are on there along with some head-scratchers (Grand Rapids, Michigan?), and of course Bend is on that list. So if you’re reading this blog, odds are you live in Bend, so go vote!
Update: the original name is already taken as a registered name, so instead it’s going to be Central Oregon Beer Week!
I’m very pleased to announce something that I’ve been working on with the local breweries for a while now: the first-ever Central Oregon Beer Week, to take place next month, May 21 through 27! Bend has been overflowing with beer these past few years—in a good way, of course—and it just seemed to be time to really highlight and commemorate that.
CELEBRATE CENTRAL OREGON BEER WEEK MAY 21-27
Bend and Central Oregon has one of the largest per-capita number of breweries of any region around, and on top of that a thriving, exploding beer scene—so it’s only natural that we also have a Central Oregon Beer Week (COBW), a week-long celebration of Central Oregon’s amazing beer culture!
Central Oregon’s very first Beer Week takes place the last full week in May, leading up to Memorial Day weekend with Mt. Bachelor holding their two-day Brewski festival featuring great beer from Central Oregon’s fantastic breweries.
Other events are in the works, including tastings, meet the brewers, beer dinners, some special tours, and much more, all in conjunction with the newly-formed Central Oregon Brewers Guild—check out and bookmark the Events page to keep abreast of all the Week’s happenings!
If you would like to participate in Central Oregon Beer Week, we would welcome your event! You can fill out our event submission form on the COBW website to tell us all about it.
With COBW taking place next month, we’re focusing on smaller, inclusive beer events that will generate buzz and highlight and raise awareness of the amazing beer culture Central Oregon has to offer. I’m working to help get these coordinated as much as possible and I’m also envisioning a level of “grassroots crowdsourcing”—therefore if you would like to participate or have an idea to share, we would love to hear from you!
You can contact me directly, or better yet fill out the event submission form on the Central Oregon Beer Week website, and I will be happy to to include you and get you listed on the Beer Week site and events if possible.
That’s not a typo—legendary comedian Bill Cosby is indeed coming to Central Oregon, to perform for one show at the Hooker Creek Arena in the Deschutes County Fairgrounds over in Redmond, on Sunday, July 22nd. The show will be at 1pm, and here are the ticket details from C3 Events’ press release:
Tickets will be on sale beginning Friday, April 27 in-person or charge-by-phone at Newport Avenue Market, 541-382-3940. Prices start at $32 for Floor General, and will sell at $38 for Upper Concourse General and $54 for Floor Reserved. Limited general admission tickets will also be available at Ray’s Food Place in Prineville.
C3 has a number of details on their Facebook page, including how you might be able to win tickets from the radio: “Announcements and ticket give aways for Bill Cosby all week, this week, on KQAK 105.7, The Peak 104.1, Lite 95.1, and Newsradio Central Oregon, 1340 KBNW.”
This is certainly one of the more unexpected big-name acts I can think of that’s come to Central Oregon, but it’s pretty cool. And seems reasonably priced too. Show of hands, who’d be interested in going?
TEDxBend, which I blogged about previously, is just over a week away! Taking place next Saturday the 28th at Summit High School, it’s bringing together amazing speakers in true TED tradition with an overall theme of, appropriately, “Bending Rules.” The speakers are:
Blake Canterbury
Raj Dhingra
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Charles Jennings
David Hume Kennerly
Wren LaFeet
Eric Plantenberg
Malerie Pratt
Sidney Rittenberg
So, the bad news: tickets have sold out, so there are no seats left. (Well, bad news if you wanted to go, but good news for the TEDxBend folks.) But there’s good news—there are still a few onsite live-streaming tickets available, for $35. This is a live streaming room at Summit, so while you won’t be in the auditorium watching the speakers in person, you will still be there and attending. You can purchase those tickets here.
And, at that same link you can purchase a ticket to the After Party (there are still a few of those left too) for $25. You don’t have to attend TED to go to the party afterword, which is taking place at the Century Center from 6 to 9pm that night. The $25 ticket price includes drinks and appetizers, and it sounds like there might be live music as well.
So if you want to attend the live streaming or the after party, get on it! There’s one day and just a very few tickets left.
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It occurred to me that it’s already the First Friday of May already, and that means downtown will be swarming with Art Walk folks tonight! Shop, stores and galleries in both Downtown and the Old Mill will be open from 5 to 9 tonight, featuring special art exhibits and many include live music and/or refreshments (snacks and wine!).
That’s not a typo—legendary comedian Bill Cosby is indeed coming to Central Oregon, to perform for one show at the Hooker Creek Arena in the Deschutes County Fairgrounds over in Redmond, on Sunday, July 22nd. The show will be at 1pm, and here are the ticket details from C3 Events’ press release:
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