The Oregon Book Awards Author Tour
The Oregon Book Awards Author Tour brings writers to the Cook Memorial Library in La Grande, 2006 Fourth St.,for author readings and free writing workshops. Oregon Book Awards authors Toni Hanner, Ismet Prcic and Carter Sickels will offer free writing workshops, followed by a reading and panel discussion with all three writers at 3:00 p.m. Workshop: Get Ready to Write!, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. This fast-paced poetry workshop will focus on generating new first drafts and is appropriate for beginning writers as well as those with more experience. You will go home with some new tools and ideas for...
Read MoreArt Center Serves Up Collection of Creative Offerings in May
The Art Center at the Old Library is serving up a great line-up of classes for both young and old. Mixed media arts, language arts, and fitness make for a well rounded dose of creative and energetic living – view the offerings below and connect with The Art Center for registration. EXPLORING CLAY (Ages 6 – 11) 4 MONDAYS from 4:30 – 5:30 pm April 29, May 6, 13, 20 The primary medium of this class is clay, however we will also learn how to create sculptures by combining found objects with clay. We will create three ceramic projects, with the last class session reserved...
Read MoreLa Grande Disc Golf Meet Zoe Andyke
Disc golf has become a popular past time in La Grande serving hundreds of folks a year at the Eastern Oregon University campus course or in the hills at one of the many grass-root courses. One La Grande native, however, has taken her passion for the disc into and exciting new level. Zoe Andyke, who has been playing disc in our valley on and off for the last 7 years will be attending the 2013 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships. She will be doing clinics along the way to garner support the next of which will be a clinic on Distance Driving and is planned to be on Wednesday...
Read MoreRiding with Champions: An Appreciation of the 2012-13 Mountaineer Women Basketball Team
kid yoshida travels to Sioux City Iowa to watch EOU women compete in NAIA national basketball championship...
Read MoreStage Door Theater to House First Live Theatre Production
The Liberty Theatre Foundation is please to host its first EOU student theater production of, “The Women of Lockerbie,” on Wednesday, March 20 and Thursday, March 21 at 7:00 p.m. in the Stage Door Theater. This stunning one-act play is loosely based on the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec., 21 1988; an event that left 259 passengers dead as well as 11 of Lockerbie’s residents. Seven years later, the play recounts Madeline Livingston’s (Adraine Jacobs) grief as she searches for the lost remains of her son in the fields of Lockerbie and Bill (Johnathan Phipps)...
Read MoreEOFF2013 Releases Full Festival Program
February 28th – March 2nd, 2013 in our delightful community of La Grande, Oregon — the best cultural event in the region will unfold. EOFF2013 is the fourth annual Eastern Oregon Film Festival held in La Grande, Oregon February 28th – March 2nd, 2013. EOFF features an amazing line-up of emerging independent feature and short films. The festival opens with Only The Young, an intimate portrait of three enigmatic teenagers searching for love, friendship, and skate parks. The film somehow manages to capture the fly-on-the-wall perspective of a documentary, with the aesthetic...
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