“The Cymbeline Project” will be presented in 10 digital episodes, each led by what Oregon Shakespeare Festival describes as “an iconoclastic slate of lead artists, whose practices range in form from collage to puppetry to VR.”
Ashland independent film studio Joma Films has completed principal photography on a new feature film about a murder in a small Oregon town and a local boxer charged with committing the crime.
More than 60 feature films and six short film compilations are in the offing for the Ashland Independent Film Festival’s 21st season that will run virtually April 1-10. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, March 18.
Roberta Munroe, the new artistic director of the Ashland Independent Film Festival, has an extensive background in film and film-making.
Beginning in October 2001 at Ashland’s Varsity Theatre, the Ashland Independent Film Festival has steadily grown to become one of the standout independent, non-studio film exhibits throughout the country.
A trio of Ashland events Monday, Jan. 17, will mark Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. There will be a socially distanced and masked gathering outdoors on the Ashland Plaza at 12:30 p.m., followed by the live online premier of “Martin Luther King, Jr.: Our Voices,” and a special screening of the movie “Selma” at the Varsity Theatre.
Longtime SOU Professor Edwin Battistella, author of several widely known books, retires this month after 22 years at the university. In this profile, he reflects on all he has achieved and what he is looking forward to next.
Senior-ranking Southern Oregon University faculty and staff who are already considering retirement in the next 18 months are being asked to make their decision official by Jan. 12 to lessen the estimated blow of upcoming cuts to rightsize the university from its projected $13 million to $14 million deficit by summer 2024.
Jim Hatton: “People tend to worship the material as if the material had power in and of itself. Nothing can be further from the truth.”
Chris Honoré: “How to possibly comprehend that after four years of observing the Trump administration, which I considered a train wreck, 74 million Americans still voted for him?”
The Havurah Synagogue will host a benefit concert featuring renowned pianist Alexander Tutunov, the Siskiyou Violins, and concert violinist Faina Podolnaya on Thursday, Dec. 15. Proceeds will benefit Ukrainian refugees now living in the Rogue Valley.
The authors of a natural history book about the Klamath Mountains will discuss the geological feature at a free talk from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, at the Southern Oregon University Science Building, 1250 Ashland St., Room 151.
(It’s free)
