Community Event

Queer Coffee House @ the Library

Join us for this longstanding program! We’ll gather on the first Tuesday of every month to watch movies, make crafts, play games, build community, and share favorite books, movies, podcasts,

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Losar, the Tibetan New Year

Tibetan New Year is celebrated in late February this year. To honor Losar, we practice meditations of cutting through obstacles. This clears the energy of the old year, to make

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Southern Oregon Zine Fest 2025

Southern Oregon Zine Fest 2025 will be our 3rd annual celebration of D.I.Y. ethos, small press and independent publishers! Zinesters from the Southern Oregon community and beyond will converge in Ashland, Oregon

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Magazine Pickup Day

Each year the library discards old magazines to make room for the coming year’s issues. Stop by the Ashland Library’s Gresham Room to take home as many free magazines from

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Creative Writing Special Event

Join us for SOUL week – Southern Oregon University Live – a week long lunchtime event showcasing creative writing, poetry, and music all in the SOU Art Building, Meese Auditorium.

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Latest posts

Obituary: Eliane Viner

Obituary: Eliane A. Mueller Trapp Viner, 86, died on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024 — on her own terms and surrounded by loved ones — in Medford, Oregon, after three months of hospice care. A celebration of life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 1, in Ashland, Oregon, and online.

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Bill Thorndike Jr. remembered as community titan, treasured friend

Family, community members and longtime friends of Medford native Bill Thorndike Jr. were collectively at a loss for words over the weekend at the sudden loss of a man they say had a hand in nearly anything good to happen in Southern Oregon for much of the past half-century. Thorndike, 71, suffered a heart attack early Saturday morning, just following a Valentine’s Day spent with his wife, Angela Thorndike, at a family cabin on Whidbey Island in Washington’s Puget Sound.

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Presidents Day protest draws crowd to Ashland Plaza 

About 150 people rallied on Ashland Plaza on Monday, part of a series of nationwide protests on Presidents Day, most organized by the 50501 Movement, which stands for “50 protests. 50 states. 1 movement,” in a response to what organizers describe as “the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration.”

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New nonprofit hopes to help write next chapter in Ashland’s story

It’s in the name: Cultural and economic revitalization of Ashland is at the heart of a three-year program proposed by a new nonprofit organization — the Ashland Cultural & Economic Alliance. Co-founders Matt Hoffman, Jim Fredericks and Lloyd Matthew Haines hosted a launch event attended by about 70 business, cultural and civic leaders Saturday evening in Meese Hall at Southern Oregon University to announce the formation of ACEA.

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Peter Finkle: From many hands, one artwork

Adele Hiles, with the assistance of volunteer Linda Purdom, began her community involvement by going to the Children’s World Montessori School to get handprints from about 35 of the school’s children, plus some teachers and parent volunteers.

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