Suggestions for lonely hearts during this Valentine’s Day week
Published 5:45 am Wednesday, February 7, 2024
- Ronan Donovan, National Geographic explorer and photographer, has images he captured while studying wolves on display at High Desert Museum. The exhibit closes on Sunday.
It may be the culturally and commercially designated week of love, but there’s plenty to do for the unromantic, loveless or anti-Valentines.
Relive a local theater director’s career through the mementos left behind. Explore processes of human growth and development. Catch an explorative photography exhibit before it closes. And sway to electronic grassroots blues and boot-stomping bass.
Theater art collection in Pinckney Gallery
“Magic Circle Theatre: Ephemera 1987-2003” opened this week in the Pinckney Gallery at Central Oregon Community College (COCC).
The exhibit showcases over 30 years of costumes, masks, posters, videos and other theater memorabilia from COCC plays and musicals. Much of the collection is the career works of Lilli Ann Linford-Foreman, past theater director and current chair of COCC’s fine arts and communication department.
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday; Pinckney Gallery at Central Oregon Community College, 2600 NW College Way, Bend; cocc.edu/programs/art.
The Archaeology of One’s Soul
This talk will help guide individuals to find their life purpose, or at least point them in the right direction. Julie Dempster, certified ontological coach, uses the Human Design system as a catalyzing agent for transformations. Human Design combines astrology, the I Ching, the Kabbalah and the Hindu Chakra system to provide insights into personality, natural strengths and challenges.
7-9 p.m. Sunday; Hanai Center, 62430 Eagle Road, Bend; $35; hanaifoundation.org/calendar.
Wolves photography exhibit closing at High Desert Museum
Learn about the differing characteristics of wolves that live in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem versus the Canadian Arctic at the High Desert Museum’s “Wolves: Photography by Ronan Donovan” exhibition. Sunday will be the last chance to see the show, which opened in October, in Central Oregon. Donovan examines the relationship between wild wolves and humans through his images and videos to better understand the animals and our shared history with them.
Closing Sunday; High Desert Museum, 59800 S. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; $17 museum general admission; highdesertmuseum.org.
Moontricks
Looking for a non-themed Valentine’s Day evening? Electro-folk duo Moontricks are performing at Volcanic Theatre Pub. Hailing from the Kootenay mountains of western Canada, Nathan Gurley and Sean Rodman released their debut full-length album, “Currents,” in fall of 2022.
7-11 p.m. Wednesday; Volcanic Theatre Pub, 70 SW Century Drive, Bend; $20 online, $25 at door; volcanictheatre.com/calendar.