SOU Theatre presents: The Merry Wives of Windsor
2025-02-20 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-02-21 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-02-22 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | SOU Theatre Building, 491 S Mountain Ave., Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
SOU Theatre presents: The Merry Wives of Windsor written by William Shakespeare and directed by Domenique Lozano. Performances run February 20, 2025- March 2, 2025 on the SOU Main Stage Theatre.
Tickets are available online at https://sou.universitytickets.com or by calling the OCA Box Office at 541-552-6348. Accommodations for wheelchair seating and assisted listening devices are available by request via email: boxoffice@sou.edu
Doors open at 7:30pm for the 8:00pm show and 1:30pm for the 2:00pm shows. Parking is free in Lot #36 across from the SOU Theatre Building. The OCA Box Office opens 1 hour prior to the performance, regular hours M-F Noon-6pm.
Enjoy the performance and thank you for your support of our students and programs!
The Merry Wives of Windsor features the hero Sir John Falstaff who decides to fix his financial woes by seducing the wives of two wealthy merchants. The wives find he sent them identical letters and take revenge by playing tricks on Falstaff when he comes calling. Falstaff is boisterous, lively, cowardly, funny, and mischievous. Join us for this take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays.
PERFORMANCES:
Thursday, February 20 – 8:00pm (opening)
Friday, February 21 – 8:00pm
Saturday, February 22 – 8:00pm
Thursday, February 27 – 8:00pm
Friday, February 28 – 8:00pm (Talk back w/ actors after the show)
Saturday, March 1- 2:00pm (matinee 1)
Saturday, March 1- 8:00pm
Sunday, March 2 – 2:00pm (closing matinee 2)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Ms. Lozano is a West Coast based Director, Actress and Educator. She was a Resident Artist with the American Conservatory Theatre for 15 years, where she served as a core faculty member and director in the MFA Program, as well as the Young Conservatory Program, and as the resident director of the main stage production of A Christmas Carol. Directing work at ACT includes MFA Productions of Fuente Ovejuna, The Good Woman of Setzuan, Sueno, The Skin of Our Teeth, Happy to Stand, and Saved, as well as the world premieres of Staying Wild and Home Front. Ms. Lozano served on the Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies faculty at UC Berkeley as both a teacher of acting and as a director. Directing credits there include Tartuffe, Curly Fries- a webisode series, and Men on Boats. She is currently an Adjunct Faculty member at SOU, teaching Acting. Other directing work includes The Comedy of Errors, The Importance of Being Earnest (SPARC Theatre, Livermore Shakespeare), The Caucasian Chalk Circle, (St. Mary’s College), A One Man Show, Orlando, Drawer Boy and Welcome Home Jenny Sutter (Theatre First). Acting credits include work with California Shakespeare Theater where she was an Associate Artist, A.C.T., Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Center Rep, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Translation work includes Schiller’s Don Carlos, which premiered in the 2018 New Strands Festival at ACT, and Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, which premiered at the American Conservatory Theater in 2010.

"Other World/s" at the Schneider Museum of Art
2025-02-21 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-22 10:00 - 16:00 | Schneider Museum of Art, 555 Indiana Street, Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
Join the Schneider Museum of Art (SMA) for the exhibition “Other World/s”, a captivating group exhibition curated by SMA Executive Director Scott Malbaurn, featuring the visionary works of Heather Lee Birdsong, Ben Buswell, Alex Ito, and Stacy Jo Scott.
The exhibition delves into the concept of alternate and parallel universes, drawing inspiration from science fiction and the shifting realities of our time. The exhibition will be on view through March 15, 2025. Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is always free, but a $5 donation is suggested. More information at https://sma.sou.edu/exhibitions/other-world-s/.
Image: “Image: (Detail) Alex Ito, “”Western Verbiage III”” (belated gratitude, for Ashland and Jacksonville, Oregon), 2024, Enamel paint on resin, foam, oxidized iron powder, wood, moss, artificial plants, historical objects Courtesy of the artist and others. Supported by the Jenni Crain Foundation

Creative Writing Special Event
2025-02-21 13:30 - 14:30 | SOU Meese Auditorium
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.
Musical interludes featuring: Saturn by 9 and Viviane Fae Moss. Friday’s event on February 21 will culminate in a reception with free food following the readings in Classroom AB 124. The schedule and artists are listed below. Subject to change.
This event is free and open to the public. No tickets needed.
S.O.U.L. (Southern Oregon University Live) presents A Creative Writing Student Festival of Readings
FESTIVAL
Feb 17-21, 2025
1:30 pm Monday-Friday
Art Building, Meese Auditorium on the Southern Oregon University Campus
Musical interludes featuring Saturn by 9 and Viviane Fae Moss. Reception Following Friday’s Reading in Classroom AB 124
Monday Feb. 17, 1:30pm featuring the creativity of:
Aydin Eliason
Merlin Gerhard
Marceline Jenkins
Emily Murray
Rowan Johnson
Tuesday, February 18, 1:30pm featuring the creativity of:
Jade Harper
Rebekah Hopp
Bee Baxter
Maggie Brown
Wednesday Feb. 19, 1:30pm featuring the creativity of:
Sam Veres
Oliver Reimers
Connor O’Ryan
Arthur Croft
Evan Chapin
Thursday Feb. 20, 1:30pm featuring the creativity of:
Nathaniel Brame
Calico Church
Jack Gotter
Sierra Jameson
Friday Feb. 21, 1:30pm featuring the creativity of:
Musical Performance, Saz Morgan
Desiree Remick
Parker Boom

Big Dog Studio Welcomes John Pugh Back to Ashland for First Friday Celebration
2025-02-21 17:00 - 21:00 | John Pugh’s Art Studio, 255 Helman St #1C/D, Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
Internationally acclaimed muralist John Pugh is back in Ashland, and Big Dog Studio celebrates his return with a First Friday Art Walk event on February 7th, 2025 that will include a musical performance by Craig Chaquico.
After months of working on location in Denver and Washington, D.C., John is ready to share a behind-the-scenes look at his latest projects including the Ashland mural project “Where the Crow Lights.”
Event Details:
Where: Big Dog Studio – John Pugh’s Art Studio, 255 Helman St #1C/D, Ashland
When: Friday, February 7th, 2025 | 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
What: Drinks, light bites, live music, and an exclusive look at John’s latest murals-in-progress
ART & CONVERSATION | 6:30 PM
At 6:30 PM, John Pugh and his mural collaborators will share updates on the Ashland Mural Project, as well as his work currently in progress for Washington, D.C.
Featured on display for First Friday:
The revised concept sketch for “Where the Crow Lights”
The Dubai ‘Old Door’ Mural
Woman in Café
A few remaining pieces scheduled for final installation at the Denver Zoo
LIVE MUSIC | Featuring Craig Chaquico
Following John’s artist talk, legendary guitarist and songwriter Craig Chaquico will take the stage, with an acoustic performance inspired by nature and indigenous cultures.
About Craig Chaquico:
Former lead guitarist & songwriter for Jefferson Airplane and Starship
Two-time Grammy nominee and multi-platinum recording artist
Billboard #1 Independent Album of the Year (Acoustic Highway)
Hits inspired by the environment & Indigenous cultures, including:
Sacred Ground (Acoustic Highway)
Gathering of the Tribes (Acoustic Planet)
Return of the Eagle (Acoustic Highway)
About John Pugh:
John Pugh is an award-winning trompe-l’œil muralist whose work has been featured in galleries, museums, and cityscapes around the world. His highly detailed, immersive murals blend art with architecture, telling stories that captivate and engage communities.
About Big Dog Studio:
Big Dog Studio is the working studio for John Pugh. Alongside 1st Friday celebrations, the studio hosts Movie Nights, Life Drawing classes and writing groups for the community.
For more information:
https://www.facebook.com/wherethecrowlightsmural
artofjohnpugh.com

Improv Alchemy Presents: "License to Improvise" an entirely improvised spy mission
2025-02-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-02-22 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-02-23 15:00 - 17:00 | Ashland Bellview Grange, 1050 Tolman Creek Road, Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
Inspired by the Get Smart TV series and the James Bond movies, Improv Alchemy will deliver a full-length improvised spy story complete with espionage, covert operations, danger, sexual intrigue, deception and humor. Allow yourself to be lured into the dark and dangerous world of vile villains, complex gadgets, spy heroes, high-stakes missions, thugs, fight scenes, car chases, evil lairs, seductions and betrayals as the players create a spy mission – spontaneously.
The shows feature the spontaneous talents of Andrew Jordan, Becky Kagan, Daniel Jokelson, Emmy Graham, Libby Sturgill, Mike Roberts, and Rochelle Webster, and is directed by Eve Smyth.
“License to Improvise” has three performances only; Friday and Saturday, February 21 and 22 at 7:00pm and Sunday, February 23 at 3:00pm at The Bellview Grange, 1050 Tolman Creek Rd in Ashland. Tickets are $10 and are available at the door only.

Strength and Balance for Active Agers
2025-02-22 09:00 - 10:00 | Ashland Senior Center, 1699 Homes Avenue, Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
This small group personal training program is designed for groups of 8-10, offering the benefits of personal training in a group setting.
All fitness levels welcome, though you will need to be able to get up and down from the floor without assistance. A combination of weight training, balance exercises and some cardio with functional lifelong wellness in mind. Benefits include prevention of osteoporosis by stimulating the growth of muscle and bone, mental and emotional health, improved immune system, and most importantly lower risk of falls, metabolic diseases and cognitive decline.

The Side Door: Rethinking Equity in a White Community
2025-02-22 10:00 - 12:00 | First Presbyterian Church of Ashland, 1615 Clark Ave, Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
Ashland is often celebrated as idyllic—a place where many people move to enjoy its beauty and charm. But in a community that is predominantly white, does focusing on racial equity feel like a priority, especially with pressing economic, social, and climate challenges? It’s a fair question—and for many, the answer might be, “Yes, I care, but it’s not something I focus on regularly.”
But what if there’s another way to think about it? If “the front door” represents traditional equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) work, what if there was a “side door” that proved more effective—one that doesn’t exclude understanding the history of where we are?
Join Ashland Together team members Gina DuQuenne, Hillary Larson and Harriet Watson for a lively and engaging discussion that might make you think outside the box when it comes to where we all live.

Central Point Woodcarvers
2025-02-22 11:30 - 15:00 | Woodcarving, 123 N St, Central Point, OR, 97502, United States
The Central Point Woodcarvers carving group meets from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays at the Central Point Senior Resource Center, 123 N. Second St., Central Point.
There is a fee of $10 per month, or $55 a year if paid annually.
We teach and share ideas for beginners, novices, and intermediate woodcarvers. The various members do several styles of woodcarving. Recommended beginning tool sets are available for purchase. Please call Ron Chappell 541-944-4535 for more information.

Amani Yoga – Yoga for Every Body
2025-02-22 12:30 - 13:45 | The Grove, 1195 E Main St, Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
Yoga for Every Body is a great practice for levels of experience focusing on physical postures, breathing techniques, and meditation. Participants progress at their own pace promoting physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.
NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED.
Register at ashlandoregon.gov/register
$72 for a session or $18 per class. Select specific days and times you’d like to join Yoga for Every Body by using the DROP-IN registration option or sign up for a whole SESSION of 4 classes.
Wednesday Classes are from 5:30pm – 6:45pm at the Grove in Ashland.

Planning Your Spring Native Plant Garden with The Pollinator Project Rogue Valley
2025-02-22 13:00 - 15:00 | Medford library, 205 S Central Ave, Medford, 97501
Welcome to a conversation with Kristina Lefever and Tiina Beaver of Pollinator Project Rogue Valley about pollinator plants and planning your spring garden. We’ll begin with a presentation about local native plants and continue with break-out sessions where attendees can discuss ideas and design a garden in small groups.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival On The Radio: Changing Ashland and the Festival
2025-02-22 15:00 - 16:30 | Ashland Public Library, 410 Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
NBC radio aired an annual OSF broadcast starting in 1951. This began the Festival’s rise from a local theater to a national destination, but in 1951 Ashland did not have the tourist infrastructure it has today. This talk explores the impact radio had on OSF and the town, growing together until both were big enough to be sustained without the radio series. This talk celebrates OSF’s 90th anniversary season in 2025.
Michael P. Jensen is a Shakespeare scholar of international reputation, with over 100 published articles about William Shakespeare. He is the author of The Battle of the Bard: Shakespeare on U.S. Radio in 1937, the first book about radio Shakespeare.

Oregon Music Teachers Association Scholarship Fundraising Reciital
2025-02-22 15:00 - 17:00 | St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Medford, 140 N. Oakdale Ave., Medford, 97501
Saturday, February 22, the Rogue Valley chapter of the Oregon Music Teachers Association will be hosting its annual fundraising recital at 3pm at St. Marks Episcopal Church in Medford.
The recital is open to all, free of charge. Donations will go toward scholarships for local student musicians entering or enrolled in College with majors or minors in Music.
The program will include pianists Alexander Tutunov, Michele Alspach and Pat Daly, soprano Bernadette Mondok Keller accompanied by Rebecca Bittner, pianist Tereza Golombková, cello/piano duo Kris von Yenney & Iryna Kudielina, pianists Joseph Wong,, Anna Christina Streletz, Tiana Wong, Teagan Calkins, et al. 🎶

SOU Spectrum - Free Concert featuring All SOU Music Ensembles
2025-02-22 19:30 - 21:00 | 450 S Mountain Ave, Southern Oregon University Music Building, Ashland OR 97520, 450 S Mountain Ave, Ashland, OR, 97520
The SOU Music Department presents SPECTRUM a concert that features all of SOU’s ensembles on Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 7:30pm at the SOU Music Recital Hall.
This concert is free and open to the public with a free livestream: https://youtube.com/live/8p2-f16F-20?feature=share
Directed by Dr. Alexander Gonzalez.
The concert may include performances by:
MUSIX (SOU’s Rock Band)
Wind Ensemble
Jazz Ensemble
Chamber & Concert Choirs
Raider Band
Maraval Road Steel Drum Band
Dulcet A’ Capella
Small Chamber Groups
Guest Artist Soloists
ABOUT THE NEW DIRECTOR:
Dr. Alexander Gonzalez is the incoming Director of Bands at Southern Oregon University where he will conduct the Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, and teach courses in music pedagogy. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Gonzalez was previously the Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Additionally, he has taught conducting courses at Capital University Conservatory of Music (OH), served as Music Director of the Professional School Orchestra (OH), served as the director of the Middleton Symphony Orchestra’s Wind Octet (WI), taught music history at Hillsborough Community College (FL), and was a public-school educator in Florida and Colorado where he taught an array of courses at the middle and high school levels.
His current research centers around the body of works commissioned by Robert Boudreau for the American Wind Symphony Orchestra. In partnership with Editions Peters, Alexander has created a critical edition of Eugène Bozza’s Children’s Overture and will create forthcoming editions of other works in this unique catalogue. Dr. Gonzalez received a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from The Ohio State University, where he studied with Dr. Russel Mikkelson. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from the University of Florida and a Masters in Wind Conducting from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Additionally, Alexander is an active member in the National Association for Music Education, the College Band Directors National Association, the National Band Association, the National Association for Music Education, Phi Mu Alpha, Kappa Kappa Psi, and Tau Beta Sigma.

Eat Your Heart Out: An Anti-Valentines Burlesque Show
2025-02-22 20:00 - 22:30 | Levity Circus Collective, 280 E Hersey St Unit #15, Ashland OR, 97520
Welcome to Eat Your Heart Out: An Anti-Valentine’s Burlesque Show! Join us at Levity Circus Collective for a night of sultry performances that will make you forget all about Cupid. Our talented lineup of burlesque artists will entertain you with their dazzling routines and fierce costumes. Whether you’re single, coupled, or just anti-Valentine’s Day, this show is for you. Grab your friends, grab a drink, and get ready for some amazing performers!
18+ only event. Those 21+ will be given a wristband at the door in order to purchase drinks. Be sure to bring extra cash to tip the cast!
Performers include: Candace Sky, Absinthe Allure, Alias Risqué, Mel O Drama, and more…

Calm Abiding Sunday - Meditation & Teaching with Lama Pema
2025-02-23 09:00 - 11:30 | Kagyu Sukha Choling, 109 Clear Creek Drive, Ashland, 97520
Join Lama Pema for a guided Calm Abiding Meditation, followed by a tea break and teaching. All are welcome. One Sunday each month, from 9:00 to 11:30 am.
In this practice, we rest our attention on a simple meditative support, such as the breath. Instead of following thoughts and emotions as we usually do, we release them and maintain our connection to the support.
“From this practice, we can experience a stable and calm mind. We learn to maintain and return to a sense of stillness, no matter what our outer circumstances. The mind is relaxed, alert and aware. The results of this practice are serenity, freedom in the face of circumstances, and ultimately Buddhahood.” From Meditation for Beginners, by Bokar Rinpoche
Please contact the office to receive our monthly emails and the Zoom link for this practice: OFFICE@KSCASHLAND.ORG

Sunday Service: Peace, Solitude, and Being Alone
2025-02-23 10:30 - 11:30 | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 87 4th Street, Ashland, 87 4th Street, Ashland, OR, 97520
Being alone is not always the same as being lonely. As a culture, we are often taught to be afraid to turn off our devices, disconnect, and take time to be alone with ourselves. But over centuries, solitude has been held up as healthy, restorative, and necessary. Rev. Sean will lead this service.
Monthly Theme: Loneliness
Attend in person or watch live or recorded on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@roguevalleyunitarianuniver8871

South Mountain Friends Meeting
2025-02-23 11:00 - 12:30 | South Mountain Friends Meeting, 543 S. Mountain Ave., Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
South Mountain Friends Meeting meeting for worship held 11 a.m. Sundays at 543 S. Mountain Avenue, Ashland.
All are welcome. Activities for children provided. With any questions, call David Runkel at 541-210-0031 or email at davidrunkelor@gmail.com

SunFolk Dancing at The Grange
2025-02-23 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-02-24 11:00 - 13:00 | Ashland Bellview Grange, 1050 Tolman Creek Road, Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
Eastern European folk dancing to live music!
No experience necessary.
No partners needed.
Sundays at Bellview Grange.
1050 Tolman Creek Rd.
Ashland, OR 97520

SOU High School Honor Band - Free Concert!
2025-02-23 13:00 - 14:00 | 450 S Mountain Ave, Southern Oregon University Music Building, Ashland OR 97520, 450 S Mountain Ave, Ashland, OR, 97520
The Annual SOU Honor Band for high school bands will be held at SOU on Friday, February 21 through Sunday, February 23, 2025 culminating in a FREE concert at 1:00pm on Sunday, February 23rd at the SOU Music Recital Hall. The best high school bands from across the Pacific Northwest will come together for a day of learning and engagement and will perform together. Directed by Dr. Alexander Gonzalez.
Free livestream: https://youtube.com/live/G280MJgJ1y0?feature=share
The SOU Music Department is beyond excited to welcome roughly 60 talented student musicians from all across the valley for a weekend of education, community, and marvelous music. The students will work from Friday through Sunday (a very short amount of time), to put on a concert of incredible wind band music. They will also be treated to our annual Spectrum Concert – a sampling of musical performances by the SOU collegiate music students.” – Alexander Gonzalez.
Honor Band high school students representing Ashland, Clackamas, Henley, Crater, Grants Pass, Hidden Valley, Illinois Valley, North and South Medford, Phoenix, Klamath Union, Mazama, Riddle, Ridgeview, Roseburg, and Talent High Schools are recommended by their school band directors and have to apply for and are selected based on instrument, experience, and video auditions for the privilege of participating in the program.
The weekend will be spent rehearsing, performing, and attending classes. Music classes will be offered in conducting, audio and music production, film scoring, drumming, and mallet making, all taught by SOU faculty. In addition to the musical training, the high school students will have the opportunity to stay in the SOU dorms, eat on campus, and experience “a day in the life of a college music student.”
On Sunday, February 23 at 1 p.m. the high school students will perform a free concert for their parents, friends, teachers, and the community. SOU’s Music Department hosts the Honor Band annually, to inspire high school students and provide them with a glimpse into auditioning, studying, and performing music at SOU. Similar festivals are also available for high school vocal and percussion students. “This festival will have a long-lasting impact on students, directors, and families who attended, and we hope to see many of these high school students choose to pursue their degrees in music at SOU.”
– Alexander Gonzalez.

Time Passages (Documentary Screening with Q&A)
2025-02-23 18:00 - 19:30 | Southern Oregon University Recital Hall, 450 S. Mountain Ave., Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
As the pandemic rages across the globe, filmmaker Kyle Henry uses his extensive family archive to travel back in time, exploring the complicated bonds of identity, history, and belonging in his large Texas family.
Beneath the Kodachrome smiles and grainy Super-8 home movies lie the difficult truths that so many families hide. With their unearthing, Time Passages becomes a memento mori: a testament to love, legacy and the things that carry us through life’s most challenging times. Filmmaker Kyle Henry in attendance.
“A sincere and playful journey about making meaning from our family stories.” — Austin Film Society
“Puts a spotlight on how families grapple with dementia and care.” — Hyperreal Film Club

Time Passages - a film screening
2025-02-23 18:30 - 20:30 | 450 S Mountain Ave, Southern Oregon University Music Building, Ashland OR 97520, 450 S Mountain Ave, Ashland, OR, 97520
In collaboration with the Ashland Independent Film Festival, the Oregon Center for the Arts is pleased to present a special film screening of “Time Passages” on Sunday, February 23, 2025 at the SOU Music Recital Hall at 450 S. Mountain Avenue in Ashland.
Film begins at 6pm and runs 86 minutes, followed by a Q&A with gay filmmaker Kyle Henry following the film.
Tickets: https://sou.universitytickets.com
General admission $12, seniors $8, OLLI, SOU Alumni, and Oregon Trail Card Holders $5. Free (but you need a ticket) for SOU faculty, staff, and students. AIFF Members, use promo code: AIFFTIMEPASS25 to get a $2.00 discount.
Parking is free in Lot #36 across from the SOU Music Building.
“…an ode to the desire to know ourselves by truly knowing those we love, it’s a beautifully sincere film” – Cine-File
“… a sincere and often funny and playful journey about making meaning from our family stories.” – Austin Film Society
“… a film that celebrates life in its multifaceted complexity.” – RogerEbert.com
“… puts a spotlight on how families grapple with dementia and care … opens the door for connections with other families.” – Hyper-Real Film Club
Watch the trailer and learn more here: https://www.timepassagesfilm.com/
ABOUT THE FILM:
A pandemic rages across the globe. In the final months of his mother Elaine’s late-stage dementia, gay filmmaker Kyle Henry uses his extensive family archive to travel back in time, exploring the complicated bonds of identity, history, and belonging in his large Texas family. Charting Elaine’s promising early life through her years of motherhood and self-sacrifice, finally tracing their relationship to its inevitable end, Time Passages playfully explores Kyle’s conflicting feelings of love, grief, guilt, and helplessness. Beneath the Kodachrome smiles and grainy Super-8 home movies lie the difficult truths that so many families hide. With their unearthing, Time Passages becomes a memento mori: a testament to love, legacy and the things that carry us through life’s most challenging times.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER/WRITER/DIRECTOR:
For 30 years, Kyle has traversed film forms to bring authentic stories of interrelationship to audiences at fests, theaters, and streaming platforms. His fictions use documentary methods to devise stories based on research, creating deeper authenticity. His documentaries use fictional techniques to portray interior worlds of subjective memory and thought. From his SXSW premiered documentaries University Inc.’s exploration of toxic higher-ed corporatization and American Cowboy’s sensitive stereotype toppling portrayal of a gay rodeo champ; to Sundance and Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight premiered fiction feature Room’s psychic journey of a working class woman in post-9/11 America, Fourplay’s vivid investigation of sexual intimacy, to Chicago set Rogers Park’s “eye for the intimate, dividend-paying gesture” (NYTimes) that is “brimming with universal truths” (Chicago Sun-Times), his deep mining of human experience has the purposeful goal of facilitating community discussion, as he tours with all of his works to converse directly with audiences in a variety of settings. Time Passages is his re-emergence as a documentarian after 20 years making fiction films.

Higher Essence Yoga
2025-02-24 09:00 - 10:00 | OR
Yoga Classes for Beginners and 50+.
Stretching, breathwork and flexibility
Monday and Thursday, 9:00 to 10:00 am at Hidden Springs Wellness Center, 1651 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland
Contact: ashlandginny@gmail.com

Intermediate Tai Chi for Older Adults
2025-02-24 09:30 - 10:45 | The Grove, 1195 E Main St, Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
Tai Chi is a moving meditation that strengthens bones and muscles, improves balance and increases flexibility. Qi Gong, the movement of energy through the body, is also incorporated.
Pre-registration required: ashland.or.us/register or 541.488.5342.

Gentle Yoga for Older Adults
2025-02-24 10:30 - 11:30 | Ashland Senior Center, 1699 Homes Avenue, Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
The focus of this one-hour hatha yoga class is to increase strength, flexibility and balance while simultaneously alleviating stress and fatigue. Additional benefits of regular yoga practice include an overall sense of well-being and an increase in self-awareness and self-acceptance. Participants must be aware of their own capabilities in order to participate safely. Ability to get up and down from the floor is required. Each class will conclude with deep relaxation. Ages 50 & up.
$20 per month-long session ($5/class)
