"Other World/s" at the Schneider Museum of Art
2025-02-07 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-08 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-11 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-12 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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

First Friday Bike Ride
2025-02-07 17:00 - 18:00 | OR
Join us for the First Friday Bike Ride!
Meet our ride leader on the Plaza in downtown Ashland at 5 pm, and start the ride at approximately 5:15 pm. Streets for Everyone will be passing out Bike Benefits stickers to all riders! This is an all-ages, all-abilities, family-friendly ride. See you there!

First Friday Bike Ride
2025-02-07 17:00 - 18:00 | Ashland Plaza, Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
A fun, family-friendly bicycle ride in Ashland. The ride is for people of all ages and abilities which reflects the vision of Streets for Everyone; a transportation system that is safe, convenient and efficient for everyone, independent of how they travel for everyday, short, in-town trips.
The ride is sponsored by Streets for Everyone, a volunteer team of the Ashland Climate Collaborative (a 501(c)3 organization).

February First Friday Art Walk!
2025-02-07 17:00 - 20:00 | Downtown Ashland, East Main Street, Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
Join us for First Friday Art Walk!
We’re excited to share a diverse array of wonderful artwork on display this month and created by our very talented artists. From eclectic visual delights, to interesting conversations, intimate music, and tasty treats, the experience continues to grow as you stroll through Downtown Ashland and visit each gallery and studio.
For a complete list of participating locations and a map, please visit the link below.
www.ashlandgalleries.com/pages/first-friday-artwalk

Strength and Balance for Active Agers
2025-02-08 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.

Green Bag Pickup Day
2025-02-08 09:00 - 12:00 | OR
A friendly reminder – our next food pick up is this Saturday. Food Donors, please remember to leave out your Green Bags for your Neighborhood Coordinators.
On the second Saturday of every even-numbered month, our Neighborhood Coordinators pick up bags of healthy, nonperishable food that neighbors have left outside their front doors. They leave empty green bags for next time and take all the food to the Ashland Community Food Bank. It’s that easy!
Questions? Please reach out – 541-488-6976.
Interested in becoming a food donor or learning more about the Ashland Food Project? Visit our website,
https://ashlandfoodproject.com/.
Thank you, donors and volunteers! You all make it happen.

Rogue Theater Company Presents: Annual Barry Kraft Shakespeare Series
2025-02-08 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-02-09 10:00 - 11:30 | OR
Taking place on Saturday and Sunday, February 8 and February 9, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at a private home in Ashland and via Zoom, Barry will lead audiences through Julius Caesar and As You Like It, offering unique insights and discoveries on both ever resonant plays. Audiences are welcome to join in person, via Zoom, or watch the recordings at their convenience.
Barry has had a lifelong immersion in Shakespeare, both page and stage. His approach is informed by a blend of academic readings and practical stage experience from his life in the theater. He has been an actor and lecturer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for thirty-one seasons, including dramaturging nearly sixty productions. Other acting credits include Colorado and Utah Shakespeare Festivals, Old Globe at San Diego, Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, A Contemporary Theater in Seattle, American Conservatory Theater, and Marin Shakespeare Company. Barry has also acted in eighty-eight full productions of all Shakespeare’s thirty-eight plays, with more than one-hundred roles. Barry has written After Dinner Shakespeare and Shakespeare Insult Generator. He has also recorded several books on tape, including Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Tickets are $100.00 each for both days. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.roguetheatercompany.com.

Monthly Intuitive Healing Circle - Systemic Constellation Event
2025-02-08 11:00 - 18:00 | Prayer Farm, 2260 Old Highway 99 S, Ashland, OR
Heal. Connect. Evolve.
Join us for our monthly Healing Circle, centered around the somatic practice of Systemic Constellation.
What to expect:
Spiritual Connection
Ancestral Healing
Emotional Insight
Safe Community Space
Deep Care for Heart and Soul
Systemic Constellation Work is an active group process for personal and collective healing and evolution. To delve into personal issues, ancestral patterns, or collective trauma, Constellations offer a supportive space for deep reflection and transformation.
Spaces are Limited, Registration is Required: AlexisAlma.com

Central Point Woodcarvers
2025-02-08 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
2025-02-08 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.

Winter Footprints with The Crest at Willow-Witt Ranch
2025-02-08 13:00 - 15:00 | 658 Shale City RD, Ashland, OR, 658 Shale City Rd, Ashland, OR, 97520
Join us for a fun and educational hike at Willow-Witt Ranch on February 8th from 1-3 PM!
This family-friendly event is open to all ages and will focus on winter tracking and discovering the hidden stories of wildlife through their tracks they leave behind in the snow. Please RSVP on our website!
This is a free event sponsored by The Crest. If you would like to support The Crest with a donation, there will be a button to click on the signup form.
Whether you’re a seasoned tracker or a first-time explorer, you’ll leave with a deeper appreciation for winter. Dress warmly and bring your curiosity as we explore and search for the wild footprints left behind by our local critters!

Tonglen Sunday Meditation & Teaching with Lama Yeshe
2025-02-09 09:00 - 11:30 | Kagyu Sukha Choling, 109 Clear Creek Drive, Ashland, 97520
Join Lama Yeshe for a guided Tonglen Meditation followed by a tea break and teaching. One Sunday each month, from 9:00 to 11:30 am.
The guided Tonglen meditation begins with consideration and transformation of our own sufferings, and moves us outward to encompass the reality of others’ situation.
Join in-person or via Zoom (hybrid). Please contact the office to receive our monthly emails and the Zoom link for this practice: OFFICE@KSCASHLAND.ORG
Upcoming Tonglen Sundays: March 2nd, April 13th

Sunday Service: Finding Radical Wholeness -- CANCELLED
2025-02-09 10:30 - 11:30 | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 87 4th Street, Ashland, 87 4th Street, Ashland, OR, 97520
This service has been cancelled due to weather-related parking issues.
Drawing on the Hebrew Bible’s Genesis and a selection from Ken Wilber’s Finding Radical Wholeness (2024), Jim wants to encourage us as a community in ongoing growth, learning, and service.
Jim Stumbo is an American Baptist pastor, a member of the Ashland UCC, a marriage and family therapist enjoying that work, and is blessed as a grandfather, father and husband.
Monthly Theme: Loneliness
Attend in person or watch live or recorded on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@roguevalleyunitarianuniver8871

South Mountain Friends Meeting
2025-02-09 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
2025-02-09 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-02-10 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

Chamber Music Concerts presents: AGAVE with Reginald Mobley, countertenor
2025-02-09 15:00 - 16:00 | 450 S Mountain Ave, Southern Oregon University Music Building, Ashland OR 97520, 450 S Mountain Ave, Ashland, OR, 97520
Join the Chamber Music Concerts Series for their 41st season and the seventh concert of the series, featuring AGAVE with Reginald Mobley, countertenor on Sunday, February 9th 3:00pm at the SOU Music Recital Hall.
PROGRAM: American Originals
Florence Price ‐ Resignation
Esteban Salas ‐ ¡Tu, mi Díos
Anonymous (Peru) ‐ Canción a 3
Price ‐ Out of the South Blew a Wind
Salas ‐ Taedet animam meam
Price ‐ Sympathy
Scott Joplin ‐ Bethena
Price ‐ Tobacco
Anonymous (Bolivia) ‐ Trio Sonata in F
Price ‐ The White Rose
Manuel de Zumaya ‐ Como aunque culpa
Price: Negro Folksongs in Counterpoint ‐ Shortnin’ Bread
J.M.N. Garcia ‐ Te, Christe, solum novimus
Price: Negro Folksongs in Counterpoint ‐ Clementine
Justin Holland ‐ Sweet Memories of Thee
Holland ‐ Dream Faces
Price ‐ Songs to the Dark Virgin
Tickets are available at https://chambermusicconcerts.org
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
AGAVE is “an energized, free-spirited group” (Early Music America) based in the San Francisco Bay Area and specializing in string chamber music of the 17th-20th centuries. AGAVE has received numerous awards and accolades and gained local and national attention for its “rapturous music,” “brilliant… profound playing” (Early Music America), and growing discography. AGAVE continues its fruitful affiliation with star countertenor Reginald Mobley, teaming up for a program of composers of color from four centuries, all true American Originals. The program features music from 19th and 20th century United States, as well as Cuba, Mexico, and South America.

Higher Essence Yoga
2025-02-10 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
2025-02-10 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
2025-02-10 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)

Line dancing for older adults
2025-02-10 13:00 - 14:30 | The Grove, 1195 E Main St, Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
Get active through dance! Line Dance is a choreographed dance in which participants line up in rows and follow a repeated sequence of steps to music. It is a great way to keep your brain on its toes!
Line dancing enhances balance, provides fitness and strength and improves mental acuity through complex movement. No partner is required. Pre-registration required: ashland.or.us/register or 541-488-5342.

Qi-Gym 7-week series
2025-02-10 17:00 - 18:00 | Hidden Springs Wellness Center, 1651 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
Qi-Gym is transformative Qi-Gong with heart-brain balance techniques, including Brain Gym, that de-stress and rewire your brain to create harmony and strength within the nervous system and the Body-Mind-Heart connection.
Change your thoughts, change your life!
Benefits

Discover calm, flowing movements that relax both mind and body.
Learn easy tools to reprogram your brain for a positive mindset and a healthy body through gentle focus and inner balance.
Enhance your coordination, life force energy, and vitality to thrive in an ever-changing world.

Info and registration:
504-710-2622 or heartbrainbalance.com.
$140 for the 7-week series or $110 early bird (registered by Jan. 20, 2025.)
Mondays Feb. 3 to March 24, 5 to 6 p.m., Hidden Springs, 635 Lit Way, Ashland.
Register for a free tryout class at 5 p.m. Jan. 13 or Jan. 20.

Into The White: A Love Story: a Reading and Discussion by author Two Steps
2025-02-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Bloomsbury Books, 290 E. Main St., Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
The big silver bird was mortally stricken, both engines were out and one was on fire.
Even the right windshield had been breached. The large cranes had flown with multiple impacts all over the jet. Inside, the pilot was struggling for control in the buffeting winds, cold and feathers. The copilot was fighting the surging of cold air, trying to plug the hole in the windshield with his winter coat. The manager of the six Asian girls was yelling instructions in Chinese to them. They had to protect their heads and necks with inflated life preservers and their pillows and blankets, for a crash landing was soon to take place. They might have maybe three minutes before impact. The pilot scanned the terrain. Mountains were everywhere, save the half bowl.
But one set of eyes up on the mountain saw it all, and he prayed out loud for God to help them….and him!

Wednesday Open Meditation
2025-02-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Kagyu Sukha Choling, 109 Clear Creek Drive, Ashland, 97520
Each Wednesday from noon to 1:00 pm, the KSC Sanctuary will be open to all for meditation.
We invite you to come and meditate quietly in your own way.

Windows in Time: The Blue Ledge: From Scandals to Superfund
2025-02-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Ashland Library, 410 Siskiyou Boulevard, Ashland, OR, 97520, United States
Laura B. Ahearn will present a wide perspective on the Blue Ledge Mine, including its connections to the orchard boom, socialism, and WWI. What once promised unbounded riches is now a Superfund site full of hazardous materials, while the adjoining Red Buttes are a protected pristine wilderness. Join us and learn more about the romances, scandals, heroes and ordinary people in this still remote part of the Siskiyous.
Presenter Laura B. Ahearn moved to the Applegate Valley in 2017 after a career in environmental law and seventeen years traveling the world in a sailboat. She is President of McKee Bridge Historical Society, researcher/writer for the Society’s Facebook page, curator of the Virtual Museum at www.mckeebridge.org, and a frequent author for local news magazines.
The monthly Windows in Time lunchtime lectures feature well-known writers and historians and bring alive the people, values, and events that shaped our southern Oregon heritage. Lectures are jointly sponsored by the Southern Oregon Historical Society (SOHS) and Jackson County Library Services. Programs are presented in Medford (first Wednesdays, in-person and online) and again in Ashland (second Wednesdays, in-person). Recordings of Medford presentations are available on the JCLS Beyond YouTube channel.

Brazilian spiritual healing
2025-02-12 13:00 - 14:00 | First Presbyterian Church, 1615 Clark Ave, Ashland, 97520
Sitting in a relaxed state for 50 minutes and allowing the energies to assist a person.
