May 04 Saturday
Steven Mayerson and SOU Creative Arts present More Short Films. This show will feature many short documentaries about unusual animals and their amazing behaviors. Also shown will be the world's largest crystal, other exquisite minerals, exotic atmospheric phenomena and much more. Be prepared for many eye opening delights!
May 06 Monday
Bonsai: What is it & how is it created: Learn the basics on bonsai design, cultivation and maintenance. Presenter: Leonard Vaglia, Bonsai Nursery Owner & Member of Medford Cascade Bonsai Society.
It’s easy to take car parking for granted. For generations, our cities have required nearly every new building — be it a home, an office, a restaurant, or a bowling alley — to provide off-street car storage, and the result is that parking is so ubiquitous that people only notice it when they can’t find it or have to pay to use it. The impacts of all this parking include higher rents, sprawl, and car dependency, feeding into a vicious cycle of more cars, more parking, wider roads, and more sprawl. The good news is that a simple prescription exists to halt and reverse this condition: eliminate parking mandates, manage on-street parking using pricing, and use the revenues to improve the neighborhood and encourage less driving.
Join us for this free webinar with Tony Jordan, President of the Parking Reform Network (parkingreform.org). But be warned, once you see the truth about cheap and abundant parking, you’ll never be the same. Registration required at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlduGoqTgoG9yZT_vTC4vFWjiVKhV-T0aB
May 07 Tuesday
May 08 Wednesday
In the second half of the 19th century, a group of Indigenous women survived the 1868-69 smallpox epidemic and avoided removal to reservations more than once. These women and their white husbands eventually left the mining camps on Kanaka Gulch and Forest Creek for the lush valley of Big Applegate, as interracial couples were often not accepted in Jacksonville. Presenter Laura Ahearn will share the surprising stories of these women, their descendants, and others who joined the vibrant community that became known as Watkins before it was destroyed in the 1970s to build the Applegate Dam. These stories are based on the photo albums and family lore of descendants who still live in Jackson and Shasta Counties, corroborated and sometimes corrected by intensive research into governmental records and newspaper archives.
Presenter Laura 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 newsmagazines.
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.
May 09 Thursday
Though their names have been largely forgotten, indigenous and pioneering women were involved in plant knowledge, exploration, and cultivation from the earliest days of our country. Join us as we uncover the names and contributions of these remarkable heroines of days gone by.
Classically trained at the UCLA Landscape Architecture program, presenter Lucretia Weems is a Jackson County Master Gardener and has been designing gardens in the Rogue Valley for over 15 years. Her lectures on history and landscape design have been enjoyed around Jackson County and her first book, This Wild Life, Heroines in the History of Botany 1650-1850, was published in 2023.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
Oregon Pacific Financial Advisors and TMT Business Services present this free seminar for business owners with $1M or more in annual revenue ready immediately or just contemplating exit/succession planning from their business within the next 5 years.
During this event, you will learn how you can maximize the value of your business, retain maximum proceeds, reduce taxes when selling and set yourself up to enjoy what's next!
With so many businesses positioned to transition within the next 5 - 10 years, we are attempting to help the owners, the employees, and the community with the most advantageous transitions for all impacted.
Royal Standley, financial planner and president of Oregon Pacific Financial Advisors, has 20 years of experience helping business owners transition to retirement.
Todd Tippin, president of TMT Business Services, is an experienced owner, executive manager, and consultant with a successful history of building businesses.
May 11 Saturday
Redding Writers Forum, established in 1981, is a supportive group made up of writers at any level and of any genre. At our monthly meetings we offer programs on various aspects concerning the craft of writing, along with two chances per year to read some of your work.
Note: If you are a published author, we are holding an Authors Fair in downtown Redding on November 11th. Deadline to sign up is October 15th. Applications and more information available on our website.
May 16 Thursday
May 17 Friday
New Day Breakfast at the Bellevue Grange in Ashland
Topic and presentation: Friday, October 21st 8:00-9:30 am
New Spirit Village is a nationally significant pilot project addressing the affordable housing crisis. Kathryn and Barry Thalden will walk us through this charming neighborhood of 87 homes, which will begin construction this fall in Medford. The not-for-profit development utilizes revolutionary ideas and new technology (including 3-D concrete printed walls) to address the concerns of fire, inadequate low-cost housing, and multigenerational financial inequity, providing the opportunity to change people lives by creating a safe, attractive, livable, and stable community.