Community Calendar

Third Saturday, January 17th 2:30-4:00PM

Are you seeking support, direction and/or feedback with your artistic journey and a supportive space for sharing your work, ideas, goals, and aspirations?

Join us for our Artist’s Sharing Circle:

Discussions will include style, materials, current trends, presentation, framing, displaying, marketing, personal growth, etc
Artists helping artists in their common bond of being creatives
Encouragement in moving forward, and fostering confidence in your creative efforts
Share personal experience, knowledge, overcoming obstacles, and how it feels to be in a positive flow
Artists in all media and skill levels are welcome!

Registration required, $8

Register at www.art-presence.org > education > third Saturdays

Yoga classes for beginners and 50+
Stretching and breathwork

Yoga classes for beginners and 50+
Stretching and breathwork

Dr. Ian Luepker is a naturopathic physician, holistic healer and classical homeopath, in private practice for 24 years. He worked on psychiatric units for 12 years and approaches health and well-being from a holistic perspective by recognizing the complex interplay between mental, emotional, physical, social and spiritual suffering. By listening to his patients with compassion, care and respect, he takes a collaborative, preventive and integrative approach to supporting their self-led innate healing capacity.

Entheogenic experiences can widen circles that reach out across the world, into ourselves, our ancestral past, the future and beyond. They point toward what is meaningful in life and to that which we give ourselves. Through a holistic lens using case examples, I will explore the psycho-spiritual healing and meaning-making generated from these life-changing experiences.

Yoga classes for beginners and 50+
Stretching and breathwork

A hallmark of the Rogue Valley is a shared love for our natural environment and many of us care deeply about living sustainably. We try to reuse and recycle, eat organic when we can, protect wildlife, and conserve our natural resources.

One aspect of living sustainably is reducing the climate pollution we create in our daily lives. But how to do that? Do our choices actually matter? Is it too late to make a difference? And how can we show up for a healthy climate in this moment?

This free public program will explore these critical questions and provide potential directions for personal and community-based action. The discussion will be led by Erin O’Kelley Muck, Executive Director, and Lorrie Kline Kaplan, President and Co-Founder of the Ashland Climate Collaborative. Launched in 2022, Ashland Climate Collaborative brings people together who want to do what they can about climate pollution right here at home.

The monthly Big Ideas discussion series features prominent local experts speaking on relevant and timely issues affecting our community. Lectures are jointly sponsored by the Ashland Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and Jackson County Library Services.

“Your planet is a member of an enormous cosmos; you belong to a well-nigh infinite family of worlds, but your sphere is just as precisely administered and just as lovingly fostered as if it were the only inhabited world in all existence.” -The Urantia Book

The Urantia Book “to expand cosmic consciousness and enhance spiritual perception” of the peoples of Urantia, our planet. The heart of its teachings are about God, the universe, and our relationship to both...”
Discover concepts that transcend our human viewpoint and settle you forever in a secure and loving relationship with God.

It covers the whole cosmos across time and space. It offers an intricate and sweeping narrative that blends science, philosophy, history, cosmology and religion seamlessly into a unified cosmic framework.
Join us for a closer look at what The Urantia Book represents. Buckle up for the ride of your life, into a land of intellectual discovery and spiritual wonder. The Urantia Book has the power to transform your life.
Michael Andrew Hanna has been reading The Urantia Book for nearly fifty years

The Oregon Trail computer game, first released in 1971, became almost ubiquitous in American schools by the 1980s. In this lecture, we'll go on the Trail to see how the game stacks up to the reality of the hundreds of thousands who emigrated west. What it gets right: A lot of people did die of dysentery. What it doesn't: You cannot get there faster by mashing the spacebar.

Charlie Zimmermann is a lifelong Oregon Trail aficionado. At age eight, they dressed as a pioneer for Halloween, and as a young adult, they earned the "Young OCTAn" award from the Oregon and California Trails Association. They graduated from Southern Oregon University in 2024 with a dual degree in history and political science with a minor in Native American Studies. They enjoy spending time with their cat Dassy, making rag rugs and other textile-based crafts, and teaching others about history.

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). Registration is only required to attend the Zoom version of Medford's program. Recordings of Medford presentations are available on the JCLS Beyond YouTube channel

In his latest gripping book, The Women of Ukraine: Stories of Hope and Courage in a War-torn Country, Briscoe shares the lives of extraordinary women through intimate interviews and firsthand encounters. From underground bomb shelters to the frontlines, from displaced mothers to soldiers on the battlefield, this book reveals the untold stories of Ukraine’s women—ordinary individuals rising to meet extraordinary circumstances.

Space is limited, please consider arriving early to secure a seat.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase at this event courtesy of Bloomsbury Books.

Casual meetings once a month (except December) to increase awareness of the work Community Works does for survivors of domestic and sexual violence, stalking, and human trafficking in Jackson County, Oregon, and to further the mission of Community Works. Each month we explore new subjects that are educational and offer opportunities for interesting discussion. Along with this, we have project ideas for helping to lift our clients and the community. Community Works is here to bring HOPE, SUPPORT, and EMPOWERMENT to those impacted by violence.