Community Calendar

Starting May 3, the heart of downtown Ashland will be home to the Saturday Market, running every Saturday until October 26, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the 100 block of Oak St. This exclusive one block long market provides healthy options, fresh organic produce, artisan foods, and more every week for the locals and travelers passing through. We encourage everyone to join us in supporting local while cultivating community in Southern Oregon.

May 3rd -October 25th
Downtown on Oak St.
9:00a-1:00p

American Legion Grants Pass Post 28 is having their Legion Market Breakfast starting on every
Sat March 21st from 9-11am.
206 NW F St Grants Pass
Checkout the Legion Market and enjoy their Breakfast.
Serving Biscuits and Gravy plus a Full Bar service plus Bloody Marys and Mimosa Specials.
Prices vary depending on the order.
Proceeds benefit American Legion Grants Pass Post 28 Veteran Programs.

Stretch your legs in the comfort of morning temperatures while hearing the stories of the people who transformed a gold rush town into the 19th century center of regional government, commerce, and society when you join Historic Jacksonville, Inc. on one of our weekly Saturday 1-hour guided “Walk through History” tours. Tours leave from Jacksonville’s New City Hall at 10am and cover about 1 mile with multiple stops. Guests hear how gambling money built a church; how the Civil War ended a successful mercantile partnership; how a saloon housed the county’s first museum; how fire reshaped the town; and how a railroad both destroyed and preserved the town.
Tours are FREE, but donations are always welcomed—all monies go towards maintaining and preserving historic buildings seen on the tour.

New Exhibition - StitchPunk presented by SAQA

Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. (SAQA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the art quilt: "a creative visual work that is layered and stitched or that references this form of stitched layered structure."

Our vision is that the art quilt is universally respected as a fine art medium. SAQA’s core values are: excellence, innovation, integrity, and inclusion.

Over the past 3+ decades, SAQA has grown into a dynamic and active community of over 4,000 artists, curators, collectors, and art professionals located around the world.

Come experience the history, flora and fauna of Lithia park in a guided tour led by knowledgeable and passionate volunteers.

Walks run every Saturday and Sunday morning at 10:00am, May through September. Sunday walks begin July 5.

Walks last 90 minutes, are FREE of charge, and are open to locals and visitors alike. Please meet your guide at the front entrance of Lithia Park across from the Plaza.

This program has been running since 1989, and is a fantastic way to immerse yourself in Ashland’s crown jewel.

Get a taste of the "old West" and Jacksonville's gold mining days when you step behind the counter of the oldest financial institution in the Pacific Northwest. The 1863 Beekman Bank Museum, located at 110 W. California Street in Jacksonville, saw over $40 million in gold cross its counters during the town’s heyday in the late 1800s—the equivalent of over $1.5 billion today. Interact with costumed docents sharing stories of late 19th Century banking practices, gold shipping, and handshake deals; step behind the counter and peer in drawers containing old checks, stage schedules, and paperwork; enter the vault that stored all those millions in gold!
Admission is FREE but donations are encouraged with all monies going towards the preservation and maintenance of this historic legacy!

Protest fossil fuels
Promote body positivity
Show how naked and vulnerable we are when riding in a urban setting

The program for the finale will begin with Haydn: The Representation of Chaos from “The Creation”. This composition opens with unique sounds of infinite nothingness. The audience then moves to a landscape of serene beauty with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, Pastorale. After intermission, the Orchestra will present the Oregon Coastal Premiere of Adam Schoenberg’s composition, Losing Earth with Terry Longshore, soloist, and 6 other percussionists. Losing Earth was inspired by the book of the same name on climate change by Nathaniel Rich that addresses the science of climate change. This concerto will provide an amazing journey of human life on earth and end on a hopeful note. Join us for a powerful evening of orchestral music inspired by our planet and natural world.

Forced from his home in Talent by neighbors irate that he championed the rights of Indigenous People, Beeson risked all to advocate for Native Americans during the Civil War. This play explores timely issues of genocide, racial discrimination, and the personal costs of speaking out against injustice.
A staged reading of a new play by Joe Charter. Benefit for SOU Native American student scholarships.

Hear the world premiere of Elena Ruehr's "Sixth Piano Trio," co-commissioned by the Eureka Chamber Music Series and the San Francisco based Ensemble for These Times, and played by Tom Stone, Sophie Shao, and Amy I-Lin Cheng. Also on the program, hear Anton Webern's romantic "Langsamer Satz" string quartet and his "Five Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 5," both performed by the Balourdet Quartet, as well as the powerful "Transfigured Night for String Sextet, Op. 4" by Arnold Schoenberg, inspired by the poem "Verklärte Nacht" by the German symbolist and expressionist writer Richard Dehmel.