Community Calendar

The award-winning OSU Land Steward training helps landowners learn about their property and develop a management plan. This 11-week program covers critical topics like wildfire risk reduction, forests, soil health, wildlife habitat, pasture management, stream care, water capture and distribution, and much more.

Parent Project is a 10-week series where we go over topics like improving family relationships, using effective discipline to improve school attendance and performance, reduce substance use and negative peer influences, and how to address destructive behavior. It is an opportunity to meet with other parents in similar situations in a judgement free zone and begin to develop a new support system. When you feel like you have tried everything and nothing is working, we can help.
Join us on Tuesdays at the Gene Lucas Community Center beginning September 30th from 6pm-8pm. Dinner and Childcare are provided.
707-617-8160

Learn about the life and legacy of one of the 20th century’s human rights pioneers: Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind since childhood. Author, advocate, and human rights pioneer, Helen Keller, used her courageous spirit to champion rights for women, people with disabilities, and people living in poverty. What was the driving force behind a deaf and blind woman to improve the lives of others?

Alex, founder of Zen Institute, at age 28 quit his job as a corporate accountant and began his training in Zen Buddhism. He volunteered for two years at the Sacramento Children’s Home, where he helped abused children, and for 3 years he taught meditation at Folsom State Prison. Alex witnessed the positive transformation of the inmates as a result of their meditation practice amid the most difficult conditions.

Alex collaborates weekly on radio and television by sharing his knowledge of human potential, and by sharing topics related to mindfulness, children, women’s rights, how the subconscious mind works, and business.

Discover the joy of music in this engaging class designed for children ages 2-5 and their caregivers. This class combines rhythm, movemenr and sign language. Get ready to sing beloved songs. Adults are FREE attending with a child/ren).

Open Meditation for All in The Sanctuary
Wednesdays from noon to 1:00 pm

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.

As a continuation from a previous 2024 Windows in Time talk on Peter Britt’s glass negatives in the Southern Oregon Historical Society archives, Ben Truwe will focus on the trips Britt took to Crater Lake, Klamath County and California.

Medford resident Ben Truwe is a recovering printer and a former trustee of SOHS. He is the author of the Looking Back Jackson County history books and curator of the massive Southern Oregon History, Revised web site, spending decades tracking down, transcribing and annotating historical source documents from the 1850s to the 1950s and making them easily available online.

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

We have a wide assortment of food available. Bags with staple items are pre-filled, but we will gladly add any special requests if they are available. When you visit, there is always a simple lunch. On the last Wednesday of every month, we serve a pretty darned good hot meal with salad and a huge table filled with pies and desserts. We call it a community lunch. All are welcomed.

Once a month, read and discuss a banned book. Explore what caused these books to be banned, what being banned means, and how this impacts us as a society. We will talk about the who and the why, and if we agree or disagree. Stop by the Medford Reference desk to pick up a copy of the month's current title while supplies last!

December: Beartown by Fredrik Backman

January: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Three Books to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwarts

February: Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Come join us for cribbage. We are part of the American Cribbage Congress (ACC) and play 9 games of competitive cribbage every Wednesday night from September-May. $10 buy in, and we payout on the top scorecards.

We are a Zen practice community in the Diamond Sangha lineage founded by Robert Aitken Rōshi. We provide zazen(meditation) instruction, weekly zazen, practice talks, Dharma discussions and more.