Community Events

Darkside Cinema: Movies showing Jan. 31 to Feb. 5, showtimes daily, Darkside Cinema, Corvallis. Visit their website for showtimes.

• Why We Ride –PG: Motorcycle People Unite! An exhilarating, heartfelt and inspirational doc that will entertain all ages.
• 12 O’clock Boys –NR: 12 O'clock Boys is one of those rare, unforgettable films, so tightly constructed and beautifully executed that it's hard not to want to watch it again immediately.
• All Is Lost–PG-13: Robert Redford.
• The Invisible Woman –R: At the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death. Ralph Fiennes.
• 12 Years a Slave –R: Golden Globe Best Picture of 2013. BEST FILM OSCAR NOM!
  

Opportunities:

• Academy for Lifelong Learning welcomes Oregon poet laureate Paulann Petersen, “Anyone’s Domain: Everyday Life of Poetry”: Thursday, Feb. 20 at 1:30 p.m.
  First Congregational Church, 4515 SW West Hills Rd., Corvallis. Paulann Petersen was appointed as Oregon’s sixth poet laureate by Gov. Kulongoski for a two-year term and renewed by Gov. Kitzhaber. She queries, “Is poetry the domain of just a few, and the realm of the select, the elect?” Petersen resounds a fervent no! Poetry is as near and accessible as our own breath and heartbeat. She will be reading an array of her penned poems and divulging duties as Oregon’s poet laureate. Petersen will reveal the everyday life of poetry in locales ranging from the Caledonian Games in Athena, to Ione’s one-building K-12 Community School. Please join her to find out the active life of poetry in our state capitol’s legislative sessions and in the dedication of Oregon’s newest state park. Academy for Lifelong Learning is a program of the OSU Alumni Association, though membership is open to everyone. There is no charge to a sampling a class, and pre-registration is not required. For more information, please visit the ALL website

Ticket Sales: Grass Roots sells tickets for local music events. Please call or stop by the store to see what's currently available.

Friday, Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m.

Valley Library Rotunda

OSU, Corvallis

Visiting Writers Series presents Gary Young

The Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by the OSU MFA Program.

Gary Young is a poet and artist whose honors include grants from the NEH, the California Arts Council, and two fellowship grants from the NEA. He’s received a Pushcart Prize, and his book, The Dream of a Moral Life, won the James D. Phelan Award. He is the author of Hands, Days, Braver Deeds, (Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize), No Other Life, (William Carlos Williams Award), Pleasure, and Even So: New and Selected Poems. His print work is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum and The Getty Center for the Arts. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the PSA. He teaches creative writing, and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz.

The event is free and open to the public and followed by a Q & A and book-signing. Books will be available to purchase from Grass Roots Books & Music.

Saturday, Feb. 8

LaSells Stewart Center

OSU, Corvallis

Insights into Gardening

This event is sponsored by the Benton County Master Gardeners Association and Oregon State University Extension Service.

Insights into Gardening is a day-long seminar offering practical, hands-on learning for home gardeners and gardeners-to-be. Whether you are an experienced or novice gardener, new to the area or an Oregon native, you will find plenty of ideas to make your gardening easier, more enjoyable and more successful. Please visit the Insight into Gardening website for registration information.

Books recommended by event speakers and general gardening books will be available to purchase from Grass Roots Books & Music. Discounts are available on select items. The onsite bookstore will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Feb. 14 & 15

LaSells Stewart Center

OSU, Corvallis

Spring Creek Project Winter Symposium: Transformation without Apocalypse: How to Live Well on an Altered Planet

This event is sponsored by the Spring Creek Project. Featuring Tim DeChristopher, Ursula K. LeGuin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kathleen Dean Moore, Rob Nixon and other speakers. Please visit the Spring Creek Project website for more information.

Humans will be living differently in the very near future, perhaps occasioned by catastrophes brought on by overpowering forces of greed and climatic disintegration. But it’s also conceivable that we will choose, by acts of imagination and collective will, to create new narratives of how to inhabit the planet. This will require a radical re-imagining of who we are in relation to the world and how we ought to live. We have to be doing everything possible to end dependence on fossil fuels, stop the privatization of water, seeds, and the very atmosphere, and arrest climate chaos. But that work will fare better if we have tangible visions of new / old ways to live that promise thriving without exhausting the Earth. This symposium will engage the essential experiment, testing a different sets of ideas about how to live on Earth.

Books will be available to purchase from Grass Roots Books & Music.

Saturday, Feb. 22

LaSells Stewart Center

OSU, Corvallis

Oregon Small Farms Conference

This daylong event is geared toward farmers, agriculture professionals, food policy advocates, students and managers of farmers markets. Twenty-four sessions will be offered on a variety of topics relevant to the Oregon small farmers. This year there will be a session track in Spanish. Speakers will include farmers, Oregon State University Extension faculty, agribusiness, and more. For more information and to register, please visit the Small Farms website.

Books will be available to purchase from Grass Roots Books & Music.