Community Events

Darkside Cinema: Movies showing Feb. 14 to 20, showtimes daily, Darkside Cinema, Corvallis. Visit their website for showtimes.

• The Rocket –NR: Never less than charming and stirring in its ability to recreate a childhood that overcomes chaos, The Rocket, abetted with a convincing cast led by two superb child actors, proves instantly why it's been winning accolades worldwide. 100% on RT! Subtitled Lao.
• Girl on a Bicycle –R: From the screenwriter of The Notebook. You can’t help but fall in love with The Girl on a Bicycle.
• Inside Llewyn Davis –R: The Coen brothers have crafted another unique period piece.
• All Is Lost–PG-13: Robert Redford.
• 12 Years a Slave –R: Golden Globe Best Picture of 2013.
  

Literary Events:

• Writers on the River Critique-Group Panel Discussion: Panelists from five local writers’ critique groups will describe how their groups operate, share successful practices and cautionary tales, and respond to your questions. Following the panel discussion, a networking session will provide opportunities to connect with others interested in joining or forming a critique group. Monday, Feb. 17, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Dennis Hall, First Presbyterian Church, Corvallis. Please visit the Writers on the River website for more information.
• OSU MFA Reading Series, featuring Abigail Amabisca, Joy Henry, Ellie Francis Douglass, and Scott Latta: Thursday, Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m., New Morning Bakery, Corvallis.
  
• Gathering Moon: An evening of poetry, stories, and music: Each moon, this group of women from Salem, Corvallis, and Eugene come together to share their poetry, prose, responses, and friendship. Gathering Moon originated as a writing group of the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. This is the group’s first public appearance. Five writers share their work: Carole Ann Crateau, Ruthy Kanagy, Cindy McCain, Nancy Rosenberger, and Jana Zvibleman. They will be accompanied by Beth Brown on cello and pennywhistle, and Adam Crateau on drums. Saturday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m., Troubadour Music Center, Corvallis. For more information, please email mccaincynthia@msn.com.
  

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.

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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.