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Community Connect
Our community
Our students thrive in their academic pursuits, our researchers solve real-world challenges, and our campus expansion comes to life — because of our surrounding community.
An Evening with a Kristen Millares Young
MFA in Creative Writing Fall 2024 Visiting Writer
6:30 p.m., Sept. 25
Charles McGrath Atrium, Edward J. Ray Hall
Award-winning author, journalist and essayist Kristen Millares Young is the author of the novel “Subduction.” The novel was named a staff pick by The Paris Review, referred to as “whip-smart” by The Washington Post and a “brilliant debut” by The Seattle Times. She was the researcher for the New York Times team that produced “Snow Fall,” which won a Pulitzer Prize.
Registration Closed.
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Outdoor Family Movie:
Disney’s “Encanto”
6 p.m., Sept. 27. Movie at 7 p.m.
Edward J. Ray Hall and Oval Green
This movie event celebrates the City of Bend’s Welcoming Week and Mes de la Cultura or Hispanic Heritage Month. Come early to create Hispanic heritage-based crafts such as calaveras or “sugar skulls,” papel picado or intricate perforated paper designs, and piñatas. “Encanto” is an award-winning animated movie. Bring blankets and low lawn chairs.
Free!
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First Peoples Celebration
with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
1-6 p.m., Oct. 12
OSU-Cascades campus
Explore and celebrate the history and culture of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Join us for Tribal craft and artistry demonstrations, a showcase of traditional regalia and Native dancing, and a performance by the Native American, Grammy-nominated Black Lodge Singers.
Limited tickets are available for an Indigenous Dinner.
Campus Tours for Community Groups
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Fourth Fridays
Learn about the history, present and future of OSU’s growing university campus in Bend. After a classroom session, you’ll divide into two smaller groups. While one explores campus buildings and their public art on foot, the other will tour the expansion site in a comfortable van, before alternating. Formal and informal groups welcome.
For groups of 12-24.
It's a new era for the popular, 14-year-old series that has been held in venues throughout the region until now. Science Pubs have moved to Edward J. Ray Hall on the OSU-Cascades campus.
Public art on campus was commissioned or purchased by OSU-Cascades through the Oregon Arts Commission’s Percent for Art program, or donated to the campus.
A 30-year community vision is taking shape. Over the next decades, OSU-Cascades will expand, creating a 128-acre campus for up to 5,000 students.
Net zero would mean the campus consumes only as much energy as it produces, balances water availability and demand, and eliminates waste sent to landfills.