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Welcome to AVA’s monthly calendar of events. Take a peek and plan your stay-cation or your next visit to our region. The city’s most notable annual events include historic home tours, outdoor summer concerts and movies under the stars, and the Northwest Art and Air Festival.
*Note for event organizers: If you’d like to have your event listed on the AVA calendar, head over to our contact page and submit your event to us.
The Sick Town Derby Dames Roller Derby Club are collecting cans to raise funds.
Canuary is one of their BottleDrop fundraisers and they want your bottles and cans! It’s pretty simple. You donate your eligible containers. They add them to their non-profit BottleDrop account. You get rid of clutter. They get to keep rolling! Save the date. Save your cans.
New year, new career!
Lumina Hospice & Palliative Care is hosting an open house job fair on January 25th
Visit with Lumina employees and learn about working in hospice care.
Enter to win door prizes and enjoy complimentary refreshments.
Administrative, Development, Social Work, CNA, LCSW, LMFT, RN and more!
January 25, 2024
4:30-6:00 PM
720 SW 4th Street
Corvallis, OR 97333
It’s a quick trip to Corvallis to visit the historic Whiteside Theater!
International Guitar Night is the world’s premier touring guitar festival, each show bringing together the most interesting and innovative acoustic guitarists to exchange musical ideas in a public concert setting. For each tour, IGN founder Brian Gore brings together a new cast of guitar luminaries for special evenings of solos, duets, and quartets that highlight the dexterity and diversity within the world of acoustic guitar. Brian founded IGN in 1995 as a forum for the world’s finest guitarists/composers to play their latest original songs and share musical ideas and talent with their peers.
The Albany/Corvallis chapter of the Willamette Writers next meets Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, 6:30 p.m. PST.
Free and online.
This month’s meeting features a presentation by novelist Alma Garcia: A View to a Who: Writing Fiction with Multiple Viewpoints.
Preregistration is required to get the Zoom meeting link: https://willamettewriters.org/
18 years and counting for Oregon’s longest-running Blues Jam. Join Froggy’s Blues Jam aka Church of Eternal Suds in the Atrium at Calapooia Brewing every Sunday from 3-6 PM for a fun evening of live music, Tasty licks, tasty food, the best beer, and surprise cocktails! Bring your instrument of choice, jump right in, and jam with the band!
All ages are welcome! You can even bring your dog!
Free.
18 years and counting for Oregon’s longest-running Blues Jam. Join Froggy’s Blues Jam aka Church of Eternal Suds in the Atrium at Calapooia Brewing every Sunday from 3-6 PM for a fun evening of live music, Tasty licks, tasty food, the best beer, and surprise cocktails! Bring your instrument of choice, jump right in, and jam with the band!
All ages are welcome! You can even bring your dog!
Free.
Get ready for a fun-filled St. Patrick’s Day Paint Night at Tallman Brewing! No luck needed, just unleash your inner artist and celebrate this festive occasion with friends and family on Sunday, March 17, 2024, at 5:30 PM
Don’t worry if you’ve never painted before –an instructor will provide step-by-step guidance and all the materials to Create a fun St. Paddy’s Day-inspired Painting. An 11×14 canvas will be pre-sketched for you and you will have the chance to put your own personal touch on it if you so desire.
Tallman’s Food Carts will be open until 7 PM and it’s highly recommended you come in early and enjoy your food and have a pint before the Class starts.
Gather your friends and family, put on your greenest attire, and head to Tallman Brewing for an unforgettable St. Patrick’s Day Paint Night.
Raise a glass, unleash your creativity, and make this a night to remember! No luck needed!
There is a cost for this event and pre-registration is required. Link below.
** Need tickets but the Class is sold out? Contact us and we will put you on our waitlist.
we.make.art.or@gmail.com
18 years and counting for Oregon’s longest-running Blues Jam. Join Froggy’s Blues Jam aka Church of Eternal Suds in the Atrium at Calapooia Brewing every Sunday from 3-6 PM for a fun evening of live music, Tasty licks, tasty food, the best beer, and surprise cocktails! Bring your instrument of choice, jump right in, and jam with the band!
All ages are welcome! You can even bring your dog!
Free.
PRAx OPENS ITS DOORS
PRAx up close and personal at our all-day Open House. Explore our venues, look behind the scenes of the building, and enjoy live music, tours, art installations, the opening gallery exhibition, activities for children, and more. Meet our director and staff and discover what PRAx is all about.
April 6
Noon-7 p.m.
PRAx Building 470 SW 15th St, Corvallis, OR 97331
FREE for daytime events
$10 for 5 p.m. headliner performance, get tickets here
18 years and counting for Oregon’s longest-running Blues Jam. Join Froggy’s Blues Jam aka Church of Eternal Suds in the Atrium at Calapooia Brewing every Sunday from 3-6 PM for a fun evening of live music, Tasty licks, tasty food, the best beer, and surprise cocktails! Bring your instrument of choice, jump right in, and jam with the band!
All ages are welcome! You can even bring your dog!
Free.
