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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.
What is a cultural encampment?
Cultural encampment is a group of Native Americans from different parts of the United States coming together, making village-type settings with tipis and tents. We share our individual cultures and traditional information with the community.
Many moons ago, traveling through an area, you might see groups of tipis or tents for a short time in each area. There were there to gather together, trade or meet family members and to celebrate life by having a big feast as they traveled from one area to another.
Activities
See our schedule on site for daily activities.
Craft classes, materials provided
Pow-Wow style dancing, including a dance where anyone can participate
Shopping at booths
Raffle – Many great prizes to win!
Field activities such as atlatl throwing
Explore nature nearby at the river and park grounds
Lunchtime feast on Sunday, all are welcome
DATES
July 20 and 21, Waterloo County Park, 39510 Gross St, Lebanon, OR
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.
SAVE THE DATE: The 45th Summer Interior Tour of Historic Homes will be held 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 27, in Albany, Oregon. Several lovely historic homes will be open for touring, as well as the Monteith House, Albany Regional Museum, and other historic buildings.
More details to come. Tickets will go on sale online in June.
Visitors are asked to please not touch items in the homes and to not take photos or video while inside.
Proceeds from Albany’s Interior Tour of Historic Homes benefit the Monteith House Museum.
Photo by Melinda Martin.
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.
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.
Join Albany Regional Museum to hear Oregon’s Travelling Historian, Darrell Jabin, cover the mystery behind the infamous D.B. Cooper hijacking.
History Bites is free to attend. Admission to exhibits is now fee-based, but always free for members!
Light refreshments will be provided.
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.
Come to the Native American Cultural Encampments summer of 2024, with Deitrich Peters and friends. The public is invited to come learn about Native culture, explore handcrafts and items for sale, watch the Pow-wow style dancing (there is usually one dance where you are invited to participate) and practice traditional skills and crafts. Listen to some beautiful flute playing, enjoy stories, and explore the drum and more. Many different tribes are represented at these gatherings.
SCEC will be there with a table showing Kalapuya Ways items of material culture, and presenting different crafts classes and atlatl throwing. Karen Rainsong, our Executive Director, presents this teaching and may also tell a few Kalapuya stories.
On Sunday mid afternoon there is a big feast where everyone can eat for free. “Indian tacos” are served. No need to RSVP. Please join the fun!
This is an alcohol and drug-free event. Children are welcome. Please keep pets leashed and under your control at all times.
DATES
June 29th – July 1st Roaring River County Park in Scio
July 20-21, Waterloo County Park in Lebanon
Aug 23 – 25, Cascadia County Park in Sweethome
