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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.
Friends of the Lebanon Public Library Monthly Book Sale at the Lebanon Senior Center (80 Tangent Street).
Friends of the Lebanon Public Library July Book Sale features hundreds of new arrivals, select inventory of books, special editions and sets, DVDs, CDs, audio books, carved vintage books, and more! Most books $0.50 to $2 each. Credit/debit cards accepted on purchases of $5 and up.
Proceeds support children’s programs and special projects at the Lebanon Public Library.
Photo: “Lebanon Skate Park” by Nancy Hunt
Vegas comes to Olsen Run Winery! The Dueling Hobbits return to Olsen Run Winery. These incredible musicians will be putting on a one of kind, audience interactive comedy musical show where they play from their catalogue of over 1,000 songs from numerous decades and genres, by artists including ACDC, Bon Jovi, The Beatles, Bruno Mars, Frank Sinatra, Garth Brooks, Journey, Justin Timberlake, Neil Diamond, Madonna, Michael Jackson, and…..pretty much any artist or song the audience wants to hear!
Kids and dogs are welcome!
Food truck kitchen open until 8pm.
Olsen Run wine and beer available all night.
Plenty of parking at venue.
No outside food or drink.
We are located off I5 at Exit 209 in Harrisburg.
Photo: “Marks Ridge Harvest Time” by Gary Thurman
Visit the Book Bin in Corvallis on July 16th to help raise funds for the historic Whiteside Theater. 20% of Book Bin sales will be generously donated to The Whiteside Theater.
To celebrate turning 40, The Book Bin will be partnering with community nonprofits: on a set day each month, 20% of sales (in-store, over the phone, and on bookbin.com) will be donated to a partnering organization.
The Corvallis Book Bin was opened by Bob and Maria Baird in 1983. Naomi and Obadiah were two and three years old. The four Bairds plus Obadiah’s wife Kat continue to run The Book Bin 40 years later.
The Book Bin is and has always been committed to Corvallis, to Salem, and to thriving Oregon downtowns.
Whiteside Theatre – Sunday 7/16/23
The Whiteside Theatre Foundation supports a multi-purpose entertainment and events venue in the historic Whiteside Theatre that enhances the economic vitality and cultural diversity of downtown Corvallis for the benefit of the entire community.
Upcoming Fundraising Days:
Pentacle Theatre – Sunday 8/13/23
Oregon Humane Society of Salem – 9/10/23
Live concerts, food vendors, and fun in Timber Linn Park on Monday nights at 7pm in July. Playing this year:
The event is free, but a $1 donation per person is appreciated.
Visit their website, cityofalbany.net/parks/events, for all the information.
The Corvallis Community Bands presents
2023 Summer Concert Series
Corvallis Central Park, 7:30pm
The Corvallis Community Band presents its Summer Concerts in the Park series each Tuesday evening 7:30-8:30pm from June 20th to August 29th. The concert is free to the public.
This family-friendly series features the Corvallis Community Band. The first concert features Conductor Justin Preece with the theme of Surveying the Sea. The band rehearses from 6:30-7:25pm before each concert and if you wish to join in, bring your band instrument and do so. The concert is from 7:30-8:30pm and is free to the public in front of the gazebo in Central Park in Corvallis. No seats are provided so dress for the weather and bring a blanket or low-backed chairs.
Tue at 7:30PM – 8:30PM
Central Park
650 Northwest Monroe Avenue
Corvallis
97333
• Tuesday, June 20 – The Sea, conducted by Justin Preece
• June 27 – All Folk Welcome, conducted by Daemon Shane
• July 4th – Celebrate America!, conducted by Jim Martinez
• July 11 – Classic Broadway, conducted by Cheryl Martinez
• July 18 – Children’s Concert, conducted by Steve Matthes
• July 25 – A Summer Concert, conducted by Nathan Boal
• August 1 – Old Fashion Band Concert, conducted by Steve Matthes
• August 8 – Music of the British Isles, conducted by Isaac Andrew
• August 15 – Fantasy & Fantasia, conducted by Mark Tarasawa
• August 22 – Big Band Bash, conducted by John Russell
• August 29 – Movie Magic, conducted by John Russell
Photo: Gorgeous Sunset, Timber Linn Park by Linda Gail Voet
Open Streets returns Sunday, August 20, 2023!
Central Park to Peanut Park, 11 am to 3 pm
Join the community of Corvallis for their 5th annual, free street festival that re-imagines our shared public spaces – streets and parks – as places where people want to walk, bike, and play.
Open Streets features live music, dance, fitness activities, giant-sized games, food and more!
One of the favorite parts of Open Streets is the parade along the route! Local jazz and funk band, DTW, is returning to lead this year’s parade from Central Park to Peanut Park. The parade starts at 11:30 am from Central Park. Anyone can join! We’ll meet at the corner of 8th St and Madison Ave, near the southwest corner of the park, a couple of minutes prior to the start. Look for the parade ambassador!
Photo: “Giving Back” by Casey Quincy
“Celebrating Our Agricultural Heritage” is the theme of the annual History Through Headstones Tour at Albany’s Riverside Cemetery on Wednesday, July 19. It is sponsored by the Albany Regional Museum and the Riverside Cemetery Board of Directors.
This is the 13th year for the free event where light refreshments will be served from 7 pm to dusk. Visitors can park on either side of 7th Ave. west of Albany General Hospital and can begin their tour at either cemetery entrance.
Eleven people associated with the area’s agricultural community will be featured, including six members of the prolific Jenk’s family.
Here is a list of those to be honored along with the names of the docents who will talk about each one: James Benton Jenks (1833-93) and Mary Callaway Jenks (1838-1919), docent and great-granddaughter Mary Jacque Jenks Burck; Enoch Marvin Jenks (1880-1965) and Elizabeth Moser Jenks (1887-1965), docent and great grandson Tim Jenks; Howard Benton Jenks (1893-1963) and Eunice Luper Jenks (1890-1984), docent and grandson Howard Benton Jenks.
Also being honored are Amos Conrad (1925-94), docent and family friend, Pat Hagerty; Cyrill Koos (1863-1943) and Adele Koos (1864-1936), docent and family member Kathryn Koos-Lee; and John Gale Swatzka (1925-09), docent Darrel Tedisch, Riverside Cemetery Board member.
Concluding the featured subjects are Samuel Hill (1804-54), docent Bill Maddy, ARM member; and Mary Pettibone Buchner (1905-2002), docent and family member Kitty Buchner.
Photo credit: “Riverside Cemetary Heart of Linn County Genealogy” by Kimberly Richards
Harrisburg Summer Sounds concert series
Thursday Nights, Food Trucks open at 5:30pm, Music starts at 6:30pm at Riverfront Park in Harrisburg
Free Admission
Bring a chair or blanket
Photo: “Poppies Near Harrisburg” by Nancy Hunt
Live concerts in Timber Linn Park on Thursday nights at 7pm in July and August; Debbie Gibson on July 20, Spin Doctors on July 27, Home Free on August 3, and Foghat on August 10.
The event is free, but a $1 donation per person is appreciated. Visit their website, riverrhythms.org, for all the information.
