Calendar

6th Annual Albany Taps & Caps! @ Downtown Albany

Apr 6 @ 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Furniture Share* cordially invites you to the 6th Annual Albany Taps & Caps, Saturday, April 6, 2024, from 4 pm – 9 pm. This fundraising event is presented by The Garage, No Rails Ale House, Deluxe Brewing, Calapooia Brewing Company, and the Albany Downtown Association.

Start your night at either The Garage or Deluxe Brewing on April 6th between 4 pm and 9 pm to pick up your growler (first 50 tickets sold), 4 tasting tickets (1 for each stop on the tour), and a raffle ticket for one of the giveaways at each stop. Presale tickets and growlers can be picked up on April 3-5th at the Albany Downtown Association from 10-5 pm. Please bring your email confirmation of your ticket sale.

Stay for the after-party at Deluxe Brewing from 9-11 pm. Enjoy live music – your entry is free with your Albany Taps & Caps bracelet.

*Furniture Share is a program that provides low-income families, individuals, and children across the Willamette Valley with a comfortable night’s sleep and makes their house a home by providing them with basic furniture and household items! Have a fun night knowing you’ve helped a great cause!
100% of all proceeds benefit Furniture Share Programs, so you know your money is being used in your community to make a difference to people in need!

Apr

17

Wed

A talk on Civil War Medicine at the Lebanon Public Library by Keith Menk and Ashely Wendell @ Lebanon Public Library

Tickets

Apr 17 @ 6:30 pm

REENACTORS TALK ON CIVIL WAR MEDICINE

Keith Menk and Ashley Wendell, Civil War reenactors, who specialize in happenings within the medical tent, will give a talk on Civil War medicine on Wednesday, April 17, at the Lebanon Public Library. The program will begin at 6:30 p.m. and last for about an hour.

Sponsored by the Lebanon Museum Foundation and the Lebanon Public Library, this program is open to the public and free for all. The library is at 55 Academy Street.

For more information about this program or about the Lebanon Museum Foundation visit “Lebanon Museum” on Facebook, or see the website at lebanonmuseum.org.

Tags: civil war history lebanon medicine

May

7

Tue

1st Avenue Walking History Tour 2024 @ Burkhart Square

Tickets

May 7 @ 6:00 pm

Join this walking tour of 1st Avenue to learn about the history of the buildings and the businesses that have occupied them over the past 150 years. The tour starts promptly at 6 PM and will be approximately 1 hour in length.
While the tour is free, there is a suggested $5 donation per person, to benefit the Monteith Historical Society.

Meet at Burkhart Square (next to the Albany Civic Theater) at the corner of 1st Ave and Lyons St.

This tour is sponsored by The Natty Dresser as part of Albany‘s celebration of National Historic Preservation Month.
Photo from Albany Regional Museum, Potts Photo Collection.

Tags: Albany history walking

May

8

Wed

2nd Avenue Walking History Tour 2024 @ Burkhart Square (Next to the Albany Civic Theater)

Tickets

May 8 @ 6:00 pm

Join this walking tour of 2nd Avenue to learn about the history of the buildings and the businesses that have occupied them over the past 150 years. The tour starts promptly at 6 PM and will be approximately 1 hour in length.

While the tour is free, there is a suggested $5 donation per person, to benefit the Monteith Historical Society.

Meet at Burkhart Square (next to the Albany Civic Theater) on the corner of 1st Ave and Lyons St.
This tour is sponsored by The Natty Dresser as part of Albany‘s celebration of National Historic Preservation Month.
Photo from Albany Regional Museum Potts Photo Collection.

Tags: Albany history walking

Jun

8

Sat

Historic People and Places, A Walking Tour of Albany’s Historic Hackleman District @ Oregon Electric Railroad Depot

Tickets

Jun 8 @ 2:30 am

Members of Friends of Historic Albany (FOHA) will be discussing historically significant residents and structures during a one-hour walking tour through a portion of the Hackleman Historic District.

The tour begins at 2:30 p.m. in front of the former Oregon Electric Railroad Depot, 133 5th Ave. SE,

Tags: Albany Hackleman Historic Museum walking

Jun

15

Sat

Through the Garden Gate Annual Tour 2024 @ Albany Visitors Association

Tickets

Jun 15 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

OSU Linn County Master Gardener Association is hosting its annual garden tour. See six beautiful local gardens abundant with ideas and inspiration created by unique and artful gardeners around Albany!

Children under 12 are welcome with an adult companion. Sorry, No pets.

Your ticket purchase supports gardening and pollinator education.

Tickets are $15 each and can be purchased at the Albany Visitors Association located at 122 Ferry St. SW, Albany.

Cash or Check only.

Photo Credit: ” Clematis” Lonna Capaci

Tags: Albany Garden Tour walking

Jun

23

Sun

“KiKi Film Screening and Panel Discussion- June 23, 2024 @ Russell Tripp Performance Center

Tickets

Jun 23 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

KinCultivate & Albany Pride Present “KIKI” A FREE Documentary Screening www.kikimovie.com

KinCultivate and Albany Pride Presents “KIKI”, a FREE film documentary screening hosted by Mid-Valley Productions, MVP at the Russell Tripp Performance Center within Linn-Benton Community College (Albany Campus) Reserve your FREE tickets today online at www.midvalleyproductions.org Click here to purchase tickets for this event.

About Kiki and the movie:
In New York City, LGBTQ youth of color gather at the Christopher Street Pier to practice Ballroom, a performance-based art form popularized in the early 1990s by Madonna’s “Vogue” music video and the documentary “Paris Is Burning.” Twenty-five years after these cultural milestones, a new and distinct generation of LGBTQ youth has developed an artistic activist subculture known as the Kiki Scene.

“KIKI” follows seven members of the Kiki community over four years, using their preparations and performances at Kiki balls as a framework to explore their struggles with homelessness, illness, and discrimination, as well as their progress in gaining political influence and embracing gender expression. The film introduces us to Twiggy Pucci Garçon, the founder of the Haus of Pucci, alongside Chi Chi, Gia, Chris, Divo, Symba, and Zariya. Each of these individuals offers a unique and powerful personal story, shedding light on the Kiki scene and the broader experience of queer life for LGBTQ youth of color in the U.S.

Kiki balls, a central aspect of the Kiki subculture, provide a safe and empowering space for performers to express various gender identities, including stylized femininity that might otherwise provoke ridicule or violence in their home communities. Participants range from young teens to those in their twenties, many of whom have been cast out by their families or find themselves homeless. As LGBTQ people of color, they represent a minority within a minority, with a staggering 50% being HIV positive. The Kiki scene emerged as a peer-led initiative offering alternative family structures (“houses”), HIV awareness and testing, and performances promoting self-agency. It has grown into a significant organization with rules, leaders, and teams, now boasting hundreds of members in New York and beyond, including across the U.S. and Canada. Run by LGBTQ youth for LGBTQ youth, it draws on strategies from the Civil Rights, Gay Rights, and Black Power movements.

In this film, a collaboration between Kiki gatekeeper Twiggy Pucci Garçon and Swedish filmmaker Sara Jordenö, viewers gain exclusive access to this intense world, where fierce Ballroom competitions open up discussions about the Black Lives Matter and Trans Lives Matter movements. This new generation of Ballroom youth adopts the motto “Not About Us Without Us,” and “KIKI” reflects this ethos with extensive support and trust from the community, featuring an exhilarating score by the renowned Ballroom and Voguing Producer Collective Qween Beat. Twiggy and Sara’s insider-outsider perspective revitalizes the portrayal of a marginalized community striving for visibility and genuine political power.

The Russell Tripp Performance Center is located at the Albany Campus of Linn-Benton Community College, Takena Hall, 6500 Pacific Blvd SW, Albany, OR 97321.