Event Type: Single Event

Connect, compete, and experience history through play! From saloons to community halls, games have long been a part of High Desert social life. The Museum invites you to explore how people played, gambled, and gathered by learning historic favorites like Faro and Keno alongside contemporary games in a lively, welcoming setting. With food and drinks (more…)

Artist Frank Buffalo Hyde (Onondaga/Niimíipuu) combines modern culture and technology with Indigenous themes and tradition. He will explore the origins of democracy and how sovereignty is defined and implemented in the digital world of today. Buffalo Hyde attended the Santa Fe Fine Arts Institute and Institute of American Indians Arts in New Mexico, and has (more…)

The high-pitched calls of the small-but-mighty American pika defending their territory are hard to miss near the rocky slopes and lava flows of Central Oregon’s wilderness. Despite their reputation as a climate-sensitive species, little is known about the status and distribution of pikas in response to changing climate. Please join Oregon State University wildlife ecologist (more…)

Attention writers! The final day to submit your proposals for the 2026 Waterston Desert Writing Prize is today. Click below to learn more and submit your applications.  The Waterston Desert Writing Prize is an annual celebration of nonfiction writers whose work reflects a connection to the desert. Inspired by author and poet Ellen Waterston’s love (more…)

Susan Kamei’s family members were among the over 120,000 Japanese Americans forcibly detained during World War II. Her book, When Can We Go Back to America? grapples with contradictions between the ideas this country was founded on and the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans. Kamei will explore the constitutional, historical, and political ramifications for citizenship (more…)

Public lands are a tangible aspect of life in the American West. What are the origins of public lands and how have debates over their use shaped the West? Historian, author and associate professor at Colorado State University Leisl Carr Childers will discuss the history of public lands from the American Revolution to today. 2026 (more…)

Central Oregon’s landscape is dominated by majestic volcanic peaks that seem unchanged by time. But these seemingly quiet volcanoes represent one of the most active sections of the Cascade Volcanic Range. Join Dr. Daniele McKay, senior instructor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oregon, to explore the geologic history of our (more…)