The Creative Way

Wild and Scenic Film Fest on tour in southern Oregon 04.04.2025 14:47 ↓

Vanessa Finney talks with KS Wild. which is hosting the WSFF along with Rogue Riverkeeper.

Oregon's first-ever 'Waitress' arrives at the Cabaret 29.03.2025 14:26 ↓

Director Lauren Blair joins host Vanessa Finney on The Creative Way.

Bloomsbury Books shares March releases 25.03.2025 14:45 ↓

Megan Isser of Ashland's Bloomsbury Books highlights new memoir, YA fiction, and romantic thrillers.

Tim Bond to direct "Jitney" at OSF 28.02.2025 15:28 ↓

"Jitney" is the eighth August Wilson play to be staged at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Banff Mountain Film Festival - this weekend and beyond 21.02.2025 14:29 ↓

The Redding Trail Alliance hosts the festival at the Cascade Theatre on February 22.

Outliers and Outlaws 24.01.2025 14:28 ↓

The documentary "Outliers and Outlaws" documents the history of a large and vibrant lesbian community in Eugene, Oregon.

Local Booksellers Suggest Winter Reads 03.01.2025 14:29 ↓

Ashland's Book Exchange and Bloomsbury Books share their recommendations for new and classic memoirs, mysteries, and nature writing.

The Making of a National Orchestra 20.12.2024 14:25 ↓

In her new memoir, “Reach Up: My Beautiful Journey with James DePreist,” Ginette DePreist describes the renowned conductor's work with the Oregon Symphony.

"Follow me into Auschwitz...." 06.12.2024 14:30 ↓

Holocaust survivor, Felicia Lubliner felt driven to remind us that the millions who perished were not defined by their deaths but by their lives-their joys, dreams, loves.

Weavers of Indigenous Culture Still Very Present in Oregon 22.11.2024 12:49 ↓

Crescent City resident practices traditional weaving techniques to create works of art that are as useful as they are beautiful.

NPR, women, and the music they make 08.11.2024 14:29 ↓

Vanessa Finney interviews two contributors to the book, "How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History."

Hello, Halloween! A curated list of Spooky Reads 01.11.2024 14:41 ↓

Four local booksellers give their recommendations for some chill-filled Halloween reading.

Octavio Solis, Artistic Director of the Ashland Beckett Shorts Festival 18.10.2024 14:47 ↓

The Ashland Beckett Shorts Festival runs Oct 24-27 at 7pm each night.

Life, Death, and Ethnic Representation: New Plays Dive Deep 11.10.2024 14:42 ↓

Novid Parsi and Keiko Green join host Vanessa Finney.

He's won an Oscar, a Grammy, and now a Rogue Award 04.10.2024 14:50 ↓

Filmmaker Jeffrey Friedman talks with Vanessa Finney about two films showing this weekend at the Ashland Independent Film Festival.

For this poet laureate, the land is her muse 13.09.2024 14:41 ↓

Oregon's new Poet Laureate, Ellen Waterston, recently spoke to JPR's Vanessa Finney about the state's literary landscape.

Native American Comedian Mark Yaffee 23.08.2024 14:40 ↓

The Creative Way talks to comedian Mark Yaffee

Fight! Fight! Fight! (But safely!) 16.08.2024 14:39 ↓

Stage fighting at OSF is an art unto itself

The brains behind the legal blonde 26.07.2024 14:38 ↓

Oregon Cabaret Theatre's production of Legally Blonde.

Songs and stories of the Irish diaspora, straight from Oregon's outback 28.06.2024 14:28 ↓

Corey Murphy sings songs of the Irish diaspora, with a special focus on the pipeline of people from the Old Country to Lake County, Oregon

An artist-in-residence describes a stay at Hyatt Lake 07.06.2024 14:27 ↓

Science Illustrator Serena Richelle at Hyatt Lake. Richelle is camping as part of a two-week Artist Residency program organized annually by the BLM.

SOU Choir's Spring Concert, 'capAble,' focuses on accessibility 31.05.2024 14:11 ↓

The SOU Choir's Spring Concert aims to highlight accessibility and center the voices of people who navigate the world differently.

Dream of Gold comes true for 'T-Rex' 24.05.2024 14:28 ↓

Ashland Independent Film Festival is presenting, " T-Rex," a 2015 documentary film about Claressa 'T-Rex' Shields, a 17-year old from Flint, Michigan who dreamed of being the first woman in history to win a gold medal in Olympic boxing.

Phoenix artist curates Woman Kind exhibit 08.05.2024 14:35 ↓

Artist Beca Blake is the subject of new arts program.

Take that, Elizabethans: putting Shakespeare's men in the body of a woman 26.04.2024 13:56 ↓

Lisa Wolpe performs Shakespeare's male roles, and has done many of them.