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“Master Plan”: Inside Southern Oregon University’s Planned Renovations
Southern Oregon University is submitting its tentative ten-year “Master Plan” to the fifteen members of the board of trustees this month. It is years of…
“The Sky is the Limit”: SOU’s Student Film Festival Awards
Southern Oregon University’s Film Festival Awards were on Wednesday, June the 5th, in Ashland’s Varsity Theater. Admission tickets were $5 per person to the general…
“I sat me down, Divised a new commission”- A collaborative new take on Hamlet
There is so much more to Hamlet than the titular character’s angst. Earlier this month, the Oregon Center for the Arts hosted an experimental new…
“To Sing a Song That Old Was Sung”: Inside SOU’s Production of Pericles
SOU Theater’s last showing of Pericles was on Sunday of May 26th. It is the third and final production of the Theater program this year.…
“Madmen like us reinvent the world” a Spoiler-free Review of Born With Teeth at OSF
At last, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival mounts a play about the festival’s namesake. Born With Teeth by Liz Duffy is one of the ten plays…
“Future-Proofing Rogue Valley”: Inside the Almeda Task Force
Image taken from Jackson County’s video on September 8th, 2020 The Almeda Drive Fire of 2020, between Talent and Phoenix, left Ashland’s community and broader…
“The Highly Modern Writing of Today:” Inside SOU’s May Day Poetry Riot
On Wednesday, the first day of May, seven students read their own poetry in the Art Building’s Meese Auditorium. The presentations lasted for around a…
Three things I learned at the Ashland New Plays Festival Playwright’s Retreat
In the last weekend of April, the Ashland New Plays Festival hosted its first-ever Playwright’s Retreat, and this author was lucky enough to be in…
“Bold, Innovative, and Outrageous Creativity”: SOU’s Oregon Fringe Festival
Last week, Southern Oregon University hosted the eleventh annual Oregon Fringe Festival. The purpose of the event was to give emerging artists —particularly Southern Oregon…