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About the Oregon Fringe Festival: (Ashland, Ore.) Each spring, the Oregon Center for the Arts produces the Oregon Fringe Festival (OFF), a multi-day event bringing together emerging creators and real-world artistic practitioners to share their respective experiences and to engage with each other’s work. The festival’s mission is simple: to provide a boundary-breaking platform for free expression and to celebrate unconventional art and unconventional spaces. Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend our events. If you are a person with a disability who requires accommodation(s) in order to participate in this festival, then please contact Disability Resources at DSS@sou.edu in advance. The OFF is committed to providing a boundary- breaking platform for free expression that amplifies the voices of those who are all too unrepresented in the creative arts industry. A lens focusing on equity, diversity, and inclusion will filter our selection process for all projects submitted. About the Oregon Center for the Arts: The Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University serves as a creative catalyst for the mixture of students, educators, and artists from the state, the nation and the world. The beautiful Southern Oregon mountain setting provides a special place to learn, explore and train in all of the arts disciplines. Visit: oca.sou.edu About Southern Oregon University: Southern Oregon University is 175 acres of beautifully maintained campus with outstanding facilities, occupied by a committed and well- respected faculty and talented students. SOU’s vision is to be an inclusive, sustainable university for the future. Faculty, staff and leadership collaborate to achieve those ideals, and are united in their dedication to the students who will create lives of purpose and fulfill our region’s promise. SOU enhances the economic, cultural and social well- being of southern Oregon, and helps its students learn the skills to work both independently and collaboratively, be adaptable and embrace creativity. Its diversity gives SOU both texture and strength. Students’ thoughtfully shared points of view are valued and respected. Visit: sou.edu
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Waiting for the Meteor , Bruce Burris, Marieke Mirsch, and Eileen Hinckle Periodically, over the course of two days, Marieke will create crochet in her home studio where viewers will have the opportunity to observe and interact via Zoom. Simultaneously, a live mural by Eileen in response to Marieke’s crochet will take place at CatalystAshland, in which viewers will have another opportunity to observe and interact with Marieke. Those who are involved with Waiting for the Meteor are all familiar with the ecology and limited range of lively support available to artists and others who experience neurodiversity. In fact, most who are involved are affiliated with Living Studios, a program in Corvallis that provides collaboration with participating artists who are then provided with an enriching environment that includes tools, guidance, professional development, exhibitions, teaching, and further motivation, if called upon. The 2022 Oregon Fringe Festival will take place live and online from Wednesday, April 27 - Sunday, May 1, 2022 with an emphasis on celebrating their zany community that embraces bold, innovative, and outrageously creative talent. For more information, please visit www. oregonfringefestival.org. Southern Oregon University and the Oregon Fringe Festival are located within the ancestral homelands of the Shasta, Takelma, and Latgawa peoples who lived here since time immemorial. These Tribes were displaced during rapid Euro-American colonization, the Gold Rush, and armed conflict between 1851 and 1856. In the 1850s, discovery of gold and settlement brought thousands of Euro-Americans to their lands, leading to warfare, epidemics, starvation, and villages being burned. In 1853 the first of several treaties were signed, confederating these Tribes and others together - who would then be referred to as the Rogue River Tribe. These treaties ceded most of their homelands to the United States, and in return they were guaranteed a permanent homeland reserved for them. At the end of the Rogue River Wars in 1856, these Tribes and many other Tribes from western Oregon were removed to the Siletz Reservation and the Grand Ronde Reservation. Today, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (https://www.grandronde.org) and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians ( http://www.ctsi.nsn.us/) are living descendants of the Takelma, Shasta, and Latgawa peoples of this area. We encourage YOU to learn about the land you reside on, and to join us in advocating for the inherent sovereignty of Indigenous people. n
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The Business Review | March 2022
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