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The Western Heritage: Arts, Culture, and Entertainment
April 18 - April 19
The Western Heritage: Arts, Culture, and Entertainment event aims to educate and advance the understanding of the American West. The event will explore how various arts and media forms make up our past and create our future. The goal is for participants from varied backgrounds to share their creativity and knowledge to highlight the Klamath Basin and the American West.
Schedule Subject to Change
4-18-2025 (Friday)
5:00 PM-9:00 PM
Opening Event
Klamath Art Association Exhibit Opening, Vendors, & Public Premiere Documentary
5:00-7:00 PM Doors Open, Klamath Art Association Exhibit & Early Bird Vendor Sales (Ross Ragland Cultural Center)
7:00 -9:00 PM Public Premiere Documentary Screening “World Without Cows” A film about the importance of cows in the world. (Ross Ragland Theater)
Mary Hyde “Buckaroo Country” Photo Presentation Friday and Saturday in the Cultural Center
4-19-2025 (Saturday)
10:00 AM –10:00 PM
Open 10:00 am
Curtis Peoples, Executive Director, Welcome & Cultural Center Vendors Open
10:15 AM
Ballet Folklorico Dance: Mexican Culture Class Performance
10:45 AM
Rod Kucera: Business Owner and Artist, Storytelling and Songs
11:15 AM
Micah Lambert: Featured Musician, A Campfire Picker.
11:45 AM
Bekkah McAlvage: Featured Musician, Singer Songwriter and Member of the Rosa Lees.
Lunch Break 12:15-1:15
1:15 PM
1:15 PM
Diana Wirth and Keri Brookshire: Oregon Cattleman’s Association & Cattle Women’s Association
(2:00 PM coffee break)
2:30 PM
Kathy Moss: Poet, Musician, Motivational Speaker.
3:45 PM
Wampus Cat: Featured Musicians Playing Western Songs.
4:15:-6:45 Dinner Break
7:00 PM
Rick Steber: Author and Storyteller
8:00 PM
Ellen Waterston: Oregon Poet Laureate.
9:00 PM
Dana Wirth: Featured Musician Best Opera Singer in the West
9:30 PM
Daniel Bocchi: Featured Musician Country Music Singer Songwriter
Klamath Art Association Cultural Center Exhibit Grand Opening, Opens Friday.
The exhibit will show how local artists imbue meaning and significance onto specific geographic locations within our environment, transforming physical space into “places” that hold cultural value, reflecting shared history, identity, and practices, often through landmarks, rituals, stories, and everyday experiences.
The categories of space and place are broad but can encompass nature, the city, environment, geography, atmosphere, and landscapes of the imagination. The artwork presented can range from natural to artificial, real to fictional, and sublime to commonplace. The artistic approaches can vary from representation to abstraction, documentary to conceptual. The selections reflect the diverse ways local artists engage space and place to explore questions of identity, memory, history, technology, and nostalgia.
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