Spring, if not here already, is fast approaching and nine artists are celebrating the turning of the seasons with lighthearted, playful art. This whimsical art show will help to lift any vestiges of winter blahs and add a little fun and humor to your day.

You'll find artwork ranging from sculpture and ceramics to graphic images and paintings.

Be sure to join the Artist Reception on opening night, March 5, from 6 - 8 in the gallery. 

Enjoy an evening of cutting-edge music at Columbia Center for the Arts, when "Concert Rock Violinist" Aaron Meyer performs on March 6th, 2010 at 7:30 pm.

Meyer performs original music and arrangements that bridges world, progressive rock, & classical styles of music with virtuosity and passion.

On stage with Meyer will be gutiarist Tim Ellis and pianist Jean-Pierre Garau, performing songs off their two CDs of original music, "The Journey...not The Destination" and "Warming Up."

Your children will love this interactive play for children, by Alan Ayckbourn. Presented by Columbia Gorge Community College and Columbia Center for the Arts, directed by Richard Parker.

Suzy lives in a small cottage with her mother and her dog Neville. Her father went up in a hot air balloon one day and never came back down. Still, except for Suzy missing her father, they are all quite happy until ...

Learn more: Mr. A's Amazing Maze Plays

Time for a comedy!

When Pecker's works are "discovered" by a slumming NYC art dealer (Lili Taylor), his simple life is turned upside down, and he quickly realizes that he was happier as an unknown.

Set in Baltimore, the film stars Edward Furlong as Pecker, a sweet-natured young fellow who happily passes the days photographing his surroundings with a cheap secondhand camera.

Learn more: Pecker

Join best selling and award winning author and illustrator Sharon Lovejoy as she takes us on a personal walk through gardens around the world.

Lovejoy will show you how to use colors, textures, patterns, water elements, and whimsy to transform even the smallest space into a living work of art, a collage of flora and fauna. Learn how a garden can be used as a canvas and how art can be inspiration in a garden design.

Learn More: The Artist in the Garden.

Columbia Gorge Earth Center with support from Columbia Riverkeeper and Food and Water Watch presents a screening of TAPPED, an unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water.

Learn more: Tapped

Join the Gorge Technology Alliance in welcoming Clark Seavert to the Columbia River Gorge. Seavert is an agricultural economist whose work is focused on technology adoption in orchards.

Seavert directs Oregon State University’s North Willamette Research and Extension Center, and is part of a nationwide group of engineers, scientists, economists and extension educators working on a project known as the Comprehensive Automation for Specialty Crops (CASC).

FREE event made possible by a Google grant.

Learn more: Clark Seavert

Hospice of The Gorge invites you to this FREE teleconference developed by Hospice Foundation of America. 

The program provides an educational forum in which a multidisciplinary panel of experts will address care options related to cancer diagnoses as well as loss and grief reactions for patients, families and professional care-givers. The teleconference will also examine psychosocial aspects of cancer, pain management, and ethical issues related to the disease.

This program is appropriate for the general public as well as medical and care-giving professionals.

Learn more: Grief Teleconference.

Awesome Land: Women Of Dirt offers a unique look into the world of Downhill Racing, Dirt Jumping and Freeriding. This film looks through the eyes of the wondrous women that have helped grow the sport of Gravity Mountain Biking with their strength and courage.

Learn more: Awesome Land: Women of Dirt

Farmer, author and photographer Michael Ableman kicks off the "Farm Life Voices Program" ... part of the History Museum's special Farm Life program.

The Farm Life exhibit features over a hundred artifacts and photographs that represent rural agricultural families and communities. In addition, eight educational and inspirational programs about farm life, titled "Farm Life Voices" are planned.

Join the first of the Farm Life Voices presentations at Columbia Center for the Arts on March 29.

Learn more: Michael Ableman: Farm Life Voices.

Auditions will be held Monday and Tuesday, April 5 & 6 from 5 to 7 pm. Call backs will be Wednesday, April 8, 5 - 7pm. Four men aged 18-35 are needed, two tenors, a baritone and bass. The group must also include a pianist, bass player, guitar play and drummer. Learn more: Forever Plaid.

This is an opportunity for artists to congregate, to learn, and to develop professional relationships with one another in a cooperative, educational setting. Program includes:

• Keynote Address: How to Speak Effectively About Your Work
• Panel Discussion: Demystifying the Gallery-Artist Relationship
• Breakout Sessions: Choose one of three