The Terroir Creative Writing Festival is back The Terroir Creative Writing Festival returns on Saturday, April 29. Now in its 11th incarnation, the full day of keynote talks, workshops, sessions on creativity, and a panel discussion welcomes writers of all ages looking to expand their tribe and jump-start their creativity and will take place at the Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg, a change of venue for the festival. Read Article
The Boutique Retreat brings tiny home experience to McMinnville Sarita Springer and Kevin Kump had stayed in tiny house hotels and binged on HGTV for years before deciding to create their own tiny house accommodations in McMinnville. They toured tiny house production facilities, stayed in tiny vacation cottages in Portland, and explored space efficiency of vintage trailers, all the while marveling about how much joy can be designed into tiny spaces. We spoke to Sarita about the Boutique Retreat, the nine new tiny houses they just opened on Alpine Avenue. Read Article
Women business owners chime in on McMinnville magic (and where they send visitors) If there were a phrase about McMinnville’s famous historic boulevard, it would be this: “Women hold up half of Third Street.” Read Article
Gallery Theater hosts regional one act competition Come March 17-18, Gallery Theater will host the Association for American Community Theater’s 2023 competition for Region IX. Five theaters from three states – Oregon, Washington and Idaho – will bring their best game to McMinnville. The winner goes to nationals. Read Article
The McMinnville Short Film Festival Returns The McMinnville Short Film Festival returns February 23-26. Get your tickets today at https://mcminnvillefilmfest.org/ Read Article
Tiny Travels: Plan your Winter Craftcation in McMinnville Who says you have to stay at home when it rains? With Oregon’s cozy season well underway, it’s a great time to curl up in a room of your own with a craft project or whatever mode of creativity you prefer–in rooms that don’t feel like the same-old-same-old. Read Article
McMinnville’s Film Scene The glitter and gravitational pull of Hollywood as a film industry player is such that it’s easy to overlook a simple fact: Filmmakers, and filmmaking, are everywhere … and McMinnville has a film scene. Read Article
A new holiday tradition is forged with the first annual Metal Arts Gift Show You probably didn’t know you needed a metal arts gift show in your life, but it just so happens that local artist and silversmith, Maggie Bowman, is bringing one to McMinnville. She has brought together the region’s blacksmiths, coppersmiths, jewelers, knife-makers and other metalworkers, and on Saturday, Dec. 10, the party is at the Yamhill Valley Heritage Center, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Read Article
Tiny Travels: The Best of Smalltown Holidays in McMinnville Small towns encapsulate the best of the holiday spirit – the sense of deep connection we feel to our fellow humans, the sweet allure of all that twinkles, and the simple pleasures that make the holidays about so much more. Read Article
Tiny Travels: Domaine Willamette makes a home for sparkling It used to be that your sparkling wine was best when it was better traveled than anyone at your holiday table. Now, if you live anywhere near the Willamette Valley, you can be the traveler and the wine a celebration of time well spent. Read Article