GET CREATIVE AT Iguana Comics in Grants Pass 329 NE 6th Street Grants Pass, OR 541-474-9730

Local venue to celebrate international 24-Hour Comics Day

Get out your coffee: Local artists who want to test their creativity and push their artistic limits are invited to Iguana Comics in Grants Pass for this year’s 24-Hour Comics Day. The day of extreme cartooning allows 24 straight hours for amateur and professional cartoonists of any age to challenge themselves to write, draw and letter an entire 24-page comic in 24 hours. This year’s 24-Hour Comics Day starts at 9am on Oct. 1.

Kitchen Tour of 7 homes in Grants Pass on Saturday October 22.

Annual fundraiser to support the hungry in Josephine County.

Good Grief , a free, 6-week, family-based support group for children who have experienced the death of someone important in ther lives, meets from 6 to 7:30 pm Thursdays, beginning October 13, at Lovejoy Hospice in Grants Pass. Information available at (541) 474-1193 or lovejoyhospice.org.

Lovejoy Hospice holds its volunteer training from 8 am to 5 pm Monday and Tuesday, October 3-4, at 939 SE 8th Street, Grants Pass. Volunteers offer friendship and support to patients and their families, animal-assisted therapy, bereavement support and clerical help in the office. Information available at 541-474-1193 or lovejoyhospice.org.

BIG FABRIC SALE indoors at the Guild Gallery in Kerby Saturday, August 20th. Great prices on elegant wools, silks, rayons, velvets, cottons and more!

Tour the 2nd oldest bank in the Pacific Northwest and the home of Jacksonville’s wealthiest pioneers, just as they were in 1911.

A Japanese Taiko celebration of music, drumming, dancing and Poet Laureate

Mossbrae Music Festival 2011 to feature Lydia Pense & Cold Blood, Earl Thomas, & Sound Advice R&B & funk music

Music & Theme camps w/ dance, workshops, speakers, art, eco-village, yoga, indigenous ceremony and more!