Winterfest Guide 2024

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Brighten the Winter Season!

The 2024 Boss Mortgage Bend WinterFest is excited to return to its roots in Bend at the Old Mill, standing as the Northwest’s largest winter festival! Prepare for a weekend filled with an array of live music acts, artisans, and vendors from across the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Breathe in the fresh air of the high desert and explore mesmerizing sculptures crafted f rom fire, ice, and light. Enjoy a whirl on the Ferris Wheel, and shop an array of artists, vendors, and more in the Wonderland Marketplace and the outdoor Cascades Market. Relax in our heated Royal Lounge tent before heading to the Oregrown Main Stage for spectacular performances by hip-hop legend Chingy and rock n’ roll queens, Hell’s Belles.

Engage in family-friendly, STEM-based activities hosted by OMSI and sponsored

by Lonza. Get the kids excited for the Mini Marshmallow Run, a delightful addition to the Kids Rock the Races Season. And don’t miss out on the Hot Cocoa Run, a fun-filled 5K through the WinterFest grounds, complete with cocoa and more at the finish line.

Dear Winterfest partygoers, Both young and old, From the old mill district, Our story is told.

It’s that time again, the snow’s all around, With joy and excitement, the festival is found.

Live music, good food, and drinks that are grand, Bend Winterfest is the best in the land.

Boss Mortgage is here, feeling proud and elated, To support this event, we’re locally dedicated.

From icy sculptures to activities for all, This winterfest, in Bend, is sure to enthrall.

The magic of snow, the laughter it brings, Snowflakes dance and everyone sings.

Families and friends, in harmony unite, Enjoying the festivities from morning till night.

From our team to yours, let’s all have a blast, At Winterfest in Bend, where memories last.

Thank you for joining, for making it great, Let’s celebrate Winterfest, don’t you be late!

Warm regards, Randy Vance – President Boss Mortgage

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General Admission

Adult Hot Cocoa Run

$17 Advanced $20 At the gate

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Kid’s Mini Marshmallow Run Included with admission!

$15 At the gate

Kid’s Admission (Under 12)* $10 Advanced $12 At the gate

Keep your wristband!

General admission tickets are good for all three days.

*Kids two and under are FREE

Only can make it on Sunday?

Sunday ONLY admission: $15

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Lay It Out Events proudly supports local nonprofits & community organizations Every year, a portion of proceeds from Bend WinterFest is donated to a local nonprofit. In 2024, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Oregon returns as this year’s beneficiary!

Big Brothers Big Sisters offers effective mentoring programs that improve the lives of our community’s youth. These programs deeply engage communities through collaboration with families, mentors, community funders, schools and other partners. Offering a variety of programs to meet community and youth needs.

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS SATURDAY | Feb. 17

5:00PM Bend WinterFest kicks off!

Chevrolet of Bend Ice Carving

11:00AM Day 2 of WinterFest begins!

Chevrolet Ice Carving begins: Lila Ferber & Wade Lapp

5:30PM Tony Smiley performs at the Oregrown Main Stage 6:00PM DJ Set begins in the Mt. Bachelor Light Art Showcase Area

12:00PM Pacific Source Kids Mini Marshmallow Run 1:00PM Ice Carving - Lisa & Jon Donze K9 Kings Flying Dog Show

7:00PM Precious Byrd performs at the Oregrown Main Stage

2:30PM K9 Kings Flying Dog Show

8:00PM Family Play Zone closes

3:00PM Ice Carving – Jacob Lucas

8:30PM Hell’s Belles performs on the Oregrown Main Stage

4:00PM K9 Kings Flying Dog Show

9:30PM Marketplaces closes 10:00PM WinterFest closes

5:30PM Leadbetter Band performs at the Oregrown Main Stage 6:00PM DJ Set begins in the Mt Bachelor Light Art Showcase Area 7:00PM MOsley WOtta performs on the Oregrown Main Stage 8:00PM Family Play Zone closes 8:30PM Chingy performs on the Oregrown Main Stage 9:30PM Marketplaces closes 10:00PM Winterfest closes

SUNDAY | Feb. 18 11:00AM Final day of WinterFest begins!

Chevrolet Ice Carving begins Lila Ferber & Wade Lapp 12:00PM Hot Cocoa Run 5K Run 1:00PM Ice Carving - Lisa & Jon Donze K9 Kings Flying Dog Show 2:30PM K9 Kings Flying Dog Show 3:00PM Ice Carving – Jacob Lucas 4:00PM K9 Kings Flying Dog Show 5:00PM WinterFest closes

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Ongoing Activities

Fire Pit Displays, Light Displays, Ferris Wheel & Merry-Go-Round rides

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Hell’s Belles is a committed, ferocious, meticulous women rock band delivering authentic AC/DC to the unbelievably supportive and wicked awesome fans. All day and all night long, all over the world, pitch perfect AC/ DC delivered with a highly charged vigor.

The songs of Tony Smiley are a tantalizing ride through electro acoustic music that will cause your musical senses to rise. During the experience you can expect original soul bearing songs, improv crowd pleasers, and creative cover mixes.

PRECIOUS BYRD 7PM TONY SMILEY 5:30PM

Precious Byrd is one of the most sought after bands in the Pacific Northwest.

This funky rock n’ roll dance band will make any event take flight! Their fresh renditions of modern and classic hits, along with a number of high energy originals are sure to fill the dance floor and get people on their feet!

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Leadbetter Band was born after the final closing chapters of Jive Coulis in the early winter of 2017. In a sense it was a “re-branding” of Jive Coulis.

Eric was the songwriter and frontman for Jive, and that is still the case with Leadbetter Band. His original songs played in LB are vast and diverse, from a classic rock sound to bluesy heavy jam sections featuring the Bands unique improv abilities.

MOsley WOtta 7PM Leadbetter Band 5:30PM

MOsley WOtta/ MOWO is an American Artist from Rogers Park, Chicago. His move to Central OR has continued to influence and inform the diversity of mediums and media he explores in his work traversing the ecology of conversation in his paintings, writings and performances. His intentionally non linear work blends with a clear and direct message “what are we willing to risk to see each others humanity.” Every aspect of Wotta’s work is a conversation whether in paint, prose, music or with audiences, he is focusing on making positive connections between the negative space of perceived difference.

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Chingy, who single handedly influenced cultural slang with “thurr” and “hurr” following the smash Billboard Hot 100 hit “Right Thurr,” achieved superstardom success with seven other Hot 100 hits, including “Holidae In,” “One Call Away” and many more. An actor and philanthropist, Chingy, achieved rapid mainstream success with the release of his triple-Platinum RIAA certified debut album, Jackpot.

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Mt. Bachelor Light Art Showcase Polymery by Taylor Dean Harrison Taylor Dean Harrison creates mixed-media sculptures and installations. He has worked professionally as a designer, fabricator, and artist in a wide-range of materials since 2012.

In all of his work, light and movement apply a meter to the viewer’s investigation of, and participation in, each piece. Color fields cast light and shadow across static materials and space inspiring novel interactions with the art.

With each creation, Harrison aims to craft an alternative universe with an order based on a mathematical system. Then he brings that universe alive with more painterly approaches, implementing handwork and moving light. These manifestations of order and subsequent departures result in spaces and objects built for suffusive moments of mental peace.

In his practice rooted in parametric design, Harrison adopts technique and research from cutting edge industrial processes. He explores generative forms and color theory to play with the physical boundaries of the eye and the expectations of the brain. Once finished in the digital realm, Harrison uses CNC processes to bring his works into the physical world.

Harrison’s artworks have toured festivals and fairs internationally, exhibited in galleries and museums, and been purchased for private collections. He attended art school at UC Berkeley, and apprenticed under Michael Christian, a seminal Burning Man and public artist.

Polymery is an installation of five sculptures that cast light and shadow far and wide creating a patterned field of constantly evolving color mixing on the ground. During the day, the flower-like pods invite the viewer to look upwards at their curving, mirrored surfaces to see warped reflections of the environment.

At night, the flowers ‘bloom’ into a larger installation, each pod casting its petals onto the ground and inspiring exploration.

Dome Art Installation & DJ Visitr Friday & Saturday at 6pm at Mt. Bachelor Light Art Showcase

Visitr will send you on a journey through genres and cultures, mixing epic melodies that bridge the worlds of dreamy house, lo-fi vibes, hip hop hooks, and indie influences into a captivating blur on the dance floor. Visitr is the music project of Portland based creative director, artist, and songwriter Andy Navilli. Steeped in the local music scene, he has performed at iconic venues such as, Wonder Ballroom, Doug Fir, Dig a Pony, No Vacancy, and the beloved Holocene where he curates and hosts sci-fi themed events known as Møthership.

Born with the spirit of the Cascadian frontier the Escape Collective is a team of designers, makers, artists and engineers. Their creative installation work has been a part of many festivals across the country including Portland Winter Lights Festival, Bass Coast, Burning Man, FORM, Okeechobee, HARD, Summit at Sea, and WTFestival.

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Lisa Donze + John Donze

Lisa Donze started out sand sculpting through Sand in the City as her talent grew, she began to have opportunities to add snow, ice and pumpkins to her repertoire. When she’s not carving, Lisa spends her time enjoying family and running an insurance agency.

Lila Ferber

Wade Lapp

Wade Lapp, a skilled artisan, discovered his passion for carving pumpkins 12 years ago. He was inspired by Ray Villafane’s work and decided to try his hand at it. From that moment on, Lapp was hooked and has since explored various mediums. Pumpkin carving opened up many doors for Lapp, allowing him to branch out into sand sculpting as a solo artist and as a member of the sand sculpting team, Team Mai Tia. Along with his wife, Brittany Lapp, he has won numerous competitions and created many exhibition sculptures. In 2021, Lapp jumped into a new medium, ice, at the World Ice Art Championship in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he and his team took second place. Lapp created several magical sculptures that are now displayed throughout the park.

In recent years, Lapp has also taken up wood carving, creating many custom pieces for individuals and collaborating with St Helens, Oregon’s Spirit of Halloweentown to create magical wood pieces displayed in exhibits throughout town and on St Helens’ Sand Island.

Lila Ferber is a talented artist hailing from Omaha, NE. She holds a BFA in Sculpture from Kansas City Art Institute, where she honed her skills in abstract oil painting and wood, ice, and stone carving. Currently based in Portland, Lila is creating stunning, twisty wood sculptures with her trusty chainsaw.

Lila’s work has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions throughout the country, including in New York, Omaha, Kansas City, Portland, Phoenix, Vermont, and DC. Her artistic talents have taken her to some of the most renowned art institutions in the nation, including the Salem Art Works sculpture park in New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC. Lila’s unique combination of creative vision and technical skill sets her apart as a true master of her craft. Lila’s work is sure to captivate and inspire all who experience it.

Jacob Lucas

Meet Jacob Lucas, a talented artist and resident of Bonney Lake, Washington. With seven years of carving experience under his belt, Jacob has become a true master of his craft. But his artistic journey began long before that - he’s been drawing since the tender age of 5 and has worked in a variety of mediums over the years, including sculpting clay, digital design, glass blowing, and of course, chainsaw art.

Today, Jacob carves at home full-time, pouring his heart and soul into each and every piece he creates. He’s always taking custom orders and loves nothing more than seeing the joy his art brings to people’s faces. Whether it’s a stunning sculpture or a one-ofa-kind carving, Jacob’s work is sure to leave a lasting impression.

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Jay Nielson

Jay Nielson’s work is impromptu, spur of the moment, inspiration driven art. He uses whatever materials are available to create something from nothing. He works in scrap and reclaimed materials to prove that beauty can come from garbage.

Cody Miller Andrew Huycke

Marvin Wafford Wafford Metal Craft Marvin Wafford previously worked for a company that did both wood and metal projects for casinos all over the United States, with his work showcased in virtually every casino on the Las Vegas strip. He now owns his own company, Wafford Metal Craft, here in Central Oregon where he designs custom metal projects and fire pit creations.

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Miller Metal Works Cody grew up in Yuba City Ca. Always tinkering in the shop and garage with his dad, brother and other family. He was into art early on and after college started working in a metal Fabrication shop as a helper and learned how to weld and fabricate.

At that point is when he started doing metal art as a hobby. Moved to Austin TX where he got a job working in a fabrication shop that specializes in artistic fabrication called Ion Art. Worked there for nearly 5 years and where he really opened up and expanded the metal artwork. When his wife got pregnant, they moved back to CA to be with family. Now he has his own shop at his house where he plays with metal art mostly as a hobby but does sell artwork. His sons Lincoln 3 and Forrest 1 both help in the shop.

(Mostly hammering) His day job is agricultural fabricator/shop manager.

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The fun doesn’t stop at WinterFest! The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Science (OMSI) will bring a collection of hands-on brainteasers challenge visitors to think both critically and creatively. Puzzles range in difficulty and content but most incorporate concepts of geometry, algebra and or physics and lead to fun (and often surprising) solutions!

Friday 5-8pm Saturday 11am-8pm Sunday 11am-8pm

Kids will enjoy playing educational games and interacting with STEM-based activities, sponsored by Lonza!

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Ferris Wheel & Merry-Go-Round

K9 Kings Flying Dog Show Each perfomance demonstrates the amazing ATHLETICISM of these amazing working dogs. They will captivate the audience with their skills of spinning, flipping and jumping.

Saturday & Sunday 1pm, 2:30pm and 4pm

Take a spin on the Merry-Go-Round or journey up to the skies in a ferris wheel!

$6 per ticket (1 ride per ticket)

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Feb. 18 at Noon @ Old Mill District Register on site at 11am

5K with Cocoa Ready to add some sweet, chocolaty fun to your WinterFest experience? We’ve got something special lined up for all you runners out there – the exhilarating Hot Cocoa Run! Race Details: Lace up your running shoes and get set for a thrilling 5K run through the winter wonderland of Bend.

But here’s the twist – come dressed in your quirkiest, funniest, or most creative costume!

After crossing the finish line fueled

by CO Energy Propane, indulge in a steaming hot cocoa bar adorned with all your favorite toppings. And to add that extra kick of delight, a splash of Crater Lake spirits awaits Includes a custom mug (for the first 200 finishers), full hot cocoa bar and more goodies at the finish!

Feb. 17 at Noon

Mini Marshmallow Run is FREE with admission!

Join us for this winter themed PacificSource Kids Rock the Races!

Costumes are encouraged.

Kids will run from station to station collecting cocoa ingredients, and as they cross the finish line they will get the final touch — a splash of hot chocolate and a finisher ribbon! This event will leave the little runners feeling like they rule the world!

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