If you’d like your video to be one of them, Columbia Gorge Community College is offering “Video Storytelling with SLR and Mirrorless Camera Systems” – a two-day workshop to help take your filmmaking to the next level of professionalism and unlock the secrets of cameras, audio, media management, and editing. You will learn from Sean O’Connor – award-winning visual storyteller, passionate media educator, internationally published photographer, and honored contributor to a Northwest Regional Emmy Award. Study the art of visual storytelling along with camera systems, basics of stabilization, field audio, interview techniques, and special techniques such as drone and underwater filming.

Columbia Gorge Community College is offering the non-credit “NRA Basic Pistol Safety Course” for beginning and intermediate students. In this course, you will learn the basics from qualified local instructors. Each class consists of four training sessions held at the Indoor Range of The Dalles Rifle & Pistol Club. Students will be required to certify to their legal eligibility and sign a Firearm Release Form. No live ammunition can be brought into the class room, but you may bring your personal firearm.