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Jan 29, 2020
Video storytelling workshop offers filmmaking basics and beyond

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.

Jan 29, 2020
Stay on track, overcome blocks, and achieve your goals

Columbia Gorge Community College is offering a Leadership class with Dana Meyer Consulting to help you stay on track, overcome blocks, and achieve your goals. Goal setting is an ongoing activity, not just a means to an end. Learn how to build in reminders and rewards to keep you and your team members on track and engaged.  Overcome common blocks and barriers that get in the way of achieving your big goals. The non-credit class “Stay on Track, Overcome Blocks, and Achieve Your Goals” will be offered Thursday, Feb. 6 from 1:30 to 4:30pm at the CGCC Indian Creek Campus in Hood River. Cost is $99.

Jan 29, 2020
Local instructors to teach course on basic pistol safety

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.

Jan 29, 2020
Explore the intersection of art and gratitude

Join Jenny Loughmiller, artist and gratitude advocate, as she leads you through the exploration of gratitude through art. Jenny will help you fire up the “gratitude center” of your brain, as well as teach the intuitive and creative process she uses to express gratitude through color, shape and texture. You will leave with 1-2 complete pieces of art ready to give to someone for whom YOU are grateful. Columbia Gorge Community College is offering the “Art & Gratitude” two-hour workshop on Saturday,

Jan 29, 2020
Beginner friendly yoga for all types

Columbia Gorge Community College is now offering the non-credit class “Yoga for Healthy Aging.” In this beginner friendly class, you will explore gentle, aging-informed yoga movements suitable for all ages and body types, while learning about the mechanics of your body and injury prevention. Weekly classes will open with a 15 minute discussion around a topic such as Yoga for Arthritis, Yoga for Spine Health, and Yoga for Diabetes. This will be followed by 55 minutes of gentle mat and chair-friendly yoga practice. All supplies, including mats and props are provided.

Dec 5, 2019
Distance learning project links college, high schools

High school students throughout the Mid-Columbia region will participate in real-time instruction with Columbia Gorge Community College faculty thanks to a $498,623 distance learning grant awarded by US Department of Agriculture Rural Development.

“Many rural students have to travel long distances to attend school,” said John Huffman, Oregon Director for USDA Rural Development. “This investment will give students the ability to access classes remotely, helping to improve their quality of life and starting them on the path toward a college degree.”

Aug 23, 2019
CGCC community, business survey closes August 31

Is Columbia Gorge Community College helping meet your educational needs?

The college wants to know, and with that in mind it launched an industry and community survey earlier this summer. The survey closes Saturday, August 31, so if you haven’t already taken this survey, please take a moment to do so now.

Aug 9, 2019
‘NEA Big Read’ arrives in Columbia Gorge this October

Starting this fall, people in Hood River, The Dalles and surrounding communities will celebrate reading in a very big way, as “The Big Read” brings book readings and discussions, folk dancing, artists, a comedian, theatrical troupe, musical performances and panel presentations to schools, libraries and the campuses of Columbia Gorge Community College.

“The Big Read” is a National Endowment for the Arts partnership with Arts Midwest to broaden understanding of the world, its diverse communities and peoples through the joy of shared reading. Since the initiative began in 2006, more than 5.7 million Americans have attended a Big Read event.

Jul 2, 2019
Foundation golf tourney promises fun-filled event

The 20th Annual Founder’s Cup Golf Tournament, presented by Columbia State Bank and Columbia Gorge Community College Foundation, will be held at Indian Creek Golf Course in Hood River on Saturday, Aug. 3. The annual event promises a fun-filled day that brings together golf, friends, food, and raffle prizes. This year, the tournament will benefit student scholarships.

Jul 1, 2019
College launches community, business survey

It’s been 43 years since a group of community volunteers in The Dalles decided the Columbia Gorge needed better access to jobs training and an affordable pathway to higher education. That grassroots initiative resulted in creation of the “Treaty Oak Area Education District,” later and better known as Columbia Gorge Community College.

From its origins in downtown The Dalles, the college expanded steadily, now with campuses in Hood River and The Dalles and an ever-growing presence on-line.