Ashland Food Coop Community Classroom – cooking class
Making Your Own Chocolate Lip Balms with Jody Berry
Saturday March 3, from 1:00-3:30 pm at the Ashland Food Co-op Community Classroom, 195 A Street.

Make those lips more kissable than ever with the yumminess of chocolate. In this two-part class, we will first explore the health benefits of cacao, dark chocolate, virgin coconut oil and a myriad of other plant ingredients and essential oils used to create your own chocolate lip balm. For the second half of the class learn how to infuse honeys with the essence and fragrance of violet flowers, lavender, rose petals, elecampane, rosemary and other flowers and herbs. Use these delicious honeys in tea, on toast, as a cough syrup, as a face mask, or share as a gift. You will take home recipes, handouts, your own chocolate lip balm, and your own fragrant honey. About the instructor: Jody Berry is a plant enthusiast, tractor fanatic, and sixth generation Oregonian. Her company - Wild Carrot Herbals emanates her passion for the outdoors and her inherent need to make lotion! Her creams look and feel like butter cream frosting, her sugar scrubs are all completely edible.

Class cost: $30 to the general public and $25 to co-op members
To register: 541-482-2237

www.ashlandfood.coop

Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Oregon Chocolate Festival discount at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Here's another benefit of attending the Oregon Chocolate Festival! Receive 50% off full price tickets for any available performance Friday March 2 through Sunday March 4. Oregon Chocolate Festival participants can call the OSF Box Office at 482-4331 or log on to www.osfashland.org/account/login.aspx with promo code ‘chocolate’ to receive this special discount to shows on these dates only

On the web, this code will only allow seat purchases for March 2-4 only. Order early to get the best seats!

*This offer is subject to availability of tickets and is not valid with other discounts. Limit 2 tickets per show. Previously purchased tickets may not be exchanged. No Refund/No Exchange.

www.osfashland.org

Ashland Gallery Association
Join us this Friday, March 2nd for the Gallery Tour organized by the Ashland Gallery Association. Theme of this month’s tour: CHOCOLATE

On March 2nd only, in conjunction with the 3rd annual Oregon Chocolate Festival the owner and master chocolatier of the Lillie Belle Farms, Jeff Shepherd will display 20 of his chocolate paintings. Have your art and eat it too! Location: Living Gallery, 20 S 1st. Street

Other galleries featuring chocolate include:

David Bjurstrom Studio & Gallery – David will be hosting “Bunny’s Baking” from Eagle Point with many wonderful chocolate delights. Location: 64 North Pioneer St. (next to Tabú restaurant that will feature many great chocolate specials!)

JEGA Gallery & Sculpture Garden inc. in Ashland’s historic railroad district – Come over and enjoy their juried multimedia art exhibit “Women with Attitude and Men who love Women with Attitude” – women – men – chocolate! Location: 625 A Street

Art & Soul Gallery – Come and sample some chocolate treats and enjoy art. It’s a good start to a long chocolate crunching, chewing and drinking weekend! Location: 247 East Main St.

Headwaters Gallery - More chocolate treats and art!
Location: 84 4th Street

Frank Philips Pottery
Location: 88 N. Main Street 488-4177

Galleries open between 5pm and 8pm. Tour maps available in all participating galleries and at our hotel.

www.atasteofashland.com

Oregon Cabaret Theatre
The Oregon Cabaret Theatre, now in its 22nd season, has earned a reputation for top-flight musicals, revues and comedies, all professionally produced with its signature flair and panache. The shows are presented in an elegant nightclub setting housed in a magnificently restored and renovated Baptist church building, complete with stained glass windows and a crystal chandelier from a vintage movie palace.You may choose to join us for a gourmet dinner, delectable Sunday brunch or just enjoy appetizers, desserts or beverages with your companions. During the weekend of the 3rd Oregon Chocolate Festival - the Executive Chef will prepare special chocolate desserts! Join us for a wonderful production of "Guys on Ice".

For more details visit us at www.oregoncabaret.com

Mt. Ashland
"White Chocolate on the Mountain"
Join us on Mt. Ashland on March 3rd & 4th! White chocolate treats will be offered on the mountain all day Saturday and Sunday to all guests. Oregon Chocolate Festival on the slopes!

Visit us online at: www.mtashland.com

Waterstone Spa
Oregon Chocolate Festival gives you a great excuse to visit Waterstone Spa and pamper yourself with great chocolate treatments created for the festival. Some of you may just want to experience one of them because you LOVE chocolate. Not only do the spa treatments create a sensory indulgence, but chocolate can have a positive impact on one's health and beauty.

Chocolate treatments include among many:

• Chocolate Mineral Bath while sipping Dagoba hot chocolate and enjoying a Dagoba Eros Elixir chocolate bar
• 60 minute Side by Side massage with special massage oil from Brazil, which contains many exotic oils including cacao.
• Chocolate Body Scrub (An exfoliating treatment formulated with Shea Butter)

Waterstone Spa is located next door to the Ashland Springs Hotel on First and East Main.
Open Monday through Saturday 10-8, Sundays 10-6

For more information visit them online at www.waterstonespa.com.