October 18, 2025

Our People, Our Stories

Join tina ontiveros, author of the memoir Rough House, to discuss growing up in Oregon logging camps and how writing this memoir affected her connection with the region, the people, and herself.

This program is supported by a Mini Grant for Rural Libraries from Oregon Humanities.

3:00 p.m., Mt. Angel Public Library, Mt. Angel

October 18, 2025

Astoria Creative Writing Festival

Oregon Poet Laureate Ellent Waterston will appear alongside other writers at a weekend of readings, workshops, and literary happenings all centered in Oregon's oldest coastal town. Learn more about this event.

All day, Barbey Center, Astoria

October 19, 2025

Author Reading with Ellen Waterson, Oregon Poet Laureate

Join the Hoffman Center for the Arts for an afternoon of poetry by Ellen Waterston. Connect with community and poetry on the North Coast of Oregon.

3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Hoffman Center for the Arts, Manzanita

October 22, 2025

Facilitation Training for Libraries

Oregon Humanities will present three trainings in 2025 for staff, board members, volunteers, and program partners of Oregon libraries of all types (public, academic, school, and tribal). These trainings will help people involved with libraries strengthen their skills in leading conversations about vital issues and ideas across differences, beliefs, and backgrounds. With the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence as a jumping off point, participants will learn about facilitation and reflective conversation, practice new skills and techniques, and learn to design and facilitate conversations that allow people and groups to learn more about themselves and each other.

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, Corvallis

October 24, 2025

The Magic Barrel: A Reading to Fight Hunger

Oregon Poet Laureate Ellen Waterston headlines a lively mix of writers, including award-winning poets John Daniel and Bobby Elliott; fiction writers Virginia Black, Madeline McDonnell, and Charlie J. Stephens; OSU faculty playwright Cleavon Smith; and nonfiction authors Zoë Bossiere and Oregon Book Award winner Jaclyn Moyer. Kate Carroll de Gutes will emcee.

7:00 p.m., Majestic Theatre, Corvallis

October 27, 2025

Consider This with Akhil Reed Amar: Salem Live-screening

Join Willamette College of Law for a live screening of our Consider This conversation with Akhil Reed Amar, one of the nation's leading thinkers on constitutional law and history.

7:00 p.m., Willamette College of Law: John C. Paulus Lecture Hall (201), Salem

October 27, 2025

Consider This with Akhil Reed Amar

Join us for a conversation with one of the country’s leading thinkers on constitutional law. We’ll explore how equality has been a core part of our laws, history, and self-understanding, and consider how we strive toward this ideal today. We’ll also dig into the arguments and assumptions that informed the US Constitution, how it has evolved over the past 238 years, and what the future may hold for our nation’s most basic laws.

7:00 p.m., Alberta Rose Theatre, Portland

October 27, 2025

Consider This with Akhil Reed Amar: La Grande live stream

Join Oregon Humanities staff for a live screening of our Consider This conversation with Akhil Reed Amar, one of the nation's leading thinkers on constitutional law and history.

7:00 p.m., HQ, La Grande

October 27, 2025

Consider This with Akhil Reed Amar: Clatskanie live stream

Join Clatskanie Library District for a live screening of our Consider This conversation with Akhil Reed Amar, one of the nation's leading thinkers on constitutional law and history.

Read more about this event.

6:30 p.m., Birkenfeld Theatre, Clatskanie

November 5, 2025

Literary Trivia with Oregon Humanities and Buckman Publishing

Oregon Humanities and Buckman Publishing are pairing up for a night of literary trivia at Dear Sandy! We’re highlighting the ways that Portland’s unique culture, geography, and history have shaped some great writing. Come celebrate the deep literary history of the city, win prizes, and learn a bit of new trivia to take home. This is an event for all book lovers, not just those who are deep into the lore of the region.

7:00 to 9:00 p.m., Dear Sandy, Portland