Events & Opportunities

April 2, 2024

Finding Common Ground Speaker Series: High Desert Partnership

Learn about the many ways the High Desert Partnership in Harney County supports a community of diverse perspectives to collaboratively solve the complex challenges facing rural America. Speakers include Brenda Smith, executive director of HDP; Mara Polenz, communications director; Josh Hanson, forest and range ecological coordinator; Kaylee Littlefield, community involvement and monitoring coordinator; Melissa Petschauer, Harney Basin ecological coordinator; Camille Torres, collaborative project coordinator; and Denise Rose, Harney internship coordinator.

This event is supported by a Minigrant for Rural Libraries from Oregon Humanities.

6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Harney County Library, Burns

April 3, 2024

Consider This with Eli Saslow - La Grande screening

Join Oregon Humanities staff in La Grande for a live screening of Consider This with Eli Saslow, a national reporter for the New York Times who lives in Oregon.

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

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April 3, 2024

Consider This with Eli Saslow

Join us for a conversation about about poverty and addiction in America with Eli Saslow, a national reporter for the New York Times who lives in Portland.

Tickets are $15 and are available on the Alberta Rose Theatre's website.

A limited number of free tickets are also available for this event. To request free tickets, please use this form.

7:00–8:30 p.m., Alberta Rose Theatre, Portland

April 6, 2024

Spark To Finish: Creating Together Quickly

While creativity can be a slow and deliberate process, it can also be fast and spontaneous. In this highly interactive So Much Together workshop, we will explore the possibilities that reveal themselves when people get together to imagine and create something QUICKLY!

12:00 to 4:00 p.m., Historic Alberta House, Portland

April 8, 2024

Conversation Project: Loneliness and Aging

Loneliness and isolation are common experiences for elderly people, especially for those who do not have nearby family members or who are not computer literate. What do you know about the elders in your life or in your neighborhood? Are they connected to their families in an enriching way? Do they belong to a caring community of some kind? This conversation is for elderly people and people who live near elders or have elderly people in their lives to explore questions, experiences, and obstacles to showing up for elderly people and to generate ideas for connection.

2:00 p.m., Pine Grove Community House, Manzanita

April 8, 2024

Stephanie Craig discussion on “Fear & Belonging”

Creswell Public Library present an evening discussion with Stephanie Craig, a Kalapuya woman on traditions, the loss of those traditions, and reclaiming or continuing them. What is more terrifying than watching cultural traditions move from the active world to a museum? And do cultural artifacts belong in museums, and if so, which museums do they belong to? Stephanie is an expert on Kalapuya weaving who makes replica baskets for museums and works to pass her knowledge on.

This event is supported by a grant from Oregon Humanities

5:30 p.m., Creswell Public Library, Creswell

April 9, 2024

Conversation Project: Can We Get Along?

Rodney King’s iconic question still resonates today. Despite decades of social justice movements, police brutality and divisions persist in the United States. COVID-19 has only added more challenges. How can we connect to each other during these times? What holds us back from connecting with each other? How do our personal experiences contribute to barriers, or and have the potential to break them down? Join facilitator Chisao Hata as she holds space to examine individual questions on race, cultural values, and what brings us together and what separates us.

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6:00 p.m., Happy Valley Library, Happy Valley

April 10, 2024

Conversation Project: Can We Get Along?

Rodney King’s iconic question still resonates today. Despite decades of social justice movements, police brutality and divisions persist in the United States. COVID-19 has only added more challenges. How can we connect to each other during these times? What holds us back from connecting with each other? How do our personal experiences contribute to barriers, or and have the potential to break them down? Join facilitator Chisao Hata as she holds space to examine individual questions on race, cultural values, and what brings us together and what separates us.

4:00 p.m., Linfield University, McMinnville

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April 10, 2024

Tertulias . . . ¡de película¡: 100 Dias con la Tata

Tertulias … ¡de película! Es un programa que busca proveer espacios seguros y de conexión para comunidades hispanohablantes. En Tertulias de película se habla abiertamente y sin prejuicios sobre nuestras ideas y sentires a partir de la interacción con el arte cinematográfico y documental. Un lugar en el que se le de rienda suelta al mundo de las ideas y de la mente. Un espacio de autoeducación popular, unidos por un lenguaje propio. 

En nuestra segunda Tertulia, veremos el documental 100 días con la Tata. Durante la pandemia, el actor español Miguel Ángel Muñoz documenta sus más de cien días viviendo en un pequeño apartamento con su abuela de noventa y cinco años, quien se convierte en una estrella de las redes sociales. 

6:00–8:00 p.m., The Environmental Center, Bend

April 10, 2024

Consider This Discussion Group: Eli Saslow

On Wednesday, April 10, join people from across the state for a free online conversation about Consider This with Eli Saslow, facilitated by Rozzell Medina. The discussion will take place on Zoom from 11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Register for this conversation here. If you have questions about this event, please contact Rozzell.

11:00 a.m. Pacific, Virtual Event, statewide