April 9, 2025

Consider This: The Lands We Live On with Chuck Sams

Join us at 7:00 p.m. on April 9 at Pendleton Center for the Arts for a conversation about the relationship between people and public lands with Chuck Sams, who was until very recently the director of the National Parks Service. Charles F. "Chuck" Sams III is Cayuse and Walla Walla and an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Northeast Oregon, where he grew up. He also has blood ties to the Cocopah Tribe and Yankton Sioux of Fort Peck.

Tickets are available for $15 (General Admission) and $30 (Conversation Starter). To purchase tickets, please use this form.

7:00 p.m., Pendleton Center for the Arts, Pendleton

April 17, 2025

Beyond 250 Facilitation Training

Oregon Humanities will present three free trainings in 2025. These trainings will help participants 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. The trainings are designed with staff, board members, volunteers, and program partners of Oregon libraries of all types (public, academic, school, and tribal) in mind, but all are welcome to participate.

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Pendleton Public Library, Pendleton