Events & Opportunities

Photo of Consider This Discussion Group: Father Greg Boyle

March 20, 2024

Consider This Discussion Group: Father Greg Boyle

11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., Virtual Event, statewide

March 20, 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.

6:00 p.m., Ledding Library of Milwaukie, Milwaukie

March 20, 2024

Everyone Can Be a Leader: Exploring Nontraditional Community Leadership

Popular understandings of leadership tell us that leaders look a certain way: they are in charge. They possess outward strength. They are extroverted and act pragmatically rather than emotionally. Perhaps most important, leaders are people in positions of authority and power. Is there an alternative type of leadership? When are we leaders in our communities? How can our unique senses of self contribute to our roles as leaders?

RSVP for this free event here.

6:00 p.m., Cedar Mill Community Library, Portland

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

Photo of Consider This with Eli Saslow

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 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.

RSVP for this conversation.

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