June 2, 2023

The Most, the All of It: New Music, New Spoken Word

Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble (PJCE) and Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani team up to curate an evening of music and spoken word that sets the artists free to inspire, to rejuvenate, and to provoke reflection. Mojgani and PJCE will pair Portland-based performing poets and composers to work with the twelve-member jazz ensemble in a concert featuring a cross-section of composers representing many corners of the Portland poetry and jazz scenes.

Learn more about this event and buy tickets at PJCE's website.

7:30 p.m., The Old Church, Portland

June 5, 2023

Lane County Arts & Culture Roundtables

Lane Arts Council presents a conversation on history, civic engagement, and the links between art and activism with Eric Richardson, jazz musician and former president and executive director of Eugene/Springfield NAACP.

This event is offered as a hybrid event with both in-person and virtual attendance options. Visit lanearts.org/roundtables to register.

This event is supported by a Public Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.

4:00 p.m., Midtown Arts Center, Eugene

June 7, 2023

Moving through Our Communities: How We Experience Safety and Vulnerability

Our sense of safety and vulnerability moving through our communities may be different if we are walking, biking, rolling, taking public transit, or driving. Join facilitator LeeAnn O’Neill in a conversation that asks, How does the way you move through your community affect your sense of safety and vulnerability? What else affects your sense of safety and vulnerability? How might you change the way you interact with others as you move through your community to create a greater sense of safety for everyone? This conversation is a chance to reflect on our personal roles in creating greater safety for all as we move through our communities.

To participate in this free, online program, please register here.

10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Pacific, Virtual Event, statewide

June 8, 2023

Virtual facilitation training

Oregon Humanities' facilitation training prepares people to plan and facilitate conversations about vital issues and questions across differences, beliefs, and backgrounds. These conversations help build strong relationships within organizations and among communities.

10:00 a.m. Pacific, Virtual Event, statewide

June 12, 2023

Lane County Arts & Culture Roundtables

Lane Arts Council presents a conversation on building bridges in the creative process with creative leads from illioo Native Theatre and Minority Voices Theatre.

This event is offered as a hybrid event with both in-person and virtual attendance options. Visit lanearts.org/roundtables to register.

This event is supported by a Public Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.

4:00 p.m., Midtown Arts Center, Eugene

June 13, 2023

Todos pueden ser líderes: Cómo explorar el liderazgo comunitario no tradicional

Las interpretaciones populares del concepto de liderazgo nos dicen que los líderes se ven de cierta manera: llevan la batuta. Poseen una fuerza externa. Son extrovertidos y actúan de manera más pragmática que emocional. Quizás lo más importante es que los líderes son gente en puestos de autoridad y poder. ¿Existe algún tipo alternativo de liderazgo? ¿Cuándo somos nosotros líderes en nuestras comunidades? ¿Cómo nuestro irrepetible sentido propio contribuye a favor de nuestro papel como líderes?

Esta conversación se ofrecerá en español. Para participar, por favor registrese aquí.

5:00–6:30 p.m., Virtual Event, statewide

June 14, 2023

Conversation Project: Understanding Urban/Rural Divides

We live in a time of increasing polarization that often correlates to divides between urban and rural regions in our state. This polarization is so extreme that it often seems like the two sides may have completely different experiences of the world. Join facilitator Nick Nash in a conversation that asks, How does the urban/rural divide affect the ways we relate to each other as Oregonians? What is the urban/rural divide, and how do we understand it? How does this divide affect our day-to-day lives, our experiences of being governed, and of the COVID-19 pandemic? This conversation is a chance to reflect on the beliefs we have about our urban or rural neighbors with a focus on discovering and abandoning misbeliefs, investigating and learning about the real differences between the urban and the rural, and trying to find things that we all share as Oregonians.

Click here to register for this online conversation.

10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Pacific, Virtual Event, statewide

June 15, 2023

Lane County Arts & Culture Roundtables

Lane Arts Council presents a conversation reflecting on the prior two conversations in the Arts & Culture Roundtables series, facilitated by Isis Barone and Maree Beers.

This event is offered as a hybrid event with both in-person and virtual attendance options. Visit lanearts.org/roundtables to register.

This event is supported by a Public Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.

4:00 p.m., Midtown Arts Center, Eugene

June 17, 2023

Staged Frights: Banding Together around a Playful, Creative Cause

What happens when a community bands together around a playful, creative cause? In this workshop, Haunt Camp program director JR Rymut will share how a rural community can be a perfect and unexpected incubator of avant-garde art. 

1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Josephy Center for Arts and Culture, Joseph

June 20, 2023

Our Untapped Treasures: Children and Elders are Problem Solvers too

There are many reasons why people fail to invite children and elders to the table when it comes to solving problems: “They’re too young”; “They need to be protected from hearing about serious issues”; “I’m sure they care, but the world is a very different place now”; “They’re just going to talk about how things used to be”; “I wouldn’t want my child to be burdened with this reality”; “I don’t want to have to explain the issues repeatedly.” The more serious the issue, the less likely it is that a child or elder will be helping to come up with a solution. We were all children once, and sometimes we had great solutions to problems that adults didn’t have. If we’re fortunate, we’ll all become elderly, and we will have a wealth of experience and accumulated wisdom to share. The goal of this conversation is to encourage people to approach problem solving in a more inclusive manner and ask elders or children to share their ideas.

Click here to register for this online program.

10:00 a.m. Pacific, Virtual Event, statewide