Conversation Project: 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.
Conversation Project: 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.
Gray Matters
Ryan Pfeil on how the challenges of 2020 affected his work, family, and memory
The River Oblivion
Laura Gibson on family, forgetting, and the underworld.
Adaptation and Appreciation
Jacqueline Keeler writes about how tribal communities in Oregon may remember the COVID-19 pandemic.
Preserving the Future
An archivist reflects on navigating loss and collecting histories.
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. This Program is presented with Multnomah County Library as part of Everybody Reads 2022. Learn more at multcolib.org.
Loneliness & Aging During COVID-19: Making Space for Our Elders
Most people are finding ways to remain connected to their loved ones during COVID-19. Some are even reaching new levels of intimacy in relationships. But for isolated elderly people who are not computer literate, loneliness has only become more intense over the past year. What beliefs do we hold about loneliness and aging? If we have elderly neighbors and loved ones, what might they need at this time? This conversation, led by Pamela Slaughter, is for 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 during this time of heightened isolation.
A Remedy for Disruption
Chelsea King on mask mandates, school board meetings, and the importance of presence
One-Person Protest
Exploring social movements and enacting protest with the Fall 2020 Humanity in Perspective cohort.
COVID-19 Emergency SHARP Grants online office hour
An online Zoom open office hour with Oregon Humanities staff to help answer questions about our COVID-19 Emergency SHARP Grants.
SHARP Grants Application Deadline
Oregon Humanities will award at least $675,000 for general operating and project or program support for Oregon nonprofit organizations, federally recognized Native American tribal governments in Oregon, accredited public and 501(c)(3) institutions of higher education, and state and local government agencies in Oregon.
Loneliness and Aging During COVID-19
Most people are finding ways to remain connected to their loved ones during COVID-19. Some are even reaching new levels of intimacy in relationships. But for isolated elderly people who are not computer literate, loneliness has only become more intense over the past year. What beliefs do we hold about loneliness and aging? If we have elderly neighbors and loved ones, what might they need at this time?
Five Cemeteries
Bija Gutoff writes about seeking serenity among old headstones after the sudden death of her father.