Illumination Native Community Gathering
Learn about the work Springfield's Native story team is doing with the Springfield History Museum to explore and celebrate the American Indian and Alaska Native history and experience in Springfield and rural east Lane County. Enjoy food and be in community as the Springfield History Museum holds space to listen and learn from you about how you want to celebrate this collection of video interviews, photos and history of our local Native peoples.
This program is supported by a Public Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.
Catrina on the Beach
A celebration of Día de los Muertos including a parade, Catrina contest, music and ballet folklorico, food, and face painting for kids. This event is presented by Conexión Fenix and supported by a public programs grant from Oregon Humanities.
Youth Civic Engagement Summit
This Youth Civic Engagement Summit is facilitated by the college and high school students who lead the League of Women Voters of Oregon (LWVOR) Youth Council. The Summit will provide guidance for effectively engaging with their government officials in testimony, partnership and policy change to empower youth supporting democracy through interactive breakout workshops, engaging discussions, and dedicated time to build community connections. This full day summit features interactive breakout workshops, engaging discussion topics, and dedicated time to build community connections.
Portrait of Eugene Landry: Artist talk/reading with curator Judith Altruda
“Portrait of Eugene Landry—an Artist, a Time and a Tribe” brings together the artwork of Eugene Landry (1937-1988) with contemporary Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe artists and writers as they explore their cultural roots, tribal identity, and connection to ancestral land. Landry’s artwork offers a look at the political, economic, and cultural challenges the tribe faced during his lifetime—from near termination to federal recognition. Paralyzed by illness as a young man, Landry created his art from a wheelchair, using his non- dominant hand. Conversations with his former portrait models (now tribal elders), reveal his creative resilience and the positive impact he had in their young lives. Now, 35 years after Landry’s passing, a rediscovered collection of Landry’s art inspires a new generation of Shoalwater Bay artists. "Portrait of Eugene Landry—an Artist, a Time and a Tribe" will be on view at Astoria Visual Arts November 11 through December 2.
The exhibit opens with a reading with curator Judith Altruda and guests from the Shoalwater Bay Tribe
This exhibit is supported by a Public Program Grant from Oregon Humanities
Lane County Arts and Culture Roundtable
Join members of the Lane County community as they look toward the future by diving into stories of the past. Eva Osirus, the facilitator of the NAACP’s “Our Stories” project, in collaboration with the StoryHelix Community Storytelling Project at Wordcrafters in Eugene, will guide all participants in a group listening and discussion experience around the recorded story of a local storyteller. Through this guided conversation, attendees will gain new insights through story, connect with fellow community members, and identify actions they can take to better our community for all. Read more about this event. You may attend in person or virtually through Zoom.
This program is supported by a Public Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.
Lane County Arts and Culture Roundtable
Join arts leaders from the Lane County community as they answer questions about justice-oriented artistic work. The theme of this conversation is “Yesterday to Tomorrow,” and panelists will speak from their connections to various communities, art forms, and lived experiences and how these coalesce with their current artistic work. Questions from and conversations with the audience will be welcomed and encouraged!
Guests for this event are Pamela Quan, Jesica Zapata, Kanu Bearchum, and Dez Brock. The conversation will be moderated by Melissa Cariño. Read more about this event.
This program is supported by a Public Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.
Curiosity Cabinets: Cooking Together
An interactive, free cooking demonstration. The Curiosity Cabinets offers an opportunity to be curious about different cultures through foods. Sharing foods, recipes, and ideas helps form bonds in the community with individuals from various cultural backgrounds.
This program was made possible in part by a grant from Oregon Humanities. Read more about this program.
Return to Wonderland
Portland Playhouse presents a multidisciplinary short film festival that responds to the current moment in our country and world. Four short films imagine ways to listen, learn, and move forward with a sense of curiosity and wonder: "Larry & Joe-Joe" by La'Tevin Alexander; "Walla Walla" by Hayley Durelle, "Return to Kingsley: A Retrospective" by Kamryn Fall; "Petals & Thorns: A Spoken Word Journey" by La'Toya Hampton (aka The Poet Lady Rose).
Return to Wonderland
Portland Playhouse presents a multidisciplinary short film festival that responds to the current moment in our country and world. Four short films imagine ways to listen, learn, and move forward with a sense of curiosity and wonder: "Larry & Joe-Joe" by La'Tevin Alexander; "Walla Walla" by Hayley Durelle, "Return to Kingsley: A Retrospective" by Kamryn Fall; "Petals & Thorns: A Spoken Word Journey" by La'Toya Hampton (aka The Poet Lady Rose).
Return to Wonderland
Portland Playhouse presents a multidisciplinary short film festival that responds to the current moment in our country and world. Four short films imagine ways to listen, learn, and move forward with a sense of curiosity and wonder: "Larry & Joe-Joe" by La'Tevin Alexander; "Walla Walla" by Hayley Durelle, "Return to Kingsley: A Retrospective" by Kamryn Fall; "Petals & Thorns: A Spoken Word Journey" by La'Toya Hampton (aka The Poet Lady Rose).
Return to Wonderland
Portland Playhouse presents a multidisciplinary short film festival that responds to the current moment in our country and world. Four short films imagine ways to listen, learn, and move forward with a sense of curiosity and wonder: "Larry & Joe-Joe" by La'Tevin Alexander; "Walla Walla" by Hayley Durelle, "Return to Kingsley: A Retrospective" by Kamryn Fall; "Petals & Thorns: A Spoken Word Journey" by La'Toya Hampton (aka The Poet Lady Rose).
Stage the Change
Stage the Change is a conference empowering high school students from across the Pacific Northwest to use performing arts to find their social voice and be catalysts for change. Keynote speakers are actor Anthony Rapp and Elizabeth Woody, former poet laureate of Oregon and director of the Museum at Warm Springs.
This event is made supported by a Public Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.
Hidden Histories: Pendleton's Early Chinese Community
The ninth and final program in the Portland Chinatown Museum's series Hidden Histories: Oregon's Early Chinatowns and Chinese Worker Settlements looks at the history of Pendleton. Since at least the 1980s, tourism, media depictions, and even well-known works of fiction have promoted the idea that nineteenth-century Chinese immigrants built and occupied an extensive tunnel network under the city of Pendleton and in many other locations throughout the American West. In this program, Priscilla Wegars, PhD, and Renae Campbell, MA, will explore these "Chinese tunnel" rumors and compare those in Pendleton with the historical record of Pendleton’s Chinese community.
Hidden Histories: The Dalles Chinatown: Remembering a Community
The Portland Chinatown Museum presents the seventh program in the Hidden Histories: Oregon's Early Chinatowns and Chinese Worker Settlements series on Saturday, September 18, with featured speakers and archaeologists Jacqueline Cheung and Eric Gleason.
Hidden Histories: Picturing the Past
Using the Oregon city of Jacksonville as a case study, this program will feature a presentation of its archaeology and history followed by a discussion highlighting the challenges, opportunities, and importance of researching and documenting the stories of early Chinese Americans.
Seeking Common Ground: Looking Past the Rural-Urban Divide
National political discourse has amplified a conflict between rural and urban interests, culture, and values that has resulted in a bifurcated reality: two “bubbles” of experience whose paths do not often cross in the media nor in our daily lives. This session will shed light on the potential common interests in these disparate experiences, toward consensus about what the future could be. This program is supported by a Public Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.
COVID-19 Emergency Fund Grantees
A responsive review panel composed of staff and board members redistributed $452,500 for general operating and programmatic support to sixty-one organizations throughout the state in late May as part of the CARES Act.
Engagement and Environment
OPAL seeks to bring more voices into conversations about environmental justice.
Educated in Oregon
Kitchen Table Democracy's project Educated in Oregon will explore how storytelling, in the form of short audio stories, creates space for productive conversation about the future of education in Oregon.
Educated in Oregon
Kitchen Table Democracy's project Educated in Oregon will explore how storytelling, in the form of short audio stories, creates space for productive conversation about the future of education in Oregon.
Exploring Sovereignty
The treaty that established the Warm Springs Indian Reservation returns to Oregon in a new exhibit.
Vanport Mosaic Festival 2018
The 2018 Vanport Mosaic Festival offers six days of memory activism opportunities, commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the Vanport Flood and the fiftieth anniversary of the Fair Housing Act through screenings, live performances, tours, exhibits, and community engagement initiatives
Vanport Mosaic Festival 2018
The 2018 Vanport Mosaic Festival offers six days of memory activism opportunities, commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the Vanport Flood and the fiftieth anniversary of the Fair Housing Act through screenings, live performances, tours, exhibits, and community engagement initiatives
Vanport Mosaic Festival 2018
The 2018 Vanport Mosaic Festival offers six days of memory activism opportunities, commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the Vanport Flood and the fiftieth anniversary of the Fair Housing Act through screenings, live performances, tours, exhibits, and community engagement initiatives
Vanport Mosaic Festival 2018
The 2018 Vanport Mosaic Festival offers six days of memory activism opportunities, commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the Vanport Flood and the fiftieth anniversary of the Fair Housing Act through screenings, live performances, tours, exhibits, and community engagement initiatives
Vanport Mosaic Festival 2018
The 2018 Vanport Mosaic Festival offers six days of memory activism opportunities, commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the Vanport Flood and the fiftieth anniversary of the Fair Housing Act through screenings, live performances, tours, exhibits, and community engagement initiatives.
Vanport Mosaic Festival 2018
The 2018 Vanport Mosaic Festival offers six days of memory activism opportunities, commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the Vanport Flood and the fiftieth anniversary of the Fair Housing Act through screenings, live performances, tours, exhibits, and community engagement initiatives.
Gamanfest: Reclaiming Identity Through Art and Activism
Inspired by the spirit of gaman—"perseverance" or "endurance"—and those Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated in government camps during World War II, this festival serves as a venue for artists and activists within the Asian American community who use their heritage and culture as motivation for the work they create.
Gamanfest: Reclaiming Identity Through Art and Activism
Inspired by the spirit of gaman—"perseverance" or "endurance"—and those Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated in government camps during World War II, this festival serves as a venue for artists and activists within the Asian American community who use their heritage and culture as motivation for the work they create.
Field Work: Community Stories Onstage
Student-created show raises consciousness in Southern Oregon's Illinois Valley
PLAYA Presents: Calligraphy of the Wind
A discussion with PLAYA resident and novelist Leslie Schwartz about the ways that specific places and communities shape the creative process.
Unresolved Issues of the Twentieth Century: The Quest For the Repatriation of Nazi Looted Art
Donald S. Burris, one of a small group of American lawyers who have dedicated their careers to assisting survivors and their heirs in regaining artworks stolen from them by the Nazis, will talk about his firm's successful retrieval of Gustav Klimt's "Woman in Gold."
SuperReal: Our Town, Onstage!
RiverStars Performing Arts presents a holiday comedy created by local youth through interviews with community members.
SuperReal: Our Town, Onstage!
RiverStars Performing Arts presents a holiday comedy created by local youth through interviews with community members.
PLAYA Presents: Earth Shaking News
A discussion with noted vulcanologist Katharine Cashman about how our landscape got here and how we live on it now. This program is made possible in part by a Public Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.
What's Brewing?
The Crook County Foundation hosts this public forum on current events and issues happening locally, regionally, and at the state level. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
What's Brewing?
The Crook County Foundation hosts this public forum on current events and issues happening locally, regionally, and at the state level. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
CANCELED: History in the News
Discuss current events in historical context at a monthly roundtable with Mid-Valley historians, political scientists, and other experts. The topic of each discussion will be pulled straight from the headlines ten days in advance.
History in the News: Oregon's Own History of Sexual Harassment, Abuse, and Assault
Discuss current events in historical context at a monthly roundtable with Mid-Valley historians, political scientists, and other experts. The topic of each discussion will be pulled straight from the headlines ten days in advance.
Public Program Grants Webinar
Join Program Coordinator Kyle Weismann-Yee to learn about Oregon Humanities' Public Program Grants.
Public Program Grants Webinar
Join Program Coordinator Kyle Weismann-Yee to learn about Oregon Humanities' Public Program Grants.
History in the News: Should Historians Be Pundits?
Recent editorials in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post have raised questions about whether and how historians ought to opine on current events and political issues. Are historians supposed to be apolitical? How should historians engage in political debate—if at all? This event is funded in part by a grant from Oregon Humanities.
History in the News: Real Stories of "Fake" News
Accusations and allegations about “fake news" and the manipulations of “mainstream media” aren’t unique to America in the twenty first century. Join Willamette Heritage Center for a conversation about the history of journalism’s role in educating, empowering, and enraging Oregonians. This event is funded in part by a grant from Oregon Humanities.
History in the News: Citizenship and Civil Liberties on the World War I Home Front
Discuss current events in historical context at a monthly roundtable. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
"Spiritrials" Post-Show Discussion with Mic Crenshaw
A conversation reflecting on the show with hip hop artist and activist Mic Crenshaw. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
"Spiritrials" Post-Show Discussion with Pancho Savery
A conversation reflecting on the show with Pancho Savery, professor of English and humanities at Reed College. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
"Spiritrials" Post-Show Discussion with Creator Dahlak Brathwaite
A conversation reflecting on the show. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
"Spiritrials" Post-Show Discussion on Faith and Religion
A conversation reflecting on the show with Conversation Project leader Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo of Interfaith Muse. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
"Spiritrials" Post-Show Discussion with JoAnn Hardesty
A conversation reflecting on the show with JoAnn Hardesty, President of NAACP Portland branch. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
History in the News: Crowds and Controversies in Oregon's Parks and Wilderness
Discuss current events in historical context at a monthly roundtable. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
Past Public Program Grant Recipients
Programs that have received Public Program Grants support since 2017
History in the News: Immigration in Oregon's Past and Present
The first program of the 2017 History in the News forum series explores the history of immigration, immigration law, and immigrant rights in Oregon. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
"Mothering Inside" Screening and Panel Discussion
Free screening of the documentary Mothering Inside about the effects of incarceration on families