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National Memorial for Peace and Justice
2020-02-29 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is a powerful art project based in Alabama that includes histories of lynching across the United States – please pass this news on to your friends. Next week OPB will present a story about the Memorial and what will follow next in the installation of the Art Project.

On Saturday, Feb. 29, at 10 a.m., a ceremony will be held in Coos Bay to commemorate the one documented lynching of a black man in Oregon. Fellow friends and artists Gina Wilson and Susan Webb will attend the collection of soil from the killing site that will be sent to the National Museum for Peace and Justice Center in Alabama. We won’t all be able to travel to Coos Bay, but we could take time out to acknowlege the harm done and the healing that could happen for all those whose land and lives were taken. You might want to stop -get connected, touch the Earth – Saturday in honoring this history and the power of ART to bring awareness, to open hearts, and to transform.

Next week OPB will present a story about the Memorial and what will follow next in the installation of the Art Project.

With compassion for all beings, shining the light,
Katie Radditz, of The Open Road

https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2020/02/a-1902-lynching-in-coos-bay-is-being-commemorated-to-highlight-black-suffering-spark-racial-reconciliation.html

A notorious 1902 lynching in Coos Bay is being memorialized to highlight racial injustice, spark reconciliation – oregonlive.com
The violence that’s now being memorialized erupted 118 years ago after a miner’s wife, a white woman, accused a black man of raping her near South Marshfield’s Seventh Street Bridge.
www.oregonlive.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Memorial_for_Peace_and_Justice

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/us/lynching-memorial-alabama.html
https://museumandmemorial.eji.org

Home | Museum and Memorial
Located on the site of a former warehouse where black people were enslaved in Montgomery, Alabama, this narrative museum uses interactive media, sculpture, videography and exhibits to immerse visitors in the sights and sounds of the domestic slave trade, racial terrorism, the Jim Crow South, and the world’s largest prison system.
museumandmemorial.eji.org

Concert Mosaic
2020-02-15 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Lincoln Recital Hall 75, 1620 SW Park Ave., Portland, Oregon
New music by Northwest Women Composers Elizabeth Blachly-Dyson, Lisa Ann Marsh, Lisa Neher, Stacey Philipps, Christina Rusnak, Dawn Sonntag and Linda Woody. Performed by Delgani String Quartet.
Featuring poetry by Deborah Buchanan.
Artwork by Ellen Blazich, Karen Drain, Cindy Geffel, Paulette Insall, Susan Johnson, Ildiko Kalapacs and Teresa Sala.
Tickets from Brown Paper Tickets: https://concertmosaic.brownpapertickets.com

Writing & Talking the Art of Living
2019-12-28 - 2020-01-01
A retreat with Kim Stafford and Johnny Stallings in Guanajuato, Mexico.
A gathering to experience how the words we speak and hear, and the words we write and read take us deeper.
To learn more, or to register for this adventure, contact Johnny.

Día de Muertos
2019-11-01 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Portland Mercado, 7238 SE Foster, Portland, Oregon
Kim Stafford and Efraim Diaz-Horna will read poems in English & Spanish, along with music, food and Aztec dancing.

Song of Myself
2019-10-08 19:00 UTC | Smith Hall, Lewis & Clark College
For the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth, Johnny Stallings will perform Song of Myself at Smith Hall, Lewis & Clark College. The performance will be followed by a dialogue with Kim Stafford, Rachel Cole & Johnny.
