Community Art Vigil commemorating the death Aidan Ellison who was murdered on this day in 2020. Gather with us to add a message to the Say Their Names Memorial in Railroad Park. We will never forget
In Association with Ashland Natural Medicine, Micah BlackLight is delighted to be given the opportunity to share with you his first solo art showing since college. Using the vehicle of First Friday, you will get to take a small tour through some of the imagery and archetypes this artist has brought through the aethers in […]
Do join us in our Circle of Practice. This Sunday, December 10, 3-4:30pm Pony Espresso Cafe 170 Lithia Way, Ashland And after that, every 2nd Sunday of the Month through 2024. The session at the coffee shop will be driven by experiences, yours and ours, of “messing up” as a white person, or racial happenings in […]
Ashland Together and our community partners invite you to join Portland State University history professor Kristin Teigen for an introduction to understanding Oregon’s difficult racial past. What You Will Learn The goal of this 2 hour webinar is to better understand our state’s largely unexamined history of discrimination with the hope of empowering us all […]
We Choose LOVE! Now more than ever, the DREAM must continue, Monday, January 15, 2024 • 12PM Historic Ashland Armory • 208 Oak Street Learn More FREE ENTRY Sign Language Interpretation Provided Tributes to his enduring legacy featuring a diversity of live performances, including a keynote by D.L. Richardson. Followed by a march to Ashland […]
A 4-Week Series Ashland Together, in collaboration with other community partners, is proud to present "Unwelcomed: Understanding Oregon's History Exclusion." This 4-week online course is led by Portland State University Professor Kristin Teigen. Professor Teigen will take us through the deliberate steps taken to construct Oregon, first as a territory and later as a state, […]
Special Screening of Origin at The Varsity in Ashland, OR February 10th at 7 PM Academy Award Nominee Ava DuVernay's New Film: Origin Based on the New York Times Bestselling Book by Isabel Wilkerson Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Will be followed by a Q&A NOTE: THIS SPECIAL SCREENING IS SOLD OUT BUT YOU […]
This event will kick-off the launch of the Sunrise Project in Ashland. The Sunrise Project aims to help former sundown towns reconcile their history of racial exclusion by creating new identities as that of "sunrise communities," the opposite to sundown towns. After starting in Grants Pass, the Oregon Remembrance Project is now working with community members in […]
On Saturday, February 17 @ 3:00pm in the Great Hall RVUUF will host a potluck and storytelling afternoon with David West, (Enrolled: Citizen Potawatomi Nation) and Director Emeritus of SOU’s Native American Studies Program. After inviting everyone to share in a water and food blessing, David will share stories with a focus on water and seven […]
Southern Oregon University's Black Student Union will be featuring inter-generational storytelling where Black members of the Rogue Valley will share their experiences living here. Their stories will center the power and magic of the spoken word emphasizing that listening to the experiences of another makes healing possible. Wednesday, February 21st 6:00-7:30 pm Location: 1525 Webster […]
Looking at our similarities and not our differences Instructor: Gina DuQuenne FREE EVENT FEBRUARY 28, 2024 | 6PM Co-op Community Classroom 300 N. PIONEER, ASHLAND OR 97520 A robust, open conversation with your city Councilor Gina DuQuenne, the first openly Queer Black American to be an elected official in Southern Oregon. We will discuss micro-aggressions, […]
People of African descent have lived and worked in Oregon since before the founding of the earliest English-speaking settlements in the Americas. Despite this, the popular narrative of our state's history excludes the experiences of African Americans before the mid-20th century. This erasure is the result of historic legal and social marginalization that contributes to […]
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