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Vanport Mosaic Festival
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Celebrating its TENTH anniversary, the Vanport Mosaic Festival presents two weeks of memory activism programming to amplify Oregon’s silenced histories through performances, documentary screenings, exhibits, tours, dialogues, and more.
The Festival is headquartered at the Historic Alberta House in NE Portland, with events taking place in various venues throughout the city (PSU, EXPO, Historic Vanport/Delta Park, City Hall…) and are offered free/sliding scale to the public.
A FEW HIGHLIGHTS:
- 5/17 Annual Reunion for Vanport Residents, Flood Survivors & Descendants (Private event by invitation only.)
- 5/18 Celebrating Ten Years of Memoru Activism – a full day of programming and fundraising
- 5/18 Black Panthers Walking Tour
- 5/20 "Portland's History of Discrimination" Bus Tour – in partnership with Fair Housing Council
- 5/29 Lost City, Living Memories: Vanport Through The Voices of Its Residents
- A screening of short oral history documentaries from the Vanport Mosaic collection, followed by a facilitated dialogue with special guests from the Vanport Community + NW Freedom Singers.
- 5/31 Vanport Day of Remembrance – tours, exhibits, performances, art-making at Portland Expo Center and Historic Vanport
- 6/1 We Are Still Here – live performance centering Chisao Hata's Portland Assembly Center Project, with theater and movement performance, video projection, community altar, and with live music by Resonance Ensemble.