Carpenter Hall, Ashland
Building Post-Election Common Ground
Carpenter Hall, Ashland 44 S. Pioneer St, Ashland"Building Post-Election Common Ground" is a conversation between Mike and Emily Green co-founders of Common Ground Conversations on Race (CGC), , Taylor Stewart, founder of the Oregon Remembrance Project, and host Tara Houston, Community and Engagement Manager, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF). The post-election narrative in this nation, regardless of who wins, will be of key […]
From Thorns to Blossoms A Japanese American Family in War and Peace.
Carpenter Hall, Ashland 44 S. Pioneer St, AshlandIn April, Mitzi Loftus shared her story to a standing-room-only crowd at Bloomsbury Books in Ashland. Did you miss that event? Here is another opportunity. Ashland Together and Bloomsbury Books are happy to bring Mitzi and David Loftus back for an encore presentation of their book, From Thorns to Blossoms A Japanese American Family in […]
Uncovering Difficult Truths
Carpenter Hall, Ashland 44 S. Pioneer St, Ashland"Uncovering Difficult Truths" is a conversation between Oregon author Sarah L. Sanderson, Taylor Stewart, founder of the Oregon Remembrance Project, and host Tara Houston, Community and Engagement Manager, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF). Sarah Sanderson, author of The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate, will share her own story of discovering that her […]
Ashland Sunrise Project presents “Uncovering Difficult Truths”
Carpenter Hall, Ashland 44 S. Pioneer St, AshlandThe Ashland Sunrise Project will hold the third presentation in its ongoing speaker series from 6:30 to 8 pm. Monday, July 8, at Carpenter Hall, 44 S. Pioneer St., Ashland. Entitled "Uncovering Difficult Truths," the event is a conversation between Oregon author Sarah L. Sanderson, Oregon Remembrance Founder project Taylor Stewart, and host Tara Houston, […]
Ashland Sunrise Project presents “What It Means To Belong”
Carpenter Hall, Ashland 44 S. Pioneer St, Ashland"What it means to belong," the second presentation in Ashland Sunrise Project's speaker series, will be held 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, May 27, at Carpenter Hall, 44 S. Pioneer St., Ashland. The presentation is a conversation among community activist Cassie Preskenis, local artist Micah Blacklight, Oregon Remembrance Project founder Taylor Stewart, and host Tara […]
Uncovering Oregon’s Black History: Oregon’s Black Pioneers
Carpenter Hall, Ashland 44 S. Pioneer St, AshlandPeople 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 […]
Launch of the Ashland Sunrise Project
Carpenter Hall, Ashland 44 S. Pioneer St, AshlandThis 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 […]
