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Queering the World Workshop with Lo Moran

August 8, 2020, 10:30 a.m.

Join Lo Moran for this participatory workshop, in which you will discuss and practice therapies for queering the world.

Zine Workshop with Liberty Morey

July 11, 2020, 1 p.m.

For Gender Euphoria, Liberty will host a zine making workshop which invites participants to explore personal identity, gender, and bodies through a creative lens.

Creating Gender Euphoria Brunch Conversation

July 10, 2020, 11 a.m.

Join Becca Owen (they/them), the guest curator of Gender Euphoria, and Molly Alloy (they/them), Co-Director of Five Oaks Museum, in a live conversation about the curation of Gender Euphoria and their experiences as trans folks in the contemporary art and culture world.

Drag Performance by Hailey Tayathy

July 9, 2020, 7 p.m.

On opening night of Gender Euphoria, Hailey Tayathy (Quiluete) will perform a drag show that is shaped by their queer Native identity.

Gender Euphoria: Sum of its Parts

Sum of its Parts is a collaboratively authored social practice artwork by Zeph Fishlyn, which crowd-sources an unpredictable document of a specific time and place.

DREAMs Deferred Live

Postponed. New Date Pending

In partnership with The Immigrant Story, you are invited to hear five compelling stories told — and lived — by members of the local Latinx immigrant community who made arduous and dangerous journeys across the border to the United States.

Free Family Morning: Transform fishing rope into art with Emily Miller

Saturday, March 14, 2020
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Miller rescues mountains of colorful plastics from the sea off the Oregon coast, and turns them into huge art installations and beautiful creations. Join her at Five Oaks Museum to create your own unique fish out of reclaimed rope!

Native Children and the Forest Grove Indian School

Saturday, March 7, 2020
11 a.m.

A presentation by archivist and researcher Eva Guggemos. One of the earliest residential schools opened in Forest Grove in 1880 and operated there until 1885. Guggemos will show images and discuss the profound and lasting effects on the tribes of the Pacific Northwest.

DREAMs Deferred Exhibition Opening

Friday, January 10, 2020

In partnership with the Five Oaks Museum, visitors to the exhibit can share their written and illustrated stories of arrival in a safe space. These stories can be displayed in an adjacent mini exhibit, shared on social media, or can be anonymously donated to The Immigrant Story archive.