Events

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...

The exhibition explores the work of three artists representing three generations of one family: Holocaust survivor Allice Lok Cahana (1929 – 2017), her oldest son, Ronnie Cahana (born 1953), a major stroke survivor, and his daughter, Kitra Cahana (born 1987), a filmmaker and photographer. Alice Lok Cahana grew up in Sarvar, Hungary. She survived four different...

ja’ / buuts’ / t’aan (Water / Smoke / Word) is a multichannel video and sound installation emerging from a multidisciplinary and iterative project that encompasses public engagement, print, and media works. The presentation, made in collaboration with Patricia Vázquez Gómez and a group of Mayan youth living in Northeast Portland, explores the relationship between these young...

In observance of 80 years since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Sadako and Paper Cranes examines the devastation of nuclear war through the eyes of Sadako Sasaki, a young girl who experienced it. Alongside her story will be original works from artists Erin Shigaki, Lynn Yarne, Marie Johnston, Maya McDarragh, and six Grant High...

Indigenous peoples have long been in relationship with and shared stories about sacred forest protectors, often called Sasquatch and Bigfoot. The works in this exhibition are made by Indigenous artists and honor generations of spiritual practices, storytelling, and tradition. Leave your preconceived notions behind and immerse yourself, not in the question of if Sasquatch exists, but rather, how we exist...