Join us for the 6th Vanport Mosaic Festival culminating weekend! Updated program at 6/27 7am.
UPDATE 6/24 4pm: we are adjusting the program schedule and plans based on the heat wave advisory. STAY SAFE!! We are working hard for last-minute plan of live-streaming from the park early morning and from indoor venues, so you can join us from home. Thanks for your patience and for supporting artists, collaborators, and our tiny team!!
The heat wave that will hit our region during the weekend is too dangerous to risk it, so we are working non-stop to make alternative plans for our beautiful WE THE PEOPLE celebration at North Park Blocks. Stay safe and help others. Here is a list of cooling centers and info on community support.
UPDATED WEEKEND PLAN: We want to honor everyone involved in this rich celebration, and those of you who reached out to express how much you were looking forward to it. Once again we are going to live stream from our kitchen tables to your living rooms, or to wherever you can find shelter.
What matters is that we are still together Remembering, Repairing, Reclaiming, and Re-imagining our collective story.
WE THE PEOPLE Celebration- UPDATED PROGRAM as at 6/27
(Co-curated by Community Weaver Chisao Hata and Story Midwife Laura Lo Forti/ as part of the 6th Vanport Mosaic Festival May 26-June 30)
6/24 - 6/27
Soul Restoration Project - a laboratory to explore how art can activate and renew our civic space - by pianist/composer Darrell Grant
In person in front at US Custom House, located at 220 NW 8th Avenue on the North Park Blocks between Everett & Davis streets and Vanport Mosaic Facebook page livestream
See details in section below
Saturday 6/26
NO in-person events.
Watch on Vanport Mosaic FB Page Live stream (you do not need a FB account to watch.) The recordings will be archive on our website afterwards.
11:15 - 11:30
Remember, Repair, Reclaim and Re-imagine: welcome11:30 - 12:30
Past, Present, and Future: Three Generations discuss the Movement for Black Lives
Master Artist Michael Stevenson Jr., founder and facilitator of the Afro Contemporary Art Class (ACAC) at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School, invites Kent Ford and Zemaj Mitchell, former Black Panther and ACAC student respectively (as part of the Fred Hampton Summer program presented by Michael Stevenson Jr. and Vanport Mosaic)12-1pm
Lakayana Drury and Word Is Bond young leaders1-2pm
Poets in The Park curated by Ken Yoshikawa: Melanie Hope, Alanna Fagan, Bella2-3pm
Ofelio: join MediaRites for a virtual screening and panel talk with the playwright, actor, and Jhona Monroy from The Immigrant Solidarity Project at Adelante Mujeres. Ofelio is the story of a former border patrol guard who is now a father of a young baby. As he cares for his child, he is haunted by the faces of children who were detained at the border. More info here.
Sunday 6/27
NO in-person events.
Watch on Vanport Mosaic FB Page Live stream (you do not need a FB account to watch.) The recordings will be archive on our website afterwards.
10:45 - 11am
Remember, Repair, Reclaim and Re-imagine: welcome
11-12pm
American Music Program Jazz Concert
12-1pm
It Did Happen Here listening session of Episode 9 The Story of Jon Bair with podcast collective members, Mic Crenshaw, Celina Flores and Moe Bowstern, as well as guest, Jon Bair. It Did Happen Here is a podcast about antifacist struggles that happened in Portland, Oregon in the late 1980s and 90s
1-2pm
Poets in The Park: Ken Yoshikawa, Kate Leddy, Jayy Dodd, Juanito Cervantes, Donovan Smith.
