Everybody Reads: Edible Native Plants of Willamette Valley
Learn about traditional Native American food plants of the Willamette Valley like huckleberries, cedar, sweetgrass and other plants used for basketry and medicine with Stephanie Craig, Santiam and Yoncalla Kalapuya tribal member.
Everybody Reads: Land Tending, Hospitality, & Medicine
Join Wapato Island Farm's Jennifer Rose Marie Serna for a conversation and skill share on land tending, sacred hospitality, and medicine making from a Native perspective. There will be an additional Soaking Salt Blend Workshop, where you will learn to make a foot soaking salt and medicine blend to use at home.
Everybody Reads: Pageturners Book Club
Pageturner Book Groups have returned to the library! Share your thoughts, listen to others and discuss this year's Everybody Reads selection, The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich. It's not a community read without a conversation.
Everybody Reads: Garden Planning with Spencer Suffling
Learn the basics of how to plan a successful garden and create your own garden calendar and checklist. Topics will include choosing crops, setting goals, and preparing the garden beds.
Everybody Reads: Pageturners Book Club
Pageturner Book Groups have returned to the library! Share your thoughts, listen to others and discuss this year's Everybody Reads selection, The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich. It's not a community read without a conversation.
Everybody Reads: Anthony Hudson, Local Author Spotlight
Join us as Anthony Hudson shares selections from his new collection, Lamp Back: Plays and Other Grievances.
Everybody Reads: Sock Darning Workshop with Wren Arts
Learn how to fix your holey or thinning socks with darning! Join us in this hands-on workshop to learn and practice 3 methods for repairing socks!
Participants will learn the basic materials and techniques necessary to darn their own socks in various ways. Bring your socks in need of mending, and leave with a plan and the skill to darn them!
Registration opens on January 16.
Everybody Reads: Sashiko Style Visible Mending
Join Wren Bird Arts for an information packed, sashiko inspired visible mending for denim & wovens workshop. With hands-on practice, you’ll learn this simple, but useful patterned stitching technique for patching denim and other woven textiles. This is a great class for beginners and seasoned hand stitchers alike with an interest in how mending can be both functional and beautiful.
Everybody Reads: Pageturners Book Club
Pageturner Book Groups have returned to the library! Share your thoughts, listen to others and discuss this year's Everybody Reads selection, The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich. It's not a community read without a conversation.
Everybody Reads: Pageturners Book Club
Pageturner Book Groups have returned to the library! Share your thoughts, listen to others and discuss this year's Everybody Reads selection, The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich. It's not a community read without a conversation.
Everybody Reads: Indigenous Storytelling with Karen Kitchen
Join Karen Kitchen (Osage) as she shares traditional stories and songs showcasing the diversity and beauty of Native American tribes and cultures. All are invited and welcomed to sit in the circle of community to listen, laugh, sing and celebrate Native ways of knowing. Stories will be told in English, while songs are sung in Native languages.
Everybody Reads: Pageturners Book Club
Pageturner Book Groups have returned to the library! Share your thoughts, listen to others and discuss this year's Everybody Reads selection, The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich. It's not a community read without a conversation.
Everybody Reads: Conversation Project, Can We Get Along?
Join Oregon Humanities and Chisao Hata for their Community Conversation series. Rodney King’s iconic question still resonates today. Despite decades of social justice movements, police brutality and divisions persist in the United States. COVID-19 has only added more challenges. How can we connect to each other during these times? What holds us back from connecting with each other?
Everybody Reads: Pageturners Book Club
Pageturner Book Groups have returned to the library! Share your thoughts, listen to others and discuss this year's Everybody Reads selection, The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich. It's not a community read without a conversation.
Everybody Reads: Land Tending, Sacred Hospitality, & More
Join Wapato Island Farm's Jennifer Rose Marie Serna for a conversation and skill share on land tending, sacred hospitality, and medicine making from a Native perspective. There will be an additional Soaking Salt Blend Workshop, where you will learn to make a foot soaking salt and medicine blend to use at home.
Everybody Reads: Seed Saving with Spencer Suffling
Saving seeds is the foundation of our 10,000 year agricultural heritage. But in the last 100 years, we have largely become disconnected from saving our own seeds. Learn how saving seeds can be easy, fun, and rewarding. Save money, grow better crops, breed your own unique varieties, build food security, and adapt crops to local context and changing climate.
Everybody Reads: Meet Midland's Trees with Urban Forestry
Join Portland Parks and Recreation's Urban Forestry for story-telling and native tree identification! Discover your relationship with the trees of Midland Park through song, stories, and creative learning! Take home a special children’s book celebrating Indigenous relationships to this land. This program is geared towards children and their grown-ups but welcomes all ages!
