Events & Classes

Join Portland Parks and Recreation’s Urban Forestry for a broom making craft. We’ll create beautiful hand brooms using foraged tree materials – willow, magnolia, cypress, oak, camellia, and more. We can channel the matchless Zora Neale Hurston, who wrote: "The thing to do is to grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."

Come to an engaging session on utilizing library resources to support your Black-Owned Small Business and Entrepreneurship. This session will highlight small business resources in the library and outer community. The event is free and open to everyone at the Hillsdale Public Library.

Join us for this compelling workshop with leader, educator, and speaker Amber Starks on Realizing Black and Native Futurity Through Solidarity and Kinship.

Join home grown chef, Jacobsen Valentine, as he teaches us to prepare rich and wholesome dishes inspired by his Black and Hawaiian heritage. Chef Jacobsen is the founder of Feed the Mass, a non-profit organization committed to empowered and educated, community food culture. Experience the passion, knowledge, and savory expertise of this community leader as he demonstrates the tasty ways for you to celebrate the season.

Stones, Bones and Blacked-Eyed Peas presents: Family recipes, a seat at our family table, and the importance of Sunday dinner in the African American community. Join chef and owner of Finer Things Events and Catering, Michelle Guinn, along with her daughter, Sable Askew and take a trip back into history.

Join Portland Parks and Recreation’s Urban Forestry for a broom making craft. We’ll create beautiful hand brooms using foraged tree materials – willow, magnolia, cypress, oak, camellia, and more. We can channel the matchless Zora Neale Hurston, who wrote: "The thing to do is to grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."

Stones, Bones and Blacked-Eyed Peas presents: The historical and cultural significance of black eyed peas. Join chef and owner of Finer Things Events and Catering, Michelle Guinn, along with her daughter, Sable Askew and take a trip back into history. Enjoy a cooking demonstration using traditional foods and recipes cooked by African Americans from the time of slavery, and explore their many modern interpretations.

Come to an engaging session on utilizing library resources to support your Black-Owned Small Business and Entrepreneurship. This session will highlight small business resources in the library and outer community. The event is free and open to everyone at the Hillsdale Public Library.

People 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.

Stones, Bones and Blacked-Eyed Peas presents: Our favorite African American children's books, and the recipes that go along with them. Join chef and owner of Finer Things Events and Catering, Michelle Guinn, along with her daughter, Sable Askew and take a trip back into history.

Join home grown chef, Jacobsen Valentine, as he teaches us to prepare rich and wholesome dishes inspired by his Black and Hawaiian heritage. Chef Jacobsen is the founder of Feed the Mass, a non-profit organization committed to empowered and educated, community food culture. Experience the passion, knowledge, and savory expertise of this community leader as he demonstrates the tasty ways for you to celebrate the season.

The Black Cultural Library Advocates will be showing Storming Caesars Palace. The film highlights achievements of African Americans in the workforce, featuring Ruby Duncan. It conveys her story of courage, tenacity and grit that led her from Las Vegas to the White House. Stay after to discuss the story and it's telling through the film! Shown via Kanopy, a library streaming service.

Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting On Two Fronts recounts the laudatory and complicated legacy of African American soldiers who sought a better life in the United States Army after the Civil War. Join us for this riveting documentary screening with the award winning film maker, Dru Holley.

Learn strategies for raising mentally and emotionally healthy liberated Black children. Discover tools for anxiety, generational trauma and unlearning harmful child-rearing beliefs and practices. Holistic healing exercises will help caregivers reclaim their right to parent from a place of peace.

People 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.

Join us for this compelling workshop with leader, educator, and speaker Amber Starks on Realizing Black and Native Futurity Through Solidarity and Kinship.

Stones, Bones and Blacked-Eyed Peas presents: Family recipes, a seat at our family table, and the importance of Sunday dinner in the African American community. Join chef and owner of Finer Things Events and Catering, Michelle Guinn, along with her daughter, Sable Askew and take a trip back into history.

Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting On Two Fronts recounts the laudatory and complicated legacy of African American soldiers who sought a better life in the United States Army after the Civil War. Join us for this riveting documentary screening with the award winning film maker, Dru Holley.