Saturday, September 10, 2011

NW Davis b/t NW 3rd & 4th

10:00am-4:00pm

$5 registration fee

A Table Tennis Tournament for people who live, work and play in Old Town Chinatown.  A “friendly” open tournament for single and doubles play.  This event was organized by Old Town Chinatown Business Association.

Entry will be on a first-come first-register basis.  Maximum 16 single players and 8 doubles teams.  Please email Jeff Jordan at:  jjordan@nrfcu.org.  IN THE EVENT OF BAD WEATHER ON DAY OF TOURNAMENT, PLEASE CALL (503) 802-6221 FOR TOURNAMENT STATUS

“Men of Iron & Steel: History of Chinese railroad workers in the Siskiyou Mountains”, presented by Victoria Law

June 23rd, Thursday, 7-9pm, U of O at White Stag, 70 NW Couch St., Portland.

Free & all ages.

This lecture event will clearly illustrate the vital but forgotten connection in the history of Chinese in Ashland and Portland.  “In the 1880′s, over 2400 Chinese railroad workers, many if not most of them from Portland, helped build the Oregon and California railroad from Portland through Southern Oregon”, Ms. Law explained, “Overcoming the great Siskiyou Mountains in Southern Oregon, these men of ‘iron and steel’ created a railroad infrastructure that allowed formerly isolated town like Ashland to grow and flourish.”

Victoria Law is Director and Curator of Ashland Historic Railroad Museum located in Ashland, Oregon’s historic railroad district. After retiring from a career in the software industry, Victoria returned to college and graduated cum laude with a Bachelors of Arts in History from Southern Oregon University in 2003. Since that time she has been active in the arts community in Ashland, helping found the Ashland Historic Railroad District Association in 2005, serving on the board of the Southern Oregon Historical Society, and co-founding Ashland Historic Railroad Museum in 2007.

Ms. Law designed and curated Ashland Historic Railroad Museum’s spring 2010 exhibit, “Men of Iron and of Steel: Chinese Railroad Workers in the Siskiyou Mountains.” and is working on a book about Ashland’s early Chinese community, “Seventy Thousand Fire Crackers: The Story of the Chinese People in Victorian Ashland.”

FPC is proud of Bette Lee , an activist and a social justice photographer for the past 30 years, and her way overdue photography exhibit at 2011 Justice Within Reach this coming Saturday, 5/7, 7-11pm, at p:ear (338 NW 6th Ave., Portland, OR).

Here is an article of featured photographers at this event.

Justice Within Reach is the annual party of McKenzie River Gathering Foundation.

MRG has given out over $12 million in grants since 1976. MRG Foundation pools money from Oregon’s progressive community and distributes it back to grassroots groups working on a wide range of social change issues.

Come join us at this great event and help with the great cause.

Purchase tickets here!

poster designed by Peter Yue

Join us on Thursday, May 12th, 7-9pm, for this free lecture event at U of O at White Stag (70 NW Couch St., Portland), presented by Gregory Nokes & Tom Banse, who will enlighten us on less-known history of early Chinese immigrants in eastern Oregon through their most recent research and coverage.  This event was made possible by the support from U of O at White Stag.

Gregory Nokes was a reporter and editor for The Associated Press and The Oregonian.  He is the author of Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon, published in October of 2009 by Oregon State University Press.  The book is the first authoritative account of the massacre of as many as three-dozen Chinese gold miners in Oregon’s Hells Canyon in 1887, a crime that was never fully investigated and later covered up for more than a century.  Mr. Nokes will also share his experience with the annual “Chinese Remembering” that’s taking place on the massacre site since 2008.

Regional Correspondent Tom Banse covers public policy, environment, business and breaking news from the public radio Northwest News Network bureau in Washington’s state capital, Olympia. His stories can be heard during Morning Edition and All Things Considered on OPB Radio, KUOW-Seattle, and on other National Public Radio stations in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.  In summer 2010, Banse produced an in-depth investigative report on a star-crossed effort to exhume and repatriate the remains of 556 pioneer Chinese immigrants from Oregon to China.

Have you ever wondered what architectural potential there might be for the empty lot next to Chinatown Gate?

Come check out an exhibit of design for a cultural center by graduate students of Portland Architecture Program at University of Oregon this coming weekend:

1-4pm, April 9th-10th, at 117 NW Second Ave., Old Town, Portland.