Event Spotlights: Money Talks & Mindfulness in Bloom ✨
Happening this week! Tickets are going fast for our first event of 2025! Plus MORE February community events and resources.
Dear Portland in Color community,
We’re popping into your inboxes one more time this month with reminders for upcoming events and to invite you again to spaces where you can hopefully connect, feel supported, and exchange inspiration with others. Winter continues to be a time to stay close, hibernate, and to prepare to sow the seeds for change. While we encourage stillness and rest, we recognize this time and everything in the world may also be bringing you a sense of restlessness, pain, and perhaps the desire to be around community. We hope our newsletter can be one sliver of opportunity for news of events and gatherings that feed you and foster your creative spirit.
Yours,
The Portland in Color Team
A Portland in Color Event Spotlight
Money Talks: Finance Q&A for BIPOC Creatives (& Gaza Fundraiser)
In case you missed the news, we’re hosting another iteration of MONEY TALKS, an evening for BIPOC creatives centered around financial Q&As and group consults for their individual and professional development. It’s also a fundraiser for Operation Olive Branch, direct aid initiative in Gaza!
Last newsletter we asked what readers were looking forward to learning about during this judgement-free effort to increase economic equity. Tax prep, planning, and deductions was the top-vote by a landslide! Our financial advisors, tax prepares, and bookkeepers will cover those topics, and anything else that’s on your mind. But get your tickets ASAP as this event will sell out! Only 12 tickets remaining!
Money Talks, Thursday, February 13th at 6 pm, Moxy Downtown Portland, 585 SW 10th Avenue, Portland, OR. $5-$25 sliding scale donation.
A Community Event Spotlight
Mindfulness in Bloom: Indigenous-Led Flower Arranging Workshop
Join Låns CHarfauros, Founder of Pacific ReBloom and a beloved Portland in Color member, as they host MINDFULNESS IN BLOOM. They invite readers of this newsletter to, “Gather with intention to spend a cozy evening playing with flowers, sipping tea, and celebrating all flavors of love. We will cherish and hold you in community, ceremony, and creativity.” Registration is required. Email pacific.rebloom@gmail.com to secure your spot, or DM via Instagram.
Mindfulness in Bloom, Wednesday, February 12th at 6 pm, Apa Kabar, 2730 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Portland, OR. $60-$120 sliding scale.
Upcoming Events and Opportunities
Gender Ordeal - A live show presented by the Gender Reveal podcast is coming to Portland, featuring host Tuck Woodstock (and a former Portland in Color featured artist), mattie lubchansky, and Calvin Kasulke. Tickets ($16) are on sale now! February 11, 2025, 7pm, Alberta Abbey, 126 NE Alberta Street, Portland OR.
Mindfulness in Bloom - Presented by Pacific ReBloom—more info above in newsletter! Tickets are $60-$120 sliding scale. February 12th, 6 pm, Apa Kabar, 2730 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Portland, OR.
Money Talks: Finance Q&A for BIPOC Creatives (& Gaza Fundraiser) - Presented by Portland in Color and Friends—more info above in newsletter! Admission is $5-$25 sliding scale donation. February 13th, 6 pm, Moxy Downtown Portland, 585 SW 10th Avenue, Portland, OR.
Grand Gesture Movie Night - Every Saturday night in February at 6 pm Grand Gesture is hosting a free, all ages movie night. BYOSnacks! See full movie list and RSVP to save your seat. Remaining dates: February 15 and 22, 6 pm, Grand Gesture Books, 814 SW 10th Ave, Portland, OR.
ILUMINADA - The Noche Libre queer Latine DJ collective is back with a free performance in partnership with the Portland Winter Lights Festival. Dance to global grooves alongside gorgeous kaleideoscopic installations by local artists. Family friendly until 9 pm. February 15, 2025 from 7 pm - 12 am, Glow Bar, 111 SW Columbia St, Portland, OR.
Creative Heights Letter of Intent - This grant up to $100k for Oregon artists provides opportunities for artists and culture bearers to stretch their creative capacity, share new works and test new ideas. Applications due by February 13, 2025.
The Hatfield Futures Project - A one-week summer camp for high school-aged Oregonians to build community, dream up forward-thinking ideas, and create 'artifacts from the future' that reflect their visions; and then present those proposals at a showcase on June 28, 2025. Travel and lodging expenses are paid, and all participants receive a $250 stipend. Applications due by February 15, 2025.
Nike Community Impact Fund - An Oregon Community Foundation grant that benefits communities where Nike employees live, work and play in the Portland Metro and Northern Willamette Valley regions. 75% of awards support projects that promote sport/physical activity and 25% of grant awards support orgs and projects that address community challenges through innovative or proven community-based solutions. Applications due by February 15, 2025.
SWANA Story Time - This monthly event features story times with rotating themes, wiggle breaks for the little ones, and singalongs. Masks required for those who can wear them and are provided to all in attendance. February 22, 2025 from 10 am to noon, SWANA Rose Culture + Community Center, 2942 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Portland, OR.
A Conversation With the Artist Jeremy Okai Davis, Gwen Carr and Tammy Jo Wilson - This panel discussion features artist Jeremy Okai Davis who has spent the last three years working on portraits of Oregon Black Pioneers commissioned by the Salem Art Association and Bush House Museum, in conversation with Gwen Carr, Oregon Black Pioneers Emeritus, and Tammy Jo Wilson, Exhibit Curator and Director of Bush House Museum Exhibits & Programming (and Portland in Color directory member!) February 23, 2025 from 1 - 2 pm, The Bush Barn Art Center & Annex, 600 Mission St. SE, Salem, OR.
Muslim Lit Fest & Book Fair - An annual literature festival and book fair to celebrate Muslim writers and books. This event is free and open to everyone, and features workshops, readings, local author meet and greets, and more. February 23, 2025 from 12:30 pm to 4 pm, Bilal Masjid, 4115 SW 160th Ave, Beaverton, OR.
Culterim Open Call for Artists in Residence - North of Berlin around 60 minutes by train from the central station, the forest property `Biesenthal` is located right next to the lake Wukensee. The premises extends over several buildings and 12.000m2 of forest. We are converting the manor of Biesenthal into a temporary artist residence with studios and accommodation from 1st of May, 2025 until September the 30th, 2025. Applications due by February 23, 2025 (Central European Standard Time)
Arts & Crafts Sundays with Trail Mixed Collective - A community for women of color outdoors is hosting their monthly open ‘studio’ time! Bring your own work and materials and let’s have some hangout time working on pieces while getting to know each other and catching up. Bring your interests, curiosities, and expertise and let’s make some art! February 23, 2025 from 10:30am - 1:30pm, L'Atelier Yaffe, 111 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Portland, OR.
Seeding Justice’s Lilla Jewel Award - Named in honor of artist, radical feminist, and suffragist Lilla Jewel— was created to address these inequities by resourcing and amplifying Oregon-based artists of marginalized genders who advance a social change message through their work. Created in 1997, the Lilla Jewel Awards have funded dozens of poets, choreographers, singers, painters, photographers, filmmakers, writers, and other artists embedded in our social justice movements. Applications due February 27, 2025 at 5pm.
Sitka Center for Art & Ecology Residency - Sitka artist residencies provide time and space for self-paced work and reflection in an inspiring natural setting. Residents from a broad range of art, writing, performance and science-based practices come to Sitka to create and explore away from the familiar contexts and constraints of daily routines, and free from external expectations. Application fee waivers available by writing to info@sitkacenter.org. Applications due March 17, 2025.
Thanks for being here! Please remember you’re always welcome to share your grants, opportunities, and ideas with us at portlandincolor@gmail.com.