[OYAN] Friday, March 1st Shoutout

Fri Mar 1 16:46:02 PST 2024

Hi folks,

You may already know about Oregon Humanities’ work , but I wanted to shoutout Oregon Humanities for supporting libraries, and also all the libraries who applied for grant funding for this year! You can see some of the great work that will happen below in Oregon Humanities’ recap of projects that will take place this year.

Have a great weekend!

Best,

Greta

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March 2024

Grants

Mini Grants for Rural Libraries
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Photo by Ezra Marcosii for Josephine Community Libraries, a 2024 grantee

In February, we awarded a total of $48,012 in grant funding to rural and rural-serving libraries! This funding will allow libraries across Oregon to create and host humanities events that are meaningful to their communities. Our 2024 theme for this grant is Fear and Belonging.

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Bandon Public Library (Bandon)
$3,000 to support two community storytelling events featuring individual stories about Fear and Belonging. A preview event featuring two to three storytellers, to be held at Bandon's annual Cranberry Festival, which will pique public interest for the main event featuring six storytellers. Stories will be crafted during four monthly feeder programs: Storytelling Cafe, Writing Group, Age Cafe, and Teen Hangout/Summer Reading Program.

North Plains Public Library (North Plains)
$5,000 to support a three-part cultural series featuring the stories of immigrants who have relocated to Oregon, encapsulating the multifaceted experiences of leaving one's homeland, facing uncertainties, seeking a sense of belonging in a new environment, and contributing to Oregon’s cultural fabric while navigating the complexities of identity and acceptance. Events will feature Sankar Raman, founder of The Immigrant Story; Elizabeth Mehren, author of I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War; Ali Esteghlalian, Persian storyteller and Portland Community College Instructor; and Baba Wagué Diakité, Malian Storyteller and children's book author.

Columbia Gorge Community College Library and Learning Commons (The Dalles)
$5,000 to support two social justice-focused events in the popular lunch-and-learn program Let's Taco ‘Bout It, cohosted by the college’s Library and Learning Commons and the Equity through United Action League (EQUAL) club. The first panel event, Going Beyond Land Acknowledgements in Higher Education, will feature alumni, local Indigenous communities, and experts in Indigenous Studies from local universities. The Indigenous-owned company, Sisters Frybread, will serve Indian tacos at this event. The second event, Celebrating Pride Week: Cross-Movement Organizing, will feature panelists from the LGBTQIA+ community. The topic for this event will be cross-movement organizing and will explore the connection between racial, gender, economic, disability, and environmental justice. It will include a catered taco bar from the campus café.

Cottage Grove Public Library (Cottage Grove)
$3,500 for two events that will use food and folklore to provide an opportunity for people to come together, share their stories, and to grow our understanding of why people migrate—and the many ways that communities benefit by providing a welcoming and engaging experience for newcomers. Events will feature four guests including speakers, storytellers, readers, and chefs who are invited to share folktales, experiences, stories, songs, recipes, and food from their home. Events will include a meal. Attendees will engage in a facilitated discussion, with either spoken or written comments about common themes and how the stories made them think in new ways about other cultures and traditions.

Harney County Library Foundation (Burns)
$2,400 for four events in the speaker series "Finding Common Ground,” which engages the community around collaborative approaches to solving conflicts centered around management of the natural environment and natural resources. These management activities are central to communities' social and economic fabric but are perceived differently by different ethnic and socioeconomic groups, often leading to conflicts rooted in mutual mistrust and fear. Events will explore areas in which more work needs to be done to ensure all segments of our communities are involved in these collaborative efforts. Speakers will include the High Desert Partnership; University of Oregon professor of geography and environmental studies Peter Walker; the Rural Organizing Project; and Native American writer and activist Jacqueline Keeler.

Josephine Community Library Foundation (Grants Pass)
$5,000 for three community listening sessions, guided by an independent facilitator, exploring what features and services in a new library will meet the community needs and create a secure and comfortable public space. The library's commitment to ensuring that library buildings are places of belonging for everyone will guide the facilitator's questions to the community, with the goal of discovering what prevents participating individuals from engaging with the library currently. This information will eventually inform program and service direction as well as designs for the future Grants Pass library. Creating this sense of belonging and safety for every library visitor is paramount as the library begins to plan its future Grants Pass space.

Lane Library District (Creswell)
$2,500 for two public events featuring Kalapuyan tribal members, exploring aspects of belonging. One event will feature Kalapuyan weaver Stephanie Craig, whose work includes weaving replica baskets for museums, in a conversation about the loss, reclaiming, and continuing of traditions. An event featuring Kalapuya elder Dietrich Peters will focus on what it means to belong to a Native community and how that can look different to groups, organizations, and people. Events will include an introductory talk by each presenter, followed by dialogue, sharing, and questions by attendees. Events will be facilitated by Karen Rainsong, the executive director of Singing Creek Educational Center.

McMinnville Public Library (McMinnville)
$3,620 for a community event featuring author and poet Shane McCrae, cohosted by the McMinnville Public Library, Linfield University, and Third Street Books. McCrae's book, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping, explores issues of race in the local community and beyond. McCrae spent part of his childhood in Salem and is a graduate of Linfield University. He writes about racism and his struggle with belonging in a White family and community. His story explores the hate, fear, and violence he experienced growing up and how he found belonging in his school, family, and eventually himself. There will be discussions led by Linfield University professors, and copies of the books will be provided to participants leading up to the author event. Reading the book, discussing with each other, and hearing from the author will engage readers in exploring their own stories of racism, fear, and belonging.

Mt. Angel Public Library (Mt. Angel)
$5,000 for five events about the award-winning children’s book Wonder by R. J. Palacio, which advocates for nurturing a culture of kindness, friendship, and inclusion. The library will offer the book, in English and Spanish versions, for youth, homeschool, and adult book discussion groups through two or more library-hosted events. Additional activities included a partnership with the Mt. Angel School District for a community read of the book, in-class discussions and activities for grades 3–12, and a "Battle of the Books" type competition at each school, with the winning teams competing against each other at a district-wide assembly. The culminating event will be a community-wide screening of the movie version of the book with an intergenerational, multicultural, and bilingual discussion led by faculty, administration and library staff.

Oregon City Library (Oregon City)
$4,163 for seven community events that will challenge community members to confront the history of racism in Oregon and engage in discussions about how to move forward to create a just and equitable community for all. Events include a book discussion of The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate by Sarah Sanderson, hosted in partnership with the City of Oregon City, as part of a celebration of Juneteenth. There will also be community reading events where free copies of Sarah Sanderson's book are distributed; four discussions about the book facilitated by Race Talks PDX; and two presentations by the Oregon Black Pioneers covering Oregon's Black exclusion laws and Oregon's civil rights history. The goal of these programs is to acknowledge the fear that the Black members of our community still feel as a result of our racist history, and to discuss how we can come together to create an inclusive community where Black community members feel that they belong and are safe and welcome.

Union Carnegie Public Library (Union)
$3,829 for six events. Youth events will feature a book reading to engage youth through listening, discussion, and collaboration on a craft project related to the book’s theme. Themes include immigration, Japanese internment, Native American history, slavery and emancipation, and Chinese railway workers. Activities will foster conversation about historical discrimination in the United States. Examples of potential activity pairings include: a reading and discussion of Dreams in the Golden Country, while book club members assemble a Lego statue of Liberty; a reading and discussion of The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung while assembling a Metal Earth locomotive model kit; and a reading and discussion of the American Girl book Addy while book club members make friendship bracelets. Examples of adult activities include participating in a facilitated Japanese cultural study containing historical and cultural prompts while doing Kintsugi, or participating in a study of Native American pottery, facilitated by a local tribal representative, while crafting with clay.

Willamina Public Library (Willamina)
$5,000 for four public presentations and discussions led by people doing arts and humanities work who will share their experiences of how the community has supported them, to discuss challenges they have faced including the challenges of a rural area, and to offer ways that families can continue engaging at home. Each event will have a language-inclusive feature to support diversity and participation for all members of the community. Potential events include a Chinuk Wawa language-immersion event, a Latinx community-building event with Spanish translation, and an event about strong women leading in rural communities event with ASL translation.

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