[Heritage] Oregon Heritage Conference - One of Two Keynote Speakers, Revealed!

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Oregon Heritage Conference - One of Two Keynote Speakers, Revealed!

In April, at the 2020 Oregon Heritage Conference, our goal is to have workshops, tours, sessions, keynotes, and conversations that help conference attendees realize the power of heritage and find ways to harness that power in order to engage with their communities. One of the places that this power lies is in the important stories that exist in the places you work hard to protect and in the organizations that safeguard Oregon's heritage.

Meet Trina Michelle Robinson, one of two keynote speakers featured at the 2020 Oregon Heritage Conference, April 22-24 in Corvallis. Trina Michelle Robinson will provide Friday's keynote address, "The Call: Recognizing the power in all of our stories."



Robinson is a storyteller and videographer who explores memory through film, archival materials, and text. Her video essay The Call has been exhibited in art galleries and film festivals throughout the country, and she has told her story of exploring her ancestry with the Moth Mainstage on stages throughout the country including Lincoln Center in New York and on the Moth Radio Hour<https://themoth.org/radio-hour/dna-doesnt-lie?fbclid=IwAR37pQ9KZAsevtbbMvuwcN0-vLUtBu9nxmfuQGSVY24i1u6dq9-FVNSS5DA> on NPR.


During her keynote address, Robinson will share the powerful story that she told when touring the country: her exploration of her family's enslaved ancestry, their liberation, and their migration to Chicago. Her mission is to help people of all backgrounds connect to one another through storytelling, with the hope we can see ourselves in each other. Understanding our history and sharing those powerful stories is an important step. She will discuss the research behind her story, how she has processed what she has learned through storytelling, and her commitment to raising the voices of marginalized people everywhere.

Robinson's earlier work was featured in the Museum of the African Diaspora's I've Known Rivers Project, and New Jersey Dramatists Which Way to America at the Jersey City Museum and Puffin Cultural Forum.  She has worked in print and digital media as a managing editor and as a production director.

Now remember, this is just the reveal of one of two of our keynotes. So stay tuned for the next big reveal coming soon!

For more information on the conference including a preliminary schedule of events, location information, and sponsorship opportunities, visit https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/OHC/Pages/Conference.aspx.

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Oregon Heritage News is a service of Oregon Heritage, a division of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. The news editor can be contacted at heritage.info at oregon.gov<mailto:heritage.info at oregon.gov>.

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