OregonRisesAboveHate

Amplifying #AANHPI voices

Celebrating Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage All Year Long

#OregonRises

[APIAVote | #StopAsianHate @APIAVote]

Wishing all those who celebrate Eid-Al-Adha a wonderful celebration. May all your duas come true!

[APANO Action Fund @APANOActionFund]

Let’s dive deep into the question: how we keep us safe?

Join the O82 Art Crew this upcoming Tuesday 5-8PM for their Canton Grill block party. #JadeDistrict

[APANO Action Fund @APANOActionFund]

Thank you Lumae Photography for capturing moments from our annual Voices of Change! We're floored that we raised $85,000 for our yearround racial equity work, and we couldn't have done it without our community. This work will always be by us, for us.

[APANO Action Fund @APANOActionFund]

@UniteOregon is offering stipends for the first 25 registrants in their TV Highway workshop series this Saturday! Learn about how we can develop TV highway with a BICOC-centered anti-displacement framework ✊🏼

[Lan Su Chinese Garden @chinesegarden]

🐉✨ Last chance to experience Nights of the Dragon Boat! Get your tickets now for this Thursday to Sunday! 🎟️ tickets available at https://t.co/0jnmEso4K3 or visit link in bio.

#MoreThanAGarden

[Stop AAPI Hate @StopAAPIHate]

Exciting news: Stop AAPI Hate is #nowhiring. With career opportunities in data and research, strategic communications, and advocacy, we need your help to spread the word and help us find the right people to sustain our fight for racial justice. Apply now. https://t.co/2JGZmbhR7R

[APANO Action Fund @APANOActionFund]

Next week, we're cohosting a community conversation with Portland Bureau of Transportation and Metro to hear your feedback on how to improve safety and transit. No RSVP needed.

[OregonRisesAboveHate @ORriseabovehate]

Call to Safety has been serving and supporting survivors of #domesticviolence and #sexualviolence for the last 50 years!

Consider helping them help others with a monthly #donation.

https://t.co/VDifNWfaqL

[APANO Action Fund @APANOActionFund]

We'll be celebrating our cohort this Saturday 🥳✊🏼⁣
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We’ll be joined by guest speakers @RepHaiPham and Chrissy Erguiza from @ORDems AAPI Caucus 💥⁣

[OregonRisesAboveHate @ORriseabovehate]

@ORStateParks For over 60 years the building was a social, medical, and religious center for Oregon’s Chinese community.

Call 541-575-2800 to schedule a tour now till October 31, 2023.

Link in bio for more info.

[OregonRisesAboveHate @ORriseabovehate]

THREAD: Did you know #Oregon is home to the largest intact collection of #chinese medicine and formulas in the WORLD?

@ORStateParks Kam Wah Chung State Heritage Site was a Chinese medical clinic, general store, community center and residence.

[OregonRisesAboveHate @ORriseabovehate]

@ORStateParks Built in 1865 as a trading post, it became home to two Chinese immigrants, Ing “Doc” Hay and Lung On in 1888. Lung On was the general store proprietor and a businessman, while “Doc” Hay was a practitioner of #herbalmedicine.

[OregonRisesAboveHate @ORriseabovehate]

“My phone is just a tool, it is just a tool to illuminate the world i dream of.”

Check out @maxyuliang 's play, "In a Different Reality She's Clawing At the Walls". Show runs from now till June 17th.

Tickets & more info in #Linktree

[OregonRisesAboveHate @ORriseabovehate]

@pdxchinatown Come check out Bue Kee's paintings, watercolors, lithographs, drawings, and ceramics.

[OregonRisesAboveHate @ORriseabovehate]

Join @pdxchinatown Friday, May 19th from 3-6PM for the opening reception of Bue Kee: An Artist's Life and Legacy.

[OregonRisesAboveHate @ORriseabovehate]

@pdxchinatown Bue Kee (1893-1985) was a painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Portland's Chinatown who later moved with his family to Clackamas County to help manage a hops farm. Hard of hearing, Kee could read and write but never finished grade school.

[Portland Art Museum @PDXArtMuseum]

Saturday, 5/20: Enjoy free admission in celebration of #AANHPI Heritage Month! This free day is in collaboration with advocacy group @ORriseabovehate.

Tickets are available online & for walk-in visitors on 5/20. Reserve → https://t.co/rhb8CPfd99

📷 IG: hannahgoertz

[Oregon Comm. on Asian & Pacific Islander Affairs @OAC_OCAPIA]

May is Asian American History Month! Rep. Khanh Pham was first elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 2020 becoming the first Vietnamese-American legislator in the Oregon State Legislature.

[Portland Art Museum @PDXArtMuseum]

Walking into the weekend ✨

5/20: Enjoy free admission celebrating #AANHPI Heritage Month honoring Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, & Pacific Islanders. In collaboration w/@ORriseabovehate.

Tickets start online 5/17 or for walk-in visitors on 5/20 → https://t.co/VQfDxs7AVC

[Oregon Comm. on Asian & Pacific Islander Affairs @OAC_OCAPIA]

May 10th, 1869 marks the day when Chinese American railroad workers joined the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads in Utah Territory. If it was not for the tireless efforts of Chinese Americans, the United States would not have been successful in this project.