Imperialism, Architecture, and Oberlin College: A Brief History of the "Golden Temple" , 4 January, 2025
Season 2024 - 2025
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Lesser and Well Known Chinese Species at Hoyt Arboretum 14 September, 2024
OCTOBER DIM SUM/ YUM CHA BRUNCH, 12 October, 2024
Heroism and Survival: Women’s Daily Lives in Japanese-occupied Shanghai (1937-1945), 2 November, 2024
Collecting Stories: Chinese Art through the Historians' Lens, 7 December, 2024
Imperialism, Architecture, and Oberlin College: A Brief History of the "Golden Temple" , 4 January, 2025
About First Saturday PDX
THE FIRST 20 YEARS
PAST SEASONS & PROGRAMS
Past Seasons & Program Highlights
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SEASON 2023 - 2024
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Quick Preview of Season 2023 - 2024
Season Schedule (2023 - 2024)
* DIM SUM/ YUM CHA BRUNCH!! 9 September, 2023 *
A Question of Hu, 7 October 2023
"Mother of all Technologies": Accumulating Culture Through Chinese Textiles, PART 1 - November 4, 2023
"Mother of all Technologies": Accumulating Culture Through Chinese Textiles PART 2 - December 2, 2023
Xu Bing: Beyond the Book from the Sky, 6 January, 2024
Spring Banquet: Year of the Dragon 4722, 17 Feb, 2024
Year of the Dragon 4722
Making Hakka Women Visible: 6 April, 2024
Well Known and Lesser Known Chinese Species at Hoyt Arboretum - 4 May, 2024
Celestial Bridges: An Introduction to Architecture Over Water and Space From China's Past, Part One, 8 June, 2024
Season 2022 - 2023
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Season Schedule (2022 - 2023)
A Visit to the Soreng Gallery of Chinese Art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 10 September, 2022
China’s Last Imperial Frontier: Late Qing Expansion in Sichuan’s Tibetan Borderlands 15 October, 2022
Girls with Big Ideas: Gidget and Song of Youth 5 November, 2022
* DIM SUM/ YUM CHA BRUNCH!! 19 November, 2022 *
Following the Thread: China Along the Road of Silk 3 December, 2022
The Chinese Massacre in Hells Canyon 7 January 2023
Year of the Rabbit 4721
Spring Fundraiser Banquet Lunch/ Auction 18 FEB, 2023
"Model Letters" and the Audiences of Calligraphy in Early Modern China , 4 March, 2023
Women in the History of Tea in in China, 1 April, 2023
Tea and Wine: A New Look at the Song Dynasty Poetry of Li Qingzhao (李清照), 13 May, 2023
Summer Tour of the Garden of Awakening Orchids: 3 June, 2023
Season 2021 - 2022
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Season Schedule 2021 - 2022
The Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project, 2 October 2021
Connecting to our Natural World: The Portland Botanical Gardens, 6 November 2021
Lan Su Chinese Garden: The Vision of a Classical Chinese Garden, 4 December 2021
Re-visioning Chinese History, 900-1350: The New Look of Song and Yuan, 8 January, 2022
Chinese New Year 2022/ Year of the Tiger 4720, 5 February, 2022
Auspicious Seals and Chops, 5 February 2022
The Erhu and Erhu Music, 5 March, 2022
Pictorial Naturalism and "Truth": Contextualizing the Eleventh-century Luohan Sculptures of Lingyan Temple in China, 2 April, 2022
Celebrated Stories in Sichuan Shadow Theater,7 May, 2022
The Daode Jing's Forgotten Forebear: The Ancestral Cult 4 June, 2022
2020 - 2021 Season
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Quick Preview of Season 2020 - 2021
Season Schedule 2020 - 2021
Collecting Under Socialism: Philately in 1950s China, 12 September, 2020
Myriad Treasures: Celebrating the Reinstallation of the Soreng Gallery of Chinese Art Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 3 October, 2020
The Real Mulan? Tales of a Female Rebel in 18th century China 7 November, 2020
Spice it Up! How the Chile Pepper Flavored Chinese Culture 5 December, 2020
A Century of Collecting Chinese Painting at Oberlin College 9 January, 2021
Chinese New Year 2021/ Year of the Ox 4719
Artistic Exchange Between China and Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 6 March, 2021
The Scholar’s Retreat: Loss and Resilience in the Chinese Landscape and Garden 3 April 2021
Simmering, Whisking, Steeping: Methods for Preparing and Consuming Tea in Premodern China
Silk and Sericulture: Beauty Inspired by a Social Contract
2019 - 2020 Season
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Quick Preview of Season 2019 - 2020
Season Schedule 2019 - 2020
Mawangdui: The Tomb of China’s Sleeping Beauty, 7 December 2019
Field Notes from Sichuan: Learning To Be a Foreigner, 5 October 2019
In Search of Korean Liberation in China, 2 November 2019
From an Architect's Perspective: 3, 5, 7, 9 Column Halls: Status and Hierarchy in a Confucius Society, 7 December 2019
China Under the Covers - A Bookbinder’s Journey to the Roots of Books 11 January, 2020
Lunar New Year Lunch, 1 February, 2020
Early Phonetic Rendering Schemes for Chinese Characters, 7 March 2020
The Garden of Elk Rock at Bishop's Close, 4 April 2020
2018 - 2019 Season
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Quick Preview of Season 2018 - 2019
Season Schedule 2018 - 2019
Notable Women of Portland, 8 September 2018
Mooncakes: A Hallmark of Tradition of the Mid-Autumn Festival, 6 October 2018
Music: A Universal Language for Healing and Touching the Soul, 3 November 2018
China: In the Pursuit of Happiness, 1 December 2019
Babur's Gardens: An Illustrated Introduction, 5 January 2019
Chinese New Year Lunch 2 February, 2019
Living with Penjing: Three Dimensional Poetry - Mark Vossbrink March 2, 2019
Discovering the Intellectual and Sensory Essences of Chinese Literati Gardens, 6 April 2019
Sino-Japanese Cultural Connections in the Yuan Dynasty, 4 May 2019
2017 - 2018 Season
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Quick Preview of Season 2017 - 2018
Season Schedule 2017 - 2018
Developing Patronage: Chinese and Asian Pacific Heritage, 9 September 2017
Every Plant Has a Story to Tell: Bamboo, 7 October 2017
Wonders to Enjoy: Chinese Snuff Bottles, 4 November 2017
Sichuan Shadow Theater: Messages from Hell Courts, 2 December 2017
Legacy of the Qing Manchu Culture: The Sibe of Northwest China, 6 January 2018
Chinese New Year Brunch, 3 February 2018
Classical Tradition: Ancient Musical Instruments of China, 3 March 2018
Ancient Traders of the Silk Road: The Uyghur People of Xinjiang, 7 April 2018
"Poetic Exposition on Heaven and Earth": A Third-Century Chinese Verse on How the Cosmos Began, 28 April 2018
Word Play: The Art of Xu Bing, 2 June 2018
2016 - 2017 Season
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Quick Preview of Season 2016 - 2017
Season Schedule 2016 - 2017
Contemporary Chinese Society: A View from the Films of Zhang Yimou, 6 May 2017
Chinese New Year Brunch, 4 February 2017
The Uyghurs: History of a People at the Center of Asia, Part 1, 4 March 2017
Creating a Tea Aesthetic in Tang Verse, 3 June 2017
2015 - 2016 Season
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Season Schedule 2015 - 2016
Guzheng and Erhu: A Dialog Between the Strings, 2 April 2016
2014 - 2015 Season
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Season Schedule 2014 - 2015
2013 - 2014 Season
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Nurture and Healing:Chinese Medicine for Summer - Dr Elise Wong, 14 June, 2014
2012 - 2013 Season
2011 - 2012 Season
2010 - 2011 Season
2009 - 2010 Season
2008 - 2009 Season
2007 - 2008 Season
2006 - 2007 Season
2005 - 2006 Season
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Imperialism, Architecture, and Oberlin College: A Brief History of the "Golden Temple" , 4 January, 2025
Season 2024 - 2025
Quick Preview of Season 2024 - 2025
Season Schedule (2024 - 2025)
Lesser and Well Known Chinese Species at Hoyt Arboretum 14 September, 2024
OCTOBER DIM SUM/ YUM CHA BRUNCH, 12 October, 2024
Heroism and Survival: Women’s Daily Lives in Japanese-occupied Shanghai (1937-1945), 2 November, 2024
Collecting Stories: Chinese Art through the Historians' Lens, 7 December, 2024
Imperialism, Architecture, and Oberlin College: A Brief History of the "Golden Temple" , 4 January, 2025
About First Saturday PDX
THE FIRST 20 YEARS
PAST SEASONS & PROGRAMS
Past Seasons & Program Highlights
>
SEASON 2023 - 2024
>
Quick Preview of Season 2023 - 2024
Season Schedule (2023 - 2024)
* DIM SUM/ YUM CHA BRUNCH!! 9 September, 2023 *
A Question of Hu, 7 October 2023
"Mother of all Technologies": Accumulating Culture Through Chinese Textiles, PART 1 - November 4, 2023
"Mother of all Technologies": Accumulating Culture Through Chinese Textiles PART 2 - December 2, 2023
Xu Bing: Beyond the Book from the Sky, 6 January, 2024
Spring Banquet: Year of the Dragon 4722, 17 Feb, 2024
Year of the Dragon 4722
Making Hakka Women Visible: 6 April, 2024
Well Known and Lesser Known Chinese Species at Hoyt Arboretum - 4 May, 2024
Celestial Bridges: An Introduction to Architecture Over Water and Space From China's Past, Part One, 8 June, 2024
Season 2022 - 2023
>
Quick Preview of Season 2022 - 2023
Season Schedule (2022 - 2023)
A Visit to the Soreng Gallery of Chinese Art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 10 September, 2022
China’s Last Imperial Frontier: Late Qing Expansion in Sichuan’s Tibetan Borderlands 15 October, 2022
Girls with Big Ideas: Gidget and Song of Youth 5 November, 2022
* DIM SUM/ YUM CHA BRUNCH!! 19 November, 2022 *
Following the Thread: China Along the Road of Silk 3 December, 2022
The Chinese Massacre in Hells Canyon 7 January 2023
Year of the Rabbit 4721
Spring Fundraiser Banquet Lunch/ Auction 18 FEB, 2023
"Model Letters" and the Audiences of Calligraphy in Early Modern China , 4 March, 2023
Women in the History of Tea in in China, 1 April, 2023
Tea and Wine: A New Look at the Song Dynasty Poetry of Li Qingzhao (李清照), 13 May, 2023
Summer Tour of the Garden of Awakening Orchids: 3 June, 2023
Season 2021 - 2022
>
Quick Preview of Season 2021 - 2022
Season Schedule 2021 - 2022
The Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project, 2 October 2021
Connecting to our Natural World: The Portland Botanical Gardens, 6 November 2021
Lan Su Chinese Garden: The Vision of a Classical Chinese Garden, 4 December 2021
Re-visioning Chinese History, 900-1350: The New Look of Song and Yuan, 8 January, 2022
Chinese New Year 2022/ Year of the Tiger 4720, 5 February, 2022
Auspicious Seals and Chops, 5 February 2022
The Erhu and Erhu Music, 5 March, 2022
Pictorial Naturalism and "Truth": Contextualizing the Eleventh-century Luohan Sculptures of Lingyan Temple in China, 2 April, 2022
Celebrated Stories in Sichuan Shadow Theater,7 May, 2022
The Daode Jing's Forgotten Forebear: The Ancestral Cult 4 June, 2022
2020 - 2021 Season
>
Quick Preview of Season 2020 - 2021
Season Schedule 2020 - 2021
Collecting Under Socialism: Philately in 1950s China, 12 September, 2020
Myriad Treasures: Celebrating the Reinstallation of the Soreng Gallery of Chinese Art Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 3 October, 2020
The Real Mulan? Tales of a Female Rebel in 18th century China 7 November, 2020
Spice it Up! How the Chile Pepper Flavored Chinese Culture 5 December, 2020
A Century of Collecting Chinese Painting at Oberlin College 9 January, 2021
Chinese New Year 2021/ Year of the Ox 4719
Artistic Exchange Between China and Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 6 March, 2021
The Scholar’s Retreat: Loss and Resilience in the Chinese Landscape and Garden 3 April 2021
Simmering, Whisking, Steeping: Methods for Preparing and Consuming Tea in Premodern China
Silk and Sericulture: Beauty Inspired by a Social Contract
2019 - 2020 Season
>
Quick Preview of Season 2019 - 2020
Season Schedule 2019 - 2020
Mawangdui: The Tomb of China’s Sleeping Beauty, 7 December 2019
Field Notes from Sichuan: Learning To Be a Foreigner, 5 October 2019
In Search of Korean Liberation in China, 2 November 2019
From an Architect's Perspective: 3, 5, 7, 9 Column Halls: Status and Hierarchy in a Confucius Society, 7 December 2019
China Under the Covers - A Bookbinder’s Journey to the Roots of Books 11 January, 2020
Lunar New Year Lunch, 1 February, 2020
Early Phonetic Rendering Schemes for Chinese Characters, 7 March 2020
The Garden of Elk Rock at Bishop's Close, 4 April 2020
2018 - 2019 Season
>
Quick Preview of Season 2018 - 2019
Season Schedule 2018 - 2019
Notable Women of Portland, 8 September 2018
Mooncakes: A Hallmark of Tradition of the Mid-Autumn Festival, 6 October 2018
Music: A Universal Language for Healing and Touching the Soul, 3 November 2018
China: In the Pursuit of Happiness, 1 December 2019
Babur's Gardens: An Illustrated Introduction, 5 January 2019
Chinese New Year Lunch 2 February, 2019
Living with Penjing: Three Dimensional Poetry - Mark Vossbrink March 2, 2019
Discovering the Intellectual and Sensory Essences of Chinese Literati Gardens, 6 April 2019
Sino-Japanese Cultural Connections in the Yuan Dynasty, 4 May 2019
2017 - 2018 Season
>
Quick Preview of Season 2017 - 2018
Season Schedule 2017 - 2018
Developing Patronage: Chinese and Asian Pacific Heritage, 9 September 2017
Every Plant Has a Story to Tell: Bamboo, 7 October 2017
Wonders to Enjoy: Chinese Snuff Bottles, 4 November 2017
Sichuan Shadow Theater: Messages from Hell Courts, 2 December 2017
Legacy of the Qing Manchu Culture: The Sibe of Northwest China, 6 January 2018
Chinese New Year Brunch, 3 February 2018
Classical Tradition: Ancient Musical Instruments of China, 3 March 2018
Ancient Traders of the Silk Road: The Uyghur People of Xinjiang, 7 April 2018
"Poetic Exposition on Heaven and Earth": A Third-Century Chinese Verse on How the Cosmos Began, 28 April 2018
Word Play: The Art of Xu Bing, 2 June 2018
2016 - 2017 Season
>
Quick Preview of Season 2016 - 2017
Season Schedule 2016 - 2017
Contemporary Chinese Society: A View from the Films of Zhang Yimou, 6 May 2017
Chinese New Year Brunch, 4 February 2017
The Uyghurs: History of a People at the Center of Asia, Part 1, 4 March 2017
Creating a Tea Aesthetic in Tang Verse, 3 June 2017
2015 - 2016 Season
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Season Schedule 2015 - 2016
Guzheng and Erhu: A Dialog Between the Strings, 2 April 2016
2014 - 2015 Season
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Season Schedule 2014 - 2015
2013 - 2014 Season
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Nurture and Healing:Chinese Medicine for Summer - Dr Elise Wong, 14 June, 2014
2012 - 2013 Season
2011 - 2012 Season
2010 - 2011 Season
2009 - 2010 Season
2008 - 2009 Season
2007 - 2008 Season
2006 - 2007 Season
2005 - 2006 Season
Videos
Partners
Join our Email List/ Contact Us
Volunteer
Zoom!
Stop Asian Hate Resources