2021 - 2022 Schedule
Online Presentations
Welcome to the continuation of our First Saturday PDX twentieth anniversary season, with our new collection of online programs! The season starts 2 October, 2021 running through 4 June, 2022 - come join us! Registration is required for each event; available on the Upcoming Presentation page.
The Portland Botanical Gardens, Ancient Buddhist Sculptures of China, The Search for Oregon's Early Chinese Residents, The Vision of a Classical Chinese Garden, Songs and Stories of the Erhu, What Came Before the Dao De Ding and Celebrated Stories of Sichuan Shadow Theater are all part of this season's schedule.
The Portland Botanical Gardens, Ancient Buddhist Sculptures of China, The Search for Oregon's Early Chinese Residents, The Vision of a Classical Chinese Garden, Songs and Stories of the Erhu, What Came Before the Dao De Ding and Celebrated Stories of Sichuan Shadow Theater are all part of this season's schedule.
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The Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project: Community Archeology, Public History, and the Search for Oregon's Early Chinese Residents
Chelsea Rose, MA, RPA 2 October, 2021 This talk will focus on the award winning Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project (OCDP), which is a multi-agency collaboration focused on research and education on Chinese heritage across the state. This research has shed light on the lives of Chinese immigrants in rural communities, and their instrumental role in the developing infrastructure and economies in Oregon. Further information and images: https://www.firstsaturdaypdx.org/the-oregon-chinese-diaspora-project-2-october-2021.html |
Connecting to our Natural World: The Portland Botanical Gardens
Sean Hogan, Co-founder & Board President, PBG
Kate Bodin, Executive Director, PBG
6 November, 2021
We explore the potential of the Portland Botanical Gardens in its planning stages. In PBG, visitors will "traverse Oregon" and "walk the world" as they navigate through multiple conservatories and outdoor spaces filled with plants from all over the world, including the Pacific Northwest, lowland tropics, deserts, alpine steppes, and many more regions.
Further information and images:
www.firstsaturdaypdx.org/connecting-to-our-natural-world-the-portland-botanical-gardens-6-november-2021.html
Sean Hogan, Co-founder & Board President, PBG
Kate Bodin, Executive Director, PBG
6 November, 2021
We explore the potential of the Portland Botanical Gardens in its planning stages. In PBG, visitors will "traverse Oregon" and "walk the world" as they navigate through multiple conservatories and outdoor spaces filled with plants from all over the world, including the Pacific Northwest, lowland tropics, deserts, alpine steppes, and many more regions.
Further information and images:
www.firstsaturdaypdx.org/connecting-to-our-natural-world-the-portland-botanical-gardens-6-november-2021.html
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Lan Su Chinese Garden: The Vision of a Classical Chinese Garden
Justin Blackwell, Curator of Horticulture 4 December, 2021 The Curator of Horticulture at Lan Su Chinese Garden, speaks about developing a maintenance strategy for the garden with focus on introducing and structuring maintenance practices, nutrient management, pruning using tradition and art as a guide, penjing, Chinese floral arts, and more. As the garden transitions from a young, new garden to a maturing garden, how will this affect what we do and the future of the plants at Lan Su? |
Re-visioning Chinese History, 900-1350: The New Look of Song and Yuan
Linda Walton Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of History, Portland State University
8 January, 2022
Contributions from archaeology and allied disciplines have dramatically revised our understanding of the traditional dynastic histories of both the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1260-1368). One prominent feature of this re-visioning is the far more influential role of powerful nomadic states and empires in shaping “Chinese” history, a role obscured in the past by reliance on written texts.
Linda Walton Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of History, Portland State University
8 January, 2022
Contributions from archaeology and allied disciplines have dramatically revised our understanding of the traditional dynastic histories of both the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1260-1368). One prominent feature of this re-visioning is the far more influential role of powerful nomadic states and empires in shaping “Chinese” history, a role obscured in the past by reliance on written texts.
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Auspicious Seals and Chops
Dan Lucas 5 February, 2022 In an effort to expand this research, we built a partnership with the Malheur National Forest allowing us to chase the Chinese miners that left Jacksonville following the gold strike on the John Day River in 1862. We also teamed up with the Medford District Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to track down the Chinese Railroad workers that built the Oregon and California Line, and with Oregon State Parks to unearth evidence of the John Day Chinatown that once surrounded the Kam Wah Chung & Co. museum. |
Welcoming the Year of the Tiger 老虎, 4720
First Saturday PDX Tea House
First Saturday PDX Planning Committee
5 February, 2022
We invite you to join First Saturday PDX in our virtual tea house to welcome in the Lunar New Year 4720 with friends and share stories of Chinese New Year Customs, Decor and Food!. Please check here for details.
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Songs and Stories of the Erhu
Jerry Lin 5 March, 2022 For ancient Chinese poets and the pious it was important to know how a word was to be read so it could be chanted aloud, either in verse or prayer. How did the Chinese indicate pronunciations of written words before the modern era of romanization and pronunciation guides? We will take a look at some early pronunciation tools employed to read Chinese characters." |
Ancient Buddhist Sculptures of China
Rebecca Bieberly
Art History
Portland State University
2 April, 2022
This presentation explores the ways that issues of masculinity, taste, landed-ness, and commerce coalesce in the art collecting and display practices of an eighteenth-century Dutch immigrant to the early United States, Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest. Amassed in Guangzhou, presented in Philadelphia, and finally sold at a London auction in 1799, van Braam’s collection of Chinese art had long been thought lost.
Rebecca Bieberly
Art History
Portland State University
2 April, 2022
This presentation explores the ways that issues of masculinity, taste, landed-ness, and commerce coalesce in the art collecting and display practices of an eighteenth-century Dutch immigrant to the early United States, Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest. Amassed in Guangzhou, presented in Philadelphia, and finally sold at a London auction in 1799, van Braam’s collection of Chinese art had long been thought lost.
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Celebrated Stories in Sichuan Shadow Theater
Mary Hirsch 7 May, 2022 We will learn how tales of injustice, retribution, and reunion resonated widely in traditional China have been adapted into our modern age. Through explorations of plots and characterization we will consider what made these dramas so compelling in the repertoire of Sichuan shadow theater. |
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What Came Before the Dao De Jing?
Ken Brashier 4 June, 2022 While there are literally thousands of translations of the Dao De Jing and multiple opinions of what the Dao is, Dr. Brashier will take us on an exploratory journey to look at the roots of the Dao and maintain that it arose from the earlier assumptions surrounding the ancestral cult of China. |
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Our instructive program series has been developed with support by PSU’s Institute for Asian Studies, Northwest China Council and Lan Su Chinese Garden. It is free and open to the public.
Although we are currently in an online format, our regular monthly location (wheelchair friendly) is at the address below, click on it for directions :
Portland State University, Academic & Student Recreation Ctr (ASRC), Room 230
1800 SW 6th Ave, Portland OR 97201
Excellent MAX and bus transportation is right by the venue; plan your Trimet trip HERE. There is also a nearby parking structure at SW 6th and Harrison with an entrance on 6th Avenue is also available.
View PSU Parking info:
https://www.pdx.edu/transportation/hourly-visitor-parking
Although we are currently in an online format, our regular monthly location (wheelchair friendly) is at the address below, click on it for directions :
Portland State University, Academic & Student Recreation Ctr (ASRC), Room 230
1800 SW 6th Ave, Portland OR 97201
Excellent MAX and bus transportation is right by the venue; plan your Trimet trip HERE. There is also a nearby parking structure at SW 6th and Harrison with an entrance on 6th Avenue is also available.
View PSU Parking info:
https://www.pdx.edu/transportation/hourly-visitor-parking
