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Video List
Welcome to our First Saturday PDX growing list of videos; seasons run from September through June - registration is required for each of the free live online events; available on the Upcoming Presentation page. In-Person events may be recorded and available with links to videos on our First Saturday PDX YouTube Channel below:
This season's collection of programs includes an escorted walk through Hoyt Arboretum to view Chinese Species, an examination of The Daily Lives of Women in Shanghai Under the Japanese Occupation, an in person tour of the exhibit Collecting Stories: Chinese Art through the Historians' Lens, a look at "A Brief History of the "Golden Temple” (video available), a discussion on The Chinese Dialect of Xining, Chinese "Paintings of Beautiful Women" in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, and a talk on Late Medieval Chinese Entombed Epitaphs (muzhiming 墓誌銘). We close the season with a conversation with Curtis Chin on his new memoir "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant."
We start this season with a private tour of the works of artist Hung Liu on exhibit at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, and continue with an in situ view of Dr Michael Riley's collection of fine antique Chinese textiles, an update on the prolific art of Xu Bing, a discussion of the Role of Hakka Women as they developed within and outside of China, and a detailed look at the Celestial Bridges of China.
This season involves a trip to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, a comparison of Gidget and Lin Daojing from the 1950's novels, exploring the Central Asian Textiles of the Silk Road, the Role of Women in the the History of Tea in China, the Late Qing Expansion in Sichuan's Tibetan Borderlands, a look at Chinese Calligraphy, and the story of the Massacre at Hell's Canyon.
The season's schedule includes topics of The Portland Botanical Gardens, Ancient Buddhist Sculptures of the Lingyan Temple, The Search for Oregon's Early Chinese Residents, The Vision of a Classical Chinese Garden, The Erhu and Erhu Music, What Came Before the Dao De Ding and Celebrated Stories of Sichuan Shadow Theater.
Our twentieth anniversary season and debut collection of online programs!
Stamp Collecting in 1950's China, The History of the Chile Pepper in China, Tales of a Female Rebel in 18th Century China, The Chinese Textile Collection at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and Historical Tea Preparation and Consumption in China are all part of the season's schedule.
Stamp Collecting in 1950's China, The History of the Chile Pepper in China, Tales of a Female Rebel in 18th Century China, The Chinese Textile Collection at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and Historical Tea Preparation and Consumption in China are all part of the season's schedule.
2019 - 2020 Season
Our program series is supported by Reed College, Northwest China Council, Lan Su Chinese Garden, PSU's IAS, and Portland Chinatown Museum.
All our programs are free and open to the public.
For onsite programming our regular monthly location has an elevator and is mobility friendly. 9:30 - 11:00 am:
Reed College
Biology Building, B19 Auditorium (lower level)
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202
The large East Parking Lot (free) is conveniently located nearby to the Biology Building, adjacent to the neighboring ETC (Educational Technology Center), see campus map here
Public transportation is available, plan your TriMet trip HERE. (The #19 bus stops right on SE Woodstock, at the East Parking entrance to the campus.
We recommend that attendees be vaccinated and boosted, and follow CDC guidelines regarding masking.
All our programs are free and open to the public.
For onsite programming our regular monthly location has an elevator and is mobility friendly. 9:30 - 11:00 am:
Reed College
Biology Building, B19 Auditorium (lower level)
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202
The large East Parking Lot (free) is conveniently located nearby to the Biology Building, adjacent to the neighboring ETC (Educational Technology Center), see campus map here
Public transportation is available, plan your TriMet trip HERE. (The #19 bus stops right on SE Woodstock, at the East Parking entrance to the campus.
We recommend that attendees be vaccinated and boosted, and follow CDC guidelines regarding masking.
