FIRST SATURDAY PDX
  • Spring Fundraiser Banquet Lunch/ Auction 18 FEB, 2023
  • Upcoming Presentation 4 March, 2023
  • Welcome to First Saturday PDX
  • CURRENT 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
    • Spring Fundraiser Banquet Lunch/ Auction 18 FEB, 2023
    • Inscribing Chinese Gardens: The Origins of Shutiaoshi 书条石 4 March, 2023
  • THE FIRST 20 YEARS
  • PAST SEASONS & PROGRAMS
    • Past Seasons & Program Highlights >
      • 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, 2 March 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
        • Welcome to First Saturday PDX
        • 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 >
        • Season Schedule 2015 - 2016
        • Guzheng and Erhu: A Dialog Between the Strings, 2 April 2016
      • 2014 - 2015 Season >
        • Season Schedule 2014 - 2015
      • 2013 - 2014 Season
      • 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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Video List 
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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 YouTube Channel below:
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2022 - 2023  Season
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.
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5 November, 2022 
Girls with Big Ideas:  Gidget and Song of Youth 
Wendy Larson, PhD
Further information here  
Video here
 

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​15 October, 2022
​China’s Last Imperial Frontier:
Late Qing Expansion in Sichuan’s Tibetan Borderlands 

Xiuyu Wang, PhD
Further information here  
Video here

2021 - 2022  Season
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.
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4 June, 2022
The Daode Jing's Forgotten Forebear:  The Ancestral Cult  

Kenneth E Brashier, PhD
Further information here  
Video here

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7 May, 2022
Celebrated Stories in Sichuan Shadow Theater

Mary Hirsch
Further information here        
Video here

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2 April, 2022
Pictorial Naturalism and “Truth”:
Contextualizing the Eleventh-century Luohan Sculptures of Lingyan Temple in China 

Rebecca Bieberly, PhD 
Further information here        
Video here


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5 March, 2022 
The Erhu and Erhu Music
Jerry Lin, PhD
Further information here        
Video here



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5 February, 2022

Auspicious Seals and Chops
Dan Lucas (Lu Kesi)
Further information here        
Video here 

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8 January, 2022
Re-visioning Chinese History, 900-1350: 
The New Look of Song and Yuan 

Linda Walton, PhD
Further information here
Video here

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4 December, 2021
Lan Su Chinese Garden: ​
The Vision of a Classical Chinese Garden

Justin Blackwell, Curator of Horticulture
, Lan Su Chinese Garden
Further information here
Video here



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6 November, 2021 
Connecting to our Natural World: ​
​The Portland Botanical Gardens  

Sean Hogan,
Co-founder & Board President, Portland Botanical Gardens
Kate Bodin, Executive Director, Portland Botanical Gardens 

Further information here
Video here    


2020 - 2021  - 20th Anniversary Season!
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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.
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5 June, 2021
Silk and Sericulture:
​Beauty Inspired by a Social Contract

Ina Asim PhD, Associate Professor, Pre-Modern Chinese History
University of Oregon
Further information here
Video here

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1 May, 2021
Simmering, Whisking, Steeping:
​Methods for Preparing and Consuming Tea in Premodern China

James A. Benn, PhD
Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions, McMaster University 
Director,  McMaster University Centre for Buddhist Studies ​
Further information here
Video here

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3 April, 2021
The Scholar’s Retreat:
Loss and Resilience in the Chinese Landscape and Garden 

Ann Wetherell, PhD
Further information here
Video here

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​6 March, 2021
Artistic Exchange Between China and Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Dawn Odell, PhD, Associate Professor of Art History, Lewis & Clark College
Further information here
Video here

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6 February, 2021
The First Twenty Years of First Saturday PDX
A retrospective of twenty seasons of First Saturday PDX - our history and just a few of our 180 programs!

Further information here
Video here

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6 February, 2021
Welcoming the Year of the Ox, 4719

Join us in a Tour of a Spring Festival Chinese New Year Meal !
Further information here
Video here

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9 January, 2021 
A Century of Collecting Chinese Painting at Oberlin College  
Kevin Greenwood PhD,  Joan L. Danforth Curator of Asian Art at the
​Allen Memorial Art Museum (ANAM) at Oberlin College

Further information here
Video here

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5 December, 2020
Spice it Up! ​How the Chile Pepper Flavored Chinese Culture 
Brian Dott, PhD, ​Associate Professor of History, Whitman College
Further information here
Video here

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7 November, 2020
The Real Mulan? Tales of a Female Rebel in 18th century China
Cecily McCaffrey, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Willamette University  
Further information here

Video here​

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3 October, 2020  
Chinese Art Collection at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art  
​Anne Rose Kitagawa, M.A., Chief Curator of Collections and Asian Art, Director of Academic Programs,  Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon 
Further information here
Video here

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12 September, 2020
Collecting Under Socialism:  Philately in 1950's China 
Wendy Larson, PhD,  University of Oregon 
Further information here 
Video here

2019 - 2020  Season
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7 December, 2019    ​
From an Architect's Perspective:  3, 5, 7, 9 Column Halls: Status and Hierarchy in a Confucius Society 
Kenneth J Diener
Further information here 
Video here

PLEASE REGISTER  on our Upcoming Presentation page to receive online attendance details.
Our program series has support from Portland State University's Institute for Asian Studies, Northwest China Council and Lan Su Chinese Garden.   All 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  (click on address for directions):    
Portland State University, Karl Miller Ctr (KMC),  Room 605
615 SW Harrison St, Portland, OR 97201​


In addition to street parking there are a few nearby covered parking structures available:
Parking Structure 1 - enter parking garage at 1872 SW 6th Ave.
Parking Structure 2 - enter parking garage at 1724 SW Broadway Ave
Shattuck Parking Lot on at SW Broadway Ave at SW College St.
View PSU Parking info here and view PSU Parking Map here 


Excellent MAX and bus transportation is right by the venue; view transit stops here and plan your Trimet trip here.  
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​© 2014 - 2023  First Saturday PDX
  • Spring Fundraiser Banquet Lunch/ Auction 18 FEB, 2023
  • Upcoming Presentation 4 March, 2023
  • Welcome to First Saturday PDX
  • CURRENT 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
    • Spring Fundraiser Banquet Lunch/ Auction 18 FEB, 2023
    • Inscribing Chinese Gardens: The Origins of Shutiaoshi 书条石 4 March, 2023
  • THE FIRST 20 YEARS
  • PAST SEASONS & PROGRAMS
    • Past Seasons & Program Highlights >
      • 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, 2 March 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
        • Welcome to First Saturday PDX
        • 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 >
        • Season Schedule 2015 - 2016
        • Guzheng and Erhu: A Dialog Between the Strings, 2 April 2016
      • 2014 - 2015 Season >
        • Season Schedule 2014 - 2015
      • 2013 - 2014 Season
      • 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
  • Zoom!
  • Stop Asian Hate Resources