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- OCTOBER DIM SUM/ YUM CHA BRUNCH, 12 October, 2024
- Season 2024 - 2025
- DIM SUM/ YUM CHA BRUNCH, 12 October, 2024
- About First Saturday PDX
- THE FIRST 20 YEARS
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PAST SEASONS & PROGRAMS
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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
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Season 2022 - 2023
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- 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
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Season 2021 - 2022
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- 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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- 2013 - 2014 Season >
- 2012 - 2013 Season
- 2011 - 2012 Season
- 2010 - 2011 Season
- 2009 - 2010 Season
- 2008 - 2009 Season
- 2007 - 2008 Season
- 2006 - 2007 Season
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- OCTOBER DIM SUM/ YUM CHA BRUNCH, 12 October, 2024
- Season 2024 - 2025
- DIM SUM/ YUM CHA BRUNCH, 12 October, 2024
- 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 >
- 2014 - 2015 Season >
- 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
-
SEASON 2023 - 2024
>
-
Past Seasons & Program Highlights
>
- Videos
- Partners
- Join our Email List/ Contact Us
- Volunteer
- Zoom!
- Stop Asian Hate Resources