Join us for the launch of a powerful photovoice project created winter term in a Black Studies course taught at Oregon State Penitentiary.
The students engaged deeply with Portland's history around race, space, and power. They chose sites around Portland that were meaningful to them, and students from the outside took photos of them. From those photos, the OSP students created moving narratives and poems.
We will have the photos and writings displayed, as well as having readings by instructors and students. We will have printed copies of their work for attendees to take with them, and a website link where all of their work can be explored.
Black Studies has been teaching courses at OSP for a year, with this cohort of students completing the requirements for a Black Studies certificate already, on their path toward a BA.
The event:
Memory and Place in Black Portland: A Photovoice Project
Tuesday, May 20th, 2-4 pm
At Pan African Commons
Smith Memorial Student Union, rm. 236
1825 SW Broadway
Virtual at https://pdx.zoom.us/j/84543020883
Free and open to the public
Refreshments served
Presented by the Center for Black Studies; the Black Studies Department; the Center for Urban Studies; Pan-African Commons; Imagine Black Futures.