HERE || Humboldt
by the Black Life Experiential Research Group
April 4 – 25, 2019
Social Emergency Response Center:
Thursday April 4, 2019 @ 12-7pm
Friday April 5, 2019 @ 12-7pm
Saturday April 6, 2019 by invitation only*
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 13th @ 2 – 4pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Friday 12 – 7, Saturday 12 – 5
Paragon Arts Gallery at PCC Cascade presents HERE || Humboldt by Black Life Experiential Research Group. Please join us for our Social Emergency Response Center events Thursday – Friday, April 4 – 5, and opening reception on Saturday, April 13th at 2 – 4pm. All events are free and open to the public.
In HERE || Humboldt, Lisa K. Bates and Sharita Towne, also known as the Black Life Experiential Research Group (BLERG), present research based art and activism from the past year as Artists in Residence for the Humboldt neighborhood. This work centers Black life of the past, present and future as integral to the community’s fabric.
BLERG worked with students and faculty at Jefferson High School, local organizations, neighbors, and local artists. We invite the public to take part through the Social Emergency Response Center in the gallery. The SERC is a space for collective information-sharing, idea-generating, and responding creatively to the ruptures in our community. It is a space of radical welcoming and healing. Neighbors will be able to participate, and later, to view the materials created during the SERC.
Public Programming:
Social Emergency Response Center
Thursday, April 4, 12 – 9pm
Friday, April 5, 12 – 7pm
Saturday, April 6 (Gallery closed for invitation-only event)
The SERC is a space for collective information-sharing, idea-generating, and responding creatively to the ruptures in our community. It is a space of radical welcoming and healing. When you visit, you can record your stories of Black family and community in the StreamPDX Airstream trailer studio; see art and activism by Jeff HS students; and make art and share your ideas about how Black people and community can thrive.
Black Place: Community Memory and Conversation at North Portland library
Tuesday, April 9th, 6 – 7:30pm
Our Black family photographs help us to remember not only our own stories, but those of our community and its history in Portland. We come together to learn and talk about Black Portland’s past and present, by looking at photos, videos, and listening to stories that have been collected, and think about how we might save these materials for our community. Join Humboldt neighborhood artists-in-residence the Black Life Experiential Research Group, along with Black community photographers, for conversation about photos, memory-keeping, and the meaning of Black neighborhood history in our changing city. Bring your favorite pictures too!
Opening Reception & Black Life Sentinel Issue #2 Release
Saturday, April 13, 2 – 4pm
The Black Life Sentinel is a community news project of BLERG with the Portland African-American Leadership Forum that shares news and voices from the Black community. The paper brings visibility to a long history of Black organizing and shows how through activism, we make new possibilities. Issue 2 will focus on public education.
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