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1. Learn about the history of the Black Cultural Center at the University of Oregon
In 2015, the Black Student Task Force on the University of Oregon campus gave the administration a list of 12 demands. The group wanted changes that would better reflect an environment that was safe and accepting of Black students, and that worked toward the UO’s stated mission of promoting equity, diversity and inclusion.
Some of those demands were never met. But one that was met four years later brings a significant change to campus.
In 2019, history was made at the UO when the long-awaited Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center opened to cheers of the students who had long fought for it.
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7 Lane County nonprofit arts organizations receive Arts Build Communities grants
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The Oregon Arts Commission awarded $180,000 to 40 projects through its 2021 Arts Build Communities grant program. The program targets underserved Oregon audiences by using the arts to address community needs through geographic impact and arts access.
“Local citizens employ creative thinking and collective response to identify a local need and provide an arts-based solution,” Arts Commission Vice Chair and lead panelist Jenny Green said in a statement.
For instance, Eugene schools haven t maintained an instrument program for many years. For the past 20 years, though, Eugene-Springfield Youth Orchestras has provided a foundation for youngsters through its String Academy 1. Its $5,874 ABC Grant will help provide free and minimal-cost online beginning strings instruction for 125 Eugene third, fourth and fifth graders, according to ESYO executive director Holly Spencer.
A Critical Conversation exhibit uses art to impel consideration in Eugene-Springfield
A synonym for propaganda is information. Another synonym for propaganda is disinformation. It’s all in how people process this data.
“Because propaganda tends to illustrate a viewpoint, it evokes emotions and some type of reaction,” filmmaker Gregory S. Black said. ”That s what draws me to create: the ability to get emotions or get people connected.”
Toward this end, Black co-organized “A Critical Conversation,” an exhibition that offers a subjective artistic perspective to spark dialogue. In the show, Black and 10 additional artists make their statement on the intersection of art, race and privilege at home and in the wider culture. A short film from Black will join in-gallery printmaking performances, paintings, panel discussions and selected poetry intend as an anti-racist message in spurring commentary and questioning race at Eugene Contemporary Art s ANTI-AESTHETIC a
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