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  • History Pub: Trees, Landscapes, Climate, and What Comes Next

    McMenamins' Kennedy School Theater 5736 NE 33rd Ave., Portland, OR, United States
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    As we endure another season of heat waves and catastrophic wildfires, Vivek Shandas and Joshua Howe will discuss the historic and contemporary relationships among Oregon’s trees, rural and urban forests, and climate change.   Tickets are available here for purchase ($5) or at the door ($6).   Oregon’s landscapes have been shaped by forces including […]

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    $5

  • Artist Talk: Tree People

    Mt. Hood Room, Discovery Museum at the World Forestry Center 4033 SW Canyon Road, Portland, OR, United States
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    Tree People: Artist Talk with Finnish Photographers Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo. Cost: Free, in support of First Friday! Seating is limited, RSVP for a free ticket here. Doors: 6:00PM  Optional Gallery Tour: 6:30PM  Artist talk: 7:00PM  Calling in from Finland, Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo, the artists behind World Forestry Center’s featured art exhibition Tree […]

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    Free

  • Land of The Lichen: Presented by Science Friday and World Forestry Center

    Miller Hall at the World Forestry Center
    Adult

    Portland, Science Friday has really taken a lichen to you. That’s why Ira Flatow is coming to the World Forestry Center for a day full of the fuzzy growths on trees, roofs and gravestones. Join Science Friday and the World Forestry Center as we highlight these special symbiotic organisms! Meet experts in the forests, hear […]

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    $45

  • History Pub: The Past, Present and Future of Indigenous Fire Knowledge

    McMenamins' Kennedy School Theater 5736 NE 33rd Ave., Portland, OR, United States
    Adult

    Since time immemorial, Indigenous people in the Pacific Northwest have been tending to the land with fire. Indigenous ways of knowing and understanding a place come from generations of careful exploration, experimentation, and observation. In recent centuries, non-Native ideas about fire and its relationships to land and people have dominated management policies and practices. As […]

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    $5

  • Artist Talk: Following Fire and Fire Maps

    Discovery Museum Gallery 4033 SW Canyon Rd., Portland, OR, United States
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    Please RSVP for Free Ticket Doors and Gallery Tour: 6:00PM Artist Talk: 6:30PM Cost: Free, RSVP required Join us in the Discovery Museum’s art gallery for a behind the scenes conversation with the creators of World Forestry Center’s featured temporary exhibitions. Following Fire, A Resilient Forest / An Uncertain Future by photographer David Paul Bayles and disturbance ecologist Frederick Swanson, studies […]

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    Free