PSU Art and Social Practice presents their annual Assembly. This year Assembly activates downtown after a kickoff at King School in NE Portland.
Thursday
KSMoCA Artist Talk and Exhibition Opening: Xavier Pierce, a local artist and teacher, collaborated with his students on art projects. Xavier Pierce and his first-grade class at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Museum of Contemporary Art 10AM-11:30 Free
The PDX Hour: Conversations as Social Practice: Manfred Parrales at PSU in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 4PM-5 Free
Friday - All at the Portland Building 1122 SW 5th
Permission to Leave: Simeen Anjum presents an interactive, fictional travel consultancy where participants apply for an exit visa from their own country. 1PM-2 Free
In Our Ways: Dom Toliver, Gwen Hoeffgen, Adela Cardona, and the Watershed Community 2:15PM-3:15 Free
Happiest Hour: Clara Harlow 3:45PM-4:45 Free
Art+Social Practice Graduate Lectures: Midori Yamanaka and Manfred Parrales 5PM-8 Free
Saturday
Songs Against Dark Times: PDX Edition: By Lou Blumberg and Simeen Anjum. Participants will sing protest songs while walking through downtown Portland, stopping at historical protest sites. Progressing from Pioneer Square and ending at PSU Smith Union 10AM-11 Free
Diaspora Kitchen: Sarah Luu. Participants share family recipes for a collective cookbook. At 800 SW Hall St, 11:30AM-12:30PM Free
At 827 SW Columbia, in the South Park Blocks at the tail of the farmers' market
Give Me Shelter: Gwen Hoeffgen and Dom Toliver, 1PM-2:00 Free
Monument Speed Dating: Nina Vichayapai, 2:15PM-3:15 Free