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Special Events and Exhibits

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April 2008

Oregon State University:

• January to December 2009 - Geology of Oregon Exhibits
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  • State Capitol Building, Salem
  • For more information go to
    http://oregonstate.edu/events/OR150/geology.html
• Savory Images from the pages of Oregon's Agricultural Progress Magazine. Visit the LaSells Stewart Center to view a traveling photo exhibit from the pages of Oregon's Agricultural Progress Magazine. Or get a sneak peek by visiting Savory Images.
• OSU Alumni Association will lead a day of community service projects in Bend, Portland, Corvallis, Seattle and the San Francisco bay area on May 16. Details are being developed so check back for more information later. If you have an idea for a project in one of these locations please contact Christi Kasten <http://oregonstate.edu/events/OR150/Christi.kasten@oregonstate.edu> .
• The entire season of the Corvallis-OSU symphony Orchestra is reflective of the theme of the Benton County Oregon 150 planning: "e pluribus unum" out of many we are one.....the Oregon story of all its component immigrant groups.  On February 22 join the symphony for its presentation of "All American".
  • May 19 - at 8:00 p.m. Corvallis - OSU Symphony will present "Around the World". Visit the Symphony <http://www.symphony.peak.org/> web site for more details about this concert featuring original compositions from composers in China, Germany and Corvallis and featuring artists from both China and Germany.
• June - Move Out: Assist departing students to donate and recycle their unwanted items.
  • In partnership with Housing and Dining , Allied Waste of Corvallis , and the Benton County Solid Waste Advisory Council, Campus Recycling presents “Move-Out Week” June 9-13 2008. This is an event open to all members of the OSU and Corvallis communities. Volunteers are needed to assist dormitory residents in correctly sorting recyclables, and will receive a brief orientation before their shifts . Campus Recycling is also available with information for students living off-campus, so that they, too, can "sort it out." Please contact Pete Lepre or call 541-737-4019 for more information about how you can be involved in this important event.

Portland State University:

• Oregon display at the campus bookstore highlighting Oregon authors and Oregon products for sale
• Bicycling trip around Portland's historical landmarks (date TBA)
  
• Celebration of Native American narratives, dance and art through the campus Native American Community Center
  
• Art exhibits highlighting Oregon displayed on campus
  
• Community-based learning projects for students/faculty are currently being developed
  
• Earth Day events
  
• Collaborations with the Lincoln Bicentennial (TBA)

University of Oregon:

•  The entire month of February 2009:  The Tracking Oregon's Boundaries -- Maps from 1802 to 1861 - In honor of Oregon's 150th birthday, the University of Oregon presents an exhibit of Pacific Northwest maps created in the nineteenth century during a time when the United States government had an intense interest in the northwest and learned much through exploration, trade and settlement. The earliest map was drawn before Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark on the expedition west. For more information, please click here <http://advancement.uoregon.edu/pga/pdfs/ExhibitCard.pdf> .  The exhibit will be on display in the state capitol building at 900 Court Street NE in Salem, February 2-27, 2009. The capitol is open to the public Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
  
• February 18, 2009: History of Student Living on Campus at the University of Oregon <http://housing.uoregon.edu/news.php?view=950&ref=reshalls&y=2009&m=02> ; 7:30-9:00pm, Ramey Room, Carson Complex.
• April 2009: Rendezvous 2009! The Northwest History and Heritage Extravaganza <http://egov.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/OHC/Conference.shtml>  
  Note: Eliot Fackler, the UO's newest Oregon Heritage Fellow for "Protesting the Industrial Freeway: Neighborhood Activism and Urban Planning in the Interstate 505 Freeway Revolt" will be making his presentation at this conference on April 17, 2009.
• May 14, 2009: University Day. Conceived by UO President Prince Lucien Campbell in 1904, building sidewalks (replacing wooden planks) was an early University Day activity and portions of sidewalks with 'University Day' and dates can be seen on the sidewalks leading to Deady Hall's west facade. Revived in recent years, University Day has become an annual campus-wide beautification event. Last year, more than a thousand students, staff and faculty gathered to plant flowers, spread bark dust and improve the campus environment. University Day has strong roots in community service and solidarity.
• May 21-31, 2009: Symposium on Ecology and Performance 2009 <http://www.uoregon.edu/~ecodrama/proposals/> . Ecology is at the heart of burgeoning creativity and interdisciplinary scholarship across the arts and humanities. This Symposium, together with the concurrent Festival, invites artists, scholars and activists to share their work, ideas, and passions with one another and with the larger community who attend the Festival.
• OREGON MAPS -- A digital online collection
  
  • The University of Oregon Libraries and the Oregon State University Libraries present the Oregon Maps <http://boundless.uoregon.edu/digcol/ormaps/>  online collection in celebration of Oregon's sesquicentennial. Maps are some of the most information-rich documents that we use to communicate to each other. They visually represent not only the physical terrain, but also our impact upon it. As European settlers populated Oregon, Western traditions of cartography came as well. One hundred and fifty years later, the Jeffersonian survey grid is imprinted in everyone's mind as most of Oregon's roads and property boundaries have been drawn on top of our Public Land Survey System.

Western Oregon University

• Sat. January 31. Annual Pow Wow. New PE Gym Free
• Sat. February 28.  Annual Oregon Academy of Science Meeting.
• Sat. March 3. Oregon Geographic Alliance spring conference: “Geography in the Classroom” will highlight Oregon 150