Registration: Eventbrite.com

Come meet your neighbors and join the fun at this FREE family event!

Explore our neighborhood on an (almost) 5K walk beginning and ending in the parking lot at Garden Fever. Look for lots of fun activities and hidden treasures along the route!

• We’ll visit the Alameda Monarch Habitat Garden, and Ida Galash, our neighborhood “Butterfly Lady,” will demonstrate how to create your own butterfly garden. Supplies will be available for purchase at Garden Fever.

• Local vendors, including artists Amy Daileda and J. Wertheim, will be on hand selling arts and crafts that celebrate native plants and creatures.

• Volunteers needed! To sign up, go to alamedanewsletter@gmail.com. Sponsored by the Alameda Neighborhood Association

Earthquakes and heat domes and ice storms–oh my! These days, it’s best to be prepared for any kind of emergency. That’s why you’re invited to an Alameda Neighborhood Association event to learn basic emergency preparedness skills. A presentation by the American Red Cross will be followed by Q&A with local Neighborhood Emergency Team (NET) volunteers. For the kids, there will be concurrent, age-appropriate presentations for K-2nd graders and 3rd-5th graders.

Details for this FREE event: 

• 6 p.m. - Join us for free pizza and socialize with neighbors

• 6:45 - 8 p.m. - Emergency preparedness presentation, plus Q & A session with neighborhood experts

Please RSVP to alamedanewsletter@gmail.com by April 17 with the number of adults/children attending, so we can make sure we have plenty of pizza!

Join us at Wilshire Park for a FREE showing of the Disney animated classic Encanto.

Grab a blanket and bring your friends and family!

Co-sponsored by the Beaumont-Wilshire and Alameda Neighborhood Associations and presented by Portland Parks and Recreation

The third part of this lecture series will focus on creating welcoming environments. Learn from Diversity and Equity expert Dr. James Mason —and your neighbors through conversation.

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Limited to 30 people with social distancing

This series involves a didactic, interactive, and experiential personal development activity aimed at preparing people and communities for a more diverse world.  

Participants will: 

1. Explore how implicit bias might be manifested and its potential consequences.

2. Identify one’s biases, as well as one’s cross cultural strengths upon which new strengths and assets may be based.

3. Explore strategies for interrupting bias (e.g., micro-aggression and -insults) in ways that give unwitting offenders an opportunity to grow and reveal to the victims of bias that allies are present.

4.  learn.

5. Discover resources and approaches for ongoing development as it concerns becoming a resource for diversity in each environment or social setting.

The second part of this series concerns what one does in the face or presence of biased talk or behavior.  Thus, invoking the sage admonition:

“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and action of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”  Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail

Socially distanced. Limit of 30 participants. Attend one or all of the series. 

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Outdoor event on 26th between NE Bryce St. and NE Dunkley St.

Bring a Chair. No restrooms are available.

Join Alameda neighbors and diversity & equity trainer, Dr. James Mason, for 3 mini-workshops to address bias and create welcoming spaces!

Participants will: 

1. Explore how implicit bias might be manifested and its potential consequences.

2. Identify one’s biases, as well as one’s cross cultural strengths upon which new strengths and assets may be based.

3. Explore strategies for interrupting bias (e.g., micro-aggression and -insults) in ways that give unwitting offenders an opportunity to grow and reveal to the victims of bias that allies are present.

4.  learn.

5. Discover resources and approaches for ongoing development as it concerns becoming a resource for diversity in each environment or social setting.

Assessing and Interrupting Bias, and Creating Welcoming Environments: A Three-Part Workshop

Aug. 24 and 31 and Sept. 8, 6 - 7:15 p.m.

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Socially distanced. Limit of 30 participants. Attend one or all of the series. 

The Alameda Neighborhood Association is proud to host Dr. James Mason a diversity, equity, and inclusion expert to lead a three-part community discussion on bias and creating welcoming environments. 

As the U.S. moves deeper into the 21st century, people are more likely to encounter greater diversity in terms of neighbors, co-workers, classmates, and others.  In the face of diversity, people often struggle with issues of implicit bias, or attitudes or perceptions (stereotypes) that unwittingly affect our views of and interactions with people at an unconscious level). These biases are deeply embedded in our cultural symbols and institutions.  The first part of this series will focus on identifying our biases in order to promote justice and equity, and improve inter-cultural or -group interactions.

In order to relieve oppression and promote equity and inclusion, well intentioned people being assets for diversity need tools and strategies for gracefully intervening on behalf of diverse and vulnerable peoples to ensure respectful and harmonious cross-cultural interactions.

This series involves a didactic, interactive, and experiential personal development activity aimed at preparing people and communities for a more diverse world.  

Participants will: 

1. Explore how implicit bias might be manifested and its potential consequences.

2. Identify one’s biases, as well as one’s cross cultural strengths upon which new strengths and assets may be based.

3. Explore strategies for interrupting bias (e.g., micro-aggression and -insults) in ways that give unwitting offenders an opportunity to grow and reveal to the victims of bias that allies are present.

4.  learn.

5. Discover resources and approaches for ongoing development as it concerns becoming a resource for diversity in each environment or social setting.

Dates: 

• Monday 8/24 - 6:00 - 7:15 PM

• Monday 8/31 -6:00 - 7:15 PM

• Tuesday 9/8 6:00 -7:15 PM

Location:

Outdoor event on 26th between NE Bryce St. and NE Dunkley St.

Attendance:

We will be limiting attendance to the first 30 people who register

Is getting to know your neighbors one of your New Year’s resolutions?

Come join us and meet some of your Alameda neighbors at the next Monthly Neighborhood Association Meeting! We meet the 2nd Monday of the month and meetings are open to neighbors. Agendas for the meeting are posted on our AlamedaPDX Facebook Page approximately one week in advance.

You are always welcome do drop by!

Have a question or concern you would like to discuss? You can let us know in advance via the Contact/comments form.

Join us for an evening of Pizza with neighbors and learning about Emergency Preparedness. Neighborhood experts will present and answer your questions. Raffle prize is a personal earthquake kit!

At the Fremont United Methodist Church 2620 NE Fremont. Alameda Neighborhood Association event.

RSVP today! Questions? email alamedapdx@gmail.com

Is getting to know your neighbors one of your New Year’s resolutions?

Come join us and meet some of your Alameda neighbors at the next Monthly Neighborhood Association Meeting! We meet the 2nd Monday of the month and meetings are open to neighbors. Agendas for the meeting are posted on our AlamedaPDX Facebook Page approximately one week in advance.

You are always welcome do drop by!

Have a question or concern you would like to discuss? You can let us know in advance via the Contact/comments form.

Stop by the Northeast Sunday Parkways route in September 23 for a full day of fun! The Northeast event will run from 11 am - 4 pm and provide 8 miles of walking, biking and rolling amusement. While you make your way around the Northeast Portland route, don’t forget to stop by Woodlawn, Alberta, and Fernhill Parks where a collection of fun activities, festive music, and delicious food that awaits you. 

https://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/67623

Join neighbors and friends for the annual Alameda Ice Cream Social hosted by the Alameda Neighborhood Association at the Alameda Elementary School Playground. FREE Ice Cream for all! The Alameda NET (neighborhood Emergency Team) will be there with demonstrations and information on disaster preparedness. 

Offered by Alameda historian Dough Decker this walking tour will Learn neighborhood history, architectural styles and the secret stairs. Maybe even learn about your home.

Get tickets! $20 or $12 for Architectural Heritage Center members

Take an enjoyable stroll back through time to examine the events, forces and players that shaped this northeast Portland neighborhood. The walk will trace a portion of the old Broadway Streetcar line as it highlights Alameda’s prolific home builders and architectural styles. The stories you’ll hear will help you better understand the layers of history that give Alameda such distinction.

Join us for our monthly board meeting to discuss neighborhood issues and meet your neighbors. 

Check our Facebook page for a meeting agenda.

Free concert Sunday! Award-winning 2-neck guitarist Mark Koose will be performing July 22 at 4:00 pm at Fremont United Methodist Church 2620 NE Fremont. Mark Kroos plays 2 guitar necks at the same time in a primarily instrumental style characterized by Folk, Celtic and Bluegrass influence with a highly explosive live performance. Mark is the winner of Guitar Player Magazine's 2011 International Competition. Concert is free though donations will be accepted.

And! FUMC has air conditioning...come enjoy the music!

https://youtu.be/CMudYhABjfI

Tired of the "old school" playground at Wilshire Park? Join the Friends of Wilshire Park June 20th as they talk with city officials about possibilities for Bond funds to refresh the children's play area. Your input is needed!

June 20 at Bethany Lutheran Church at 7:00 p.m. The church is located at 4330 NE 37th Ave, Portland, OR 97211, at the northeast corner of Wilshire Park.

Join us for our monthly board meeting to discuss neighborhood issues and meet your neighbors. 

Check our Facebook page for a meeting agenda.