Participants are invited to join us a half hour before and/or after each workshop for snacks and community building time (optional).

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Betty LaDuke is a legendary artist, writer, and educator with a career spanning more than seventy-five years and dozens of countries. Her exhibitions have graced top museums, publications, and permanent collections worldwide.  

In recent years, Betty has been painting turtles in her iconic, soulful style, which represent personal, playful, and political aspects of being, nurtured by and nurturing themes including peace, dreams, protection, and love supreme. In their turtle wisdom, they ask us to consider how to live with each other (in the words of poet Joy Harjo), and what Mary Oliver called “the doorway into thanks, a silence in which another voice may speak.”  

In this So Much Together event, Betty will engage in conversations around her work and various forms of imagination and collaboration, informed by her many adventures. Then, participants will be invited to embody the turtles and interact with each other in a guided exploration that will expand possibilities for how we experience and imagine the personal, playful, and political in our own lives and communities.   

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Venue and workshop details

Mobility access: Leaven Community Center is a wheelchair-accessible venue, with an entrance ramp. The workshop will take place on the ground floor. An ADA-accessible restroom is also located on the ground floor. 

Parking: There is a small parking lot, which includes one accessible parking spot. The parking lot may be full, though there are usually available street parking in the surrounding blocks. ree parking is also available on the surrounding streets. There is a ramp going from the sidewalk to the entrance of the venue. 

Public transit: There are stops for the TriMet bus within two blocks of the venue. There are stops for Lines 72, 8, and 17 within a six-minute walking distance.

Food and drink: Light snacks and beverages (non-alcoholic) will be provided for free.

Please contact r.medina@oregonhumanities if you have specific requests for accommodations or concerns about any aspect of participating in this workshop.