District 2 Town Hall with Councilor Kanal
Join City Councilor Sameer Kanal for a conversation about the Lloyd Center, housing, and other issues that are on North Portlanders' minds. Friday, December 19 from 5:30-7:00 p.m. at AfroVillage on the first floor of the Lloyd Center.
Wellness through Mushrooms - Session 3: Reishi Tea & Decoction: Brewing for Immunity and Balance
Reishi Tea & Decoction: Brewing for Immunity and Balance
Featured Mushroom: Reishi
This session highlights the powerful reishi mushroom—known as the “mushroom of immortality.”
Learn about its history, benefits, and where to find it, then dive into how to make a reishi tea and decoction to support your immune system and overall balance.
Talk Crypto PDX
Get ready for Talk Crypto PDX #3 at Lloyd Center-
where pizza, blockchain basics, and good vibes collide! Whether you're crypto-curious or already down the rabbit hole, this is your chance to dive into Web3, NFTs, metaverses, and all things digital revolution.
Bloom After Dark: Winter Resilience Edition
We’re excited to invite community partners, neighbors, and supporters to Bloom After Dark: Winter Resilience Edition, a Black Friday evening dedicated to connection, collaboration, and collective care.
Hosted by AfroVillage PDX in partnership with Play Grow Learn, this event features a bonfire networking lounge, smoked salmon and local eats, and warm herbal drinks. We’ll also be activating mutual aid to support community members through the winter season.
If you’re able, please bring shelf-stable food, gloves, blankets, or garden goods to contribute.
Friday, November 28th
6–10 PM • Play Grow Learn Farm • 13949 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97233
Parking in Farm lot is limited, and you may need to park imn the neighborhood.
This is a great opportunity to build relationships across the Black and Brown agricultural and environmental community, support winter resilience efforts, and strengthen local networks.
You can RSVP HERE!
We hope to see you there.
Village Lab Salon - Radical Parenting with Jamila Wilson
Utilizing neuroscience, human brain development, somatic movement, breath awareness, and indigenous and cultural practices to enhance our skills of parenting children and reparenting ourselves.
Annual Thanksgiving Food Box Giveaway
Gathering around the table matters — and everyone deserves a full plate this season.
We’re partnering with community at POWERHOUSE TEMPLE CHURCH to make sure families have what they need for Thanksgiving.
If you or someone you know could use a little support, we’ve got you. Call to reserve a box, Monday – Friday (9am–6pm).
Leave your name and contact — space is limited!
AfroVillage Happy Hour at Checkered Flag
Every 3rd Thursday of the month join us for a drink or two with us! All proceeds go to AfroVillage!
Wellness Through Mushrooms - Session 2: Cooking Mushrooms the Right Way: Taste Profiles & Pairings
Cooking Mushrooms the Right Way: Taste Profiles & Pairings
Featured Focus: Culinary Techniques
Wellness Through Mushrooms: A Six-Part Series with Afro-Village & Pharm to Body. Session 1: Benefits of Mushrooms & Making Shelf-Stable Mushrooms
Wellness Through Mushrooms: A Six-Part Series with Afro-Village & Pharm to Body
Donor Appreciation Dinner
This dinner and celebration for everyone who has supported and shown up for AfroVillage over the last few years. This is our THANK YOU as we begin to close out the year. RSVP HERE!
Innovative Lab Family Night
Join us for an evening of exploration, connection, and creativity! This family-friendly night invites Black families to discover the science within our food, our healing traditions, and our shared cultural legacy.
Through hands-on stations, storytelling, and experiments, families will learn how food is more than nourishment—it’s innovation, wellness, and history in action. Together, we’ll explore how our ancestral knowledge connects to modern science, from herbs and healing to energy and art.
RSVP HERE: Eventbrite
Black Community Science Night
An evening at OMSI to celebrate the local Black community
Join neighbors and friends at OMSI for the fourth-annual Black Community Science Night, where visitors of all ages can explore the museum after hours while also interacting with hands-on science demonstrations, local vendors and educators, and cultural entertainment. The evening is in celebration of the local Black community, though all are welcome!
OMSI Members receive a 15% discount
Buy Tickets Here!
Black Community Science Night General Admission
$10 Adults, $8 Youth/Seniors | 15% OMSI member discount
Includes access to OMSI’s featured exhibit hall, turbine hall, and all activities, performances, Planetarium shows, and vendors taking part in the event.
Featured Exhibits
Dive back in time to explore what lurked beneath the surface in Monsters of the Abyss: Aquatic Predators Past + Present, an immersive experience for all ages. Through fossils, daily programming, and live animals, you can witness the rise and fall of Earth’s most awe-inspiring aquatic creatures and their present-day descendants.
Attractions
Vendors | See below for a full list of community vendors that will be tabling around the museum.
Science Demos | See below for the interactive science experiments!
Performances | Check out the Turbine Hall Stage for cultural performances.
OMSI Photo Booth | Take a photo to commemorate your time at the museum and send it to your friends!
Science Demonstrations
Playing with Polymers | Bettye Greene was a researcher at Dow Chemical. Walter Hawkins was a scientist at Bell Laboratories. Both were chemists that focused on polymers. Let’s dive in and learn about what those are.
What Color Do You See? | Patricia Bath was an ophthalmologist that studied the human eye and vision. Come explore vision by learning about persistence and color.
Community Vendors
Dana Thompson Memorial Fund of Awesome
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Portland Harbor Community Coalition
The AfroFuturism Oasis: Empowering Our Futures
This event will spotlight the AfroFuturism Oasis project — an innovative, healing-centered community space in North Portland that retrofits a retiring MAX train into a sustainable hub for rest, wellness, co-working, and resilience.
AfroVillage PDX is a grassroots movement led by activist Laquida Landford (“Q”) and dedicated to supporting Black women, people of the African Diaspora, and those impacted by systems of oppression. Through creative, community-based solutions, AfroVillage addresses barriers to housing, economic opportunity, and access to care — all while centering sustainability, cultural expression, and resilience.
Proceeds will directly support AfroVillage’s AfroFuturism Oasis project, community wellness kits, public Wi-Fi expansion in Old Town, and the broader effort to co-create an equitable and sustainable Portland.
Ticket prices are on a sliding scale, please select the price you find most appropriate.
Support the AfroVillage Movement here.
This Event includes a raffle to help fundraise and here are the items that will be raffled off:
Hopscotch art exhibit - 4 adult general admission Hopscotch tickets
Dobbes Estate Winery - Tasting and food pairing for 4
Willamette Valley Vineyards - Private Winery Tour & Tasting for up to 8 guests
Dove Vivi - $35 gift card
Studio One Theaters - 10 movie passes (Value $150)
Domaine Serene - Tasting at The Domaine Serene Wine Lounge Portland
¿Por Qué No? - $100 gift card
Peak Tours and Transit - 3 hour tour for two people
OMSI - 4 General Admission Passes
Portland Timbers - Tickets
Westward Whiskey - Westward Whiskey distillery tour and tasting certificate: 4 people
Wild Roots Vodka - Cascade Wine & Spirits Trio Wine - Chardonnay, Rosé and Pinot Noir
Modo Yoga Portland - 5 class card $140
Wonder Ballroom - Two Vouchers for show tickets
Thrift Exchange
Join us for an afternoon of exchanging favorite clothes, sharing food, and finding new community members to connect with!
Village Flow
The Village will be open each Tuesday this month for folks to come hang out, work, snack, create, and hopefully more snacks!
The session hours will be between 12p and 4:30 pm!
#coworkingspace #healingvibrations #bipocmakers #afrovillagepdx
— at Lloyd Center.
Village Flow
The Village will be open each Tuesday this month for folks to come hang out, work, snack, create, and hopefully more snacks!
The session hours will be between 12p and 4:30 pm!
#coworkingspace #healingvibrations #bipocmakers #afrovillagepdx
— at Lloyd Center.
Village Flow
The Village will be open each Tuesday this month for folks to come hang out, work, snack, create, and hopefully more snacks!
The session hours will be between 12p and 4:30 pm!
#coworkingspace #healingvibrations #bipocmakers #afrovillagepdx
— at Lloyd Center.
AMPLIFY PDX: Community Resource Block Party & Fundraiser
AMPLIFY PDX is a community resource block party and fundraiser featuring more than 20 of Portland’s most visionary community groups and nonprofit organizations! A celebration of collective resilience and a call to action in support of Portland’s cultural workers, justice organizers, and community-builders. Connect with organizations working across a wide range of issues including racial justice, immigrant rights, youth empowerment, creative economy, cultural sovereignty, and gender liberation.
Join us at Open Signal and move into action!
Sliding scale tickets start at $20, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds will be shared between the collective of organizations.
Block Party Highlights:
Amazing lineup of live music, spoken word, and storytelling
Food and beverages from local Black, Brown, and Indigenous owned businesses
Nonprofit showcase to discover grassroots organizations on the frontlines of social justice in Portland
Kids Corner: fun for the whole family with games, activities, and entertainment
Teach-ins and presentations about advocacy and social justice
Raffles and prize giveaways
Live podcast tapings
And other fun activities!
Become part of our movement to joyfully reclaim space and demonstrate radical solidarity in the face of our current realities threatened by systemic oppression. Together, we’ll increase our visibility, raise vital funds, and amplify our vision of a just and equitable Portland.
We've set an ambitious fundraising goal of $15,000 and are accepting pledges of support from local businesses. Interested sponsors can contact the organizers at collaborativefundraiserspdx@gmail.com.
Let’s celebrate community and build collective power. See you August 9th!
Get tickets today: bit.ly/amplifypdx
Questions? Email us at: collaborativefundraiserspdx@gmail.com
Village Flow
The Village will be open each Tuesday this month for folks to come hang out, work, snack, create, and hopefully more snacks!
The session hours will be between 12p and 4:30 pm!
#coworkingspace #healingvibrations #bipocmakers #afrovillagepdx
— at Lloyd Center.
Launch of the Village Bodega
Starting this upcoming Monday, June 23rd, the CSA bodega will be open! It’ll happen every Monday between 2-4p until October.
The Bodega is in our Wellness space called the Village.