In this edition:

1) Free School Picnic July 15th
2) July Calendar Out
3) Lead a Media Skillshare This Summer

1) Free School Picnic July 15th

We're having a potluck picnic in the park where freeschoolers can gather and meet. That means you're invited! If if you're curious about starting or joining a class, come by and get some questions answered. We may even have some skill-sharing happening! When: Sunday, July 15th, 3-8pm Where: Colonel Summers Park: SE Taylor & SE 17th Ave

2) July Printed Calendar Out

While you can check the calendar anytime on the website, we've printed calendars for the month of July. We'll be postering them all over town in the next few days - get in contact if you'd like to help out. If you'd like your own copy of the calendar, they are now being distributed with the Portland Alliance newspaper, which can be found all over town.

3) Lead a Media Skillshare This Summer

The Portland Grassroots Media Camp is a weekend long event of skills trainings and workshops designed to make media creation and production more accessible to organizers, activists, and anyone who wants to learn. We will build more effective movements by providing media skills like audio production, puppetmaking, and subtilting.

This weekend will be an opportunity for community organizers and activists especially from immigrant communities around Portland to learn new skills, get connected with local alternative media resources, and network with other immigrant, community, and media organizations. Multilingual, multicultural media making will shape the understanding of global diversity in our neighborhoods. Whether you are a media maker born in another country who wants to share skills, or an ally who wants to develop more diverse relationships, or someone who has a story that needs to be told, we want your involvement to create a new kind of education.

The camp will take place in Portland the weekend of August 24th through 26th. Right now, we are looking for workshop facilitators to share media skills (such as stencil making, audio recording, video editing, writing a press release). Workshops will be open to the community and will be free.

Workshops should follow the format below:
• Focus on a single theme or media skill
• Be only 2 hours
• Be hands-on and activity-based, mixing theory and practice
• Be participatory
• Use common language (not technical jargon)
• Draw on the knowledge and skill of the participants
• Focus on beginning level skills, "open to all skill levels"

If you are interested in leading a media skillshare at the Portland Grassroots Media Camp, please contact us.