Coalition of Communities of Color: Celebrating 20 Years
Description
- Coalition of Communities of Color: Celebrating 20 Years
- Redd East Event Venue, 831 SE Salmon St., Portland, Oregon 97214
- Tuesday, June 7th, 2022 - 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm (program at 7:00 pm)
- Presented by our Legacy Sponsors: OnPoint Community Credit Union and JP Morgan Chase & Co.
- View all our event sponsors here.
- Catering by Miss'ipi Chef plus menu items from Ya Hala Lebanese Cuisine and Magna Kusina
- Full bar including beer donations from Rogue Brewing
- Raffle grand prize: 2 free roundtrip tickets systemwide on Alaska Airlines (no blackout dates, total value: $2,500 - must be ticketed within one year of June 7, 2022)
Summary:
Join us for an in-person celebration of 20 years of advocacy, research, and leadership for racial justice.
This will be our first face-to-face community event in over two years. We’ll have food, drinks, music, images, and stories from the past two decades, speakers and community leaders sharing their reflections, and plenty of time to catch up with each other and connect. This will also be our biggest fundraising event of the year.
Program:
Doors open at 5:30 pm for mingling with a wide selection of appetizers and drinks followed by a set of speakers at 7:00 pm where we will hear from environmental justice leader Anjeanette Brown, CCC co-founder Nichole Maher, and Portland City Commissioner Carmen Rubio alongside our Executive Director Marcus Mundy and Board Chair Tony DeFalco. Guests will be welcome to continue mingling over drinks and hors d'oeuvres until 9:00 pm.
Enjoy food from Miss'ipi Chef, Ya Hala Lebanese Cuisine, and Magna Kusina. Each ticket comes with two drink tickets to our full bar (including non-alcoholic choices), which will feature donated beverages from Rogue Brewing. We will have a raffle with a grand prize of two round-trip Alaska Airlines tickets. We will have a selfie station with costume pieces!
We so hope you will join us and help reflect on our first 20 years while building a strong foundation for the next 20 years of coming together for racial justice. No celebration would be complete without everyone who has come together to make our collective successes a reality.
If you cannot attend in-person, we plan on livestreaming the "program hour" with our featured speakers to our YouTube channel.
COVID-19 Safety Notes:
Since case rates are currently high and Mulntomah County public health officials are currently strongly urging indoor usage of masks, we ask that all guests wear a mask inside the building when not actively eating or drinking. We will provide surgical and KF-94 masks and some rapid tests at the registration table if you need them.
The Redd East is a large space with good ventilation and room to spread out. We will keep the venue's garage-style doors open on two ends of the main room in order to create a cross flow of fresh outdoor air throughout the event, so please plan to bring a light sweater or jacket for when the temperature cools in the evening. There will be space with high-top tables for outdoor mingling/eating/drinking. We are capping attendance at 450 people, which is 67% of the standing-room capacity of the venue.
Every household in the U.S. is eligible to receive 8 additional free at-home COVID-19 rapid tests as of May 17th - order yours at https://www.covid.gov/tests and consider testing yourself prior to arriving at the event. Please stay home if you have a positive test result or are feeling ill. If you have to stay home, you can tune in to watch a livestream of the program hour of the event on our YouTube channel.
Thank you for helping us provide a space for celebration and community while minimizing our risk of spreading COVID-19.
Questions?
Please send any questions or accessibility needs to Damon@CoalitionCommunitiesColor.org. Please also email Damon if you are interested in becoming a sponsor of this event or pledging your donation in advance.