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Jul 8

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Public Agency of Travel Planning for the Overwhelmed is now opening in Philadelphia! We are setting up a temporary office at @writersroomdrexel for a special 3 day residency. Join us for mock visa interviews, community sourced travel advice, passport making workshop and other essentials of traveling.

Tell your friends in Philly who are dreaming of an escape — Better Call Simeen 📞

6-7:30 PM, July 22-24th
229 N 34th St, Philadelphia PA 19104

#visaservices #internationaltravel #borders #bettercallsimeen #publicagencyoftravelplanningfortheoverwhelmed #ilovetravelling🌎✈️ #philadelphia

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Jun 26

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Yes, you heard that right! We are moving out of the Portland Building and currently looking for new venues for a Pop Up Office!
We are looking for spaces, galleries, offices and any place that’s willing to partner with us to serve the travel enthusiasts of our time!

Send a DM to @loadingwaitt if you have any ideas and proposals!

Public Agency of Travel Planning for the Overwhelmed is a socially engaged art project by Simeen Anjum that navigates the ever shifting bureaucracy around traveling and borders.

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Jun 13

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The Spring 2025 issue of SOFA Journal (Social Forms of Art) is out now!
Click the link in bio to read more. Clara Harlow in conversation with Jorge Lucero, Simeen Anjum with Kristan Kennedy, Nina Vichayapai with Elisheba Johnson, and Lou Blumberg with Lo Moran.

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Jun 13

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The Spring 2025 issue of SOFA Journal (Social Forms of Art) is out now!
Click the link in bio to read more. Dom Toliver in conversation with Xavier Pierce, Sarah Luu with Lewis Alexander Geist, Gwen Hoeffgen with Roberta Hunte, Adela Cardona with Chariti Montez, and Midori Yamanaka with R.Y.

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Jun 2

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“Give Me Shelter” is a community storytelling project about the lived realities of “home” in Portland. Addressing the ongoing housing crisis, we ask: How can we reimagine public spaces to feel more like home, and uphold dignity and care? How can communities come together to build safety, belonging, and “home”?
This project consists of an interactive art installation, public video installation featuring films from @otfpdx , and a public conversation around “home”.
We are also featuring papers, poetry books, and resources from @streetroots
Hope to see you there!!!

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May 31

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Struggling to access a sense of play under the relentless expectations and horrors of capitalism? Scrap your to-do list and clock out with us at Happiest Hour! Experience the board room game where everyone knows your name this Friday, June 6th at 3:45 pm at the Portland Building.

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May 31

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We hope this post finds you well! We just want to circle back on the board room game, Happiest Hour. It’s come to our attention this event is happening at the Portland Building next Friday, June 6th at 3:45 pm. While this event isn’t mandatory per se, your attendance is encouraged and we believe it could be quite effective in building camaraderie amongst colleagues. We are one big family after all! Looking forward, Happiest Hour Committee

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May 31

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Diaspora Kitchen: An exploration on how migration, identity and memory live in what we eat and how. Bring a recipe that reminds you of home- any dish, any origin.

You can find us at the Park Blocks at the lawn facing Shattuck Hall and the Viking Pavillion (which is noted to be 800 SW Hall on maps). See you there! <3 -Sarah Luu

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May 30

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If you’ve been wondering how to evolve and grow in your way in this earth and uncertain times, come write and paint with us with prompts designed by Elders from the Watershed Community that have been through it all.

Reflect on the power of loving from Julia’s prompts and the importance of different perception with Bernadine’s.

An event co-created by the Watershed Community, @domenict_ @gwenhoeffgen and @adelafajury for this years Assembly: a three day event of participatory art free to the public x @pdxartsculture

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May 28

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Join us next Saturday!
Songs Against Dark Times invites you to for a walk in Portland downtown remembering the resistance history of the area and songs that we cherish.

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May 28

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Assembly 2025 Schedule 📆
See you all next week!

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May 25

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Mark your calendars for your chance to get free visa consultation and practice interviews by ‘America’s No.1 Traveling Travel Agent’! Join us on Friday June 6th, 1-2pm at the Portland Building.
#bettercallsimeen #travelagent #visaconsultants #travelnow

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May 23

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May 22

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This Friday, May 23, two graduating members, Midori Yamanaka and Manfred Parrales, will be hosting a book release talk at Bold Coffee and Books, starting at 7 PM!

They’ll be sharing not only about their first-time publishing experiences, but also about their conversations as artistic practice—exploring cultural and language barriers, and how they’ve been navigating them.

We hope you can join us!

Main Photo by @domenict_

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May 21

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🎉 Two graduating members of our MFA in Art and Social Practice program just opened their exhibition last Thursday—and it’s now on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art!

🖼️ Their social practice works are featured in the main floor gallery, where Midori and Manfred’s practices intersect—sparking new forms of collaboration within the space.

📺 The installation will also be activated with a live performance of PDX Hour, a TV-style show by Manfred Panky, on May 298 and June 5 at 4pm. Don’t miss it!

👇 Be sure to check out the BFA student exhibition on the lower level as well.

The show runs through Thursday, June 5—please stop by if you’re in Portland!

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May 13

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Our Own @manfredpunky and @midorisees are graduating and sharing their artistic journey and projects on their Graduate Lectures from 5 pm-8pm on our Assembly Gathering for collaborative artwork.
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Their talk speak to themes of culture, language translation and how we interact as parents, friends and overall humans

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May 13

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Come hang with Simeen and team this Thursday as we think about our relationship to traveling, tourism, borders, migration and the ever shifting bureaucracy of it all.

Thursday, 15th May, 3-5 PM.
The Portland Building

DM @loadingwaitt for RSVP

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May 11

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Not sure how to answer your visa application questions? The Public Agency of Travel Planning for the Overwhelmed is here for you.
✈️ Stay tuned for bookings.
#bettercallsimeen #travelconsultant #international #nowboarding

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May 8

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Planning a vacation? Better double-check if you’re allowed to leave. The Public Agency of Travel Planning for the Overwhelmed is coming to Portland.
Stay tuned for bookings.
#bettercallsimeen #internationaltravel #visaconsultants

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Apr 10

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We also had the chance to visit the school and meet Kai Lumumba Barrow — a member of the Antenna Collective in New Orleans and a founding member of Gallery of the Streets, a national network of artists, activists, and scholars working at the intersection of art, political education, social change, and community engagement. Her talk was incredibly exciting and inspiring.

#Programtrip
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Apr 10

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One of the highlights of our program trip was an Indigenous walking tour by Flowers in the French Quarter. Her guiding was powerful and truly special.

#programtrip #artandsocialpractice

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Apr 3

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Today, we visited the Solitary Gardens and met Jackie Sumell, a multidisciplinary artist and activist whose work challenges the injustices of the American prison industrial complex.

After that, we visited Tulane University, where one of the graduate students, Robin, kindly gave us a tour of the campus!

Our program research trip is just getting started.

#portlandstate #socialpractice #sociallyengagedart #researchtrip

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Apr 2

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We are on the program trip in New Orleans!

#socialpractice #programtrip #neworleans

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Mar 18

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The Winter 2025 issue of SOFA Journal (Social Forms of Art) is out now! This term, many of our interviews explore the worlds we’d rather be in—worlds of care, respect, curiosity, and healing. These are the worlds that honor our pasts, celebrate family traditions, and offer new possibilities. In a time when so many structures around us continue to harm, we turn to artists, chefs, community archivists, friends, soccer team founders, and our fellow classmates—people who have created their own visions of the world, in both small and large ways, and who are helping us all heal and grow.

Click the link in bio to read:
Midori Yamanaka with Dr. Masami Nishishiba

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Mar 14

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It was the last day of our Winter term class! We were lucky to take a group photo with Napoleon Jones-Henderson, KSMoCA’s Winter 2025 Artist in Residence!

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Mar 13

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The Winter 2025 issue of SOFA Journal (Social Forms of Art) is out now! This term, many of our interviews explore the worlds we’d rather be in—worlds of care, respect, curiosity, and healing. These are the worlds that honor our pasts, celebrate family traditions, and offer new possibilities. In a time when so many structures around us continue to harm, we turn to artists, chefs, community archivists, friends, soccer team founders, and our fellow classmates—people who have created their own visions of the world, in both small and large ways, and who are helping us all heal and grow.

Click the link in bio to read: Nina Vichayapai in conversation with Emily Olivia Tyler and Rose Brooks
Midori Yamanaka with Dr. Masami Nishishiba
Lou Blumberg with Carol Zou
Gwen Hoeffgen with Maxx Katz
Dom Toliver with Emily Fitzgerald
Clara Harlow with Caryn Aasness

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Mar 13

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The Winter 2025 issue of SOFA Journal (Social Forms of Art) is out now! This term, many of our interviews explore the worlds we’d rather be in—worlds of care, respect, curiosity, and healing. These are the worlds that honor our pasts, celebrate family traditions, and offer new possibilities. In a time when so many structures around us continue to harm, we turn to artists, chefs, community archivists, friends, soccer team founders, and our fellow classmates—people who have created their own visions of the world, in both small and large ways, and who are helping us all heal and grow.

Click the link in bio to read:

Simeen Anjum in conversation with Ali Cat
Sarah Luu with Richard Văn Lê of Mémoire Cà Phê
Manfred Parrales with William Matheny
Adela Cardona with Dr. Kiara Hill
Rafa Moraga with Edreece Arghandiwal

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Feb 6

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We are inspired by sites, spaces that we inhabit or are forbidden from inhabiting. Because of that, field trips are part of the tools we use in our program and our personal practices. Today we are visiting the @pdxartsculture. In their building renovation, they invited a cohort of indigenous artists to inhabit their halls.

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Feb 3

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Las week one of our very own student Simeen Anjum @loadingwaitt presented her latest curated exhibition about our sense of individual and collective identities, also featuring the work of another one of our cohort, @8loub. Go check it out at @smithunionpsu

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Jan 29

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Jan 26

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This week we had class in the Library to check out the always growing @artandsocialpracticearchive !! Thanks so much Marti for having us! @arborarmor

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Jan 25

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The crew doing our weekly check ins back when the sun was around. Speaking of check ins, how’s everyone doing?