ADVENTURES! for You: Coffee, Improv, Tiny Houses and…
Category: Adventures

New for 2013, TEDxConcordiaUPortland (now known as TEDxMtHood) ADVENTURES! are unique and intimate events, designed to offer our TEDx community unparalleled, behind-the scenes access to the people and places that make the local area so dynamic. ADVENTURES! extend the TEDx phenomenon beyond the single day of the conference, enabling people to participate as we enhance the experience for both speakers and attendees. Read our previous ADVENTURES! post for more about our inspiration.

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All new ADVENTURES! will be announced March 23rd.

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Past ADVENTURES!:

A People’s Choir
Hosted by The Delicious
Saturday, March 9, 2013 from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM (PST)

A People’s Choir is a monthly group sing-a-long hosted by The Delicious, an artist collective based in Portland, Oregon. Every month a theme is chosen and choir members (whoever wants to come) suggest songs via social media that they want to sing. Lyric books are provided. The choir simply sings along to the sound recordings—anything goes!

The choir began in 2011 out of nostalgia for communal singing. The power of singing together was so overwhelming that they just kept singing. Since the first choir, A People’s Choir has hosted choirs at PSU’s Open Engagement, New York’s Art in Odd Places festival, Last Thursdays on Alberta, and monthly at their winter home—The Waypost.

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Tiny House Tour
Hosted by Dee Williams and Portland Alternative Dwellings
Saturday, March 2, 2013 from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (PST)

There’s a lot of chatter about reducing your carbon footprint, living more sustainably and with intention, and for the past year one group of friends has been walking their talk in a brilliant new way. They lovingly call it “POD 49,” and it includes their three homes, the greenbelt between them, and the innovative idea that they’re better together than apart.

Join Dee Williams, a TEDxConcordiaUPortland (now known as TEDxMtHood) 2011 speaker, and Portland Alternative Dwellings (www.PADtinyhouses.com) to tour POD 49, with a focus on:

• Micro Housing—Tour Gina’s little house, offering a palacial 120 square feet of living space. Cute as a button, and not much bigger.
• Green Building—Tour Rita and Joan’s house, remodeled using salvaged and second use materials, energy efficient windows, ‘green’ building materials and a grid-tied solar array. This will be a great way to get new ideas for old house challenges.
• “Communitecture” (community design and integration)—Tour and discuss POD 49′s communal systems, and examine how these systems help create one spot called “HOME” for three separate households. Yes, it is possible to double or in this case, triple, your fun by learning new ways to share space.

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Improvising with Strangers: Playing with hands-on collaboration
Hosted by Gary Hirsch
Saturday, February 23, 2013 from 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM (PST)
Sold Out

Spend the afternoon with TEDxConcordiaUPortland (now known as TEDxMtHood) 2013 speaker Gary Hirsch learning to improvise and co-create with people you probably just met. Improv is not only an entertaining and engaging art form, it also holds best practices for anyone who needs to collaborate better in their work and life, come and play with it. If this idea scares you, then you have an even better reason to show up.

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Coffee from Seed to Cup: Roastery Tour and Coffee Tasting
Hosted by Marcus Young of Central City Concern
Saturday, February 9, 2013, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM (PST)
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Coffee engages our senses and builds community, from the private intimacy of our first morning cup to socially meeting friends for coffee and gathering at coffeehouses. Coffee is also one of the world’s largest industries. Before coffee ever touches our cup it passes through hundreds of hands. Farmers, mill workers, exporters and importers, roasters, and baristas all impact the quality of the cup.

Join Central City Coffee to experience how coffee professionals evaluate coffee quality through cupping. Discover how coffee travels a supply chain more complex than any other food product, and how that complexity makes coffee an ideal agent for social impact in producing countries and specifically in Portland. See the inner operations of a coffee roasting plant and delve into the myriad ways quality is maintained from seed to cup.