The presentation is set to explore topics surrounding how to find a common understanding for others in the aftermath of the presidential election
Ashland.news staff report
“Building Post-Election Common Ground” will be the fourth presentation in its speaker series, The Ashland Sunrise Project (ASP) has announced. The conversation is set for 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, at Carpenter Hall, 44 S. Pioneer, Ashland.
Mike and Emily Green, co-founders of Common Ground Conversations on Race (CGC), Taylor Stewart, founder of the Oregon Remembrance Project, and host Tara Houston, Community and Engagement Manager for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), will take place in the conversation.
The post-election narrative in this nation, regardless of who wins, will be of key importance, organizers say. Political messaging and media play a significant role in the influence of perspectives nationwide.
In the talk, Mike and Emily Green will introduce paradigm-shifting new knowledge and an understanding of racial dynamics in American society today through an informed lens of historical context, according to the announcement. The evening’s conversation will highlight how to build a common ground of understanding.
“Developing an understanding among people who disagree doesn’t mean they will find agreement. Our focus is to establish a common ground of knowledge and understanding, not necessarily agreement,” said Mike Green.
Mike Green is a nationally known cultural economist, author, speaker, and radio host. Emily Green has a background in social work, specializing in wraparound services for families in distress. Mike and Emily are married co-founders of Common Ground Conversations on Race in America (CGC), which provides a trademarked “Conversations Journey” process that has a four-year record of success with institutional and organizational clients, including municipalities, police departments, K-12 school districts and higher education, county library systems, community organizations and evangelical churches.
Ashland Sunrise Project is a truth and reconciliation coalition addressing the Ashland community’s history as a sundown town. A “sundown town” is a town with a history of excluding people of color through discriminatory laws, violence or intimidation (“get out of town by sundown”). Reconciliation includes remembrance (understanding the harm that was caused); repair (putting an end to harm as it continues today); and redemption (creating good from a story of harm).
Ashland Sunrise Project, a part of Oregon Remembrance Project (ORP), aims to help former sundown towns develop new identities as “sunrise communities,” the opposite of a sundown town. Sunrise communities are places in which everyone can feel safe, respected, and can call home.
To register for this free event, click here. For information about Ashland Sunrise Project, click here.
Ashland Sunrise Project is an Ashland Together Initiative in partnership with the Oregon Remembrance Project. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival offered venue support of the event. This program was made possible in part by a grant from Oregon Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Source: The Ashland Sunrise Project news release. Email Ashland.news at news@ashland.news.
