Celebrate & Grow Community in Astoria on May 1!
(All events are free unless donation suggested)
10 am - 6 pm: Youth Art & Poetry Display, "What Community Means to Me," Free for All Market, 1268 Commercial. Drop off artwork in the box at Sleeper Coffee by April 30 or at the Free for All Market on April 25 (10 am - 6 pm)
11 am - 1 pm: Garden Day with Clatsop Country Master Gardeners at the Alderbrook Learning Garden, Alderbrook Park. Anyone is welcome to join Master Gardener volunteers for some garden fun! Help with weeding, composting, and garden preparation to prepare for a community-wide planting day on Saturday, May 16th. Bring your gloves and a beverage or snack. Some tools will be available, but you’re welcome to bring your favorites. Please RSVP so you'll be notified in case of a weather cancellation.
11 am - noon: Sound Baths (Limited seating; registration suggested; Love donation to Consejo Hispano / LCQC); Grateful Rain, 1428 Commercial St. With crystal singing bowls, crystal pyramids, brass zen bowls, rattles, drums and bells, experience a blissful journey into a deep state of meditation and energy balancing.
11 am - 12:30 pm: Radical Parenting: Raising Resilient, Sensitive, Independent Kids; Dry weather: Tapiola Park, meet at covered benches by playground. Rain: Shively Park covered benches. A relaxed conversation (kids welcome, of course) about topics such as aligning our values with our parenting styles, matriarchy, balancing cultivating independence with protection of our children, and more! For community care, please stay home if you or your kids are sick or symptomatic at all. Hosted by Em, Jenny, & Cedar Feldman-Adams.
Noon - 1:30 pm: Brown Bag Lunch Discussion "Strike! Astoria's Labor Legacy and What Comes Next." Chris Lehmann, Washington DC Editor of The Nation and local author and historian Deb Vanasse will explore the region's rich labor legacy and the ongoing work of organizing, with time for questions and discussion. Astoria Library Flag Room.
2 - 3:30 pm: Navigate Your Health Care Options, Astoria Library Flag Room. Build confidence navigating confusing health care options. Bring questions about any health-related issues. Discussion topics chosen by participants. From chronic back pain to diabetes; osteoporosis to the maze of dietary advice. Guarantee: you will learn at least one thing you didn’t know before this gathering.
4 - 5 pm: Sound Baths (Limited seating; registration suggested; Love donation to Consejo Hispano / LCQC); Grateful Rain, 1428 Commercial St. With crystal singing bowls, crystal pyramids, brass zen bowls, rattles, drums and bells, experience a blissful journey into a deep state of meditation and energy balancing.
5 - 6:30 pm: Stitch-in, Garden of the Surging Waves. A time for knitters, crocheters, and other needlecrafters to come together and craft in public. Bring a project and a chair. We are here to share. Beginners welcome!
A note about May Day: Community Resilience Day events
The events listed here are independently organized by community members, businesses, and organizations. North Coast Action is delighted to help spread the word, but the views, opinions, and advice expressed at individual events are those of the organizers and do not necessarily represent the positions of North Coast Action, and vice versa.
The Free for All Market at 1268 Commercial will be an info hub for the day, including a literature rack with information on ongoing community services and resources.
PARTICIPATING BUSINESSES: Closures, donations, signs of support for MAY DAY/Day Without an Immigrant
Blue Scorcher, Xanadu, Feral Flora, Columbia Coffee Roasters, Green Door Cafe, Jupiter's Books, Wild Grocery and Cafe, Cloud and Leaf Bookstore, Basecamp Manzanita, Rising Hearts Studio, North Coast Pinball, Cambium Coffee and Gallery, Purple Cow Toys, Sleeper Coffee, Grateful Rain
