Rise and shine everyone, Give!Guide is finally here!

We’re kicking the 2025 campaign off with a nice little jolt: it’s Big Coffee Day, courtesy of our friends at Nossa Familia.

Every donation of $10+ today (11/1) will be entered to win one of three six-month subscriptions to a delicious coffee of your choice from Nossa Familia.
If you’re 35 and under: A fourth subscription will be offered to anyone age 35 or under who donates $10+ today. That’s four chances to win a coffee subscription today for our younger donors!

Join us for Spooky Spirit Week! Friday is haunt couture flaunt day! From silly to spooky, strut your stuff in costume (please no masks)!

*This spirit week, keep it spooky, not scary! No masks, no gore, and nothing that haunts real life. Let’s keep it fun and friendly!

Join us for our Dia de Los Muertos community gathering honoring the loved ones

we've lost to overdose and beyond. Bring a photo or memento of your loved one

to place on the altar, and connect with others through food, music, and

community.

We will host a 1-hr Harm Reduction Overdose Prevention training (1 CEU) at 5pm

to honor their lives by making sure no one else loses theirs to overdose.

Join us for our Dia de Los Muertos community gathering honoring the loved ones

we've lost to overdose and beyond. Bring a photo or memento of your loved one

to place on the altar, and connect with others through food, music, and

community.

We will host a 1-hr Harm Reduction Overdose Prevention training (1 CEU) at 5pm

to honor their lives by making sure no one else loses theirs to overdose.

Join us for Spooky Spirit Week! Thursday is hair-raising fun day! Funky hair day! The higher the hair, the closer to scare, wild styles welcome!

*This spirit week, keep it spooky, not scary! No masks, no gore, and nothing that haunts real life. Let’s keep it fun and friendly!

Join us for Spooky Spirit Week! Wednesday is Bleak Chic Day! Wednesday’s child might be full of woe, but you are full of fabulous! Show off your gothic glamour today!

*This spirit week, keep it spooky, not scary! No masks, no gore, and nothing that haunts real life. Let’s keep it fun and friendly!

Join us for Spooky Spirit Week! Tuesday is Slay Ghoul Slay Day! Celebrate the diversity and resilience of the LGBTQIA2S+ community with pride colors!

*This spirit week, keep it spooky, not scary! No masks, no gore, and nothing that haunts real life. Let’s keep it fun and friendly!

Join us for Spooky Spirit Week! Monday is PJ’s & Pumpkins: Nothing is spookier than early morning Mondays! Come to Quest in your coziest PJ’s.

*This spirit week, keep it spooky, not scary! No masks, no gore, and nothing that haunts real life. Let’s keep it fun and friendly!

Quest Center's annual Community Day is a family-friendly event that celebrates the collective achievements our community has made to live well. This block-party style event is free to all, to spread awareness of Quest’s services while having some fun in the process! Presented by CareOregon, with additional sponsorship from Health Share of Oregon.

When:
Saturday, October 11th
11 AM -2 PM

Where:
Quest Center Multnomah Parking Lot
3231 SE 50th Ave.
Portland, OR 97206

What:
Enjoy a day of community and fun at Quest Center! You can expect:

Community, Resources, and family-friendly FREE FUN!

🎲Games and activities from each Quest Center Department

💡Hourly trivia with the Glam Lot

🍦Fifty Licks Ice Cream

🍕Fresh-made pizzas

☕Carnelian Coffee and Brew Dr. Kombucha

🌭Hot Dogs & Homemade Sauerkraut with a Sauerkraut demo from Quest’s Nutrition Department

🐐 Baby Goats to pet from Frog Pond Farm

✍️ ACLU Oregon: Learn about the “Equal Rights for All” ballot measure

ℹ️ El Jardin: Spanish-speaking recovery resources

ℹ️ 🌈 Q Center: 2SLGBTQIA+ resources

ℹ️ Resources from Dual Diagnosis Anonymous of Oregon

Quest Center’s Nutrition Coordinator Heidi is an organizer of Fermentation Fest! Check out the details below:

Details:
Thursday, October 9th, 2025 from 6 to 9pm
at Ecotrust's Irving Street Studio in the Pearl
721 NW 9th Ave. Portland, OR

Admission is $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
Children 12 and under attend for free.

Sample fermented foods and beverages, get tips and recipes from
professional and amateur makers. Categories include:
Pickled Vegetables - Kraut - Meat / Fish
Liquid - Dairy - Solid Dairy - Liquid: Non-alcohol / Alcohol - Soy Ferments (Tempeh, Natto, Miso) and Others!

Check out this OPB Think Out Loud interview all about our last 2024 festival and Stinkfest over the years!

Tickets available here!

The Walk for Recovery is Oregon Recovers largest annual fundraiser. Each of the six Walks are designed to raise money, build community power, and promote pride in recovery. 

Quest Center’s FSR, TRI, and LINK participants will be walking here! If you are interested in joining please reach out to your peer.

Join Quest Center’s Team Here!

Quest Center will be walking at this year’s AIDS Walk NW to raise awareness, show support, and help fundraise for Cascade AIDS Project. We would love for you to join us!

Quest Center will be tabling at Hands Across the Bridge this labor day weekend!

“Hands Across the Bridge is a Non-Profit Organization that builds leaders and advocates for the recovery community. In our fight against the stigma of addiction, we will give a voice to people that they may speak out on recovery related issues and share their stories. We will bring together those most affected by the disease of addiction, people in recovery, and their families for the annual event called Hands Across the Bridge.”

Outside In’s Annual Overdose Awareness Day Memorial is being held on Thursday August 28th at 6 pm in the OI courtyard.  Please join us if you would like.

If you have names of people you would like us to remember Here is the link to add names to the list.

Please feel free to share and invite people who you think might want to share this space.

4D Recovery and Clackamas County Alliance are holding an Overdose Awareness Day Resource Fair on August 28th from 11am-2pm.

Services available:

• Naloxone & overdose response training

• Wound care services

• Free Testing - $10 gift cards available

Resources available:

• Treatment providers

• Housing

• Peer mentoring services

• Youth A&D counseling

Make a shirt, sign, or bracelet in memory of those we’ve lost.

11690 SE 82nd Ave.
Happy Valley, OR 97086

Join us for a vibrant and empowering Resource Fair dedicated to supporting the recovery community in Portland, Oregon.

Community resources, networking opportunities, educational materials, free giveaways and refreshments.

“Soul Stroll is an annual event dedicated to promoting health awareness within the African American community.

Our aim is to provide accessible physical activity programs that enhance overall health and well-being, formerly hosted by the African American Health Coalition for 22 years.

We offer evidence-based health education and advocacy, with a strong emphasis on addressing chronic diseases such as diabetes, which disproportionately affect our community. Our primary goal is to prevent and delay the onset of Type 2 Diabetes.“

Stop by Bar Carlo, a Foster area restaurant and community space on Saturday, August 9th between 11am and 3pm and say hi, Quest Center will be tabling for the Foster Area Summer Soiree alongside arts vendor @chaiwallah_pdx and DJ Anjali @anjaliandthekid

Sign up HERE to walk with Quest Center at the 2025 Portland Pride parade! Please RSVP by Wednesday, July 16th.

This year’s theme is “Dream Big” and we are SO excited have MHAAO (Soon to be The Peer Company) walking alongside us in support!

Stop by on the afternoons of 7/8 and 7/15 between 3:30 and 5:00 pm to join us for a Pride Parade crafternoon! Help us craft our dreams into reality for the Pride Parade’s “Dream Big” theme. Together, we’ll craft: paper stars, clouds, rainbows, signs, and more! Get ready to bedazzle and bring the color.

Stop by on the afternoons of 7/8 and 7/15 between 3:30 and 5:00 pm to join us for a Pride Parade crafternoon! Help us craft our dreams into reality for the Pride Parade’s “Dream Big” theme. Together, we’ll craft: paper stars, clouds, rainbows, signs, and more! Get ready to bedazzle and bring the color.

Join us for a special Pride Month edition of Nutrition Night! BBQ, Cupcakes, Photobooth, Petition-signing, Community, Music, and FUN! At Quest Center Multnomah on Thursday, June 26th from 5-7PM.

Open to all Quest Center clients and staff. To bring a guest, please email
nn@quest-center.org with the name of your guest at least 24 hours in advance.

All Quest Center locations will be closed on Thursday, June 19th in observance of Juneteenth. Services will resume as usual on Friday, June 20th.

Check out some upcoming Juneteenth celebrations happening throughout Oregon here!

Share your experiences in Oregon Health Equity Alliance’s Reproductive & Gender Affirming Care Survey. An opportunity to share what has and hasn’t been working and how we take care of us.

More info here

The survey is specifically for:
* QTBIPOC over the age of 18, who
* access Reproductive, Sexual, and/or Gender Affirming Care in the
* tri-county area (Multnomah, Clackamas, Washington)
* Survey respondents will receive a $75 gift card 

On Friday, June 13th, from 6-8pm the FBC will be hosting a survey party at the center and will be inviting our QTBIOC community to join for food and time to complete the survey.

Enjoy food and explore services available in Multnomah County for Substance Use Disorder, Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), Peer Delivered Services, Culturally-Specific Services, Mental Health, Youth Services, Shelter, Housing Resources, Fitness Resources, Reproductive Services, and More!

For questions, contact indigeninity@gmail.com

REPOST FROM TOMORROW THEATER

Event Runtime: 134 min. Language: Japanese

TICKETS $15

Doors 6:30 p.m.; Event 7:00 p.m.
Select Showtime to Purchase Tickets
Tickets sold separately for each screening. 

Click here to learn more about accessibility at the Tomorrow Theater. 

THE EXPERIENCE

It’s a Hayao Miyazaki DOUBLE EXPOSURE at the Tomorrow Theater! Featuring Howl’s Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke (4K restoration), both screenings will have special limited-edition bumper sticker giveaways celebrating the magic of Miyazaki. Tickets sold separately for each screening. 

ON SCREEN: Princess Mononoke

1997. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki . Runtime: 2hr 13min. Rated PG-13.

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.

REPOST FROM ALANO CLUB

Mindfulness helps us develop self-awareness, remain calm in conflict and develop opportunities for authentic communication. In this workshop, you’ll learn about an emerging mindfulness intervention that focuses on self-compassion practices. Learn what the research says about how self compassion builds resilience and emotional well-being and cultivates positive states of mind. The focus of the workshop will be on the science of Mindful Self Compassion and its relationship to mediating the body’s threat defense system along with mindfulness practices and tools designed to help you respond to difficult moments and stress in your life with kindness, care and understanding.

Objectives of the Workshop:

• Understand the benefits of self-compassion

• Improve your ability to stay present during difficult conversations

• Motivate yourself with kindness rather than criticism

• Handle difficult emotions with greater ease

• Cultivate positive states of mind like gratitude, kindness and compassion

No previous experience with mindfulness or meditation is required to attend.

Instructor

Jill Goldsmith, J.D., M.Div., is a mediator, neutral, trainer and coach, consulting with organizations and individuals to develop strategies for resolving difficult situations with clarity, trust and compassion. Jill works with groups, guiding them to foster partnership and collaboration for the teams to move forward productively. Jill is a trained teacher of Germer & Neff’s program, Mindful Self Compassion (MSC), Self Compassion for Health Care Communities (SCHC) (UC San Diego) and of Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) program. Jill is also an ICF Certified Coach and an affiliated teacher with the Right Use of Power Institute. Jill has been a mediator since 1998, attending the University of Washington Mediation training (1998) and Pepperdine’s Mediating the Litigated Case (2025).

This workshop, like all Alano programming, is FREE and open to all.

Repost from the Japanese Gardens

Enjoy a free koto performance by Mitsuki Dazai at 1:15pm at the Cathy Rudd Cultural Corner in the Jordan Schnitzer Japanese Arts Learning Center.

Artist Bio: Mitsuki Dazai

Mitsuki Dazai is a graduate of Tokyo’s Kunitachi College of Music, studied koto with virtuoso Kazue Sawai, and received her koto instruction certificate at Sawai Koto Institute. She moved to Oregon in 2002, served as a guest lecturer, and toured throughout the US, Europe, South America, and Japan.

In 2010, Dazai was featured on Oregon Art Beat and released two CDs — Autumn, Music for Solo Koto (2007) and Far Away…Romances for Koto (2010) with Grammy-nominated composer Michael Hoppe. She also appears on Shanti Samsara: World Music for Environmental Consciousness, produced by Grammy-winning Ricky Kej. In 2016, she performed at the 21C Music Festival in Toronto.

About the Koto

The Koto is a thirteen-string plucked zither introduced to Japan in the 7th century. It has been part of the Gagaku court ensemble for over a thousand years and was popularized in the Edo period (1600-1868). It is now one of Japan’s most prominent musical instruments, with a wide range of techniques and sound textures. Learn more about the Koto.

** Repost from Tomorrow Theater**

Event Runtime: 120 min. Release Year: 2025

TICKETS $15

Doors 3:30 p.m.; Event 4 p.m.
Select Showtime to Purchase Tickets

Click here to learn more about accessibility at the Tomorrow Theater. 

THE EXPERIENCE

Join us for a special Mother’s Day edition of Self-Care Sunday, with our friends from woo-woo! We’ll hold a moment of self-care before a screening of the beautiful film Every Little Thing, which chronicles one woman’s quest to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles. Before the film, join us for a 20-minute Metta Bhavana (roughly translated from Pali to English as “cultivating loving kindness”) meditation.

Join Sunny as she guides us on a 20-min journey of compassion-as-a-way-of-life. Life spins us up, down, forwards, backwards and all around – just like the hummingbird. It’s through our own struggles that we can begin to empathize with others and it’s through awareness of our own suffering that we can take baby steps on the path of liberation for all beings. This practice is accessible to all and will be done mostly in a seated position. No meditation experience necessary.