“I’m Fine” and Other Lies from the Worst Year Ever
Event details
May 26, 2021, 7:00-9:00 pm
Online via Zoom
Event description
The COVID pandemic has challenged all of us in unique and unexpected ways. To help tell those stories, the Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative is proud to partner with the Metropolitan Alliance for Common Good (MACG) and Together+Well to share an evening of stories about what life has really been like for some of us in the last year.
This event will showcase three stories from healthcare workers and three stories from the communities they serve with an emphasis on the communities most impacted by COVID. It includes several stories from Latinx performers told in their native language and the entire event will be interpreted live for all to enjoy. Additionally, this particular show will feature opportunities to get involved with local community organizing efforts in Portland focused on addressing local health inequities.
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We’ll be performing live from the Clinton Street Theater and broadcasting via Zoom. Link will arrive via email after you reserve your tickets.
Facilitators
Ben Colburn is a family medicine physician at OHSU and the founder of “The Interstitium,” a narrative medicine performance series designed to raise up underrepresented voices in healthcare dialogues and create community through shared experience. His clinical passions are end of life care, LGBTQ+ health, and Latinx health. His personal interests are mushroom hunting, taking on craft projects he’s not qualified to attempt, and fawning over his COVID kittens Milo and Timothy Chalameow.