Music and Movement in Mandarin
2026-08-03 10:30 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Lake Oswego Library, 706 4th St., Lake Oswego, OR, 97034, United States
This event repeats every week on Monday.

Join Sharon Gan, founder of Heart Strings Mandarin, for a program specially designed for young learners. We will sing, move, play instruments, and tell stories. We welcome all levels of Mandarin fluency from absolute beginners to native Mandarin speakers. Recommended for ages 2-5 years. Space is limited and available on a first-come basis.
欢迎参加心弦中文的中文音乐律动课。
Sharon老师会和小朋友一起唱歌，跳舞，玩乐器，说故事，度过充实的三十分钟。
本课程适合二到五岁的小朋友，各种语言程度都可以参加。
名额有限，请速报名！
This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Lake Oswego Public Library and admission is free. The Lake Oswego Public Library is located at 706 Fourth Street, Lake Oswego. For more information, contact the Children’s desk at 503-697-6580 or visit the Library’s website at www.lopl.org/kids.

See Jane Run: An Indo Story
2026-08-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State Street, Lake Oswego, OR, 97034, United States
Dr. Jane Vogel Mantiri is a social justice activist, retired child trauma psychologist, and professional actor living in Portland, Oregon. Jane embodies the immigrant success story and the fulfillment of her father’s all-American dream. But Jane’s life has always been colored by her aunt’s brutal murder during the fight for Indonesian Independence after WWII. Her mixed-race Indo parents were forced to flee their motherland, clutching their baby girl. On his death bed, believing Jane was his beloved sister, her father implored her, “Run!”
Now Jane is sharing her family’s story that had been sealed in silence, shame, and assimilation. The same urge to cook nasi kuning and lempers inspired a journey across the Pacific Ocean to reconnect with family and lay flowers on her aunt’s grave. This Indonesian pilgrimage winds through a cousin’s living room in Jakarta, a university classroom in Yogyakarta, and a cemetery in Surabaya which holds the “welcome home” Jane never realized she needed on her way to defining both her family’s legacy and her own.
