Central Oregon Community College (COCC) is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a lineup of free activities for the community throughout May. Organized by the college’s department of diversity and inclusion, the events include a film, a virtual book group and a community panel discussion. For complete details, and to register and receive the event links, visit cocc.edu/multicultural.
First in the program’s lineup is a panel discussion on current issues facing Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, hosted by the Asian and Pacific Islander Collective at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 2, at the Bend campus’s Coats Campus Center, with a livestreaming option. For more information, contact apicdeschutes@gmail.com.
A series of virtual book discussions focused on the memoir “Crying in H Mart” by Michelle Zauner, a New York Times bestseller that chronicles growing up Asian American in Eugene, takes place on Tuesdays from 4-5 p.m. beginning May 9. Register by emailing odi@cocc.edu.
The film “Broker,” a drama set in South Korea about baby boxes and families, will screen at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 25, in the Hitchcock Auditorium of Pioneer Hall on the Bend campus.
