Imagining modern intersectional Asian American communities, neighborhoods, and districts.

Legendary Makers Market

This has become our flagship event. It is a culmination of all preceding events rolled into one. It features a night market and intentionally includes other mediums for storytelling. These include art workshops, film screenings, mixers, wellness, performances, and more.

Past Events & Programs

Through intentional collaborations, we explore the space-related needs of our Asian American community. Each one focuses on a specific interest, industry, community, culture/ethnic background, or localization.

This allows us to think broadly and deeply as we make a case for acquiring physical spaces in the future. Our goal is to create opportunities for a more connected community, introductory points, and upward mobility. As well as, focal points for joint community investment.

If you would like to collaborate with us please send an email to asianamericantown@gmail.com.

This is also a self-funded project and has taken zero revenue from any of the events and programs to date. There has been occasional compensation for expenses incurred through donations. We have been able to achieve an impact level that matches well-established and well-funded nonprofits through intentional partnerships.

In order to fulfill our mission in 2025 and make the most of 2024 we will focus more energy on fundraising, grant writing, and revenue generation. If you would like to donate to this project please follow this link to our PayPal.

We are Portland, Oregon based but are actively reaching out to other organizations and individuals that share our values across the country.

Get in touch if you would to collaborate or have your business/organization added to any of our guides and maps.

Land Acknowledgment

The Portland Metro area rests on traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River. Indigenous people have created communities and summer encampments to harvest and enjoy the plentiful natural resources of the area for the last 11,000 years.

We want to recognize that Portland today is a community of many diverse Native peoples who continue to live and work here. We respectfully acknowledge and honor all Indigenous communities—past, present, future—and are grateful for their ongoing and vibrant presence.

We also acknowledge the systemic policies of genocide, relocation, and assimilation that still impact many Indigenous/Native American families today. As settlers and guests on these lands, we respect the work of Indigenous leaders and families, and pledge to make ongoing efforts recognize their knowledge, creativity, and resilience.

Asian American Town does not tolerate sexism, racism, colorism, homophobia, biphobia, interphobia and transphobia or hostility, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, white supremacist activity, age discrimination, ableism as well as other and/or intersectional forms of discrimination.