Because the community of OES is made up of people from a variety of backgrounds and traditions, every event in the community contains diverse perspectives. The list of events below includes only those events in which the cross-cultural experience is a primary feature of the experience.

Fall Events:

• Sixth Grade Asian Feast
  
  
• Sixth-grade exchange program with Guatemala
  
  
• Faculty Exchange: Yearlong study in Romania
  
  
• Boarding Program Intercultural Retreat
  
  
• Giving Chapel
  
  
• Student and faculty visit to People of Color Conference
  

Winter Events:

• Eighth Grade Oral History Project
  
  
• Artist in Residence Program, Homowo Dance troupe from Ghana visited Middle School in 2005
  
  
• Auction Assemblies, Pendulum Aerial Dance Theatre in 2005
  
  
• Winterim trips
  
  
• Second Graders to Nuevo Amanacer
  

Spring Events:

• Project Second Wind
  
  
• Artist in Residence Program, Keither Goodman dance workshop in Lower School in 2005
  
  
• First-graders to Tears of Joy for Japanese folktale performance
  
  
• First Grade to Su Casa
  
  
• Artist in Residence Program, Harambee celebration of Kenyan culture in the Middle School in 2005
  
  
• Fundraising for Ekwanda Primary School in Kenya
  
  
• Sixth-graders host students from Guadalajara
  
  
• Discovery Day in Lower School
  
  
• Spanish Festival in Middle School
  
  
• Fourth Grade Potlatch
  
  
• Oregon High School International Relations League Model UN
  

Summer Events:

• Eighth Grade exchange to Japan or Costa Rica

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