People Involved
Julie Perini
Julie is the founder and organizer of the Portland Diary Summit. She is a filmmaker, visual and conceptual artist, and avid diarist who has been involved in many collaborative initiatives over the years, often bringing art and activism together.
Cynthia Nelson
Cynthia taught a diary and creative writing workshop at the Portland Diary Summit 2024. Cynthia Nelson is a poet, writer, life-long diarist, multi-instrumentalist songwriter and teacher who has authored several books of poetry, recorded over a dozen albums and toured the country many times over. She teaches creative approaches to music and writing to adults and children in Portland. Cynthia has published tour diaries, documenting her life on the road in rock bands, and she is interested in the intersection of diary and biography.
Saint Piñero
Saint co-curated, with Sage Ó Tuama of Film Diary NYC, a program of short films for the Portland Diary Summit 2024. Saint is a queer, Afro-indigenous Nuyorican photographer and curator. Their work is a meditation on memory, the queer archive, and transience. They are the co-founder of Film Diary NYC, a film festival for personal documentary & home video. They curate an ongoing series of photo shows at Millennium Film Workshop, where they are a member of the programming board.
Sage Ó Tuama
Sage (he/him) co-curated, with Saint Piñero of Film Diary NYC, a program of short films for the Portland Diary Summit 2024. Sage is co-founder and programmer for Film Diary NYC and member of the Millennium Film Workshop programming board. His work as an artist and curator has appeared at Anthology Film Archives (New York), Millennium Film Workshop (Brooklyn), Miriam Gallery (Brooklyn), Spectacle (Brooklyn), DCTV's Firehouse Cinema (New York), MADIFF (Madrid), and more. Member of the Brooklyn-based Deskarga Groupo artist collective.
Cadie Godula
Cadie is a filmmaker, performer, and founding member of Experimental Exposure, a screening series in Portland, Oregon that presents avant garde film in its original analog format. Cadie co-curated the Diaries, Notes, Sketches screening in 2026 and projected the 16mm film.