The Portland Parks Foundation and a steering committee of BIPOC arts and social justice leaders worked for months to create Paseo, a 2-day August community gathering of artists to support 13 mutual aid groups helping our community. Over 40 sponsors joined us in this unprecedented effort to bring bold new creative life to downtown and celebrate PPF's 20th anniversary. With the support of PGE and Moda we even created a beautiful passport for the in person event.
Then came the Delta Variant’s surge.
Plan B: Pivot! The artists want to perform. The mutual aid groups still deserve our help. We still wanted to celebrate 20 years of helping people help parks. So we created a video showcase of 21 extraordinary, culturally diverse Portland artists and the Paseo Mutual Aid Challenge!
Watch the artists, learn about the aid groups, and help us multiply the $4,000 challenge made by the Parks Foundation and Paseo’s lead sponsor, PGE. Any gift, no matter how small, enters you into our drawing for: two bicycles, a family membership to the Oregon Zoo, gift certificates to Fred Meyer, and the Foundation’s 20th anniversary posters.
You can visit all the videos at paseopdx.org/challenge.
Check out all the videos and learn about local mutual aid organizations! Click on the picture to watch the video!
