2025 events @ our future green plaza
Welcome! Come rest, play, notice, create, listen, watch, engage. Join us in the celebration of life existing in the street and help transform this once-dangerous intersection into something safer and healthier for our future. This is a dreaming process and we encourage feedback and creative solutions.
Depave will be closing the street at the future 7th and Sandy project site from August 9 - September 19 to demonstrate the future project design, solicit feedback and design ideas, and create an opportunity for positive activation.
Join us for an event in the plaza!
Want to host an event at our future green plaza from July 26 - September 20th, 2025?
Fill out this form to apply to host an event !
Night at the Grand Opera - a puppet show at River St. Studios
Join String and Shadow Puppet Theater for another spectacular evening of revelry and creative performance held at Depave’s office, River Street Studios - 822 N. River Street (see directions below).
Artists at the River Street Studios will be sharing their work and the space will be an opportunity to celebrate creativity in one of Portland’s unique art studios. Check out experimental film screenings from the Boathouse Microcinema throughout the evening.
$20 - $35 suggested donation, no one turned away due to lack of funds.
BRING A CHAIR OR BLANKET!
String and Shadow Puppet Theater is a theater company based in Olympia, Washington and (sometimes) New Orleans. They use copious amounts of cardboard, fabric, and paper-mache to create giant outdoor puppet shows that tour, performing in parks and fields around the country.
Park(ing) Day ~ Curb the Power: Micro Acts of Civil Joy
September 19 is Park(ing Day), and also the final day of the Future Green Plaza.
Come join Depave and other friends of the Future Green Plaza, in a day of enjoyment of people taking up space in the street, and join us in celebrating the final day of the summer plaza.
Park(ing) day is a global, public, participatory project where people across the world temporarily repurpose curbside parking spaces and convert them into public parks and social spaces to advocate for safer, greener, and more equitable streets for people.
Curb the Power: Micro Acts of Civil Joy is this year’s Park(ing) Day theme!
A celebration of small, joyful disruptions in the face of oversized authority. As public space becomes more regulated, surveilled, and commercialized, we’re inviting neighbors, artists, and activists to reclaim a patch of curb and reimagine it as a site of resistance—not through confrontation, but through creativity. Whether it’s a free library, a pop-up tea salon, a quiet garden, or a radical nap zone, each installation is a micro-act of civil joy: public, participatory, and beautifully disobedient. Let’s remind each other that not all power wears a uniform—and that delight, too, can be a form of protest.
Depave Happy Hour at the Plaza
Calling all plaza supporters, designers, partners, planners, organizers, and dreamers to join Depave in enjoying the plaza for an afternoon and sharing your ideas and hopes for the future space. Over the past 4 years of activation we have learned the power of creating space for people, plants, and play, and want to hear your thoughts!
Not able to make this event or having other thoughts that you would like to share? Fill out the survey below to provide feedback about the temporary and future desgin:
Photobooth for the Future / A fundraiser for Portland Indigenous Marketplace
Come get some sweet pics at this photobooth event to raise funds to help with construction of the Portland Indigenous Marketplace’s future space at 7th and Sandy! Join the land back movement and envision yourself as part of the future on this native land!
Want to help raise funds to get this amazing art by Kitana Connelly painted as a mural at Portland Indigenous Marketplace’s new building? Donate here and join us on Sunday Sept 7th to meet the artists…
Memento Vivere / Death to Life Fashion Show
In a time where everything is so morbid, when do we remember to live and to keep striving on? To keep conquering whatever is telling us not to? Remembering to live is a mantra we should live our life by and guide ourselves to understand. Our life is precious and important, you being on earth today means something. Let’s bring that to life.
Skate Like a Girl Meetup at the Plaza!
Join Skate Like a Girl Portland Chapter and Tactics for an All Ages, All Genders Skate Meetup at the Depave skate plaza!
Night Time Art Market & Dance Party w/Art Heaux Studio
Art Heaux Studio returns to Depave’s Future Green Plaza to create space for centering Black and Indigenous creativity. In 2025 Art Heaux is hosting a night time art market with live dj and performers.
diy youth music show
An evening of live music with performances by local bands Automatic Teller Machine, Charliehorse, and Monastera at the Future Green Plaza.
4th Annual Big Break Block Party
Depave’s 4th Annual Big Break Block Party brings people, plants, and play to the streets! Join us as we launch the 2025 Future Green Plaza pop up in the street with hours of live music, games, skating, artisan vendors, food, drinks, community workshops, and mutual aid resources!
Community Cleanup
Join Depave, SOLVE, and the Central Eastside Industrial Council for a community cleanup day! We will be cleaning the streets and giving some love to the neighborhood! Coffee, snacks, and lunch provided!
Help us Plant the Future Green Plaza
What’s a plaza without plants? Apprentices at POIC built planters for the 2025 pop up plaza out of restoration juniper wood. Help us fill these cool planter boxes with soil and plants in preparation for our summer plaza and BIG BREAK BLOCK PARTY kickoff event! Tools, gloves, and instruction included. Sign up to join us on Thursday as a planting volunteer here.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Urban Planning Bike Ride
Join Sunrise PDX, Community Cycling Center, and Depave to experience some of the best and the worst bicycling infrastructure in Portland alongside our elected officials and city planners! We will bike a small loop as a group and will prioritize safety above all else. During the ride, we will take short breaks to highlight and discuss the amazing and not-so-great infrastructure we are biking through. We will also have a break at the end to discuss visions of change in Portland, and how to make our dreams reality.
Feel free to arrive before 6:30 to join the Urbanist Happy Hour happening on Ankeny Rainbow Road!
Need a free bike to ride for this event? If you or anyone in your network wants to join but doesn’t have a bike, the Community Cycling Center is offering free bike rentals for this ride, and folks can reserve one here.