Depave empowers disenfranchised communities to overcome social and environmental injustices and adapt to climate change through urban re-greening.

BIG BREAK BLOCK PARTY

BIG BREAK BLOCK PARTY

July 27 | 4pm - 10pm

SE 7th and Sandy Blvd.

BIG BREAK BLOCK PARTY

Depave is hosting the 3rd annual BIG BREAK BLOCK PARTY on July 27 from 4pm - 10pm at our future 7th and Sandy Green Plaza project. The event includes opportunities for public input and feedback about our project design, interactive art, local vendors, skating of all kinds at our popup skate plaza, live music, and more! Music headlining - Parisalexa!

July 26 | 6pm - 10pm

SE 7th and Sandy Blvd.

Film Festival

Hosted by Art Heaux, this event celebrates local filmmakers and BIPOC artists.

July 25 | 10am - 12pm

SE 7th and Sandy Blvd.

Community Cleanup

Hosted by SOLVE Oregon and the Central Eastside Industrial Council, this community cleanup event will prepare the Green Plaza site for the summer activation series!

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT 〰️

NASA DEVELOP PARTNERSHIP

In summer 2023, Depave partnered with NASA DEVELOP to better understand the impact of our work. Overwhelmingly, satellite imagery showed that depaving can significantly reduce urban heat.

Watch the video made by our partners at NASA DEVELOP:

UPCOMING EVENTS

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UPCOMING EVENTS 〰️

  • depaving at morning star

    June 22- Community Depave at Morning Star

    Join us for part two of this awesome depave project!

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  • July 25 - SOLVE x Depave Community Cleanup

    Join us for community cleanup with SOLVE and the CEIC at our 7th and Sandy Green Plaza site in preparation for our Block Party event!

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  • BIG BREAK BLOCK PARTY

    A people’s oasis block party celebrating regreening Portland’s central eastside.

    Vendors, live music, interactive art, skating, food, tactical urbanism, more.

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WHAT WE'RE UP TO

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WHAT WE'RE UP TO 〰️

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View fullsize Some great shots by Elizabeth Stover of our Morning Star depaving event on Saturday! Thank you again to everyone who came out join in the joyously destructive act of removing this unused parking lot to make space for a food garden, nature play area f
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View fullsize With help from our partners at Ground Score Association, we added 85 new plants to our modular planters at the SE 7th and Sandy Green Plaza! Slated to break ground 2026, this site will be Depave’s first project in the street, where we plan to d
View fullsize It’s the season for turnips and watermelon slices! Thank you @hhhendrix and @ashidanca for modeling our new hand screenprinted hats! This lovely reimagined Depave logo was drawn by the talented @jazimalart who also drew up some sweet images for
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View fullsize Last November, our very own Katherine Rose took a wonderful opportunity with @tedx_official Lacamas Lake to speak about ✨🌱Dreaming & Depaving🌱✨ at their COUNTDOWN event in Vancouver, WA. This event brought together 16 Pacific Northwest climat
View fullsize Mark your calendars for our first depaving event of the season on June 22 at Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church! This is phase two of this project and we are excited to see this site to continued to be transformed! Food, music, and the joyous de
View fullsize We love bringing people together to plant and care for land! Thank you again to everyone who came out last weekend to our second to last Green Thumbs event for the season at Inukai Boys & Girls Club! Join us next weekend at Peninsula Elementary f
View fullsize We love the photos by Elle Hygge! Here are some great shots of last weekend’s Green Thumbs event at Inukai Boys & Girls Club in Hillsboro. In 2018, 98 volunteers gathered in the paved backlot space of the Boys & Girls Club, where the
View fullsize Join us for Earth Day, Saturday April 20 from 10am - 1pm at Peninsula Elementary School! We will be moving soil in our recently built garden beds by @elbow.room.pdx, planting some seedlings started by Peninsula students, filling in our depaved tree w
View fullsize It is the season for greening! Depave’s Green Thumbs program works with past Depave project partners to add plants to depaved spaces, provide general maintenance, and overall give the sites some love 💚🌱✨. Here are some great photos from @el

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