PDX Winter Lights in Lents!
💡Lights on! Let’s make community art! We’ve got two projects we need your help with as part of @portlandwinterlightfestival which will be displayed here in Lents.

Please feel free to answer as many or as few questions as you are inspired to!

Community Mural:
Bring the family together to brainstorm what should be in a Neighborhood Ecosystem Mural (and which elements should glow in the dark!)

Video Project:
Want to know more about your neighbors? Find out by participating in a community video project for stories of resilience

🎨 Community Art Brainstorm session (in Person, socially distanced): January 21, 3-6pm at Lents Park, East side across from Portland Youth Builders. Warm beverages will be provided

☕ Virtual Brainstorm session: January 22, 11-12pm via Zoom

🖌️ Upcoming Community Paint Days: January 29 – 30th – SAVE THE DATE!

😷COVID safety: please wear a mask and socially distance when participating in art activities! Beverages will be provided for outdoor consumption, so that you can keep your mask on inside at all times. We will also provide masks, and hand sanitizer. Participation and activities will be taking place outside in the park. Let’s keep each other safe while making art!
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2022 Theme: What's an Ecosystem?
What is an Ecosystem anyway? An ecosystem from the dictionary is "a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment; or a complex network or interconnected system".

If the technical isn't speaking to you, try the literary! "Within the Ecosystem" for Portland Winter Lights Fest this year is inspired by this poem:

Within the ecosystem.

Sometimes we’re so close to something we can’t see it.
It’s so large we can’t comprehend or fully understand it.
So we look for secrets. We try to find the answers to puzzles that don’t exist.
Ask the stars, the heavens, seeking answers in magic or from words of the long dead.
Searching your whole life just to miss what’s right in front of your nose and under your feet.

There is magic and beauty is all around you.
You are in it, on it, swim in it and breathe it.
You just have to step back, and open your eyes.
It’s everywhere, life is everywhere.

This year we ask you to embrace life and this ecosystem.
All of it. From the smallest microbe, to the largest animal.
From the water we drink to the light of the sun that warms our planet.
We ask you to see your place among everything.

Because
We are lucky
To be here now.
Together.
On this wonderful living world.

Theme courtesy of PDXWLF Artistic Director Chris Herring
Community Mural: What comes to mind when you think of our neighborhood as an ecosystem? (Images, smells, sounds, colors... let us know wherever your imagination takes you!)
Community Mural: What living things are part of our neighborhood ecosystem?
Community Mural: What non-living things are part of our neighborhood ecosystem?
Community Mural: What elements of our ecosystem should glow in the dark? What parts of the mural can we only see at night?
Resilience Video Project: What does Resilience mean to you?
Resilience Video Project: What questions do you want to ask your neighbors about their experience of the pandemic and climate change in East Portland? What stories do you want to hear?
Resilience Video Project: What questions do you want to answer about their experience of the pandemic and climate change in East Portland? What stories do you want to tell?
Resilience Video: if you would like to share some words or images to use in the video, please let us know the best way we can contact you!
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