Community Event: AMPLIFY PDX
Community Resource Block Party & Fundraiser
Media, culture, and justice collide in a street-wide celebration!
AMPLIFY PDX is a community resource block party and fundraiser featuring more than 25 of Portland’s most visionary community groups and nonprofit organizations! A celebration of collective resilience and a call to action in support of Portland’s cultural workers, justice organizers, and community-builders. Connect with organizations working across a wide range of issues including racial justice, immigrant rights, youth empowerment, creative economy, cultural sovereignty, and gender liberation.
Join us at Open Signal and move into action! Register here.
Sliding scale tickets start at $20, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds will be shared between the collective of organizations.
Your ticket includes: entry into the event where you can catch performances by local artists and presentations by community organizers, treat yourself to lunch from Cokiea's Kitchen Plant-Based Delights & Frutas Frescas, enjoy free cold beverages from local our business sponsors Mate Party, Happy Mountain Kombucha, and Best Day Brewing, connect with local advocacy campaigns and initiatives, enter to win raffle prizes including signed Portland Trailblazers items and swag from our community organizations, and more!
We've set an ambitious fundraising goal of $15,000 and are accepting pledges of support from local businesses. Interested sponsors can contact the organizers at collaborativefundraiserspdx@gmail.com.
Let’s celebrate community and build collective power. See you August 9th!
Questions? Email us at collaborativefundraiserspdx@gmail.com
FULL SCHEDULE
Times approximate and subject to fun.
🕐 12:45 PM – DOORS OPEN!
Grab your spot, visit community tables, and get ready for a jam-packed day.
🕐 12:50 – 1:05 PM – Opening Remarks
MCs Morgan & Ambush welcome you to the block party!
🎨 1:05 – 1:25 PM – Music by Larry Yes on the main stage
Everyone on this planet is family.
💃 1:25–1:45 PM – Queen Bolivia Carmichaels on the main stage
Drag magic and performance art brilliance.
🎤 1:45 - 2:00 PM - SWANA Rose & Don't Shoot PDX on the main stage
Campaign messages + call to action.
📣 2:00 – 2:15 PM – Lightning Nonprofit Intros
Fast-paced mic share from featured community orgs.
🎸 2:15 – 2:35 PM – BURBYA on the main stage
Next-gen rockers brought to you by Friends of Noise.
📣 2:35 – 2:50 PM – Lightning Nonprofit Intros Pt. 2
🎧 2:50 – 3:20 PM – News With My Fiancé (Live Podcast on the main stage)
Media, love, and hot takes from Morgan & Ambush.
📣 3:25 – 3:40 PM – Campaign Announcements from Afro Village + Lightning Intros Pt. 3 (main stage)
🎙️ 3:40 – 4:10 PM - Panel on the Main Stage: Equitable Giving Circle + Imagine Black
Philanthropy and community wealth with AJ & Joy Elise.
📽️ 4:00 - 4:15 - Short Film screening in Studio A by OMPA Creatives of Color Oregon
COCO presents Working Lunch, a short film by writer/producer/director Shilpa Sunthankar. This sharp and heartfelt story explores cultural tension and connection over a shared meal between co-workers. The screening will be followed by a brief Q&A with the filmmaker.
📣 4:10 – 4:20 PM – Lightning Intros Pt. 4 (main stage)
🎭 4:15 - 4:30 - Comedy in Studio A with Trivia Lee
🎓 4:20 – 4:40 PM on the Main Stage – Youth Philanthropy Academy Graduation
Next Up youth leaders take the stage!
🎭 4:30 - 4:45 - Youth Performances in Studio A
📣 4:40 – 4:50 PM – Lightning Intros Pt. 5 (main stage)
🗣️ 4:45 – 5:30 PM – Panel in Studio A: Prismid, Black Futures Farm + Uprise Collective
A roundtable on joy, resistance, and community roots.
🎤 4:50 – 5:00 PM – Speaker on the main stage: Abdinasir Sido from African Youth and Community Organization
🎭 5:00 - 5:15 PM – Poet Cameron Whitten on the main stage
🎤 5:20 – 5:45 PM – DeAngelo Gillespie on the main stage.
A set to hype you up!
📽️ 5:35 - 6:00 PM - Short Film screening in Studio A by Outside the Frame
🎁 5:45 PM – RAFFLE DRAWING!
Win shirts, stickers, and signed Trail Blazers gear from:
Open Signal, Friends of Noise, Uprise, and more!
🎶 6:00–7:00 PM – CHIBIA ULINWA!!!!
Close out the day with bold, genre-mixing grooves
Proudly sponsored by:
Dates
Aug 9
Saturday
1:00pm – 7:00pm
Location
Open Signal, Portland Community Media Center
2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr BlvdPortland, OR 97212 Get Directions
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For More Information
Interested in getting involved and utilizing one of our many resources? Start by completing this form and we will connect you with a staff member to get you started: Inquiry Form.
For questions about your registration, please contact us by phone at (503) 288 1515 or email education [at] opensignalpdx.org.
Community Membership
Join our community! Open Signal's membership program includes absolutely everyone.
This program will not only strengthen our community and deepen your experience as a community member, but it will also help diversify our funding streams, ensuring that our resources will be around to serve Portland for decades to come.
To sign up, make a contribution of at least $5 online.
Open Signal is a Safer Space
Open Signal is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for the community. Open Signal is a Safer Space for people of color, immigrants, gender non-conforming, low/no income groups, houseless, people with disabilities, linguistically diverse and other marginalized communities who have experienced systemic racism, sexism, classism and/or oppression. We encourage the creation and sharing of content that expresses a wide variety of cultural, social, political and spiritual perspectives. Treating all people with respect and kindness is expected - even if you don’t agree with all perspectives.
We require all members of our community to agree to our Safer Space Community Guidelines and to be accountable for the impact of their actions on others who use the space. Physical and verbal abuse will not be tolerated. All threats will be taken seriously, and will result in removal from the facility.
If you have a safety concern to report, please talk to any member of our front desk staff, or complete our online form at bit.ly/opensignalsafetyconcern.
Accessibility Requests
Open Signal is committed to hosting meetings, events and gatherings that are accessible and inclusive. Ensuring that all members of our community can fully engage in our activities not only benefits the individual, but strengthens our community as a whole.
We will do our best to accommodate your needs for equitable access to our facilities, however some requests may not be within our means to meet at this time.
Please submit your request using this form: Accessibility Request Form.