Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile: ‘Perfect love’
Trauma, romance and heartbreak. The past five years have been a roller coaster ride for Tammy Naylor and Emily Gray. “We know what hopeless feels like,” Tammy said. “We know sorrow. Sorrow is unique unto itself. It is something so dark that it saps the life right out of your cells. You feel your life…
Street Roots vendor profile: Rising to the challenge
Jennifer was born in Perth Amboy, N.J. “I had a good growing up,” she said. “I was daddy’s little girl. We fished together, and worked on cars.” Jennifer came to Oregon with her first husband in 2000. She has two sons, Jacob and JP. She enjoyed her career working at the now-shuttered SAFES, the Salvation…
Culture
Healing takes center stage for young refugees
It was Sunday night, Aug. 11, at the Oregon Children’s Theater in Northeast Portland, and there was a group of adult actors on the dimly-lit stage. But the words coming out of their mouths weren’t the typical American fare. They were the experiences of Middle Eastern refugee children. Five short plays, written by young Syrian…
J Mase III lives life out loud
On the lower level of Seattle’s Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, J Mase III stands in front of a small group of people eager to learn about artist sustainability. He is wearing a gray T-shirt with the words “Don’t Get Too Close” on the front and “I’ll Turn You Into Poetry” on the back. It’s…
Portland2019 Biennial explores Oregon through contemporary art
The children are in cages right now. Portland-based artist Vanessa Renwick wants those words to sink in. Her installation at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center’s Portland2019 Biennial features a memorial to the six migrant children who have died in U.S. custody since September 2018. The Biennial comprises contemporary visual and performing artists’ interpretations of what it…
News
Healing takes center stage for young refugees
It was Sunday night, Aug. 11, at the Oregon Children’s Theater in Northeast Portland, and there was a group of adult actors on the dimly-lit stage. But the words coming out of their mouths weren’t the typical American fare. They were the experiences of Middle Eastern refugee children. Five short plays, written by young Syrian…
Housing
To confront the housing crisis, it is time to think big
How might we envision a future where there is housing for everyone in this region? The new report by Portland State University professor Marisa Zapata and colleagues is a wake-up call to broaden our civic imagination, aspiring to be a place where this is possible. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. You…
PSU report: 38,000 homeless in Portland metro area; regional collaboration is next step
Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties need to create a regional approach to address homelessness, which affected more than 38,000 people in the tri-county region in 2017. That’s according to a just-released report from Portland State University’s Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative and Northwest Economic Research Center. The collaborative released the report publicly at a 10…
Opinion
To confront the housing crisis, it is time to think big
How might we envision a future where there is housing for everyone in this region? The new report by Portland State University professor Marisa Zapata and colleagues is a wake-up call to broaden our civic imagination, aspiring to be a place where this is possible. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. You…
