Portland Trackers Village Holiday Party

The Trackers annual holiday party is an opportunity to eat great soup and wholesome cookies, drink mulled cider and meet both youth and adult program instructors. There will be kids yoga, music (live and acoustic), folks hanging out demonstrating traditional skills (such as flintknapping) and even a visit from Kris Kringle.

This event is hosted by the Trackers Kids Program

• Kids Yoga at 10am Melissa, our youth program director leads kids yoga at 10am
• Party starts at 11am After kids yoga we eat great food, dance with holiday music and hang out
• Bring a toy for kids in need We will be accepting drop-off holiday donations for kids in need
• Get your picture with Kris Kringle A visit from Kris Kringle himself. Kids have priority (though adults can also tell Kris what they want for christmas)
• Enjoy great soup Louise (our real Italian mother) and Maxine (our real Italian grandmother) makes soup for everyone. Vegetarian friendly.
• Hang out with Trackers Instructors Our youth and adult program instructors will play music, demonstrate skills and sit down with you to sip a cup of warm cider.

Required Read our Boundaries and Needs (below) to see if this event is a good fit for you.

Boundaries and Needs

Trackers requires an environment that keeps the community and every individual safe. If you can agree to and follow the terms below, then please come. If you cannot, go elsewhere.

• This is a family event While non-kidded gowns-ups are welcome and encouraged, please respect that our focus this day is the families we serve in our youth programs
• Respect beginning and ending times We have volunteers overseeing most events so we need to value their time.
• Instructors are there to have fun While instructors will be demonstrating some skills, parents must be responsible for their own children. Instructors attend as community members with the goal of having just as much fun as everyone else
• We do not accept dangerous activities, incurring emotional distress beyond the scope of our volunteers and staff, racist, sexist and otherwise bigoted behavior, accusatory and aggressive unsolicited advise, expectations that participants or staff conform to another person's aggressively specific moral values and overwhelming, unspoken or indirect verbal, written or physically aggressive behavior.
• We get to ask anyone to leave if they are mean to us or anyone else Nuff' said