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Three days of sneakers, sound, and the city in motion.
From July 31 to August 2, Sneaker Week PDX and the 1803 Fund bring the K.I.C-OFF Festival to The Low End — a transformational community destination built to honor legacy, activate opportunity, and move Portland forward.
The K.I.C-OFF Festival is built around three powerful days — each designed to move people from inspiration to access, from access to action, and from action to cultural momentum.
Learn the language of the industry. Meet the people behind the work. Find the door. Then walk through it. Knowledge Day is where curiosity becomes currency.
Free Youth Design Workshop, KIC FLIX "Black Legacy" Screening, Community Collections Showcase, and S.P.A.R.K. "Inspiring the Next Generation" with legendary designer Wilson Smith III. Attendees get direct exposure to the tools, stories, and creative frameworks that shape the footwear world.
Prototype the future. Test the idea. Move from concept to impact. Innovation Day is where culture meets technology.
The Sneaker Week Tech Talk and Demo, The Design Combine Contest, The Closet Cleanout, the Sustainability Soiree, and Winning While Black will bring together designers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders to explore what the next era of footwear can become. Attendees will witness where opportunity gets built in real time.
Move with the people. Immerse in the art. Hear the message. Culture Day brings the festival home.
Through Art and Activism conversations, K.I.C-Off Car Showcase, K.I.C Off Concert, the final day honors the full ecosystem that makes sneaker culture powerful. Come for the kicks, stay for the community, and leave with new memories in the low end.
Motion in the Low End is a call to gather, build, learn, design, perform, invest, and imagine what becomes possible when culture is not extracted from a neighborhood, but reinvested back into it.
This is not about watching the future arrive. This is about moving it here together.
Sneaker culture has always been more than what's on your feet.
Together to anchor the 2026 K.I.C-OFF Festival at The Low End — the 1803 Fund's transformational community destination in Portland's historic Lower Albina District. This partnership is built to do more than host a festival.
It is built to activate space, circulate opportunity, amplify Black creative power, and reconnect Portland's global footwear industry with the community whose culture has shaped its rise.
Across these spaces, the festival becomes a living map of what investment can feel like when it moves through culture.
A collection of community-centered spaces in historic Lower Albina — created to honor Black Portland's legacy while building new pathways for economic mobility, creative expression, and collective ownership.
It is a place for gathering. A place for making. A place for learning. A place for opportunity to stop being abstract and start becoming real. During Sneaker Week 2026, The Low End becomes the center of motion.
A signal that Portland's future must include the people, places, and creative communities that made the city matter in the first place.
Come ready to learn, connect, create, celebrate, and move with the people shaping the future of sneaker culture.
Partner with Sneaker Week PDX and the 1803 Fund to invest in Black creative power, community activation, and the next generation of footwear talent.
Join a festival ecosystem built to spotlight BIPOC entrepreneurs, local makers, artists, food vendors, designers, and creative businesses.
Share knowledge, create access, mentor talent, and connect with the next wave of designers, builders, and culture-makers.
