THIS ISN’T A SNEAKER SHOW.
IT’S WHERE THE CULTURE MOVES NEXT.
Sneaker Week PDX brings fans, collectors, students, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, technologists, musicians, industry leaders, and global footwear culture into the same space.
Come to discover your next favorite pair.
Come to meet the person who can change your career.
Come to test an idea, learn the industry, hear the music, support a local maker, and experience Portland through the culture it helped shape.
Learn the game.
Get closer to the people, processes, stories, and creative frameworks behind the footwear industry.
Knowledge Day brings together customization workshops, screenings, conversations, mentorship, storytelling, and direct exposure to accomplished footwear creatives.
Come curious. Leave with direction.
Featured programming currently includes youth and community customization workshops, a KIC FliX screening and discussion, and the SPARK event led by legendary designer Wilson Smith III.
Build what’s next.
See where sneakers meet technology, sustainability, entrepreneurship, experimentation, and new ideas.
Watch concepts take shape. Meet the people pushing the industry forward. Buy, sell, trade, design, debate, and experience the future while it is still being created.
The future doesn’t drop. We build it.
Current programming includes the Sneaker Week Tech Talk and Demo, The Design Combine, The Closet Cleanout PDX, and the Sustainability Soirée.
Feel the frequency.
The festival comes alive through music, sneakers, custom cars, style, art, food, performance, and the community that gives the culture its power.
Pull up in your best pair. Find something you have never seen. Hear something you will play all summer. Leave with a story worth telling.
Come for the kicks. Stay for the people.
Culture Day currently features the K.I.C-Off Car Show and the Kicks & Giggles K.I.C-Off Concert, with hip-hop, R&B, guest DJs, and live performances.
Three days of access. One uninterrupted experience.
Sneaker Week PDX has spent years creating access between the people who love sneakers and the people building the industry around them.
Investment looks different when culture leads.
In partnership with 1803 Fund, Sneaker Week PDX is bringing the 2026 K.I.C.-OFF Festival to The Low End in Portland’s historic Lower Albina District.
Built to honor Black Portland’s legacy while creating new pathways for entrepreneurship, creativity, and economic mobility, The Low End puts culture and community at the center of progress.
For three days, the space will come alive with sneaker design, music, technology, education, local businesses, emerging talent, and industry leaders.
This is more than a festival.
It is a space to connect. A platform to create. And a movement that reinvests in the community shaping what comes next.
For future designers, curious minds, young creatives, students, mentors, and anyone who wants to understand how the industry works.
For designers, founders, collectors, technologists, entrepreneurs, sustainability advocates, and people building what comes next.
For sneaker lovers, music fans, families, collectors, car enthusiasts, shoppers, and anyone ready to experience the festival at full volume.
Access all three days, from the first workshop to the final performance.
Three-day festival access, entry to VIP areas, and an official Sneaker Week PDX swag bag.
