NW Noggin volunteers LOVE collaborating with this critical community center for services and support for houseless youth. P:ear provides a warm, welcoming, arts-filled educational space in downtown Portland, filled with caring staff and volunteers for young people, many of whom lack access to safe housing.
“Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.” ―
PLEASE DONATE: P:ear: creatively mentoring homeless youth
Over the past few years, we’ve organized several series of weekly visits to P:ear, and had a terrific time discussing the brain, screen printing t-shirts, messing up taste buds with miracle berries, and attaching electrodes to measure our own cortical activity…
NW Noggin was deeply honored to be the p:earblossoms 2020 Community Partner Awardee!
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p:ear Blossoms!
COME JOIN US, and connect with your community!
And if you’d like to volunteer separately at p:ear, you must complete a mandatory volunteer training.
Learn more about p:ear + nwnoggin collaborations at the links below!
Drawing by Jeff Leake
Fentanyl On The Brain
Butterflies in my brain!
Portland is Beautiful
Faces at p:ear!
Returning to find a voice
The world, filtered
A brain garden grows @ p:ear
Sewing Memories, & Brains
Being there means something
Nicotine is a gateway drug
Popping off (& pot) @ p:ear
Listening to testimony @ p:ear
Seeing us all through research & art
Homelessness and the Brain
Music & Brain: Rewarding Rhythms for Houseless Youth
Giant brains @ p:ear!
Tagging the temporal lobe
P:ear: “He LOVES this”
Lateral Landscapes: Homelessness & Brain in Research & Art 10/19
Sweetness, Shelter & Savants
In an old Tri-Met bus on a landfill…
Noggin Printing @ P:ear
Making a human @ P:ear
Potential (electric and more) @ P:ear
Synaptic Shocks @ P:ear!
“Piriforming” @ P:ear
P:ear Plans: We’re coming back!
Noggin Wednesdays @ P:ear!
Peppered with questions @ P:ear!
Zombie Brain Training @ P:ear 🙂
