2025 Sponsors and Venues
Regional Arts & Culture Council Grant
We are extremely grateful to the RACC board for awarding the Bigfoot Poetry Festival a grant of $5,000 for our 2025 season. This grant will go towards helping the festival cover venue rentals, advertisements, print promotional material and festival brochures, purchase free snacks for festival attendees, and so much more.
Based General Store
1136 SW Alder St.
The Based General Store is donating space to the festival this year, and will serve as our venue for the 2025 Team Showcase happening in the afternoon on Friday, July 11.
covet.pdx
601 SW 11th Ave.
We are excited to be collaborating for the first time with Covet.PDX inside of the Hyatt Centric. Covet will serve as one of our two venues hosting the preliminary bouts of our poetry tournament. Happening the first two nights of the competition, we will see two slams take place here each evening.
First Congregational United Church of Christ
1126 SW Park Ave.
We are back at the First Congregational United Church of Christ for our fourth festival in a row. Catch the Bigfoot Poetry Festival’s 2025 Finals Stage at the UCC on the park blocks the evening of Saturday, July 12th, where the top four teams will compete to find out who’ll be taking home first this year!
Guilder Coffee
1035 W Burnside St.
Nestled on the first floor of the downtown Powell’s Books, we are happy to be returning to Guilder Coffee for our Welcome Open Mic the night of July 9th. Guilder is donating their space for this kick-off poetry event.
Multnomah County
Central Library
801 SW 10th Ave.
We are excited to be returning to the Multnomah County Central Library for our third time. The Central Library is once again opening their doors for us to host poetry open mics for all three days of the festival up on their third floor.
Powell’s Books
1035 W Burnside St.
Powell’s Books will once again be donating space to Bigfoot for our poetry slam tournament. Happening the first two nights of the competition, we will see two slams take place on Powell’s third floor in the Pearl Room each evening.
Powell’s also donated two gift cards to Bigfoot this year - one for our Slam Olympics fundraiser, and one as the prize for our Youth Poetry Slam.
Stumptown Coffee Roasters
1140 SW Washington St.
We’re so excited to have Stumptown partnering with us again for a third year in a row. They will be providing coffee for our Poetry Market (happening at Travel Portland’s Visitor Center) the morning of July 12th. This coffee will be free to poets and attendees!
Tender Loving Empire
412 SW 10th Ave.
We are partnering with Tender Loving Empire’s downtown location for the third time this festival. They are providing a 10% discount to poets and volunteers when they show their lanyard badges at the register.
Toasted S’mores Bar
1126 SW Alder St.
We’re happy to announce our partnership with the recently opened Toasted S’mores Bar! They will be providing a 10% discount to poets and volunteers who show their lanyard and badge upon purchasing some tasty treats from their establishment!
Travel Portland’s
Visitor Center
1132 SW Harvey Milk St.
Travel Portland’s Vistor Center is offering their space for workshops during the days of the festival. What’s more, they will also be the location of the Poetry Market, happening the morning of Sunday, July 12th.
Woodlark Hotel
813 SW Alder St.
We’ll be hosting poetry open mics and workshops in the Woodlark Hotel’s Grove meeting room for all three days of the festival this year. Come on through for some poems, as well as some complimentary coffee or tea!
The Woodlark is also the 2025 Bigfoot Poetry Festival host hotel.
Yoga on Yamhill
124 SW Yamhill St.
Thank you so much to Yoga on Yamhill for partnering with us for a second year in a row! They will, again, be lending us a handful of yoga mats to use for Thursday morning at our early morning yoga session at the Woodlark Hotel’s Grove room, led by Tomi Simmons.