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Wizarding Weekend at Kennedy School 2022!

Posted on February 11, 2023 | Leave a comment

What a magical weekend!

Once again, PDXpelliarmus teamed up with McMenamins Kennedy School to present Wizarding Weekend, three days of magical fun for a great cause!

Kennedy School showed all seven movies, Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley featured local vendors and artists, and we opened the Great Hall for activities like trivia, costume contests, and magical games!

In between all that fun, you donated 525 books to Children’s Book Bank! Those books went to CBB’s Building Home Libraries and Free Summer Book Fairs! We also raised $1,500 to donate direct to local teachers to help build their classroom libraries! McMenamin’s donated a portion of ticket sales from the movies to Basic Rights Oregon, in the amount of $5,752!

Thank you to everyone who came and helped us share the magic. We will see you again in 2023!

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Bake Sale for TransActive!

Posted on November 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

The weapon we have is love…and cookies! In February, PDXpelliarmus baked up some sweet and magical treats worthy of the Hogwarts Express trolley. Chocolate Frogs! Butterbeer cookies! Cauldron cakes! These goodies and many more were on sale at Books With Pictures on Saturday, February 15th and at The Nerd Out on Sunday, February 16th, with all proceeds going to benefit TransActive Gender Project.

In the evening of the 15th, we continued the magic with more tasty morsels to go with a very special reading of “Puffs” at Books With Pictures! Because we all know that time spent with a certain group of loyal and hardworking badgers just isn’t the same without a sweet treat!

All proceeds from the bake sale were donated to TransActive Gender Project, which provides services and support to transgender and gender-expansive youth and their families. Across two days, we were able to raise more than $600 for their organization!

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2019 Rose City Comic Con

Posted on February 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

Rose City Comic Con 2019 is done, and it was magical!

We want to send out massive gratitude to our volunteers, from patronus painters to boxers and button makers, and to all the people who spent time at our booth.

We could NOT have done it without all of you. If you didn’t get to volunteer or visit with us, just know that we brought a little extra magic to Rose City, let people live their Quidditch and Hogwarts fantasies, test their HP knowledge, and build bowtruckles. While having all that fun, we also collected 22 backpacks and enough school supplies to fill half of them for students served by School Uniting Neighborhoods in North Portland. We also raised $700 for them through sales and cash donations.

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Wizarding Weekend at Kennedy School!

Posted on August 10, 2019 | Leave a comment

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July 26-28, 2019, PDXpelliarmus returned to Kennedy School for the third year to celebrate Harry Potter’s birthday!  Every bar and restaurant at Kennedy School offered Harry Potter-inspired food and drink specials.  They showed ALL EIGHT movies, with %50 percent of the ticket proceeds going to SMART – Start Making a Reader Today.

PDXpelliarmus hosted Diagon Alley, bringing in local artists and craftspeople selling everything from butterbeer fudge to jewelry to wands!

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There were also activities, such as the Horcrux Hunt, costume contests, trivia, Quidditch, and Wizards’ Chess!

House Points were awarded for donations and successful completion of the Horcrux Hunt, with Gryffindor winning!

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In the end, McMenamins Kennedy School donated $4348 to SMART, and PDXpelliarmus collected a pile of school supplies for students part of the Schools Uniting Neighborhoods program operated by Sefl Enhancement Inc in North Portland.  We also donated a portion of our sales, totaling $600.

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It was an amazing success, and we’re looking forward to bringing even more magic to Kennedy School in 2020!

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2019 Accio Books

Posted on July 7, 2019 | Comments Off on 2019 Accio Books

The 2019 Accio Books campaign has completed, with 505 books donated to The Children’s Book Bank, as well as a Barnes & Noble gift card worth $312.43!

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Books were collected from books scattered around the Portland area, including at The Nerd Out, Books With Pictures, Oracle Coffee Company, and Queue Coffee.  We couldn’t be more grateful to these businesses for hosting a drop point!

House points were tallied, and Hufflepuff won by a landslide!  Syltherin came in second, with Ravenclaw right on their tails.  Gryffindor  placed a distant fourth.

Thank you to everyone who donated and made the 2019 Accio Books campaign another success!

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