Letter from our CEO, Dave Parulo
Dear Partners,
January brings exciting opportunities to support our vibrant community! Applications are now open for Explore Tualatin Valley’s Heart & Inspiration Awards, offering funding to and organizations dedicated to enhancing tourism in Tualatin Valley. These grants empower innovative ideas and projects that make our destination even more dynamic and welcoming.
Read on for more updates, including Washington Square’s Lunar New Year Celebration and the big news about Experience Theatre Project’s permanent home.
As always, Keep Exploring,
Dave Parulo
President & CEO
ORGANIZATION UPDATES
Washington Square’s Lunar
New Year Celebration
Celebrate Lunar New Year with Washington Square and Explore Tualatin Valley. This year, ETV is helping to sponsor this joyful celebration February 8 from 11 a.m. to to 4 p.m. This event features traditional crafts, arts and special performances, plus a chance to make a wish on the Wishing Tree. Don’t miss the FLIP Museum mobile children’s museum for family fun!
PARTNER SPOTLIGHT
Experience Theatre Project Finds Permanent Home
After several years of staging shows throughout the region in vacant storefronts, including a Masonic lodge in downtown Beaverton and other spaces in Beaverton, professional theater company Experience Theatre Project (ETP) has found a permanent home. Their new space is a converted warehouse in Aloha, which is ideal for ETP’s professional and immersive theater productions. The new space will be inaugurated with Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap, February 28-April 6.
New Public Art Coming to Hillsboro’s Shute Park
“Cloud Nest,” a new public art installation by artist Becky Borlan, will be located near the playground at Shute Park in Hillsboro. Cloud Nest, which is reminiscent of the “monkey bars” that were common play structures in the ’70s and ’80s, is based on principles of geodesic dome buildings and will be a steel structure adorned with colorful, translucent laser-cut panels. The panels will be cut with various geometric and organic motifs, a reference to the Mexican art of papel picado.
PARTNER OPPORTUNITY
ETV’s Heart & Inspiration Award Applications Now Open
Deadline to apply: February 28, 2025
ETV is now accepting applications for its Heart & Inspiration Award strategic investment grants. These awards support events in Washington County, Oregon, that drive awareness, overnight stays and cultural and economic growth.
Eligible events include events that encourage and inspire tourism to Washington County, are open to the public and are compliant with the the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Applications will be accepted now through February 28. The investments will be awarded by April 30.