A yearly summer offering to our community, celebrating W.O.W.’s rootedness through free public programming.

Colorful mural illustrating a brick building intertwined with tree roots, featuring people by windows, banners with messages about Asian and LGBTQ communities, a dragon, and various plants, blending urban and nature themes.
Current ANNiversary programming
Poster for the 9th anniversary fair of the W.O.W. project, featuring images of diverse people, trees, cityscapes, construction cranes, and a person holding a sign with Chinese characters, with event details at the bottom.

2025: 9th Anniversary: Staying Put

In such trying times, now more than ever, coming together as a form of resistance feels crucial to nurturing our communities and networks of care when we need them the most. We will gather as a recommitment to our politics of refusal and staying put: we refuse to be moved; we refuse the inevitability of displacement; we refuse to let the history of this neighborhood and the land it occupies fade into abstraction. We are building on the lineages that have brought us to where we are now and asking: How can we continue to cultivate cultures of care and interdependence under pressure?

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Cartoon of a girl with glasses sitting on a turtle-shaped spaceship against a black background.

Past years

  • A colorful event poster for 'Springs From Below: People's Abolition Parade' featuring an abstract illustration of a water-like fountain with vines and a butterfly, with details about the date, time, and location of the parade at Columbus Park.

    8th Year Anniverary

    June 2024 programming

  • A colorful digital poster for a series of events titled "Trusting Our Tides" organized by W.O.W. Protect. The poster features blue and orange abstract waves and text listing four events with dates, times, locations, and descriptions, including themes of political action and anniversary celebrations.

    7th Year Anniversary

    May and June 2023 programming

  • A turtle with a shell filled with colorful flowers, plants, and a house, as the sun rises in the background.

    6th Year Anniversary

    June 2022 programming

  • 5th Year Anniversary

    June and July 2021 programming