A Look Back at 2020 (Annual Letter & Report)
By Cordelia Hollingsworth
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Dear PKV community,
When I look back at the year 2020, what stands out the most to me is the importance of community. When Covid hit, PKV was not certain we were going to make it. With the help of our donors, the PPP loan, parents, and students, we were able to create both outdoor and online classes. We even managed an executive transition from Caitlin Pontrella to myself, Cordelia. Because of the support of you, our community, we are still here.
Some of you got involved for the first time, looking for movement and play in safer outdoor spaces. Some of you enrolled your kids in parkour to give them an hour of freedom after the exhaustion of online school. Some of you came back to parkour and reconnected with your training after a long hiatus in quarantine. And many of us simply endured, happy to find moments of joy in our movement whenever we could.
The pandemic fractured our communities. Parkour, movement, and play gives us a place where we can experience agency and authorship over our lives when the rest of the world feels out of control.
I look forward to 2021. With your support, we will continue to expand parkour as a vehicle for community building. Being outdoors in our city connects us more deeply to it, from meeting our neighbors more often (both housed and unhoused), to stewarding our public spaces, to intergenerational play between teens, adults, and seniors.
We will continue to share the experiences of those who are often marginalized, with events like the Obsidian Gathering. We will continue our quest to train the best coaches. And we will work towards creating more safe, accessible spaces to practice parkour.
To support our free classes, events, and accessible parkour spaces, become a monthly donor.
Your partner in play,
Cordelia Hollingsworth
Executive Director
Read more and see more photos in our 2020 Annual Report!
