Portland Improv is a collective mainly comprised of college students who like to provoke joy and create scenes in public places. “Winter Warm Up” was Portland Improv’s seventh event in Portland, the most famous of which being the Portland Freeze. The group coordinated over 1,500 participants and had them all strike a pose and hold it for 5 minutes within the Pioneer Courthouse Square to literally freeze time. Recently, the Portland Freeze became an annual event and was replicated again alongside the Portland Rose Festival inside their Waterfront Village with even greater surprise and mayhem among bystanders (1,000 participants).

If you recently attended the Portland Freeze 2009, please leave us a comment on this post and tell us about your experience! Thank you all so much for coming out, we couldn’t have done this without you! If you have video footage from the event, send us a link at videos@pdximprov.com. If you have photos from the event, send us the files or a link at photos@pdximprov.com. Keep an eye out for the official video in a few weeks, as well as another big event later this summer!