Help us spotlight the people, places and actions that make Kenmore a place where all people love where they live. Submit a Love Note here.

In Kenmore, a Love Note is more than a letter on paper. Here in Kenmore, a Love Note is a simple act or gesture by an individual or group (i.e., co-creators) that engages the community and creates fun, beauty, or a collective sense of community and place. 

Examples Include:

• Knitting decorative sweaters on tree trunks
• Bringing neighbors together for a block party on private property
• Organizing a book club or support group at the Hangar
• Painting art and inspiring messages on small rocks and leaving them around the community
• Chalk art at the Town Square or on a neighborhood sidewalk
• Sewing fleece scarves at the Hangar for Mary's Place
• Organizing "Just Get Me Started" do-it-yourself classes at the Hangar
• Creating a "Pop up Story Walk" at a local park
• Organizing a litter pickup at a local beach, school, or park

Need an idea for a Love Note?
Check out the Love Note Brainstorm list from the 2021 For the Love of Kenmore event. 

Co-creators are those individuals who, often unofficially, are making their communities better, more interesting, more lovable places. These exceptional people make the content we all consume, and places are much better for having these people active and engaged.

How can you be a co-creator? By producing what we call "Love Notes."

For the Love of Cities explores how the mutual love affair between people and their place is one of the most powerful influences in our lives, yet rarely thought of in terms of a relationship. As cities begin thinking of themselves as engaged in a relationship with their citizens, and citizens begin to consider their emotional connections with their places, we open up new possibilities in community, social and economic development by including the most powerful of motivators—the human heart—in our toolkit of city-making. 

Kageyama is the former President of Creative Tampa Bay, a grassroots community change organization and the co-founder of the Creative Cities Summit, an interdisciplinary conference that brings citizens and practitioners together around the big idea of ‘the city.’