[van-announce] Velolove Announcements!

Sat Jul 19 11:10:21 PDT 2003

Velolove Announcements!

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July 18 to July 27 is BC Cycling SuperWeek, which is the Tour de Delta on July 18, 19, 20, the Steamworks Tour de Gastown, July 23, and the Tour de White Rock on July 25, 26, 27.

For more information:
http://www.cycling.bc.ca
http://www.tourdedelta.bc.ca
http://www.tourdegastown.com
http://www.city.whiterock.bc.ca/leisure_services/tourde.php

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Sunday, July 20, 2003

Wholesome Undie Ride

Race officials of this year's Wholesome Undie have inspected the course and have given their final go ahead. On Sunday, July 20, the fourth annual Wholesome Undie ride will take to the streets of Vancouver.

The Wholesome Undie will begin with a briefing at 12:00 Noon at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Races will tune their machines and do final race inspections. At 1:00 p.m. the team of Undie Riders will roll through the streets of downtown Vancouver. The ride will occupy the roadway, not blocking traffic, because WE ARE TRAFFIC. 

Slower, sexier, and smarter than the Molson Indy  the Wholesome Undie has all the thrills of Vancouver's loudest corporate spectacle, but it features riders on bicycles, skateboards, and rollerbladers... dressed in their undies! 

The Wholesome Undie will conclude at the Molson Indy race track, just south of where Carrall Street meets Pacific Blvd, where at 2:00 p.m. a race will be conducted to determine the slowest, sexiest, and smartest Wholesome Undie racer. The winner will be presented the fabulous and coveted Undie D-Cup by the race committee.

For information contact Undie Spokespersons:
Alison Unserwear, 604-688-4228, momentum at emeraldcity.bc.ca
Mario Underetti, 604-323-0204, 604-645-2099, skisby at web.net

Posters and Handouts:
http://www.monkeywrenchcafe.org/cm/pic/flyers/undie_ride_poster2.pdf
http://www.monkeywrenchcafe.org/cm/pic/flyers/undie_ride_4up.pdf

For pictures of past years rides and more details:
http://vancouver.indymedia.org/undie
http://www.alternatives.com/prms/2003/cmas0703.pdf

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Tuesday, July 22, 2003

Burrard Bridge Festival Planning meeting, 7:30 p.m., 100-2245 West Broadway in Vancouver. 

Agenda: Strategy for fundraising and deciding on fall outreach ideas. Also discussion about the activities we want to promote. Which groups do we want to target to play an active roll.

"Bicycles are for ever"

For more information:
Bicycle People <bicyclepeople at alternatives.com>, 604-734-1734. 
http://www.alternatives.com/burrardfestival/
http://www.alternatives.com/bicycle/people.html

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Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Steamworks Tour de Gastown

The 2003 Steamworks Tour de Gastown will be the 22nd running of one of North America's most prestigious criterium cycling races, with a long list of previous winners who read like a who's-who of Canadian and American cycling. 24,000 people came out to see the 2002 edition of the race.

This year's event has an exciting new course, taking riders up the cobbled incline of Water Street. Following a sharp hairpin turn at Water and Cordova, the riders will head down towards Carall Street and the famous Maple Square, home of the Hotel Europa and Gassy Jack. Then it's back up Water Street and a sprint for the start-finish, just past the Steamclock at Cambie Street.

Women's Criterium at 6:30 p.m. The Men's at 7:30 pm.

For more information:
http://www.tourdegastown.com

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Friday, July 25, 2003

Critical Mass Bike and Roll to Celebrate Forests and Ride Away from the Indy

Join dozens of fellow bicyclists, skaters, and bladers for a leisurely ride through the streets of Vancouver and Stanley Park. Meet rain or shine at the Vancouver Art Gallery on the Georgia Street side between 5:00 to 5:30 p.m. Decorated bicycles, signs, costumes, noisemakers, and wildly modified bicycles are all highly encouraged. Come as your favorite plant or species. 

UBC Cyclists: Meet 4:30pm on the South SUB Plaza for a group ride down to the Vancouver Art Gallery.

East Van Cyclists: Meet 4:00pm, leaves 4:30pm, from Grandview park on Commercial Drive for a group ride down to the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Born in San Francisco in 1992, Critical Mass is a grassroots reclamation of public space -- on the last Friday of the month -- which allows cyclists and other self-propelled people to move safely and comfortably through city streets in a car-free space. Non-polluting forms of transportation are promoted.

For more information: 
velolove at vancouver.indymedia.org, 604-734-1734, 
http://www.velolove.bc.ca
http://www.monkeywrenchcafe.org/cm/home.htm

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Looking for something to do the Molson Indy weekend?

Take the Seabus ferry to Waterfront Park in North Vancouver, a 4 minute walk from the North Vancouver Seabus Terminal, and take in the Caribbean Days Festival.

Saturday, July 26

10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. A Multicultural Street Parade will identify the presence of the various ethnic groups that make up Canadian Culture. The parade will wind its way to Waterfront Park for a day of Live Caribbean Music, Dance, Fun in the Sun and Caribbean Arts & Craft and Food.

Sunday, July 27

10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Return to Waterfront Park for another day of Arts & Crafts, Food, Caribbean Information Pavilions and Live Caribbean bands on stage and other entertainment for your listening, eating, viewing, or dancing pleasures.

There is no charge to attend.

For more information:
http://www.caribbeandaysfestival.com/
http://www.ttcsbc.com/cdf/schedule.shtml

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Saturday, July 26

Illuminares Festival

This is the annual Illuminares Lantern Festival, hosted by the Public Dreams Society. As the curtain of dusk is drawn, families gather, hundreds of paper lanterns are lit and music fills the air. See weaving serpents, birds in flight, planets in orbit, schools of fish, and creatures of the imagination, glowing and shimmering with music, fire sculptures, torch choreography and a fireworks finale.

A longstanding tradition of Illuminares is the roving topless Wish Faeries, a band of ethereal faerie women and men who flit about the park in the late afternoon before darkness descends, granting wishes and bringing cheer to early festivalgoers and other park visitors.

For more information:
http://www.publicdreams.org/illuminares.htm

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Wednesday, July 30

VACC Vancouver Committee Monthly Meeting

6:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the barbecue shed beside the Cat's Meow on Granville Island in Vancouver. Bring something to barbecue if you like, and something to share (salad, appetizer, etc.), plate, cup, cutlery. Condiments, drinks and some snacky foods will be provided.

The Vancouver Committee of the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition focuses on cycling issues and opportunities within the City of Vancouver. We are an advocacy group working towards making Vancouver a better cycling place for all types and skill levels of cyclists. Our process is to work through the City infrastructure and make representations on cycling issues to the Council, staff, and the City of Vancouver Bicycle Advisory Committee.

All, both VACC members and non-members, are welcome to attend, suggest topics to be discussed, participate in the committee discussions, and arrive at decisions and courses of actions. Both members and non-members can undertake the lead role in initiatives that we undertake. 

For more information, contact Bonnie at volunteer at vacc.bc.ca
http://vacc.bc.ca/vancouver

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Wednesday, August 6

Come Sign My Bomb

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima. 200,000 people, mostly women and children, died. The bomb dropped was a tiny 15 Kiloton bomb, a humble comparison to the 100,000 Kiloton bombs of today. Three days later a second Atomic Bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Though the amount of energy generated by that bomb was significantly larger, the damage given to that city was slighter due to the geographic structure of the city. Another 70,000 people died from that bombing.

The Bush administration has asked United States congress to authorize the use of a new generation of nuclear bombs. The US is also in negotiations with Canada to install a common Ballistic Missile Defence System. The missile defence system being proposed is smaller to the original Stars Wars program.

Star Wars was a failure because:
1) It was too expensive.
2) The technology did not exist.
3) It encouraged other nations to build smaller nuclear bombs that could be smuggled into target areas
4) It forced other nations into a potentially catastrophic arms race.

On August 6, 2003, Artists Against War is planning "Come Sign My Bomb" in remembrance of the 270,000 people that died and to prove that the planned missile defence system is flawed.

If anybody would like to help with this critical event please contact Conrad at ninemonkeys at blaze.ca, 604-537-2044. We need as much help as possible. We need writers, artists, people to help with postering and more.

For more information:
http://www.ArtistsAgainstWar.org/hiroshima.htm

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Friday, August 8, and Saturday, August 9

RSVP -- Ride from Seattle to Vancouver, BC and Party 

The ride starts Friday, August 8, from the Cascade Bicycle Office in Seattle, Washington, and finishes in downtown Vancouver, Canada, on Saturday, August 9, at the Coast Plaza Suite Hotel. Join us from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the hotel for live music, an outdoor reception, and a no-host cash bar.

For more info: Cascade Bicycle Club <info at cascade.org>
http://www.cascade.org//eandr/rsvp_ride_info_desc.cfm

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Saturday, August 9

Bikesexual Fetish Ride 

An opportunity to wear fetish wear when riding your bike, because being on a bike rather than in a car is far more sexier than you can imagine. Starting at 8:00 p.m., we ride through downtown Vancouver then on to the SinCity fetish night at Club 23 West on Cordova Street. 

For more information and to find out the meeting places: bykesexualbabe at hotpop.com

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Sunday, August 10, 2003

Under The Volcano

The 14th Annual Festival of Art & Social Change in Cates Park, North Vancouver. Gates open at Noon. Music from 1:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. 50 Artists on 5 stages, plus food court, information fair, kid's zone, on-site workshops, and an artisan's market -- rain or shine -- celebrating cultures of resistance.

Mainstage: 
Andy Healey: our MC, ally from Submission Hold
Proud Mary: female-fronted soothing-blues
Barleywik: old-time all-female country/roots quintet
Leonard George & Children Of Takaya: Annual Welcoming from Tsleil-Waututh Nation
Serwa Fiak & Cyrous Sharispour: music and dance from the Kurdish community
Brigee K : Wickedly fine underground MC
Eekwol: female mic warrior from the Innersoulflow Crew (Saskatchewan)
David Hilliard: Keynote Speaker, Co-founder of the Black Panther Party
Black Panther Fugitives: Oakland hip hop representing the legacy of the Panthers
Blackfire:3 siblings political punk band from the Dine¹ (Navajo) Nation
DJ Highstrung: east van DJ spinning drum & bass (camobear records)
Infernal Noise Brigade: 20 piece drum n' noise n' agit-prop crew from San Fran 

Waterfront Stage:
Black Rice: built from dense blocks of math, punk + ethics
Eaglesong Dancers: dancers & drummers from Squamish Nation
Deadsure: powerful emotional tightly-wound hardcore
Stuart Stonechild: Cree Nation Reservation blues
Kathleen Yearwood: deep folklore from Alberta
Macklemore: freedom-fighter emcee from Seattle
Abyssinian Creole: heart-core lyricism + ruptured freestyling
Sinag Bayan: local Filipino 13 piece performance group
Threat From Outer Space: live hip hop, house, lyrics + breaks 

For more information: 604-682-3269 (box 7164)
http://www.resist.ca/~volcano
Volunteers: volcanovolunteers at resist.ca

Volcano Shuttles: leave Safeway parking lot at Broadway Skytrain every 45
minutes starting at 11:00 a.m.

Absolutely No Dogs + No Alcohol

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Monday, September 22, 2003

World Car Free Day

Be part of an international movement that is held in over 1400 cities in 38 countries every September 22nd.

http://www.carfreeday.ca/
http://www.carbusters.org/wcfd
http://www.22september.org

World Car Free Days (Adbusters), Sep 13-26
http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/urbanspace/poster.html

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Listen to Pedal Revolutionary Bike Radio!

Every other Thursday, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m., on CiTR 101.9 FM

News about bike civic politics, chopper bikes, legal issues, bike maintenance, culture, fun and of course Critical Mass. Your hosts: DJ Helmethair and Chainbreaker Jane.

For more information: autosaurus at tao.ca, http://www.monkeywrenchcafe.org/cm/radio
Listen live over the Internet: http://www.ams.ubc.ca/citr/live.htm

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Bicycles are way ahead in the poll at http://www.tac-atc.ca/english/index.cfm "Which of the following modes do you see as a viable alternative for your car during the summer?" 

Poll results at http://www.tac-atc.ca/english/pollresults.cfm?pid=18

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Steve Kisby

Mass for Mass Transit.
We're Not Blocking Traffic, We ARE Traffic!

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