[van-announce] 1000 Wheel Critical Mass Ride June 27

[Steve Kisby]

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1000 Wheel Critical Mass Ride

Join Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell and other bicyclists, skaters, and bladers for the climax to Bike Month, the Thousand Wheel Ride -- a fun and celebratory ride through the streets of Vancouver -- on Friday, June 27, 2003. 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. 

UBC Cyclists: Meet 4:30pm on the South SUB Plaza for a group ride down to the 1000 Wheel Ride.

East Van Cyclists: Meet 4:00pm, leaves 4:30pm, from Grandview park on Commercial Drive for a group ride down to the 1000 Wheel Ride.

Following the ride is an after-party to feature dancing, food, DJs, The Industrial Tyrants for Peace, burlesque dancers, and a bare-as-you-dare late night bike ride assisted by some of Vancouver's top body-painting artists.

The evening before, on Thursday, June 26, help promote the 1000 Wheel Ride on the Ontario Street bike route. Meet 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at 6th Avenue and Ontario. Or help by postering or leafleting your own bike route.

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 the streets of Vancouver 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
http://www.alternatives.com/prms/2003/cmas0612.pdf

Posters and Leaflets:
http://www.monkeywrenchcafe.org/cm/pic/flyers/cmas_1000wheel.pdf
http://www.monkeywrenchcafe.org/cm/pic/flyers/cmas_1000wheel_4up.pdf
http://www.monkeywrenchcafe.org/cm/pic/flyers/cmas_1000wheel_vert.gif
http://www.monkeywrenchcafe.org/cm/pic/flyers/bike_month_critical_flyers.pdf

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1000 Wheel Critical Mass Party

o  On January 3rd, Artists Against War gave Vancouver a sold-out anti-war art show of diverse talents at the WISE Hall with poets, bands, musicians, body painters and dancers;
o  On February 22nd we sent a message to Canada and the world in the form of a peace sign on Sunset Beach spelled out with 64 naked bodies;
o  On March 23rd we installed a 74-piece graveyard outside the Vancouver Art Gallery that reached into the living rooms of millions of homes across Canada;
o  On April 4th we united some of Vancouver's most talented performers in a stunning sold-out anti-war show at the WISE Hall, culminating in a naked bike ride down Commercial Drive;
o  On April 20th we gave expression to our sadness in a painting done with 
the blood of 15 artists donated on location outside the American 
consulate;
o  On April 26th we showed how we as a community felt with a anti-war art exhibition...

On Friday, June 27, 2003, we continue. Artists Against War presents:
The 1000 Wheel Party: A celebration of the car-free people of Vancouver.

Join us at 5:30 p.m. on Georgia Street outside the Vancouver Art Gallery for the "June is Bike Month" 1000-Wheel Critical Mass bike ride and cruise with us to the after party at the Cambrian Hall, featuring...

- The world debut of the Industrial Tyrants for Peace!
- Live canvases by Vancouver's top body-painting artists!
- A body-painted bike ride!
- Burlesque performances!
- DJs, dancing + more!

Sliding scale $5 to $7 (Average $6.00)
Cambrian Hall, 215 East 17th (near Main Street)
Advance tickets available at Our Community Bikes (3283 Main Street)

For more information contact Conrad Schmidt <ninemonkeys at blaze.ca>, 604-215-9395, or see our website at http://www.ArtistsAgainstWar.org

Poster:
http://www.ArtistsAgainstWar.org/ourparty.pdf

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Dinosaur Opera

The Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels present
the Dinosaur Opera in the Park.

Saturday June 28, 2003, East Vancouver
Meet at 9pm at La Casa Gelato, 1033 Venables, 
for ice cream and an escort to the venue by Cottonwood Gardens.

Show starts at 9:30 p.m.

Free performance:
Money donations and sexual favours will be accepted after the show.

Come see Brad and Janet's fossil fuel addiction deconstructed
by The DinoMatrix Queen Lilith Butch and her band of Dinosaurs and bikesexuals.
Contains song, dance, comedy and suggestions of sex and violence.

Because Extinction Stinks

For more information, Le Fossilosophe <foss at vcn.bc.ca>
http://www.bikesexual.org/dinos

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Every Day Is Bike Month

And of course it's still June and there's more Bike Month events even in July and onward.

Check for the latest on-line information at:
http://www.best.bc.ca/programsAndServices/bike_month/index.html

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

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