Bicycle and Pedestrian Task Force Upcoming Events

KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR INFORMATION ABOUT STRIVE NOT TO DRIVE, APRIL 20!

Friday, April 20, is the big day, complete with prizes, promotions, and even breakfast!

Asheville Transit is offering 25-cent bus fare, the film festival will be at UNCA, and there will be prize drawings for folks who register at www.gettingaround-wnc.com and then do something besides drive alone on Friday.

If Friday, the 20th doesn’t work for you, you have until the 29th to register and complete your own strive not to drive day. So far, I know that prizes have been provided by Liberty Bicycles, Asheville Transit, Greenlife Grocery, the Asheville Citizen-Times, Malaprops, the Tweetsie Railroad, Asheville Regional Airport, and Chimney Rock Park. (There are seriously good prizes available.)

The bicycle workshop will be Saturday morning (see below), and on Sunday, April 22, the Beat the Bounds Ride begins at 9 (details available at www.blueridgebicycleclub.org), and then the earth day celebration will begin at 12:30 at the Cathedral of All Souls in Biltmore Village. Information (and prize registration!) will be on http://www.gettingaround-wnc.com/.

HOW TO LEAVE YOU CAR AT HOME – USING YOUR BICYCLE FOR TRANSPORTATION WORKSHOP IS SATURDAY, APRIL 21

This beginning transportation workshop will be from 9-1, with an optional short ride afterward. The workshop is free, but please reserve a space by contacting Claudia Nix. The workshop will include a panel discussion by folks who use their bicycle to get around, and sessions on safety, riding skills, equipment, and route planning. Asheville Transit is bringing a bus so there will be a chance to practice using the bicycle racks. At the end of the workshop, there will be a chance for a short group ride. Michael Sule rightly observed that by sending out news of the workshop to this mailing list, we are "preaching to the choir." He proposes we think of the workshop as a “bring a friend to church” activity. Tell someone you know who isn’t riding in Asheville about the workshop. Bring them if that’s what it takes.

Barb Mee, Transportation Planner
French Broad River MPO
P.O. Box 7148, Asheville, NC 28802
(828) 259-5457
http://frenchbroadrivermpo.org/

Asheville Music Jamboree

another great Deerfield's event....

Asheville Music Jamboree: Welcome
June 1-3 2007, Asheville NC

For well over a century, the climate, the scenery and the welcoming openness of the people of Asheville have captured the hearts of poets, painters, princes and paupers alike. Regardless of status or standing, people have been drawn here from across the map, sharing their talents and ideas to create a cultural tapestry that's enormously rich in diversity and unrivaled beauty. June 1st through the 3rd, the Asheville Music Jamboree will embrace that diversity and beauty, inviting patrons from all walks of life to enjoy an eclectic mix of world-class entertainment and to celebrate a unique sense of community in an intimate setting of rolling hills and bountiful apple orchards.

Music and dance devotees of all ages will gather to make new friends and renew old relationships. Children will laugh and sing and share and learn. Families will tuck away their laptops and gaming systems to rediscover the simple pleasure of each other's company. And couples will stroll by sparkling ponds as the festival's sounds and pageantry unfurl around them.

We invite you to join the Jamboree and help us create an event that mirrors the true attraction of Asheville, its picturesque scenery, unbridled talent, spirited discourse and limitless hospitality.

Goth Swap '07

A clothes swap or fashion swap is the best way to recycle old clothes. And who doesn't have old clothes in your closet that you could part with? On Saturday, Mar. 24, The 5th Circle is holding a goth clothing swap.

The 5th Circle: Goth Swap '07

w/ DJs Nareau & Drees

Saturday, March 24th, 2007
Bring your old clothes, boots, jewelry,
etc and trade it, sell it, or just give it
away! All vendors welcome!

Joli Rouge
130 College Street
10:00-03:00
21+ / $5

2nd and 4th Saturday of every month!

The 5th Circle forum is always a lively place to visit.

Youth Action Against The War March 20

FIGHT THE WAR MACHINE - GET ORGANIZED, GET INVOLVED, AND GET IN THE STREETS!

If you want to participate in this day of action, or are on spring break and want to endorse the call to support those students who are taking action, please email march20antiwar@hotmail.com or visit www.march20antiwar.blogspot.com

UNC-Asheville Socialist Unity League of SDS: Walk-Out at 11:30, Rally, March Downtown

(via: the ever relevant Ron Jacobs @ MrZine)

Doll-A-Rama