2010 Bike Month and Bikeology Festival Event Details
(Older events have been archived here.)
Here is the event listing for Bike Month / Bikeology 2010. Thanks for making this year a great one!
You can also follow us on Twitter (@bikeology)! As new events are posted, tweets will follow. We’ve got some new ideas for Twitter use this year, and we’ll be sure to keep you posted.
All events on this calendar are free. Registration for the jewelry making class is required.
Bikeology events are co-sponsored by the following generous groups:
- Alberta Bicycle Association
- Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ Society
- City of Edmonton – Cycling
- Edmonton Arts Council
- Mountain Equipment Co-op
- Rainbow Bridge Communications
- Earth’s General Store
- Metro Cinema
- Edmonton Transit
- Edmonton Small Press Association
- Credo Café
Bikeology: “Blow your own horn” Writing Competition!
Date and Time: Saturday June 26 – prior to the Outdoor Bike-in Movie
Location: Announcement of winner at Victoria Park Cricket Pitch, 12130 River Valley Road – Edmonton, AB
Description: Write a few sentences to describe a cycling incident with a car. Submit your writings to info@bikeology.ca. Entries will be posted on the Bikeology.ca website and read at the Ride-In Outdoor movie on June 26th. Winner will be assessed by the loudest response of clapping, bell ringing and horn blowing.
Commuter Challenge Week
Date and Time: May 30th – June 5th, Daily, via www.commuterchallenge.ca
Location: Everywhere!
Description: Commute to work by any other means than single-occupancy vehicle: walk, car pool, bus, skateboard, roller blade, or best of all – bike! Then log your commute, pitting yourself against other people, groups and cities. You can even get your place of work registered. You can also log your commuter choice daily, competing against other individuals, groups, and companies. To find out more check outwww.commuterchallenge.ca to participate.
Second-Best Bicycle Story Contest
Date and Time: Deadline June 26, prior to the Bike-In Movie
Location: Announcement of winner at Victoria Park Cricket Pitch, 12130 River Valley Road – Edmonton, AB
Description: Enter the Second-Best Bicycle Story Contest! Send us your second-best tale of something that happened to you while riding a bike. It doesn’t have to be long — in fact it shouldn’t be. A paragraph or two will do. It can be about something beautiful you saw, or maybe a crash or a fight. It can even be about romance!
Why do we only want only your second-best story? Well, this is a “family-friendly” contest and we realize that your very best stories might frighten sensitieve folks. (Send those ones to us anyway, and we’ll see if we can use ‘em.)
Winners will be announced at the Bike-In-Movie later this month. Entries will be posted on this website. There may even be a prize. Anonymity can be requested, although not if you want a prize.
Send your crazy story directly to drinkwaterrobert@hotmail.com.
Good luck!
Community Challenge
Date and Time: All of June!
Next Gen and the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues (EFCL) are organizing a fun event, open to all ages, that will reward participants for their participation, civic pride, and their desire to do some good for the local community. Getting to know your neighbors, having fun with your family and friends, contributing to a local charity, and winning a community fund for your community league for a community project – how many more incentives do you need?
Teams of all ages representing a number of Community Leagues throughout the City of Edmonton will participate in a month long challenge to win a $15,000 community fund that will directly benefit their Community League.
The events will take place throughout the month of June and will include a Neighborhood Cleanup on June 5, a 24 Hour Bike Tune Up on June 12 (see details below for EBC’s Repair-a-thon), and a Canned Food Sculpture Competition on June 26. Points will be awarded to teams based on criteria established for each event.
The winner will be announced on July 1, at the Canada Day celebrations in Churchill Square!
How can you get involved? The first step is to encourage your community league to participate and organize a team. The second step, tell your friends, family, coworkers, local barista or postman and rally the troops!
Community Challenge Edmonton Website
Events We’ve Already Held This Year:
Bikeology: Bike Month Launch
Date and Time: Tuesday, June 1st, we’ll gather at BikeWorks (10047 80 Ave) between 6:10-6:30pm. A second group will also gather at Beaver Hills Park (105 St and Jasper Ave) between 6:40-7:00pm. You can meet at whichever location is most convenient to you. The BikeWorks group will depart at 6:30pm and ride to Beaver Hills Park to join with the downtown group. At 7pm, the whole group will ride together to the Winspear.
Location: BikeWorks (10047 80 Ave, entrance through back alley only), Beaver Hills Park (105 St and Jasper Ave), and the Winspear Centre (#4 Sir Winston Churchill Square, corner of 99 St and 102 Ave) Edmonton, AB
Description: Ride with the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ Society to Symphony! EBC and the ESO are partnering to offer $25 tickets (incl. all fees) to EBC members for the June 1 performance of Cameron Carpenter and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. The concert will begin at 7:30pm. Please try to wear your dress clothes for the bike ride, if possible. However, dress clothes are not required, if you prefer not to wear them, or if you wish to change once we arrive at the Winspear. Note for online purchasing: tickets will not be mailed. When they become available, you will be e-mailed and you can pick them up at BikeWorks prior to the event, or at either meeting location on the day of the event.
June 2 – Clean Air Day – celebrate this National day by participating in some velo love.
Environment Week – Mini-Fair
Date and time: Tuesday, June 1st, 11:30am to 1:30pm
Where: Churchill Square
Description: Come celebrate Environment Week in Churchill Square and get information about active transportation and alternatives to driving alone (www.edmonton.ca/transportation).
Environment Week – City of Edmonton Outreach
Date and Time: June 3, 11:30am – 1:30pm
Location: Commerce Place, 101 Street + 101 Ave
Description: Find out about City of Edmonton programs and services that support environmentally friendly and sustainable transportation (www.edmonton.ca/transportation).
Bike to School Day
Date and Time: Thursday, June 3rd, all day
Location: Alberta, province wide
Description: June 3, 2010 is Alberta’s first Bike to School Day. Individuals and schools can register for Bike to School Day online at www.shapeab.com.
Bikeology: Bike to Work Breakfast
Date and Time: Friday June 4th- 7:00am – 9:00 a.m.
Location: The Bicycle Bottleneck, 88 Avenue/109 Street – Edmonton, AB
Description: Join us on your way to work for a coffee, donut, and a quick check of your trusty two-wheeled steed!
Bikeology: Monday Bikey Movies – Feature: The Quiet Man
Date and Time: Monday, June 7th – 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location: Rice theatre in the Citadel Theatre Building 9828-101 A-Ave
Description: Feature: ‘The Quiet Man’ USA,1952, 129 minutes, directed by John Ford. All movie events start with “Barb’s Bike Shorts” (22 min), prizes and more. The Quiet Man is a 1952 American romantic drama film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Victor McLaglen and Barry Fitzgerald. It was based on a 1933 Saturday Evening Post short story by Maurice Walsh. The film is notable for its lush photography of the Irish countryside and the long, climactic, semi-comic fist fight between Wayne and McLaglen. (from Wikipedia)
Bikeology: Bike Dialogue (group discussions) regarding Racing
Date and Time: Tuesday, June 8th – 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Credo Café – Edmonton, AB 10134 104 Street (780) 761-3744
Description: Come discuss all aspects of Racing – Alberta Bicycle Association will host an evening of inquiry into how to start racing, what it takes to make it racing in Canada and generally answer all your questions…
Bikeology: Mocktails on the Bridge
Date and time: June 10th –4:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: Ezio Faraone Park, North West side of the High Level Bridge, at 109th Street – Edmonton, AB
Description: Stop by on your way to/from your commute for a smoothie made in a blender powered by bike! Meet other bike ridin’ folk! Snacks, information and fun times will be provided.
Bikeology: Jewelry Making from used bike parts.
Date and Time: Thursday June 10, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Location: Harcourt House Gallery Annex 10215-112 Street
Description: Parts and equipment supplied. Come and tune into the beauty of the bicycle. Decorate yourself with bits of the bicycle that decorates your life. Registration is required through:courses@edmontonbikes.ca
Bikeology: Pancake Bike to Work Breakfast
Date and Time: Friday, June 11th – 7:00pm – 9:00 a.m.
Location: Sir Winston Churchill Square, 102 Avenue/100 Street – Edmonton, AB
Description: Bikeology volunteers flip for you! Vegan pancakes, fruit, juice and coffee with a side of velo-love! Join us on your way to work for a coffee, some pancakes, and a quick check of your trusty two-wheeled steed!
EBC 24-Hour Bike Repair-a-thon
Date and Time: Saturday June 12th at noon -Sunday, June 13th at noon
Location: Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ Society (BikeWorks) 10047 – 80 Avenue (rear alley access) – Edmonton
Description: Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ Society will be open to help you learn to fix and maintain your bike for 24 hours at BikeWorks, 10047 80th Ave. rear alley entrance only. The EBC crew are on a mission! 24 hours of straight bicycle repairs. Stop by, hang out, bring your bike down, learn some mechanical magic, get dirty, have fun! The regular shop fee for BikeWorks will not be charged for this event as – all Bike Month and Bikeology Festival events are free!
Polo Velo! Open invitation.
Date and Time: Sunday, June 13th -1:00pm -4:00pm
Location: Ritchie Community League Rink at 98 St + 77 Ave
Description: Come to watch or come to play. Polo velo – that’s right – Polo with bicycles instead of horses. Crazy fun! There will be a few extra mallets and bikes on hand if you want to jump in. This is a good bunch of folks, so don’t be shy. An informal session will be held ahead of time to show you how to trick your bike out polo velo style. E.g. making wheel covers so the ball doesn’t rip through your spokes. There’ll be kool-aid!
Bikeology: Monday Bikey Movies
Date and Time: Monday, June 14th – 7:00 – 10:00 pm
Location: Rice theatre in the Citadel Theatre Building 9828-101 A-Ave
Description:
Feature Presentation: ‘PEDAL’ USA, 2001, 52 minutes, directed by Peter Sutherland. All movie events start with “Barb’s Bike Shorts” (22 min), prizes and more. Movie: PEDAL – Pedal is a face paced documentary film about surviving in the streets of New York as a bicycle messenger. It features messengers from all walks of life as they battle traffic in a race to make their next delivery on time. Pedal allows the viewer to live the spectacle of delivery, without the bruises and near misses that make up the daily life of a bicycle messenger. Before the feature, we’re playing ‘‘One Got Fat’ USA, 1963, 15 minutes, directed by Dale Jennings. A group of children, all wearing ape masks, ride their bicycles to the park for a picnic. Does Rooty-Toot Jasperson or Mossby Pomegranate know enough about bike safety to make it to the park? This strange film was narrated by Edward Everett Horton (you may remember him as Roaring Chicken from F-Troop). A classic bike safety film that you will never forget.
(video version courtesy of archive.org)
‘Cyclewala – The Bicycle Doctor’India/USA, 2007, 3m 18s, directed by the Swajana Collaborators
Pravin Swaminathan Pillai (35), a bicycle repairer, conducts his business at a lane in Koregaon Park, Pune. Because of his family’s bad economic condition he had to quit his school in the fifth standard. Since then he started repairing bicycles. He has been doing this job for the past 15 years and with the savings of 15 hardworking years; he is all set to buy his own shop and conduct the same business on a larger scale.
Swajana means “our people”. It’s a collaboration between an Indian and a U.S. video team. The goal is to show daily life in India through the eyes of people who actually live there. The U.S. team simply helps to solve technical problems and do promotion. The Indian team chooses all the stories and does the production.
‘The Bike Medic’ USA, 2008, 4m, directed by James O’Brien
courtesy of archive.org
In Geneva, Illinois, a paramedic and part time entrepreneur named Mike Palombi, provides on site bike repair to his community.
‘The Lamps – 20 inches of Monkey’
USA, date unknown, 4m, director unknown, courtesy of archive.org
Using footage from the classic safety film One Got Fat, The Lamps, blast out punk rock music in their ape masks, and of course, on their bikes.
Bikeology: Bike Dialogue (group discussions) re: Touring by Bike Panel
Date and Time: Tuesday, June 15th – 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Credo Café – Edmonton, AB 10134 104 Street (780) 761-3744
Description: Join our panel of seasoned bicycle tourers. Focus will be on non-supported touring. The packing challenges, the route planning and the thrill of being independent and self-propelled.
Bikeology: Bike to Work Breakfast
Date and Time: Friday, June 18th – 7:00am – 9:00am
Location: Ezio Faraone Park 97 Ave + 109 St, Edmonton, AB
Description: Another Breakfast Join us on your way to work for a coffee, a pastry, and a quick check of your trusty two-wheeled steed!
Bikeology Day Festival
Date and Time: Saturday June 19 - 12:00 noon – 4:00pm
Location: Beaver Hills House Park, Jasper Avenue + 105 Street, Edmonton, AB
Description: The glorious Bikeology Day rolls around once again. This year the Festival in Beaver Hills Park leads to the Park(ed) event (see description below)- 102 Ave will be closed to motorized traffic with tons of activities that go through the downtown farmers’ market and lead to “Rock the Square” festival in Churchill Square. Come find out how city space can be about people and rejuvenating activities. Find us there, getting down to funky music, having solar powered cookies, pedal powered smoothies, bicycle art centred kids’ entertainment, trials riders, funky bikes, free bike check-ups, and velo-love. The Bikeology Day is all free! Bring your bike, your friends and your sunscreen for a fantastic velo party!
Park(ed)
Date and Time: June 19 - 12:00 noon- 4:00pm
Location: 102 Avenue between 100 and 104 Streets – Edmonton, AB
This year you will be able to meander through the City Centre Farmers’ Market and hook up with the new Park(ed) Festival, hosted by Active Edmonton, Walkable Edmonton and Mountain Equipment Co-op. Park(ed) gives Edmontonians the opportunity to transform urban spaces into parks and landscapes and increase their participation in an active lifestyle. To register your Parking Space go to activeedmonton.ca
MEC Bikefest
Date and Time: Saturday, June 19 - 12:00 noon – 4:00pm
Location: 102 Avenue between 100 and 104 Streets AND at Bikeology: Festival – Edmonton, AB
Join MEC’s Bikefest and learn about cycling or exchange your bikey gear at the gearswap, on the Bikeology Festival site. For more information, or to register your table for the Gearswap go to mec.ca or call 780-488-6614
Bikeology: Monday Bikey Movies
Date and Time: Monday, June 21st – 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: Rice theatre in the Citadel Theatre: 9828-101 A-Ave
Description:
Feature: ‘Man with One Red Shoe’ USA, 1985, 92 minutes, directed by Stan Dragoti All movie events start with “Barb’s Bike Shorts” (22 min), prizes and more. Man with One Red Shoe. Rival government agencies vie for supremacy and control in the US government. After one group’s agent is turned, creating a fiasco in the Middle East, a Senate Committee demands an inquiry into what happened. A request for time to investigate results in a random choice made at the airport which leads to a slapstick adventure staring a not only a red shoe but a red bicycle as well. The protagonist “doesn’t even know how to drive a car”. Hollywood’s remake of “The Man with one Black Shoe” starring Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah and Carrie Fisher is a velo-love adventure with mishaps galore and a fun adventure for the whole family.
‘Bicycle Today, Automobile Tomorrow’ USA, 1969, 10m, A Sid Davis production
Shows graphically how one should check a bike for mechanical soundness and how to keep it in good running condition. Pictures a boy and a girl demonstrating the importance of knowing the correct bicycle rules and regulations before riding in traffic and how to ride safely. Another Sid Davis classic that manages to take all the fun out of bicycle riding. Audience is allowed to shout out more interesting details.
Bikeology: Bike Dialogue (group discussions) Topic: Winter Cycling
Date and Time: Tuesday, June 22nd – 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Credo Café – Edmonton, AB 10134 104 Street (780) 761-3744
Description: Winter cycling is a growing concern… come find out how and why at our dialogue night featuring real winter cyclists. Did you notice that this winter cycling discussion night is scheduled as close as we can get to the longest day of the year? Pretty funny, eh?
Bikeology: Spokesongs Theatre Performance
Date and Time: June 22nd to June 27th – check website for times
Location: Old Alberta Cycle Building 9115-118 Avenue – Edmonton, AB
Description: Despite the torment of the Irish troubles that lies beneath the plot, Spokesong is a sweet play. Written by Stewart Parker, with music by Jimmy Kennedy and lyrics by Parker, the show, which had a run off-Broadway in the late ’70’s, is an olio of comedy and drama, with a sprinkling of vaudeville entertainments.
Belfast 1973. Frank Stock owns a bicycle repair shop inherited from his grandparents. Though violence seethes around him, he is concerned with a project to raze his neighbourhood to allow new highway construction. Frank lives in the sheltered world his store provides him. Through a series of flashbacks, we see that his grandparents, Francis and Kitty, lived a similar life, though he served in World War I and she was a suffragette.
Bicycles have been the focus of their lives. Expert on the history and construction of bicycles, Frank and Francis defend their use as economical, safe and versatile. Little by little the civil war creeps into Frank’s shop until he must confront its probable destruction by bomb or bulldozer. His romance with Daisy, an elementary school teacher, and the return of his scheming adopted brother Julian facilitates the entrance of the war into his life and exacerbates his dilemmas.
Bikeology: Mocktails on the Bridge
Date and time: Thursday, June 24th – 4:00pm-6:00pm
Location: Ezio Faraone Park, North West side of the High Level Bridge, at 109th Street
Description: Stop by on your way to/from your commute for a smoothie made in a blender powered by bike! Meet other bike ridin’ folk! Snacks, information and fun times will be provided.
Bikeology: Bike to Work Breakfast
Date and Time: Friday, June 25th – 7:00am – 9:00am
Location: The Bicycle Bottleneck – 109 Street & 88 Avenue – on the Southwest side of the High Level Bridge
Description: Join us on your way to work for a coffee, donut, and a quick check of your trusty two-wheeled steed!
The Owen Hunt-Richel Memorial Critical Mass
Date and Time: Friday, June 25th – 5:30 pm start
Location: City Hall, South Plaza 100 Street and 102A Avenue – Edmonton, AB
Description: Meet outside of city hall to take to the streets! Critical mass rides are a fun way to demonstrate use of the bicycle as an efficient and freeing form of daily travel. Dress up, dress down, just come out and ride from Edmonton City Hall to Gazebo Park in the Strathcona area.www.edmontoncriticalmass.com
EBC Dance Party
Date and Time: Friday, June 25th – 9:00pm – 1:00 am
Location: Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ Society 10047 80 Ave – BikeWorks *** Back alley entrance only****
Description: Join us at Bikeology’s Dance Party, hosted by Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ Society at their shop. Free. Beverages available for purchase.
Bikeology: The velo-tastic Ride-In Outdoor Movie
Date and Time: Saturday, June 28th – about 10:00 pm ‘till whenever
Location: Victoria Park Cricket Pitch, 12130 River Valley Road – Edmonton, AB
Description: We’ll be watching Pee Wee’s Big Adventure! Join us at our marvellous Ride-In Outdoor Movie, and the pre-movie picnic and live local music. It’s the cycle-in outdoor movie event of the year! Note that the live local music will be solar powered. Movie starts when it’s dark and ends when it ends! We recommend you bring bug spray, a blanket, a full picnic basket and a chair to enjoy the movie.
Bikeology: Monday Bikey Movies
Date and Time: Monday, June 28th – 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location: Rice theatre in the Citadel Theatre: 9828-101 A-Ave
Description:
Feature: ‘O Caminho Das Nuvens’ Brazil, 2003, 85 minutes, Portugese with English subtitles
directed by Vicente Amorim. All movie events start with “Barb’s Bike Shorts” (22 min), prizes and more. ‘O Caminho das Nuvens’ Romao is the father of a family of seven from Paraíba, Brazil. He decides to hit the road to Rio in search of a job that will pay a salary of one thousand dollars a month, thus providing decent life for his family. To achieve this dream, he decides to travel 3200 km on bicycles, with his wife Rose and their five children, facing hunger, heat, fatigue and violence .
The film is based on the true story of Cicero Dias Ferreira, an unemployed truck driver who, along with his wife and five children, rode from the Santa Rita , Paraíba, to the Bangu, Rio de Janeiro.
The film title’s literal translation is “The Trail of Clouds” but it’s official English film title is “The Middle of the World”.
before the feature, we’ll play:
‘Girl and a Bicycle’ USA, 1995, 15 minutes, directed by Jon Behrens
This film is a collaboration between Jon Behrens and fellow filmmaker and friend Rasha Refaie.The film was inspired by a dream that Rasha had about a girl, a bicycle and a silver colored egg. The viewer sees Rasha peddling all over Seattle through city streets, parks, and ultimately ending up a graveyard were she begins to experience the nosebleed of her life. Rubato composed the films sound track. This is the rare solarized version of this film.
http://www.jonbehrensfilms.com
Bikeology: Bike Dialogue/Workshop (group discussions): DIY reflective clothing
Date and Time: Tuesday, June 29th – 7:00 – 9:00pm
Location: Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ Society 10047 80 Ave – BikeWorks in the Back Alley
Description: If you want be seen in the brief darkness of summer nights and the rest of the year, check out this workshop at Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ on reflective clothing. Bring clothing you want to sew reflective material on to. To register and find out details, emailcourse@edmontonbikes.ca
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