WHAT IS GOING ON?
Boulder Green Streets (BGS) promotes active, healthy living, sustainability and strong community. We do this by creating expanded public, park-like spaces through large-scale street liberations and car-free spaces. Extensive and free activity programming gets all ages, economic levels, genders and ethnicities out to play together to experience sustainability first hand. We now have two years experience running the Boulder Ciclovia. Each event was attended by roughly 15,000 people who are asking for more. We are ready to grow! Join us on facebook and twitter or follow our blog for regular updates, ways to get involved, and pre-event gatherings.
WHEN & WHERE?
So many Boulderites had such a good time at our first event they are now asking “Can we do this every weekend?”. We like your thinking! Our CICLOVIA in 2012 will be held this year on Sunday, September 16th, 2012. Get involved early and help us grow the route and this great Boulder event. Please consider making a donation or volunteering with BGS.
WHO?
At Boulder Green Streets September Car-Free event community members of all types will enjoy a variety of FREE activities, demonstrations, and workshops (many bi-lingual). Some of the activities that will be offered include cycling saftey, demonstrations and repair, cycling meet-ups for a variety of distance rides, running the route with a creek loop, walking tours of downtown, hiking meet ups, dance classes, yoga, martial arts, frisbee, climbing, a samba in the streets carnival march and more! You’ll find a lot along the route to keep you moving… good music, healthy snacks and new friends. “Experience” sustainability yourself and learn more about living well in Boulder.
BE THE CHANGE!
Come help us develop this outrageous, wonderful community program. Bring your energy, smiles, friends, kids, and pets and come be in the streets with us! You can get involved by volunteering anytime (yes we need you!). With your support we’ll be able to grow the event route and/or number of dates into the future.
BOULDER GREEN STREETS IS A CICLOVIA PROJECT BUT WHAT IS CICLOVIA?
The most famous Ciclovìa (literally translated as ‘bike’ way) occurs every Sunday in Bogota, Colombia where an astounding 70 miles of major city streets are shut down and handed over to two million bike-riding, road-running, game-playing citizens.
Challenging the assumption that major streets exist only for cars is a powerful stance. As people rethink the use of public spaces, new ideas begin to emerge, which is probably why a number of U.S. cities have adopted the Ciclovìa concept. Across America, these events have been called Sunday Parkways, Summer Streets and various other names.
Ciclovia type programs go beyond addressing the need for sustainable streets but also give their communities a potential solution for addressing community health issues by encouraging citizens to get active. Obesity and a sedentary lifestyle represent major risk factors associated with chronic disease which is perhaps the single largest cause of death in the United States.
