2011 Car Free Society AGM Minutes

The 2011 Car Free Society Annual General Meeting was held on November 22nd and Rhizome Cafe. There was a great turnout with lots of faces, new and old, eager to get involved and help with next year’s Car Free Day.

The meeting minutes are posted below for everybody to review. You can also download the minutes here [PDF, 733KB]. (more…)

Start a Car Free Day in Your Community

It’s a lot of fun, you’ll meet some cool folks, build community and put on a great party. And really, we can’t emphasize this enough: it won’t be too much work if you get enough help and organize it right. For real! Throwing a festival is really pretty easy and certainly you can do it.

Get in touch with us at info@carfreevancouver.org and we’ll help you through the entire process of setting up your own Car Free Day. Our experienced organizers can guide you through each step – everything from gathering volunteers to contacting local merchants and getting city permits.

Don’t Forget to Vote

So you enjoy community festivals? You attend Car Free Vancouver Day? You have opinions about what Vancouver should look and feel like?

Then don’t forget to get out and vote! Remind your friends, family and co-workers to do so too. You can go here for some quick and easy facts about the upcoming election on November 19th, 2011.

http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/elections/2011election

There’s even a handy iPhone app available for download.

See you at the polls!

On Bicycles

50 Ways the New Bike Culture Can Change Your Life

Editor Amy Walker has been at the forefront of the utility cycling trend as co-founder of Momentum magazine, which chronicles and inspires urban bike culture and transportation cycling. In On Bicycles, she gathers a wide-ranging group of cycling writers to explore the ways that biking can change, and is changing, people’s lives. From utility bikes that are becoming the primary mode of transportation for entire families to the artistic creations of freak bike riders, On Bicycles has something for everyone who has ever ridden a bike.

For more information, visit www.onbicycles.com

Invitation to our Annual General Meeting

Hurray for Car Free Day!

To-date Car Free Vancouver Society (CFVS) has organized 21 fun filled, incident free, community bolstering festivals, showing Vancouver and other cities around the world that where you have less cars, you have more community!

Many of our 250,000 participants wrote glowing letters to City Council expressing their appreciation for the work we do. We are excited to continue to volunteer our time to bring you more festivals and other tantalizing projects in the future.

We would like to invite anyone out there who is interested in our work to attend our catered AGM onTuesday, November 22nd at Rhizome Cafe.

Vegetarian friendly food will be served, and the kitchen and bar will both be open for any requests.

Come and learn a bit about our history, how this year went for us, and what our goals for the future are. You will have the chance to join one of our sub-committees, join our society and vote for a new board.

We are excited to have new folks join our crew, especially (but not limited to) those of you with a particular interest or strengths in the following areas:

• networking with community (outreach, social media, visioning)
• communication and finances (grant writing and lobby work)
• interweb fun (design, ideas, efficiency)
• event organizing (help organize the CFD festivals)

Pass this on to your friends and networks. The more the merrier!

2011 Car-Free Vancouver Day

Hello to all Car-Free Superstars!

Car Free Vancouver Day 2011 will once again envelop our town in forward-looking fun, on Sunday June 19th – Father’s Day.

Now is your chance to get involved, get creative, meet some awesome folks, and help co-create the city of your dreams. If you love Car Free Day, please consider stepping up to take a creative leadership role in this amazing event.

Last year’s Car Free Day brought over 250,000 people out to play in the streets, and to change how they see their city. This year we hope to add more nodes and open more space for more people. This is a 100% volunteer organized event, with over 600 volunteers – and we need your help to make this magic happen.

Photo Credit insidevancouver.ca

Festival Sites

Commercial Drive
Location: Commercial Drive between 1st and Venables
Time:  12pm to 6pm (streets closed from 10am to 8pm)

Main Street
Location: Main Street between 12th Ave. and 29th Ave.
Time: 12pm to 8pm (streets closed from 10am to 10pm)

West End
Location: Denman from Robson St. to Davie St.
Time:  12pm to 6pm (streets closed from 10am to 8pm)

Kitsilano
Kitsilano is doing something different for Car Free Day. Instead of closing off a major street, people throughout Kits are hosting individual block parties with their neighbours

Download the flyer [PDF, 1MB]

Car Free After-Party

Come to the Car Free Vancouver Day after-party at the Waldorf Hotel, from 8pm onward. Entrance will be $5, but volunteers get in for free. Comes early before it reaches capacity!

Get the inside scoop on all this weekend’s car-free festivities

The flyer for the 2010 Car Free Festival is now available:
Car Free Day Flyer – Part 1 (PDF)
Car Free Day Flyer – Part 2 (PDF)

Check it out to find out about all the happenings this weekend, including maps of each festival footprint and some teasers for the types of entertainment and other activities that will be at each location.

Stay connected with us on Twitter and Facebook

Car Free Vancouver is on Facebook and on Twitter @carfreeyvr. Use hashtags #CFDrive #CFKits #CFMain #CFWest when tweeting about your Car-Free neighbourhood!

Car Free Vancouver – Main Street is on Facebook and on Twitter @carfreemain (#CFMain)