2009 Car Free Vancouver AGM – September 22nd

Call out for CAR FREE VANCOUVER Annual General Meeting

Tuesday September 22 – 6 pm
(International Car-Free Day)

Location :
The Junction (the park at 15th and Fraser)
The Toast Collective (648 Kingsway)

You are cordially and with a great deal of enthusiasm invited to :::

CAR FREE VANCOUVER’S AGM

We will begin with a social potluck picnic in the park (please label your food)
Followed by the business meeting in the Toast Collective (see the agenda below)
The evening will end with films, music, and socializing …

This is your opportunity to celebrate, activate and actualize the vision that has successfully brought the city on side with the CAR FREE meme.

It is our opportunity to get down to business and keep strengthening the infrastructure needed for this kind of work ::

-By attending you will automatically become a member of the Society… how wonderful!!
-You will be able to vote in new Directors for the Society, to join the team rising up to the car-free, DIY ethos. (FYI: The ‘board’ is the small group of folks who help weave all the ideas, festivals and actions into a tangible presence, which can be used to lobby government and affect systemic change.)

AGENDA
6:00 PM ****PRE MEETING POTLUCK (please bring your own plate and cutlery !)
7:00PM – Member Registration
7:15PM – Introductions and Opening Remarks
7:30PM – Report from the Board and Treasurer`s Report
7:45PM – Board Candidate Speeches followed by Membership Open Floor
8:15PM – Secret Ballot Vote by Membership
8:30PM – Vote Results and Closing Remarks

Please come…! Please come!!

Tuesday September 22

Location :
6pm – The green island with the stand of flags and the big beautiful tree at the Junction of 15th/Fraser/Kingsway
7pm – The Toast Collective 648 Kingsway

Car Free Vancouver Day is still on!

You may have noticed some news about Vancouver’s Car Free Sundays being in jeopardy.

Fear not!

The Car Free Days being referred to in those articles are the ones proposed by Andrea Reimer last year. The plan she had was for the city to take the lead on hosting a series of its own car free days over the whole summer.

The original Car Free Vancouver Day is still on! We’ve got a dedicated group of volunteers organizing it, and we have approval from the city to close Denman Street, Main Street, and Commercial Drive to traffic on Sunday, June 14th (note the date change). In addition to those three major streets, residents in Kitsilano, Dunbar, and everywhere else are encouraged to host their own car free block parties.

Keep checking back here. We’ll have more details as the fest date gets closer.

Start your own car-free day

So you want to throw a festival in your community. Great! 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!

The Car Free Vancouver Day organizers have put together a guide to help get you started on pulling off a great event. You can download it here.

Car Free Day Vancouver needs YOU!

Car Free Day 2009 is four months away and the various organizing committees are getting the ball rolling and looking for volunteers. If you’d like to lend a hand, check out the Get Involved page for contact details for each festival as well as a list of upcoming organizing meetings.

Stay tuned to this site for more details on the individual festivals, coming soon.

Get in touch now to join the fest crew

Main Street
mainstreet@carfreevancouver.org
Next meeting at the front door of the Heritage Hall on Thursday, Feb 19 at 6:50  (Meeting will start at 7:00PM in the BIA office).

Commercial Drive
drivefest@carfreevancouver.org
The Drivefest 2009 Start-up Meeting will be held on Thursday, February 26th at 7PM in the Commercial Drive area (location to be determined).

Kitsilano
kitsilano@carfreevancouver.org
First meeting is Feb 24th, contact for details.

Dunbar
dunbar@carfreevancouver.org
Contact for meeting details.

West End
westend@carfreevancouver.org
Contact for meeting details.

General Info
info@carfreevancouver.org