The Bicycle Friendly Business Awards are given out every year to organizations across Toronto who are making an effort to encourage cycling. This year Bike Pirates won the award for skills development!
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Annual General Meeting Sept 14th
At Bike Pirates an AGM is held every year to elect the board of directors and inform their members of previous and future activities. It is an opportunity for the shareholders and partners to receive copies of the company’s accounts as well as reviewing fiscal information for the past year and asking any questions regarding the directions the business will take in the future.
Agenda Items for Bike Pirates AGM:
Introduction: Review of Bike Pirates’ mission statement, structure and goals
Review of Bike Pirates operations for 2011
– open shop hours (general business review)
– the building (construction, issues to be resolved, landlords and lease)
– finances (income, expenses, growth)
Secondary projects review
– offsite and workshop opportunities *would be great to have a list of the groups/orgs. we now have a working relationship with*
– cooking programming and garden initiative
– events in the space (ours and others’) (including last year’s Bike!Bike!)
Committees
– review of committee structure proposed at previous AGM
– reports from current committees
– request for volunteers to join and steer committees, new or old
Board of directors
– review of current board and its organization processes
– elect new members
Future plans and goals
– finance
– the space
– the collective
– hours and programming
– ongoing projects with other organizations
Art Spin Bike Ride
On Thursday August 25th, meet us with your bicycle at Trinity Bellwoods Park between 6:30 and 7:00 PM. The tour starts at 7:00 PM sharp.
Art Spin is a free event, and everyone is welcome!
If you can’t make the tour, join us afterwards for our Second Annual Art Spin Exhibition and the grand opening of 99 Gallery. The reception runs from 9-Midnight and includes drinks and live music!
Ghost Bike On Greenwood
On Friday August 5, 2011, an 84 year old male cyclist was killed
at the intersection of Greenwood Avenue and Plains Road in East York.
The victim, Jack Roper, a Second World War veteran, had reportedly
discussed with friends the dangers of motorists not stopping at
the stop sign at this same intersection.
Advocacy for Respect for Cyclists (ARC) marks these deaths on our
roads with a memorial because those dying are our fellow cyclists.
It could happen to anyone, it could happen to any one of us.
It does not matter who was at fault in these deaths, nor their
place in society, what matters is that a cyclist has died.
ARC will hold a public memorial at 9:00 am, Friday August 12,
at the site of the crash.
Anyone on our streets is vulnerable, but special care must be taken for
the most vulnerable users of our roads, the cyclists and pedestrians.
Rather than giving in to the status quo of the automobile’s hegemony,
Toronto needs to be moving towards a vision of streets that are for
all users. Improved bicycle infrastructure, and a better pedestrian
realm is of vital importance for our lives today, and for a better
City of Toronto of tomorrow.
Trash Art and Music Festival
Sunday, July 31, 3:00pm to 10:30pm
R.R.R.R.R: Trash Art and Music Festival
Reused, Repurposed, Re-imagined, Reclaimed, Re-framed
Co-presented by Whippersnapper + Wavelength + Snakes & Ladders
Location:
El Gordo back patio + lot
214 Augusta Ave.
Featuring:
JAPANTHER / URBAN TRASH ART / MAKEOUT VIDEOTAPE / YAMANTAKA SONIC TITAN / LEMON BUCKET ORCHESTRA / LAL / FELIX KALMENSON + SASHA FOSTER / MARACATU MARABERTO / MOONKING
R.R.R.R.R is the central event of Whippersnapper’s TAKE ME WITH YOU summer programming series, which focuses on the Art of the lost and found. It has been brought together by three Toronto based indi arts and music organizations; Whippersnapper, Wavelength and Snakes & Ladders.
Imagine walking around the corner of a familiar building and stumbling into a totally new space where murals grow before your eyes, bands surprise the crowds from the rooftops and a giant trash sculpture presides over the whole ordeal. Welcome to R.R.R.R.R. Its real and hidden away in the heart of Kensington Market. Featuring a stellar line-up of bands from Toronto, Montreal and New York; artists from Toronto and Sao Paulo, Brazil; this event, taking place on July’s pedestrian Sunday, is an all day happening of radical enthusiasm, inspiration and community.
THIS EVENT IS ALSO FREE!!!
ARTISTS:
Urban Trash Art (SAO PAULO) – http://urbantrashart.blogspot.com/
Felix Kalmenson & Sasha Foster – www.sashafoster.ca, www.felixkalmenson.com
BANDS:
Japanther (NYC) – www.myspace.com/japanther Japanther
Makeout Videotape – www.myspace.com/makeoutvideotape
Lemon Bucket Orchestra – www.lemonbucket.com/
Maracatu Mar Aberto – http://www.maracatumaraberto.com/home.html
Yamantaka Sonic Titan – www.myspace.com/yamantakasonictitan
LAL – www.myspace.com/lalforest
Moon King – http://moonking.bandcamp.com/
Art Spin Bike Ride July 28th
Art Spin is a multi-disciplinary art crawl style bicycle tour of galleries (commercial, artist run & public), art performances and visits to artist’s studios throughout various downtown Toronto neighbourhoods. Each Art Spin tour will feature a new itinerary featuring some of the city’s most exciting artists. Much of the programing includes interactive events that directly involve our audiences, calling upon their creative participation. Art Spin works closely with different community partners to help capture and share the pulse of this city’s vibrant art scene.
This year’s Art Spin will take place on the last Thursday of the month from June until August 2011.The meeting point is the gate to Trinity Bellwoods Park at Queen St. & Strachan, between 6:30 – 7 pm and ending around 9 pm. Art Spin is a free event, and anyone regardless of age or cycling ability is welcome.
Dead bike roundup
Check out this blog post detailing the Ward 22 dead bike bike roundup from last Saturday. Pirates and Charlie’s Freewheels helped out the Cyclist’s Union collect the permalocked bikes.
