The 4th Street Lilac Festival will be held on Sunday, May 27 from 10:00 to 16:00. Bike Calgary has secured a table at the festival to promote cycling actvities in the city. We are currently seeking volunteers to help staff the table to talk about bikes, advertise for our Urban Cycling Skills clinic, give out some freebies, and sign up new Bike Calgary members. If you're interested in helping out for an hour or two, please contact Ben Cowie (ward8@bikecalgary.org).
Information about Lilac Festival is available here: http://www.lilacfestival.net/lilacfestival/. They're also on Twitter @lilacfest. In the past it's been a very large festival, with up to 125,000 attendees (their estimate). This is a great opportunity to reach a large number of people to chat about bikes and spend a fun day in the sun.
Thanks to Jonathan at ING Direct for donating their table space to us!




Wow! Thank you everyone!
Submitted by snowandscience on
What an event today! We had a thousand great conversations with Calgarians today about bikes, looking forward to seeing some of them signed on as new members here soon! There were some instrumental people that helped out today, I can't thank them enough for their time and effort.
I love the map.
Submitted by Tyrone on
I love the map.
Kudos to Ben for being there
Submitted by Julie Gregg on
Kudos to Ben for being there ALLLL day.
I made the mistake of trying to
Submitted by gyrospanner on
cross town using 17th Avenue!
I had to drive to Elbow drive and then strategically angle off to the east from second street.....
D'Oh