Saturday, May 22, 2010

Atlanta Streets Alive! Sunday May 23


Don't miss your opportunity to participate in a sure-to-be-historic event! Atlanta Streets Alive! will take place Sunday May 23, from 1-6 pm. Woodruff Park will be the event headquarters, which will close Edgewood Avenue for over 1 mile to the east.

Georgia State is partnering with the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition, the City of Atlanta, the Atlanta Regional Commission, Central Atlanta Progress/Downtown TMA, and many other local organizations to conduct the inaugural Atlanta Streets Alive!


Atlanta Streets Alive! is a Ciclovia style event. It is also a promising strategy to increase opportunities for physical activity. Atlanta Streets Alive! will close down Edgewood and Auburn Avenues and other streets in downtown Atlanta to cars for the afternoon and open them up for people to bike, walk, run, jog, crawl, roll, hop, skip, unicycle, roller blade, dance, play, and recreate without a motor. Woodruff and Hurt Parks will be centers for the activities that will stretch for more than a mile.

Atlanta Streets Alive! will be an entirely free opportunity for people of all ages and backgrounds to engage with the public realm, build community and participate in healthy activities. By closing streets temporarily to cars, Atlanta Streets Alive! will create a safe and welcoming space for people of all ages, fitness levels, and degrees of confidence to bicycle in a safe and welcoming setting. The event will animate many of the dead spaces throughout our downtown, featuring arts installations, improvisation, theater, dance and fitness classes, and will bring a healthy dose of imagination and spontaneous joy to our city. Many stores, restaurants, and other vendors will be open on Sunday afternoon.


We hope that this Sunday, Atlanta Streets Alive! will demonstrate overwhelming interest to convince the City to allow it to become a regular event increase the size of the event.

Whether you have an hour or the entire afternoon to spend, please join us on May 23rd to help our streets truly come alive and bring your friends and family! For more information on the event, to see the route and to check out the long list of planned activities, please visit
www.atlantastreetsalive.com