2012 Bike Walk Week Celebration Locations

June Bike Walk to Work Week - Twin Cities

Mill City Museum - 704 South 2nd Street, Minneapolis

Bicycle Counts - A traveling animated bicycle counter, installed on Minneapolis bike paths during Bike Walk Week. Created to celebrate and demonstrate the collective impact of cyclists, the project visually translates a real-time count of passing bicyclists into social, ecological and financial savings.

Bicycling Counts is a creative and engaging strategy to educate the Twin Cities community about how each individual action contributes to a healthier environment. Each day during Bike Walk Week the counter will be installed at a surprise location along a popular Minneapolis bike route. During the day, the counter will track all passing cyclists. Then each evening from 9-10 p.m., an artistic projection will be set-up on site to display a real-time count of each person.

Mississippi Market - 626 Selby Ave / 1500 W 7th St, St. Paul

8 am - 9 pm Daily

For Bike Walk Week, Mississippi Market will be holding a drawing at both of our stores for 1 year complimentary NiceRide subscriptions and free 24 hour NiceRide passes. People can enter the drawing during Bike Walk Week (June 2-10) and winners will be drawn and notified following week.

Friday June 1st

Bike Art VII Opening Reception - Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis

7 pm - 10 pm

Altered Esthetics’ 7th annual bike art show brings together some of the Twin Cities’ largest communities…artists, cyclists, and those who love both! Join us in creating another amazing exhibit of bike-themed photography, painting, sculpture and interactive art.

Altered Estetics
1224 Quincy St NE #4
Minneapolis, 55413

Contact Jaimie Schumacher at 612.378.8888 or [email protected]

Saturday June 2nd

Northeast Ride Wrap Party - Minneapolis

2 pm - 5 pm

Altered Estetics
1224 Quincy St NE #4
Minneapolis, 55413

Contact Jaimie Schumacher at 612.378.8888 or [email protected]

Thursday June 7th, Bike Walk to Work Day

Best Buy Headquarters - 494 and Penn Ave, Richfield

7:30 am – 9:00 am

Best Buy HQ in Richfield will be offering free coffee and donuts, as well as, Commuter Services info from 7:30 – 9:00 am. Good only for employees or contractors at Best Buy Corporate HQ who bike to work that day. Contact Mike Guild at 612.239.6766 or [email protected].

Birchwood Cafe

7am - 9am

Stop in to Birchwood Cafe by bike (w/helmet!) on or foot for free coffee & baked goods!

Dunn Brothers - Smith More House, Eden Prairie

All Day

Free cup of coffee or free espresso shot.

8107 Eden Prairie Road
Eden Prairie, MN 55347
952-934-0145

Eastside Food Co-op

8-10am and 3-5pm

We’re bananas for Bike Walk to Work Day! Stop by Eastside Food Co-op on your commute for a FREE Fair Trade Organic Banana!

Epicor Software - Minneapolis

All Epicor employees are welcome to join in celebrating the Twin Cities’ Bike to Work Day! Additional details will be provided closer to the event day. For more information, contact Linda Robinson at 612.710.1882 or [email protected]

Freewheel Midtown Bike Center - Mineapolis

7 am - 9 am

Free breakfast consisting of a selection of pastries with free orange juice, and coffee on a first come first serve basis.

REI Bloomington Front Entrance Patio - 750 W American Blvd, Bloomington

4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

REI and Commuter Services celebrates commuters and those pledging to sign-up for the Commuter Challenge - promising to try an alternative form of transportation within the next month.

Bring in your bike for a FREE safety check including tire pressure and brakes check with minor adjustments made on the spot! REI bike techs will be on hand to answer bike maintenance questions.

Stop by to pick up information on bike commuting. Attendees will be entered to win a new commuting bike!

This location is served by transit. All Metro Transit buses have bike racks and Commuter Services will provide two free transit passes to anyone wishing to take transit to the event.

Enjoy free food, give-aways, music and networking!

Stay after the event for a free Bike Commuting Basics class starting at 6:45pm. Registration appreciated so we know how much food to buy.

E-mail Melissa Madison to register: [email protected]

Trotter’s Cafe - 232 N. Cleveland Ave, St. Paul

7 am - 9 am

FREE coffee and breakfast bakery item!

Saturday, June 9th - Sunday June 10th

Northern Spark Festival

Jun 9th, 6 pm - 5 am, June 10th

Join us for a one-night celebration of art, technology and community. From dusk on Saturday, June 9 until dawn on Sunday, June 10, stay awake to experience 120 artist projects in partnership with 52 cultural organizations across Minneapolis-all for free. Explore a constellation of urban arts and discover the city in a new light.

Several projects are centered on cycling, including The Kuramoto Model (1000 Fireflies) which will distribute 1,000 bike lights designed to synchronize their blinks to festival cyclists. Come to a midnight ride across the Stone Arch Bridge with all the lights on June 9! Visit northernspark.org for a full list of artist projects and for information on how to get a Kuramoto light.

Pioneer and Soldiers Cemetery Concert - 2925 Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis

Gates open at 4:30 pm

Low, one of the best known indie rock groups to come out of Minnesota, will perform at Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery (2925 Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis) on Saturday, June 9th. The cemetery will provide a unique and reflective backdrop for their first local show after their recent tour with Death Cab for Cutie. Zoo Animal will open the show.

People are highly encouraged to bike to the show. Bike parking will be provided within the cemetery.

Additional details: Tickets are available at the Electric Fetus, Hymie’s Vintage Records, Treehouse Records, and online: http://www.friendsofthecemetery.org/event.shtml

 

And Coming Later This Summer….

Saturday June 16th

Bike Art VII Artists’ Discussion

1pm - 3pm

Altered Estetics
1224 Quincy St NE #4
Minneapolis, 55413

Contact Jaimie Schumacher at 612.378.8888 or [email protected]