Sunday, September 14th, 12 - 5 PM
Hosted by Kingfield Neighborhood Association (KFNA) & Lyndale Neighborhood
Association (LNA), Nicollet Avenue will be closed to all motorized traffic
(cars and buses) and the street will be open for biking, walking, dancing,
yoga, jump roping, art making, frolicking, and more!
Want to see what's going on at Nicollet Open Streets? Check out the map --->
https://www.google.com/maps/u/0/ms?msid=201722963418513733238.0004fbaa13a9fda3035d3&msa=0&ll=44.939996,-93.277456&spn=0.004677,0.008771&dg=feature
AND, invite friends to join you this Sunday!
Nicollet Open Streets is an exciting opportunity to highlight all the things
that make Lyndale and Kingfield Neighborhoods such great places to live! We
expect thousands of people to wheel, walk, coast, and ride down Nicollet and
need your help to make this event successful! Volunteer for a shift, get a
t-shirt, and be a part of this amazing event.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_zBRkLpT5TaZWM37qJVRsIdC_Rt3n5l5VxMEMBBypck/viewform
There are many different ways to be involved and to be a part of the collective
effort, from monitoring the street, helping keep the street clean, engaging
community members, and giving out information, there is something for everyone.
Volunteer with a friend! Volunteer as a family! As a volunteer you’ll get one
of the coolest t-shirts around and be a part of this amazing event.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_zBRkLpT5TaZWM37qJVRsIdC_Rt3n5l5VxMEMBBypck/viewform
Want to attend Nicollet Open Streets but not bike ALL the way from your home to
the event because you want to save your energy for traveling the awesome
two-mile stretch along Nicollet Avenue?
You can download a free bus pass for the day, courtesy of Open Streets event
sponsor MetroTransit! Thanks MT!
https://www.snapsurveys.com/wh/s.asp?k=140050949143
Open Streets events bring families and neighbors together to bike, walk,
socialize, play, and shop in their community in a car-free environment.
Here are just some of all the Open Streets Nicollet Activities:
Pat's Tap
Finnegan's Reverse Food Truck will be parked out front of Pat's. A mobile food
shelf helping communities fight hunger! All donations received are put right
back into the community to localize the impact of your donations. Bring
non-perishable donations & receive a wooden nickel good at Barbette, Bryant
Lake Bowl & Theater & Red Stag Supperclub.
OS_Nicollet.jpgHoneycomb Salon - Facial & Skin Treatments
B-Squad Vintage - Sidewalk Sale
Soo Local SooVAC - Open Gallery
Hola Arepa - Food Truck, Cocktails & DJ's
Sonny's Ice Cream & games at the @LNA office
ColorWheel Gallery Fun & Funky "Gypsy Bazaar"
The Fun Sisters joint fashion show with Restyle Minneapolis
The Center for Performing Arts dancing and music performing at Martin Luther
King Park
Salvation Army stop by and win a cool prize
Driftwood Char Bar's band line-up
The Somali Artifact and Cultural Museum: traditional artifacts from Somalia and
traditional dancers
Hosmer World Music Stage: Carlos Lumbi, Axolotl, and Corpse Revive
MPD will have the mounted police, squad cars, and bike cops
Metro Transit helping people learn how to ride the bus with a bike (with
Minneapolis Market, and Xcel)
Gerhard’s Brats
Blaisdell YMCA and Youth Farm
Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition
Nice Ride
Free Bikes for Kidz
Lyndale Community Center: chance to win the wine raffle
Five Watt Stage
Tru Pizza
Recovery Bikes: build a reasonably priced bike of your dreams while helping the
environment
Minneapolis Solid Waste and Recycling
Hennepin County Oasis parklet
Creative Minneapolis
Butter Bakery Cafe stage of spoken word and community poetry
Quality Coaches mini-car museum
Center for Natural Healing
Cinco De Mayo Mercado fresh fruit and Mexican corn on the cob
Finer Meat Co grilled hot dogs and ribs
Beer gardens: Kyatchi and Blackbird Café
Music from the Five Watt Coffee Stage
BANGbang salon & creative space, offering hair chalk!
The Aliveness Project
Nicollet Ace Hardware petting zoo. Rumor is that both a camel and a kangaroo
will be there!
MN Bicycle Alliance bike rodeo styled skill course
Smash Car at Mulroy's Body Shop , showing what texting while driving can do
HOURCAR, Kingfield-based car sharing team
Pilgrim Church and School giving out backpacks to children
The Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition is excited to bring you the fourth year of
Open Streets Minneapolis. Open Streets invites you to be a part of a larger
movement to improve bicycle transportation and street safety, address health
disparities, and build a stronger Minneapolis community.
See you at Open Streets Minneapolis!