Bike Hype is an all day bike fest and fundraiser for Hero Fest 2009 and the Wilmington Bike Recyclery. June 7th, Sunday, events start at noon. Jengo’s Playhouse - 815 Princess St. There will be Bike Polo, Rad Bikes, live music, raffle prizes, bike-centric chalk art, a Hero-themed Alley Cat Race, a special screening of the film Veer (about radical bike culture in Portland), followed by Bike Prom (dress yr bike right because two special bicycles will be crowned Bike Prom King and Queen!). The Really Really Free Market and Food Not Bombs will be temporarily relocated to 815 Princess St.

Wilmington’s Really Really Free Market (RRFM) is held on the first Sunday of each month from Noon to 2pm at the Community Action Center located at 317 Castle St (on the corner of 4th st). The RRFM is a temporary market formed to counteract capitalism by building a community based on sharing resources and services. Bring what you don’t need and take what you want! Share a skill: haircuts, bike repair, screen printing, music, etc.

Edith Sneeden is going to go in front of the Wilmington City Council (hopefully on May 19th) to present to them information on why Styrofoam should be banned. Please help by contributing your signature to help convince the City Council to ban Polystyrene.

http://www.petitiononline.com/banstyro/petition.html

The June FUNraiser for Hero Fest 2009 will be BIKE HYPE! This is an all day bike fest centered around an exclusive screening of Veer, an inspiring film about Portland’s radical bike culture, at Jengo’s Playhouse.

To get involved with planning the bike events for the day, visit the forums. An Alley Cat Race, Bike Joust, Bike Olympics, Synchronized Bike Dancing, Bike Prom, you name it!

Hey, Heroes!

Click on FORUMS (above and to the right) to share any ideas you have for Hero Fest and/or FUN-raisers for the fest.

Right now there is a benefit show scheduled for May 2 (Saturday) at the Juggling Gypsy. Have some ideas for this event? Share!

There is also a thread for discussing a Dance Party FUN-raiser. Share yr ideas to help make it awesome!

And don’t forget about submissions for Hero Fest. Click here to submit, or help spread the word by printing out this flyer.

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• Titan opponents gather outside County Commissioners meeting
• Boarded Up: Damaged Community Action Center gets a beautiful band-aid
• Neighbors come together to build garden on Castle Street

Since we can’t meet at the Action Center this month, we’re going to switch things up and meet at:

109 Church St, downtown
Wednesday, April 8th
7:00pm

We’ll mostly be planning for the Hero Fest Fundraiser.

If you have other projects you’d like to get the word out about or have other people get involved with, please come to let us know about your projects.

Don’t forget to check out the forums. This is a great way to let everyone know your thoughts and ideas if you can’t make it to the meeting.

Have any photos or videos you’ve taken of The Really Really Free Market, Critical Mass, Food Not Bombs, Hero Fest or any other Be Yr Own Hero events?

We’re working on a rad project and need yr contributions!

E.mail to herofest@gmail.com or upload and send us the links! Let us know if and how you’d like to be credited.

Here’s a video from WWAY of a Critical Mass ride last spring.

Come out this Friday (March 27th) for Wilmington’s first Critical Mass of Spring 2009! The sun stays out later now, so no worries about getting pulled over by the cops for not having lights!

Join Critical Mass on MySpace.

Critical Mass is a worldwide movement to promote the use of bicycles as a viable means of transportation. It has arisen in response to what many call the “car-culture:” an overdependence on the private automobile. It is, more than anything else, a reclamation of space, a demonstration to show that the city belongs to people and not machines. We’re not protesting, we’re CELEBRATING our vision of a preferable alternative mode of transportation in the city of Wilmington.