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Its not too late to VOLUNTEER!

We could always use a hand, any time in the day. Go to the inFo TenT/Table and volunteer your services for an hour or two. youll be treated like a superhero, pampered, fed, and invited to the amazing VolunTeer aFTerParTy ! COMMERCIAL DRIVE
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1 Paceys Piano recitals 2 Village Vancouver Demo Village 3 besT bike valet 4 Porta Potties 5 antisocial skateboard zone 6 Main st. Volunteers Marigold stage 7 beaumont urban Picnic area & stage 8 community Police Kids bike rodeo 9 bohemia acoustic stage 10 Watermatters Fill station 11 ocb Pedal Powered DJ 12 Granville island Toy childrens Play area 13 Velopalooza & Pedal Power bike zone 14 bliM Market 15 chinese cultural Festival 16 Veg Fest Vancouver Festival 17 neptoon records stage 18 community round Table Discussions 19 info Tent, First aid, Porta Potties & Volunteer Green room 20 The French Quarter 21 loVe bc youth against Violence Festival 22 olio Festival Film co-op 23 little Mountain Gallery stage 24 ciTr DJ 25 red cat records stage 26 Terminal city roller GirlsSTREET 3RD 27 Porta Potties 28 street Hockey 1 29 Knit in living room
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To volunteer for commercial Drive, email drive.volunteers@gmail.com

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Many local businesses have voluntarily contributed 12TH AVE to the car-Free Festival for space on the street, in recog1 nition of the events contribution to their economic well13TH AVE 2 being. Vendors3from outside the zone have paid for table space. Vending space is limited. Please Do noT VenD 4 unless you have made arrangements with the Festival. 14TH AVE 6 5

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For Main street, email mainstreetvol@carfreevancouver.org For Kitsilano, email kitsilano@carfreevancouver.org

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FooTPrinT 1st ave to Venables The commercial Drive Festival is about fun for free and strengthening our community through creative use of public space. The Drivefest is 100% volunteer organized and produced. We commit hundreds of hours to this fest because we love this community. come out and enjoy your new public space, meet your neighbours and engage in our local culture.
THanK you to all the unnamed performers, supporters, helpers and volunteers who come together and work for free to create this festival. sPecial THanKs to bodie Macneill, charlie latimer, Julie Faye Fuss, Karen reed, lisa ackerman, Tanya otero, Debra rolfe, carla bergman, alex Dundas, Massa ito, chris bergman, Monika Whitney, craig ollenberger, carmen Mills, Kristy rowson, Jordan Myers, Terry sunderland, Paul chevreau, Timothy Wisdom, and cori yule.

For West end, email westendvol@gmail.com exTra-sPecial loVe for those who turn up at days end to help tear down and clean up.

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car-Free Vancouver Day does not support busking (asking for money) at this event.

THe FesTiVal recoGnizes and appreciates the skills and dedication of our local artists. The reason we discourage busking is because, at this Festival, hundreds of performers and organizers voluntarily contribute their professional skills, plus thousands of hours of labour. We do this as a contribution to our community, on this one day, in the generous spirit of fun for free. sTreeT PerForMers will be wandering about the Festival, contributing their gifts For Free. Please give them your applause and adoration, but save your change for roving donationgatherers or Festival Fairies. your contribution will go to support further car-Free festivals. arTisTs are inViTeD to share their gifts at the Fest; we only ask that they be considerate and follow Fest guidelines. Performers must be mobile and unplugged, unless they receive clearance from Festival organizers. THanK you for playing with us!

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its easy to host a block party. Talk to neighbours and 8 get their support, then e-mail a form to the city for 16TH AVE approval. Turnaround time can be less than 36 hours. 9 For advice, contact Mel at 604-731-0599 or 10 mel.lehan22@gmail.com. 11 12 17TH AVE
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FesTiVal 12noon8pm sTreeTs closeD 10am10pm 2 3 2ND STREET FooTPrinT 12th ave to 28th ave 4 check twitter.com/carfreemain for more info and updates
sPecial THanKs To: all of our wonderful volunteers and participants, the 6 residents and businesses of Mount Pleasant, the city of Vancouver and the citys special events 7 office, the car Free Vancouver society and its board, as well as the community 8 on commercial Dr. who got the car Free ball rolling. We also thank (among9 1ST STREET many others!) alex boswell, alexis Morgan, charmaine carpenter, christian Paul, craig Hartman, Dave Gowans, Dawn Force, emiko yumoto, Frank Fleming, Jann Purcell, Jasmine MacDonald, Joey Moore, Johnathan skinner, Jon ornoy, Julia boswell, Kathi 10 carrico, lynn Warwick, Maddy Kipling, Mariegold, Matthew carrico, Maya 12 Goodwill, Mike smith, rob Frith, Tia Taurere, Tim young, Tina Hoang, and yuriko iga.

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The artists and performers who donated their skills, 25 AVE time, and love to the party. our guests from beyond the hoods for the ideas they bring and the seeds they sow. 24 26 AVE our local businesses for their 25 generosity and enthusiasm. support27 26 shopAVE them locally. 28
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FesTiVal 12noon - 6pm BIDWELL sTreeTs closeD 10am - 8pm FooTPrinT Denman street, between Davie and robson (nelson street will remain open) car-Free Day returns to the West end for the 4th year in a row. Denman street is closed to car traffic, but open to community! come and celebrate with music, dancing, chess, henna tattoos, food, kids activities and much more!

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sPecial THanKs Thank you to the hundreds of volunteers who make this festival happen, including but not limited to all performers, artists and musicians, local organizations, the Denman street businesses, and most importantly, you the West end community.

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Kitsilano is doing something different for Car Free Day. instead of closing off a major street, people throughout Kits are hosting individual block parties with their neighbours. This year 15 blocks have organised parties, and they are as individual as the people who pull them together. some have dancing, some have music, some have couches and chairsnand carpets in the middle of the street. all of them are a fun, relaxing chance to hang out with the people who live on your street. Want to host your own party in Kits next Car Free Day? its easier than you think! send us an email at kitsilano@carefreevancouver.org or phone Mel lehan at 604-7310599 and well help you get it going. live in another neighbourhood and want to have a block party? Please contact ross Moster at ross@villagevancouver.ca or visit Village Vancouver at www.villagevancouver.ca.
KiTsilano THanKs Mel lehan, ross Moster, lisa slakov, amy Vaughan, Kevin Washbrook, Kits Transition Village & Village Vancouver, and everyone in Kits who is organising and attending car Free block parties this year!

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These suggested routes are low-traffic and fun to ride. TaKinG THe bus anD/or sKyTrain is also a great option trip times are about the same as by bike. check www.translink.bc.ca for routes.

ThANK YOU for not driving on Car-Free Vancouver Day!

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ThE GATEWAY PROGRAM is an estimated $10 billion dollar proposal that includes paving the new south Fraser Perimeter road freeway through bcs best farmland and over a 9000 year-old First nations burial site on the banks of the Fraser river. some parts of the Gateway freeway project are approaching completion, but we can still stop the south Fraser Freeway. RESIDENTS OF NEW WESTMINSTER just made a big step towards a better future by getting the north Fraser Perimeter road portion of Gateway cancelled. and in april/May, dozens blocked sFPr construction in north Delta for two weeks. There is more direct action to come. WE hAVE A ChOICE: continue spending $ billions on freeways which worsen our vulnerability to oil price shocks and increase global warming emissions, or shift to investing in a better future. currently, 35% of bcs global warming emissions come from automobiles, and transportation accounts for most of the oil burned in bc. our Provincial Government is required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 33% by 2020 under the bc climate action Plan. We must shift spending from freeway expansion to public transit and electric rail transportation to meet these commitments.
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launched in 2005 as a response to the provincial Gateway Project. The party goes on and ThE STRUGGLE CONTINUES it is not a done deal!
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cars suck the life out of cities. They are responsible for the vast majority of violent deaths on our streets. They make our communities noisy, dangerous and polluted. They isolate neighbours and make it impossible for children to play safely. and globally, car emissions are a major contributor to global climate change. The good news is, ever-rising gasoline prices and the surge in global awareness are quickly changing our attitudes toward cars. suV sales are plummeting and bike sales are way, way up! city planners are creating pedestrian boulevards, bike paths, dense mixed-use developments, and new transit lines to service them. and smart businesses are learning that car-free streets mean more customers. look around you at this car-free street. you see children playing safely. you see people dancing and playing, mingling and sharing, buying and selling. you see citizen-initiated car-Free events, sanctioned and supported by the city. What you are seeing is the future of Vancouver and that is something worth celebrating!

carfree streets and shopping districts are proud features of all progressive cities. beijing, Jakarta, and bogata, now have major car-free days. Paris converts l a downtown freeway into a beach for almonth every Ma summer. Torontos Kensingtonook has pedestrian Market sbr sundays throughout the summer. and in new york, We Times square is now celebrating its second fully carfree anniversary - and ll people are loving it. the

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let the city know you want to see more of this kind of cultural activity. Tell our elected representatives we want car-free streets! email or write to mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca.

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hOW DOES CAR-FREE VANCOUVER DAY hAPPEN?

This event is 100% volunteer organized by the wholly independent car-Free Vancouver society. We started in 2005, with the first car-Free commercial Drive Festival, a community celebration in the face of the Gateway Project. The Drive Fest kept expanding through 2006 and 2007 with bigger and better fests. in 2010, car-Free Vancouver Day welcomed a quarter million people to the streets in four neighbourhoods: commercial Drive, Main, the West end and Kits. every year we continue to build a stronger argument that reducing cars is key to an ecological and equitable city. Thank you helping to shape the future of Vancouver!

Visit the stop The Pave table on commercial Drive at car Free Day new Transportation Transformation report and video: www.StopThePave.org/transform

LEARN ABOUT ThE ALTERNATIVES

WRITE AN EMAIL to Premier christy clark (premier@gov.bc.ca) and opposition leader adrian Dix (adrian.dix.mla@leg.bc.ca)

TAKE ACTION

Join the direct action list at www.stopThePave.org and be ready to stop The Pave! email info@stopthepave.org or visit www.StopThePave.org MORE INFO AT

JOIN ThE WAVE AGAINST ThE PAVE

To find out more, join in, or get a hand to organize your own Car-Free Fest email us: info@carfreevancouver.org

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Maps of all four Car-Free Fests are inside.

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