Boise Bicycle Project is bring Boise its first ever Open Streets Event filled with fun games, local food, art, and vendors; and some BBP's youth programs helping kids get bikes and learn how to ride!
What is Open Streets you ask? Open Streets Boise is going to be a roaming festival that will take over neighborhood streets around different parts of town each year in order to transform them into car-free community spaces where folks can walk, bike, and roll together. It will highlight local food, businesses, bikes, art, and feature lost of family friendly entertainment including live music.
Open Streets is a worldwide tradition that began in the 1970s in Columbia. Today, cities around our own country ranging from Las Angeles to Boston annually close segments of their roads down to reimagine them as community spaces. This year, we are bringing Boise's first ever Open Streets Festival to the Boise Bench on Latah Street!
The event will feature a Goathead Festival section where you can find art from local residents and live entertainment similar to Boise Goathead Fest in years past, but there will also be lots of opportunities to engage both with nonprofits and local businesses from around the area and BBP programs including a traffic garden where we teach children how to safely ride in the street.
We are looking for volunteers to help run the festival in various roles. There are several ways to get involved including selling tokens, pouring beers, helping land volunteers, selling merch, and more!
You can see all Open Streets Boise volunteer opportunities through this link:
https://boisebicycleproject.volunteerlocal.com/volunteer/?id=89206
Or you can email our program director, Benton, at Benton@BoiseBicycleProject.org for more info.
We hope to see you there!
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
1027 S LUSK ST, BOISE, ID 83706, US
The Boise Bicycle Project promotes the personal, social, and environmental benefits of bicycling. Through inclusive access to refurbished bicycles, repair, and empowering educational experiences, we strive to build a stronger bicycling community.
Boise Bicycle Project believes believes that Boise has the potential to become the bicycling capital of the USA. By creating a permanent community cycling center, BBP is helping Boise reach that potential. In a perfect world, everyone (regardless of income) would have access to a quality-sustainable bicycle that they could be proud of. By recycling used bikes and teaching bicycle education, BBP strives to make this access attainable.
There are many kids in our community that need bicycles, but cannot afford them. Kids are a major focus at BBP Through donations and volunteer programs we strive to get more kids on bicycles at no monetary cost.
Many bikes are sent to the landfill when they become unusable. BBP takes the environmentally friendly aspect of cycling to the next level by recycling these bicycles and their parts in order to build better stronger bikes.
By building partnerships with other likeminded organizations, we hope to be a more complete service to the entire community. BBP is a non-specific bike shop. We welcome road cyclists, mountain bikers, BMX, fixed gears, cruisers, and all other bicycle sub-cultures. We seek to close the gaps that separate these cultures by creating an exciting social community bicycle center..
1027 South Lusk StreetBoise, ID 83706
August 22, 2024
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