Tomorrow morning, bright and early, we’ll walk up our street to Main in midtown and join the throngs of families for this year’s Push’em Pull’em Parade. Park at the San Jon Road City Maintenance yard and join us!
Our son has been in this human scale, human propelled parade since he was eight months old so this will be his 7th trip down Main.
When I asked him if he wanted to be in it this year, he said “Of course!”
Sponsored by the Ventura East Rotary Club, participants meet at 10am near Cemetary Park. We start rolling down the hill about 10:30am. The theme of this year’s Street Fair and Push’em Pull’em Parade is “Old Fashioned 4th of July” and we have two Uncle Sam hats to wear and a huge red white and blue pinwheel to carry. We’ll figure out the rest soon–and whether the small boy will ride his scooter or his bikergo!
And of course we’ll have some flyers to tell people about our ArtRides!
For folks who live out on the east end of town, there’s a free shuttle service from the Ventura County Government Center that runs from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. The last shuttle leaves the Street Fair at 5 p.m.
Main Street, Downtown Ventura
July 4, 2010 | 10 am – 5 pm
Free to the Public
This popular annual event attracts up to 50,000 people to Downtown Ventura.
- Over 250 fine artist, crafters, nonprofit organizations, and food booths.
- Three stages of continuous live entertainment including a favorite band of ours, Rooster Ra which performs at 3pm by the Food Court.
Here’s the full 4th of July Street Fair Entertainment Lineup and other info: Read more…
Ventucky Vice ArtRide: ET Phone Home & other props
What’s an ArtRide without creative expressions of the theme as well as props?
Well, certainly not as fun!
Here’s a few props we enjoyed on last night’s First Friday ArtRide, Ventucky Vice.A full report on the ArtRide and photos too to follow soon…
First we have “ET Phone Home” with one of the original cell phone..
Then we have some great guns which show we’re ready to rumble and take down the crime lords of our fair Ventucky…
There’s the palm tree on the back of my bikergo which plays two songs and lights up…
And speaking of lights, if you’re going to go speeding through town chasing after bad guys on your bicycle, you’d better be well lit!
Thanks everybody for playing along!
Thanks to Art City for hosting the afterparty!
And thanks to Anacapa for eight growlers and a variety of beer inside!
PS More photos up over at bikergo gal. And more photos to come!
Looking to get in on the Ventucky Vice ArtRide tonight?
530pm Meet at the Artists Union Gallery 330 S. California St.
6pm Ride along the promenade and the river trail to Main
Stops will include Bell Arts Factory 432 N. Ventura Avenue to see new work by Claudia Pardo McFayden like the beautiful painting pictured and to Love Fox Vintage Clothes on Main in the El Jardin Courtyard to see cyclist Winston Braun’s art and cyclist Benicia’s new shop!
Join us on the route or at the afterparty at Art City 197 Dubbers St just off Olive near Vons. Art City is celebrating a long slow struggle to become code compliant and independence from city restrictions to keep visitors like us out.
We’ll have a fire and beer donated by Anacapa; bring a mug and money to donate to offset construction costs for Art City to become code compliant. Bring food too!
Get Ready for Some Ventucky Vice: ArtRide July 2
The San Buenaventura ArtRiders 
Bicycle & Social Club
Invites You To
Ventucky Vice
First Friday ArtRide
July 2, 2010
Celebrate Art City’s Independence!
530pm Meet California St. & Ventura Beach
6pm Ride to Art Galleries & Studios
After party At Art City: beer, food, music!
Special Thanks to Anacapa Brewery!
*Bring your mug & money*
Ride every First Friday * Ride at your own risk*
Aug.6: Western Nights & Carnival Lights
More Info: http://bikergogal.wordpress.com
Email contact artriders@earthlink.net
via The Write Alley
What can be said about a salmon pink authentic 70s Members Only jacket? Except WOW!
Lots of “wow” fashions were seen at Boogie Nights as we rode around town and then at the WAV for the Disco Ball, complete with a disco ball attatched to a bike with bike headlights directed to it to make the room all sparkley as we danced away and enjoyed beer donated by Anacapa.
Thanks to everyone who came out on the ride or who joined us for the afterparty at WAV! See you June 4 for this month’s rendition of the First Friday ArtRide “Get Lei’d”!
And now it’s time to figure out the flyer for next month’s ArtRide, Ventucky Vice so we’ll have them to share…
Oh and if you’re wondering why we ride, here you go:
These free short rides are for fun and family oriented, and each month we choose a theme: Feb.09 Red Hot Pajama Party, March 09 Main St Electric Parade, April 09 Bunny Hop, May 09 Prom Ride, June Santacon Ride, July 09 Freedom from Fossil Fuels Ride, Aug 09 Animal Fair Ride, Sept 09 Full/Fool Moon Ride, Oct 09 Mustache Ride, Nov 09 Super Heroes Ride, Dec 09 Santas Ride…etc
We don’t have a permit for these rides because we rely on our right to peacefully assemble. When we ride we become traffic and abide by the laws of traffic.
If you choose to join us for a ride we ask that you follow three simple rules: Have fun, respect our com
munity, and obey all traffic laws.
We charge everyone on the ride to help encourage others to abide by these rules. Be nice to the people stuck in their cars missing out on the fun because:
We’re out to generate goodwill for cyclists and cycling, and to have a great time! Smiles and waves are so much more joyous than getting and giving grief!
Whether you dust off your old cruiser or bring out your pricey pride and joy, we ride because we like to get people
on their bikes and to have fun. It’s even more fun if you dress up with us, but that’s not a requirement.
If you’d like to join us on our next social on wheels, bring your bike to the Ventura Beach Promenade by the Artists Union Gallery 330 California Street. We meet up at 5:30pm and ride by 6pm. We ride until about 7:30 or 8pm when we often gather for food and more merriment.
Rides are free (but we’ll take donations to cover copy costs!). Ride at your own risk.
FFArtRide Photos from May’s Boogie Nights
To get you ready for thi
s month’s First Friday ArtRide “Get Lei’d” here are some photos from last month’s FFArtRide, Boogie Nights. (Thanks Daniel 
Boggs and Helen O’Neil for taking and sharing the photos with us!)
About 15 of us met up at the Artists Union Gallery where California Street meets the sea. We checked out the show there, curated and featuring work by gauvin around the theme of “homeless” then we rolled to the taped tunes from the player in Grant’s bike basket plus some banging on the cowbell from me and bike bells accompaniment too.
We started as usual at the Ventura Beach Promenade, road up the coast on the bike path to the Ventura River Trail, turned right on Main and rolled up Ventura Avenue to stop at Bell Arts Factory, then Project 643.
As you can see, my small boy is dressed in his Disco best and riding his seafoam green bikergo while I am in my blue velvet exclamation point dress and riding my hot pink bikergo.
Our rule is not to allow children under 8 to ride along but I didn’t have much of a choice: it was my boy and he wanted to ride and his dad was still recovering from breaking his C2 vertabrae Feb. 5.
I learned the hard way that it just doesn’t work to have a child that age ride alone–there are too many distractions, too much excitement! He could keep up with us no problem but he kept losing control and crashing.
Next we cruised Main a few times; stops included the CSUCI Gallery at California Street. At 8pm, some of us went to WAV while others continued on Main to midtown to attend 5×5 then they rejoined us at WAV for the Boogie Nights Disco Ball.
In the next
post, I’ll put up some photos from the Disco Ball at the WAV where we enjoyed several kinds of delicious handcrafted beer including stout, porter, and ale in growlers donated by Anacapa Brewery (thanks Danny!)
See you Friday at 5:30 outside the Artists Union Gallery, 330 S. CA St in good old Ventucky! And if not this First Friday, maybe next month for Ventucky Vice!
Break out those tropical prints–it’s time to celebrate summer’s almost here with this month’s First Friday ArtRide Get Lei’d!
Grass skirts, tropical shirts, bikinis and board shorts, muumuus and puka shells plus leis are what you need to ride with us this Friday June 4 for this FFArtRide.
DATE June 4
TIME Meet 5:30pm, Ride 6pm
WHERE California St & Beach Promenade; then ride to galleries and art studios. Check back here Friday for route.
WHY By riding our bicycles en mass on the First Fridays of each month to various galleries and other art shows, and by going on other fun themes rides together, we seek to create a fun, artistic and green bike culture in Ventura County CA and beyond. We seek to generate goodwill and interest in cycling as a way to have fun, create community, get around town, and to take better care of our earth.
The San Buenaventura ArtRiders Bicycle & Social Club encourages everyone to join us on these fun, free, family oriented rides. Riders of all ages are welcome; families are especially encouraged to join the ride. Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult and wear helmets. Children 7 and under should be in a trailer or on a trail-a-bike. All riders should have lights and reflectors.
While rides are FREE (organized by Santa as a gift to our community), please bring money and a cup for refreshments.
Watch for blog posts featuring pictures from last month’s Boogie Nights FFArtRide, info about this month’s route, and other bike news.
Figuring out what to do with your children while you work–whether at a home office or one away from home or housework–is a constant parental challenge. During the school year, most of us have structures in place that allow us to get what we need to get done done.
But once school gets out, it’s a bigger challenge to find decent child care–a place that’s affordable and where our children want to spend their summer!
Last spring, I learned about Destination Science which offers science based camps at various locations in California and beyond. Since I was teaching summer school from 10-noon M-Th, I signed my son up for two weeks. He absolutely LOVED it. He HATED the other camp he went to, the one that was cheap and convenient, so this summer, when I g
ot an assignment to teach two 5 unit summer school classes at Ventura College for 7 weeks, one class from 10:30am-1:30pm and another from 6:30pm-9:30pm (which translates to working 133%), I sighed deeply and said yes I’ll take it. The pay is good enough that I could afford to figure out some summer camp options that would make my son happy.
So that means he’s signed up for THREE WEEKS of Destination Science! And since I worked every angle and discount I could find (become a facebook fan! early reg! bogopod coupon!) instead of being $240 a week, it’s less than $200 for six hours a day for 3 four day weeks of fun, educational, challenging and rewarding science based activities.
And, if you act before Friday June 4, you can get those discounts too by using the special “GWENDOLYN” code! Seriously! Read more…
art predator 