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Booze and Bikes: New Belgium Brewing's
traveling beer and film festival, Clips of
Faith, will make a stop at Hot Corner (Hull
and Washington streets) on Friday, Oct, 7, at
7 p.m. for a free outdoor screening of several
amateur short films focused on New Belgium's
"three main follies": craft beer, sustainability
and whimsy. Tastings of New Belgium's Lips
of Faith microbrew series and food from local
vendors will be available, with all proceeds
from beer sales benefiting BikeAthens. In each
town that tour visits, the festival partners
with a local non-profit, almost always exclu
sively dealing with bicycling advocacy. See a
preview at www.clipsoffaith.com.
Keep on Pedaling: The Clips of Faith event
will kick off the second annual Georgia
Bike Summit, a weekend full of workshops,
films and bike rides. From 7:30 a.m.-5:30
p.m. Saturday. Oct. 8, the Georgia Center
for Continuing
Education will host
a series of seminars
and breakout ses
sions pertaining
to the advocacy
of bicycling and
alternative trans
portation such
as "Becoming
a Bike Friendly
Business: How &
Why," "Effective
Public Relations
for Bicycle
Advocates" and
"Low Cost Bicycle
Improvements."
Later jn the eve
ning at 7 p.m.,
the Southeast
Off-Road Bicycle
Organization
(SORBA) will host
a screening of
the documentary
Pedal-Driven at
Cine, along with
several accompanying short bicycle advocacy
films. For more info about the weekend's
events, check out www.georgiabikes.org.
A Art Around Town: As mentioned in last
week's "Art Notes," the Georgia Sculptors'
Society will host the inaugural Pulaski Street
Art Crawl on Saturday. Oct. 8. from 5-9 p.m.
Kicking off at ARTini's Art Lounge, where
Project Safe will display a collection of art
work by domestic abuse survivors in support of
Domestic Violence Awareness Month, crawlers
can grab a guide to over a dozen participating
businesses (including The Grit, Agora, Pain &
Wonder, Ted's Most Best, Gymnopedie, etc.)
and the personal studios of Mary Engel and
Stan Mullins. The final stop and main event
of the Crawl will be at Pints and Paints at 7
p.m., where the Georgia Sculptors' Society
Juried Art Exhibition will be judged by local
bronze and mixed-media sculptor Mary Engel
and figure sculptor Kinzel Branham. See www.
georgiasculpture.org.
Sunday Funday: The first annual Athens
Craft Beer Festival, a collaboration between
Trappeze Pub and Hotel Indigo, will take
place within tents right outside the hotel on
Sunday, Oct. 9 from 1-5 p.m. A $45 general
admission ticket includes a tasting glass and
unlimited 2 oz. samples of over 100 different
craft beers, as well as an afternoon full of live
music, food and giveaways. For an extra $20,
you can attend an exclusive VIP brewmasters'
reception the night before from 7-9 p.m. at
the Rialto Room, featuring a panel discussion,
Q&A session and meet and greet. Visit www.
athensbeerfestival to find out more.
Riverkeeper Recommended: Janisse Ray will
have a launch party for her new work, Drifting
Into Darien: A Personal and Natural History
of the Altamaha River at Seney-Stovall chapel
on Tuesday, Oct. 11. This event is sponsored
by the Oconee River Project of Altamaha
Riverkeeper, University of Georgia Press,
Environmental Ethics Certificate Program, The
Georgia Review, Georgia River Network and
University of Georgia Libraries. Ray offers an
insightful account of our river, its people and
the conservation efforts which have been
implemented to
save it. Be sure to
read John Nettles'
review in The
Reader in next
week's Flagpole.
It Takes a Village:
The Athens
Community Council
on Aging and the
Lyndon House Arts
Center will host
the 37th Annual
Harvest Festival,
a free celebration
of rural life and
cultural heritage,
on Thursday, Oct.
13 from 9 a.m.-2
p.m. After a two-
year hiatus due to
lack of funding,
the festival's return
will showcase dem
onstrations of clas
sic 19th-century
crafts and domestic
skills, ranging from quilting, butter-churning,
wood-carving, chair-caning, storytelling and
knitting to making brooms, soap, pottery and
cornhusk dolls. The festival is envisioned as an j
intergenerational experience, so children are
especially encouraged to come out and enrich
their knowledge of Georgia history while
chomping down on candy apples. To register,
go to www.accaging.org. *
Something for Everyone: Athens PopFest's
first venture into non-music territory will
be this year's inclusion of a "Poptoberfair"
(much easier on the tongue than
Craftstravaflukeswap), the combination of
three independently awesome fairs: the Athens
Indie Craftstravaganzaa, Fluke Mini-Comics
and Zine Festival, and the Secret Record Swap.
From 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Classic Center the
final day of PopFest (Oct. 15), regional artists,
writers, illustrators, vendors and collectors
will gather together to simultaneously show
case 12,000 square feet of handmade crafts,
publications, music and more. Entry is $5—or
free with a PopFest wristband. Tables are still
available on a first-come, first-served basis,
and anyone interested in selling should visit
www.athenspopfest.com for details.
Jessica Smith misc@flagpole.com
Maggie Horacek s sculpture is part of the Pulaski Street
Art Crawl on Saturday Oct. 8
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and 31 miles. The ride starts/finishes at Terrapin and winds through
scenic Clarke County.
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