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* GET YOUR ATH TOGETHER 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 SATURDAY OCT 22,2011 HEALTH AND FITNESS EXPO SUNDAY OCT 23,2011 ATHENS, GA HALF MARATHON SPONSORED BY: mm 111 “DOWNTOWN a the ns •*;*' 4'.M. Georgia Neurological Surgery Comprehenuve Biotn & Spine Care the adsmith advertising, graphic design & web creative flagpole ** kaufck/ Mp«<rMrh(« V0 Athens Regional • • b t c a i c • a M i ry i Half-mooN OUTHTTERS, Holiday Inn . ;V .C0*3 POWER loo.f Mjmt« *rr wmc mw REGISTER ONLINE TODAY AthensGaHalf.com Registration: $35 through event day. 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