Help Bring “Half The Road” To Boston

From the email, looks pretty awesome

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Join us at the Fenway Landmark Theater on Wednesday, November 19th at 6:30 pm for a one-time screening of “Half the Road.”  To ensure that the event is a success, tickets should be purchased by November 11th.

Boston’s film scene is about to get velorutionized. On November 19th, Boston Bikes will host a one-time screening of “Half the Road” at the Fenway Landmark Theater. This is an incredible opportunity that we can make happen with your help. The screening last spring at the Kendall Theater sold out in advance, so get your tickets now.

The groundbreaking documentary by pro-cyclist and director Kathryn Bertine explores the passion, pitfalls & power of women’s professional cycling. The film focuses on both the joy of sport and the challenges of inequality that female riders face today in a male-dominated world of cycling. As the filmmakers describe, “We thought we were making a movie about women’s professional cycling. Then it turned into a film about equality, told through the medium of kick a$$ female athletes.”

We’ll follow the screening with some of Boston’s own super star women on wheels — like Sara Bresnick, who has been a professional cyclist since 2002, competing nationally and internationally at mountain, road, and cyclocross events. Join us for this discussion and Q&A about the realities for female cyclists.

Boston bike friends, this is our chance to see this film on the big screen at the Fenway Landmark Theater. But tickets have to be sold in advance! Grasp life by the handlebars and get your ticket NOW. (Then get another for your best buddy cause no one’s going to want to miss this film).

Here’s what the Village Voice had to say about “Half the Road.” Powerful stuff, let’s make sure Boston gets to see it.

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Power To The Pedals Film Premiere

Power to the Pedals: Wenzday Jane and the Culture of Change Trailer from Heather Merrill on Vimeo.

Boston Premiere of the Documentary Film “Power to the Pedals”

The Boston premiere of “Power to the Pedals: Wenzday Jane and the Culture of Change” takes place Friday, April 25, 2014 at the BSA Space (Boston Society of Architects), 290 Congress Street, Boston.

Doors open at 6:30 pm, and the film begins at 7. Tickets are $ 10, $5 for BSA members. Reservations are required via the BSA

The 30-minute film tells the inspiring story of local of entrepreneur Wenzday Jane, the driving force behind Somerville’s innovative cargo-bike business, Metro Pedal Power.

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E Ink Local Film Fest, With My Own Two Wheels Screening

Got this in the email, looks fun, and With my own two wheels, looks pretty awesome.

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We are hosting the local Wild and Scenic Film Festival, an all-day event of film, foods, and festivities, on Saturday, March 31st. We hope that you will be able to come, especially since our evening program will feature two films, one of which is “With My Own Two Wheels” (a film by Jacob & Issac Seigel-Boettner & Ian Wexler about “the bicycle as a vehicle for change around the world”).

More details on the days’ events can be found here:
http://www.e-action.us/wsfilmfestival/
http://www.facebook.com/events/244742755593954/

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Bicycle Dreams Screening To Benefit MassBike

From MassBike

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Bicycle Dreams, the award-winning feature-length documentary about the Race Across America (RAAM), will premiere in Boston at the Regent Theatre in Arlington on Tuesday, March 6 at 7 p.m. as part of the film’s ongoing nationwide winter tour. The screening is presented as a benefit for MassBike and is co-sponsored by Team 4HIVHope, a local team that will be competing in RAAM later this year.

The film, which has been selling out theaters from coast to coast on its current tour, has won numerous awards at film festivals all over the world, “is an up-close look at what RAAM riders go through,” says Stephen Auerbach, the director and producer of Bicycle Dreams. “They deal with searing desert heat, agonizing mountain climbs, and endless stretches of open road. And they do it all while battling extreme exhaustion and sleep deprivation. It’s a great subject for a film.”

“Bicycle Dreams is a spectacular and heartfelt film that offers a riveting portrait of extreme courage in the face of inhuman obstacles,” writes TheLoveOfMovies.com. “It is an artistic triumph that renewed my belief in the power of desire and the strength of the human will.”

“We are very excited to be able to bring Bicycle Dreams to so many locations along the route that have never had access to the film before,” says Auerbach. “Viewers will be overwhelmed by the amount of pain and suffering these riders go through.”

To capture the mammoth scope of the race, Auerbach worked around the clock with a complement of 18 cameras. Embedded camera operators traveled inside the racers’ support crew vehicles, gaining unprecedented access to the cyclists and their teams. Their footage captured emotional and physical breakdowns, late-night strategy sessions, and great moments of personal triumph, all in intimate detail. Auerbach then took on the enormous task of editing hundreds of hours of material and forming it into a powerful and inspiring look inside the most difficult race on the planet.

Bicycle Dreams has won major awards at the Fallbrook and Breckenridge film festivals, as well as the Yosemite, Grand Rapids, Red Rock and All Sports LA film festivals, among many others.

Most recently the film added the Best Foreign Film trophy from the Krasnogorski International Festival of Sports Films in Moscow and was also invited to be included in the 2011 World Cinema Showcase in New Zealand as well as the Mountain Film Festival in Istanbul, Turkey. And before that it made its Australian debut at the Big Pond Film Festival in Adelaide.

Critical acclaim for the film continues to pour in from all sources.

“An astonishing documentary,” declares Pez Cycling. “This film is a ride of many stark contrasts; when it ended I felt both shattered and triumphant. I realized I was experiencing its genius. A central theme of Bicycle Dreams is the profoundly inspiring strength of the human in facing monumental challenge and tragedy. Bicycle Dreams is a race of truth.”

“This film isn’t for those who want to shy away from the tragic side of the human experience, unwilling to risk the cracking of their shell of denial, not willing to risk their coping mechanism,” writes Cycling-Review.com. “Bicycle Dreams captures the human condition like few other films. Bicycle Dreams moves us to break through the barrier of the fear of death. I have seldom found a film that captures this ‘life drama’ as powerfully as does Bicycle Dreams.”

Bicycle Dreams also has been named one of the top 10 adventure films of all time by both The Matador Network and Playground Magazine, calling it the best bicycle film since “Breaking Away.”

Tickets will be $12 in advance and $15 at the door the night of the show. To purchase advance tickets, order online at www.regenttheatre.com. The Regent Theatre is located at 7 Medford St. in Arlington.

The guest speaker at the event will be one of the racers in the film, Patrick Autissier of Boston, who is a member of Team 4HIVHope, which will be competing as a team in RAAM 2012. Three of the four members who completed RAAM 2011 in just over six days are living with HIV and two of them will return for this year’s race. Autissier, who is an HIV scientist and researcher, will be conducting tests during the race in hopes of discovering the effects of endurance athletics on both HIV-positive and negative individuals and comparing the results. For more information, go to www.team4HIVHope.com.

For more information on the film, go to www.bicycledreamsmovie.com

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The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces

From JP Bikes, looks like a good time.

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Come to the Connolly Library in JP on Monday Jan. 9th at 5:30 for this excellent documentary and forum on how people use public spaces. It’s especially relevant given all of the local efforts to rework local street networks into more pedestrian and bike friendly environments.

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The Boston Cyclists Union, JP Bikes and LivableStreets Alliance invite you to watch and discuss with an expert forum the classic 1980 one-hour documentary “The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces” by the witty journalist William H. Whyte. This documentary surprised everyone with its revelations on how people actually use public spaces, and what makes them use some more and some less, and it’s super fun to watch. If you’ve ever enjoyed people-watching on a sunny day—this is the ultimate version, early 80s style.

Afterward, discuss the movie and the future of place-making in Boston with three renowned experts in different aspects of the built environment, Dr. Walter Willett, Aaron Naparstek, and Peter Furth. These three speakers come at the built environment from the fields of public health, medicine, transportation engineering, community organizing and journalism. It should be a very interesting evening!

Dr. Walter Willett MD DrPH is the Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, and Chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health and also a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is considered one of the world’s experts on nutrition. Willett is the principal investigator of the second Nurse’s Health Study, a compilation of studies regarding older women’s health and risk factors for major chronic diseases. He has published over 1,000 scientific articles regarding various aspects of diet and disease and is the second most cited author in clinical medicine. In the public eye, Willett is perhaps best known for his 2001 book Eat, Drink and Be Healthy, which presents nutritional information and recommendations based on the currently available body of nutrition science.

Aaron Naparstek is the founder of Streetsblog (an online publication providing daily coverage of transportation with blogs in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Washington DC. Launched in 2006, Streetsblog has played a significant role in transforming New York City transportation policy as well as cities all over the world. Based in Brooklyn, Naparstek’s advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bike network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. Naparstek is currently in Cambridge with his wife and two young sons where he is enjoying a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

Peter G. Furth is a professor of engineering at Northeastern University and the author of “A Greenway Network for the Boston Area,” a study of the possibilities for an interconnected system of off-street paths in Boston, as well as several other studies regarding improving transit, bicycling, and walking conditions. His work led to the experimental sharrow (bicycle shared lane marking) with guidelines on Longwood Avenue in Brookline, and several other improvements for biking and walking in Boston and neighboring towns.

More on the movie: In the late 1970s, William H. Whyte, author of “The Organization Man” and the first to publish Jane Jacobs in Fortune Magazine, took a leave of absence from his job there to study one of the issues he’d always cared most passionately about: cities. He started with a simple topic: public plazas. His hometown of New York City had recently begun giving developers incentives to build public plazas to give people some breathing room in the crowded city and he decided to investigate which plazas worked. He took to the task like a scientist, setting up time-lapse cameras with digital clocks and making charts and graphs and notes. And the conclusions he came to surprised everyone. The result was this movie “The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces” and a book of the same title.

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