This Wednesday, June 30, we are celebrating alternate forms of transportation with our Car Free Market! Walk, bike, skate, ride transit or carpool over to the Hillhurst Sunnyside Farmers’ Market for some fun times.
Car Free Market Day Features:
- View two short films, “To COSTCO and IKEA Without a Car” and “Sacred Pavement” at 4, 5, 6, and 7 pm. The filmmaker will be in attendance [details]
- Enjoy some fine music with Calgary’s Wheat and Water, to play 5:30-7:30 pm
- We pay for your ride home: free transit tickets to shoppers who bring a current transit stub
- Get your bike tuned up for free while you shop (donations welcome)
- We’ll help you haul your groceries from the farmers market to the Sunnyside LRT station or nearby location with free pedicab service
- Be sure to mark how far you’ve travelled to the market from without a car on our large Calgary map
- Calculate your ecological footprint using the personal ecoFootprint calculator and Translink travel calculator online to measure the impact of your travel choices
- Win superb door prizes: sturdy shopping bags, bike stuff, walking stuff, rolling shopping carts
About the Films:
To COSTCO and IKEA Without a Car (5 min: 20 seconds) is the first in a trilogy of three short documentary films exploring different aspects of living without a vehicle by Calgary filmmaker, Peter Tombrowski. This first film follows writer/director Tombrowski on a trip one evening as he gets groceries from Costco and a sewing table from Ikea – without the use of a vehicle. Using imagery and sound, the short film is confined to Antonin Dvorak’s five-minute classical composition, “Slavonic Dance in C” and enticingly scratches the surface of a family’s life without a car. This film is carbon-neutral.
Sacred Pavement (8 min; 30 seconds) is the second in a trilogy of three short documentary films exploring different aspects of living without a vehicle by Calgary filmmaker, Peter Tombrowski. This eight-minute film is an artistic and experimental piece set entirely to Gustav Holst’s “Mars” (from The Planets Suite). Director Tombrowski takes us on a visual and aural journey documenting twenty-four hours in the life of pavement in the city. Tombrowski also explores the lifecycle of a road: from its tarry, hot creation to its overgrown, abandoned ending. Pavement, roads, and parking lots have transformed the look of our earth and we seemingly take them granted. Tombrowski offers a different perspective of pavement, having lived without a vehicle for over a decade and having spent a considerable amount of time walking on sidewalks versus driving on its neighbour, the ostensibly “sacred” pavement. This film is carbon-neutral.
Daily errands such as grocery purchasing can account for a large part of driving expenditures, and we want to show people it can be done without a car.
Many thanks to our sponsors The City of Calgary Community EcoFootprint Program, ConocoPhilips, and friends at Lifesport and Bike Root.
