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PubliCalendar: An Urban Bike Tour, a Sustainability Festival, and a GMO Documentary

Today's picks for civic nerds.

By Shirley Qiu September 27, 2013

Take a bike tour around Seattle to learn about biking and urban food. Photo via seattlebikeblog.com

For Sunday

Urban Agricultural Bike Tour

Discover the connection between Seattle's growing bicycle scene and urban farming. Co-organized by Rainier Valley Food Bank and Bike Works, this bike tour will take you out and about to agricultural sites around Seattle, such as the Seattle Community Farm, Beacon Food Forest, and Alleycat Acres.

Urban Agricultural Bike Tour, Sun, September 29, 10am–1pm, several locations, free.

Sustainable Ballard Festival

For the 10th year, environmental organization Sustainable Ballard will hold a festival the whole family can enjoy to learn about sustainability.

Take the kids to see the farm animals while you listen to live music from the solar-powered main stage and maybe stop on your way at the cider pressing station.

Sustainable Ballard’s “Best of the Fest”, Sun, September 29, 11am–6pm, Ballard Commons Park, 5501 22nd Ave NW, free.

For Saturday

Seattle AIDS Walk

The AIDS Walk is back in Seattle for its 27th year this Saturday. Join friends and loved ones to walk for people affected by HIV/AIDS and raise money for prevention and treatment.

The walk will start in Volunteer Park and loop around Capitol Hill.

Seattle AIDS Walk, Sat, September 28, 9:30–11am, Volunteer Park, Seattle, free for walkers, $35 for runners.

Coffee with the Sallys

Get any civic questions or concerns off your chest at Saturday's coffee chat with Seattle City Council member Sally Bagshaw and Seattle City Council President Sally Clark.

This week's confab will take place in High Point, a West Seattle neighborhood that has undergone revitalization projects to serve an increasingly diverse community.

Coffee with the Sallys, Sat, September 28, 2:30–4pm, High Point Public Library, Seattle, free.

For Friday

GMO Documentary

The new documentary GMO OMG—directed, written, and edited by environmental activist Jeremy Seifert—tells the story of the GMO industry and its negative consequences. This film, particularly relevant for Washingtonians preparing on I-522 (which would require labeling some genetically modified foods), opens on Friday with a special Q&A session with Pamm Larry, the creator of California's unsuccessful GMO labeling initiative Prop 37.

GMO OMG, Fri, September 27, 7:30pm, SIFF Uptown Center, 305 Harrison St., $11.

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