PubliCalendar: Local Beats and Bike Lanes
Today's picks for civic nerds.
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For Thursday
Local Beats
This week's free concert at City Hall Plaza features Big World Breaks, featuring the local drumming powerhouse Aaron Walker-Loud. The group began playing backup music for Seattle's breakdancing scene in the early 2000s, combining funk, soul, jazz and world music influences. Many members of Big World Breaks are alumni of the nationally acclaimed Seattle jazz programs at Garfield and Roosevelt High Schools. Check out the summer-long list of free concerts presented by the city's Office of Arts & Culture.
Seattle Presents: Big World Breaks, Thurs, July 11, 12-1:30pm, City Hall Plaza, 600 4th Ave, free.
For Wednesday
A Revolutionary Summer
Follow the events leading up to the United States' independence with Pulitzer Prize winner and historian Joseph J. Ellis, whose latest book, Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence, describes the dramatic months leading up to the 13 U.S. colonies' secession from the British empire. Ellis has written 11 books on the Founding Fathers and the American Revolution. He currently teaches at University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Joseph J. Ellis: The Revolutionary Summer of 1776, Wed, July 10, 7:30-9pm, Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave, $5.
For Tuesday
A Seattle Evening by Bike
Learn more about Seattle's history and bike infrastructure and Seattle history on an evening bike from Gas Works to Broadview. The 15-mile, steady-paced route will ride along the Interurban Trail, swing around Bitter Lake and return to Seattle. The route ends with an optional post ride hydration session at a nearby restaurant.
Seattle Ride - Gas Works to Broadview, Tues, July 9, 6pm, Gas Works Park, 2101 N Northlake Way, free.
Trouble with Traffic
Concerned with about speeding and safety on your neighborhood's residential streets? Learn more about different traffic calming options and funding sources at a Seattle Department of Transportation-sponsored workshop at the Queen Anne Public Library; SDOT will hold additional meetings later this year in Northeast Seattle and in West Seattle.
SDOT Traffic Safety Meeting, Tues, July 9, 6:30-7:30pm, Queen Anne Public Library, 400 W Garfield St, free.
Neighborhood Greenways
Weigh in on plans to build a neighborhood greenway through Delridge and Highland Park. The greenway—a residential street where speed and traffic calming measures discourage car traffic—will provide a foot and bike path through the neighborhood and protect Longfellow Creek from pollutants via natural drainage systems.
Delridge/Highland Park Neighborhood Greenway, Tues, July 9, 6:45-7:30pm, Highland Park Improvement Club, 1116 SW Holden, free.
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