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May the fitness be with you: Don’t miss Active Streets Festival 2023

Solomon's Lane Photo with Happy City Logo to the right

Join us for a fun celebration of moving!

Happy City is celebrating active transportation on Saturday, August 26, 2023, from 12-4 pm.
We encourage people to leave their cars at home and walk, wheel, skate, or take the bus to the Downtown Pedestrian Mall near Solomon’s Lane (Water Street 150’s block) to join our Active Streets Festival (for kids and adults) and enjoy plenty of movement-related entertainment!

You must be wondering… what is active transportation?

Active transportation is regular movement undertaken as a means of transport to get to and from places. It can be anything that gets you moving!

How Active Streets Festival 2023 can pump you up

The Festival will promote several forms of active transportation while highlighting the pros of choosing different ways to get around. See Happy City’s new map showing how accessible Metrobus stops/routes connect with the City’s snow-clearing priorities. Next, the Festival will showcase information about city trails, cycling, and other activities that don’t require a private car.
Cities are for people, not cars.

Exercise? I thought you said accessorize!

We will have a face painting station and a bike decoration station. Kids should want to ride their bikes. Whether they want to move with style or pedal to the beat of their own drum!

Setting the bar high

Our colorful tent and various tables will have a fun atmosphere for the whole family. It is all in service of promoting activities and improving the lives of everyone in the community of all ages and interests.
Come to the Active Streets Festival.
Get moving in any way you can. At any heart rate, let’s get started.

Participating Organizations include:

JKC

Pedego Electric Bikes

Downtown Comics

CFSFCEE Newfoundland and Labrador

MUNSU

Downtown St. John’s

Free Ride Mountain Sports 

George Street Association

Ordinary Spokes

Outfitters

Living In Community/

Living in Community St. John’s Releases New Report

Living in Community St. John’s is proud to release its report on what was heard and learned following a series of dialogues on sex work and safety, hosted in fall of 2019. 

The Community Dialogues in 2019 were a space to convene conversations about sex work and safety, hearing from folks with lived experience in the sex trade, the public and private sector, and service providers. This report is to share back what we heard in these dialogues. Through it, we hope to practice accountability on sharing knowledge more broadly in our communities and as a place to continue conversations.

Download the report here.

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