Wednesday March 8th 7:30pm | BicycleSPACE Downtown 440 K St. NW
Join Elly Blue and Joe Biel for part presentation, part advocacy and writing workshop! We'll provide pens and paper and you'll walk away with a clearly articulated (and calm, rational, compelling!) new way to act on or talk about whatever bike issue makes you so upset you can't even deal.
Elly Blue is the co-producer/director of Groundswell and the author of Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy and Everyday Bicycling: How to Ride a Bicycle for Transportation (Whatever your Lifestyle). When she isn’t writing, she is the marketing director of Microcosm Publishing, producing books and zines about all aspects of feminism, self-empowerment, and bicycle transportation. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Joe Biel is the co-producer/director of Groundswell, the director of the feature documentary Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical Mass Portland as well as over 100 short films. He is also the author of half a dozen books, including Beyond the Music. He founded Microcosm Publishing in his bedroom closet in 1996 and has since published over 350 nonfiction books, zines, and movies. He lives in Portland, Oregon.