[YarraBUG-list] Last YarraBUG Meeting for 2007

Yarra Bicycle Users Group enquiries at yarrabug.org
Mon Nov 19 22:56:48 AEDT 2007


Hi all,

After a quick confab we've decided to slightly delay the final YarraBUG 
meeting for 2007 until next week - so the time and date now is: 7.30pm, 
Tuesday 27th November at Suede Bar, 284 Smith Street, Collingwood.

On this months agenda is:

- Discussion about last weeks Yarra Council Planning, Environment and 
Infrastructure Committee Agenda.
- Planning for 3CR Bicycle Show for 2008
- Summer rides calendar - if you're interested in either organising a 
ride or learning more about being a ride leader, please contact us!
- Business and community group memberships for YarraBUG
- The Solutions to Climate Change Festival at Darling Gardens (refer to 
previous emails)
- Possible YarraBUG presence at the 2008 Sustainable Living Festival 
with other BUGs, ie: similar to this years stall at Federation Square.
- Possible change to schedule + venue for 2008 YarraBUG meetings


In closing - two items of interest for your perusal - Free Women's Info 
Night this Thursday + The Tao of City Cyclling by Frank Fisher



1. Free Women's Info Night this Thursday
http://www.cyclingpromotion.com.au/content/view/289/9/
The information night features fabulously inspring women: Michelle 
Timms: Legendary Basketball player & keen bicycle rider, Flip Shelton: 
Channel 7 personality & keen bicycle rider, Emma Carney: 2 times World 
Triathlon Champion. The night is being held this Thursday, 22 November 
at Top Gear Cycles in North Balywn, Melbourne. RSVPs are essential as 
places are limited.
When: Thursday - 22 November 2007
Time: 7pm
Where: Top Gear Cycles, 304 Doncaster Road, Balwyn North (Greythorn Shops)
Cost: Free
RSVP - Places limited: Phone (03) 9857 4060 or send an email to 
info at topgearcycles.com


<mailto:info at topgearcycles.com>
2. The Tao of City Cyclling
Convenor: Associate Professor Frank Fisher, Department of Epidemiology & 
Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Adjunct Professor, National 
Centre for Sustainability, Swinburne University of Technology. 
[Inaugural Australian Environmental Educator of the Year (2007)]

Dates: 26 – 28 November 2007, Time: 2.00pm - 4.00pm (each day!)
Venue: Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, 3rd floor 
seminar room, Burnet Building, 89 Commercial Rd., Alfred Hospital 
precinct. Suitable for: All with the physical wherewithal to ride a 
bicycle and an interest in approaches and strategies that promote 
health, well being and environmental sustainability. The course will 
benefit those considering altering their commuting behaviour to favour 
healthy and environmentally sustainable alternatives.

Aims: This course introduces participants to a way of seeing the world 
that recognises "ways of seeing" as culturally accepted sets of social 
constructs. [See e.g. the new first year MBBS course Health Knowledge & 
Society devised by a team on which the author was the extra-faculty 
rep.] Participants are given the opportunity to grapple intellectually 
and physically with two of these social constructs namely the social 
dynamic of the road and its subset safety/vulnerability in traffic.

Overview: Students will learn to appreciate the social frameworks within 
which they travel and their health, safety and sustainability 
implications. In addition to the intellectual appreciation of the social 
dynamic of the road, participants will spend the last third of their 
time actually on the road translating the theory they have gained into 
practice. In addition to Frank Fisher (engineer/environmental scientist) 
various practising commuter cyclists will be involved. Principal among 
these are Dr. John Merory (neurologist, Austin).

Fee: $220 Registration: 
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/spring-school/index.html




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Yarra Bicycle Users Group
PO Box 253
Clifton Hill VIC 3068
http://www.yarrabug.org
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