You can turn your volunteer hours into thousands of dollars of support for Bike Edmonton. Also: Freewill Shakespeare Fesival and Sustainable Food Edmonton bike rides!

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Bike Edmonton

Bike to the Bard August 17

Bike to the Bard

with Freewill Shakespeare Festival

Thu Aug 17, 6:30pm

Bike to the Bard with Paths for People! Join the fun, easy and friendly group ride to a performance of Romeo and Juliet by the Freewill Shakespeare Festival on Thursday, August 17.

The Freewill Shakespeare Festival is offering ride participants a special ticket price of $22 for the performance! Use promo code BIKE2023 when purchasing your tickets here.

The ride will be from Paul Kane Park to The Cristal Palace Spiegeltent. Complimentary, secure, monitored bike parking is provided directly in front of the entrance. Edmonton Expo security will supervise the bike parking for the full duration of the event.

View the full event details here.

Casino volunteers still needed

Maximize the impact of your time

Century Casino (transportation can be provided)

Volunteer with us on August 15 and/or 16! No knowledge or experience of casinos, gambling, or bicycles is needed. By volunteering at this event, your 5+ hour shift is equivalent to a donation of thousands of dollars to Bike Edmonton.

Bike Edmonton uses licensed charitable casino events to raise funds for our activities. Approximately once every 22 months, we provide volunteers to help staff a casino event. Pooled funds from several casinos over several months is shared by charitable organizations: we generally receive over $70,000. Your volunteer hours translates into thousands of dollars for us.

Available shift times on either day include:

  • 9:30am–7:15pm
  • 11:30am–7:15pm
  • 6:15pm-3:30am
  • 6:30pm–3:15am
  • 6:30pm–3:30am
  • 10:45pm–3:30am

Just let us know which time you're available for on Aug 15 or 16 (or both days)!

Interested? Please contact Marcel Huculak (Treasurer) if you or someone you know is interested in volunteering for a casino position: marcel@bikeedmonton.ca or 780-699-4282.

This is Bike Edmonton's largest fundraiser and helps fund our programs and the space we need to run our two community bike shops. Your help provides invaluable and essential support for Bike Edmonton.

Garden Bike Tour

Community Garden Bike Tour

Sustainable Food Edmonton

Sat Aug 19, 9:30am

Join Sustainable Food Edmonton on a bike tour of their Southside community gardens! Gardens include Royal Gardens, Duggan, Heritage, Yellowbird and Blue Quill. Check out the event details and register here.

 
 
Bike Repair 101

We regularly post our bike repair 101 and 201 classes on our course website. We still have a couple spots available for our Aug 19 course on derailleurs and shifting!

Bike Valet

Biking downtown? Why not use our free, monitored bike parking!

 
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