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Program 2010


For directions on how to get to the Hall (SH-R420), Café Fractal (SH-380), CO-R700 or CO-R600, see our home page
Friday, September 24, 2010

  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

    • Registration
    UQÀM: At entrance of Café Fractal (SH-R380)
    (Please register if you need a bike or have arranged billeting)

  • 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

    • Concordia Community Bike Tour
    Organized by QPIRG Concordia as part of Disorientation Week
    Meet at Norman Bethune Statue
    Corner of Guy and de Maisonneuve W.

  • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

    • Opening Event with Robert ("Bicycle Bob") Silverman
    UQÀM: Café Fractal (SH-R380)

  • 6:20ish PM - 8:00ish

    • Critical Mass Ride
    (The Critical Mass normally leaves from Phillips Square at 5:30 PM, but this Friday, they will be lured to Café Fractal for 6:00 PM by infiltrators)

  • 8:00 PM-11:00 PM

    • Community Supper, Beer and Bike Blender extravaganza
    Performance by ///Friction
    Vernissage with artist Carl Ruttan.
    Café Fractal
    UQAM: SH-R380

  • 11:00 PM

    • After-party
    Location TBA

Saturday, September 25th
All Saturday activities will take place at UQÀM unless otherwise indicated

  • 8 AM - 9:30 AM

    • Registration and breakfast
    Café Fractal
    UQÀM: SH-R380
    Registration table will be open all day.

  • 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

    • CO-R700: Opening words and open forum with Bettina (conference coordinator) and Richard Dugas (Vélogik)

  • 11:00 - 11:30 AM

    • Refreshments
    Café Fractal
    UQÀM: SH-R380

  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

    • Workshops
    CO-R700: Anti-Oppression (Maude la Rousse)

    CO-R600: Pilates for Cyclists (June, Pilates du Plateau) (one hour only)

    SH-R420: Travail avec les immigrants et communautés culturelles (Richard Dugas and Fanny Poisson from Vélogik, Papa Amadou Touré from Caravan)

  • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

    • Ride to Saint-Viateur W. for barbecue lunch

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

    • SH-R380: Cycling and Organic Farming (Lennard Frueling et Graham Bradley, from Bike2Farm)

    SH-R420 or outside: Transport de marchandise en vélo/Transporting Merchandise by Bike (Julien Myette and Cameron Novak)

    CO-R700: Cyclist Safety : Structure or Agency? (Robin Black (Vélo Québec), Jacob Larsen, Bartek Komorowski, Daniel Fuller)

    Saint-Viateur West between Waverly and Esplanade: Atelier mobile par
    le concrêt/Applied Mobile Workshop (Max Halparin, The Flat)

  • 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

    • Refreshments
    Café Fractal
    UQÀM: SH-R380

  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

    • Workshops
    CO-R700: "Forum: Comment ça run un bike shop?" (Ed Hudson, Right to Move/La voie libre and Daniel Grenon, RésoVélo)

  • 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

    • Dinner with CRAPAUD
    TBA

  • 8:30 PM

    • Harvest Party with CRAPAUD
    Performance by Canailles at 9:00 PM
    Café Fractal
    UQAM: SH-R380

Sunday, September 26th

  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

    • Breakfast
    Café Fractal
    UQAM: SH-R380

  • 9:30 AM - 11 AM

    • Workshops
    SH-R420 and outside: Smashing Bikes Back to Life (Jacques Gallant, Right to Move/La voie libre)
    CO-R600: BikeSauce: A Recent History (Jamie Thiers et. al.)
    CO-R700: Comment mener une levée de fonds/Fund-raising (Glenn Rubenstein, Cyclo Nord-Sud)

  • 11 AM - 11:30 AM

    • Refreshments
    Café Fractal
    UQAM: SH-R380

  • 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

    • Workshop
    CO-R700: Le Conseil d'administration et l'organization communautaire/
    Boards of Directors and Community Organizations (Alex Megelas, CoCo)

  • 11h30-13h00

    • Workshops
    CO-R600 or outside: Adjusting a '76 Sturmey-Archer 3-Speed Hub while reflecting on the equation: "bikes + sexism = not funny + not cool" (Charlie O., Right to Move/La voie libre)
    SH-R420: Comment préparer votre vélo pour hiver (Guy Wéra, VéloCentrix)

  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    • Closing remarks and lunch
    Café Fractal
    UQAM: SH-R380

  • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

    • CO-R700: Annual General Assembly of RésoVélo