PedalSafe ROA presents Reels and Wheels: A Bike Film Festival in celebration of Bike Month 2024. Enjoy an evening of short films, videos, and conversations about safe cycling at Golden Cactus Brewing.
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Event Details
Time: 6:30-8:30PM on Thursday, May 23
Location: Golden Cactus Brewing in Roanoke (214 5th St SW, Roanoke, VA 24016)
Our film festival features an array of cycling short films and videos from across the globe. From long journeys in the saddle, to humorous forays on two wheels, to explorations of cycling infrastructure and educational clips, it’s a celebration of bicycles and safe cycling for our community. We will also hold brief intermissions to discuss PedalSafe’s mission and work, and what we can all do to make cycling safer in Roanoke. Plus, our friends at Roanoke Mountain Adventures will be there with e-bikes for demos!
Thanks to our generous partners at Golden Cactus Brewing, 10% of all beer sales will benefit PedalSafe ROA.
*T-shirt pickup: If you ordered a PedalSafe t-shirt during our recent merch sale and chose local pickup, you can grab your gear at this event!
Our main feature of the evening, The Street Project, is an essential documentary examining the history of street use in the United States, and exploring a future with better alternatives in which cars, pedestrians, and cyclists can coexist.
Bicycling and pedestrian fatalities in the United States are skyrocketing. The National Safety Council reports that 1,260 bicyclists were killed in 2020, an increase of 16% from 2019 and an increase of 44% over the past 10 years. According to estimates from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration just released in May, cycling fatalities rose another 5% in 2021.
The Street Project highlights the global, citizen-led fight to make our streets safer.
Created by the multiple Emmy-winning team at Boyd Productions, The Street Project takes viewers across the globe in an uplifting narrative, from cycling-friendly meccas in Europe, to New York City and Phoenix, Arizona – one of the most dangerous cities in America for pedestrians – for a deep dive into how America views our streets and how they can be made safer.
Four years in the making, The Street Project looks at how we got here, including the history of street use and how it has changed, what makes effective street design, how the automobile changed the way we use our streets, the misguided use of victim blaming (jaywalking), the impact of zoning laws on street transportation, and much more.
Check out the trailer: