Route/Activities
The Day of the Event
Saturday, June 25th 4-8pm Route
One mile of city street – Edgewood Avenue from Peachtree to Boulevard – will be open for people to bike, walk, run, dance, and play. Do a cartwheel! Stand on your head! This is Atlanta’s biggest block party, with open streets for riding bikes with friends and family, old school games, people-watching, great restaurants and bars with specials for participants, or you can learn a new dance step, hula-hoop, double-dutch, listen to live music, run a water relay, play on the slip ‘n’ slide, do some yoga, get your bike tuned up, or help build a pop up city. To find out more, visit atlantastreetsalive.com.
Interactive map: atlantastreetsalive.com/map
Please meet us at Woodruff Park (51 Peachtree Street) at 4:30 pm June 25 for the kickoff remarks.
In addition to open streets for biking, walking, running and playing the street, some great local groups are hosting the activities listed below…
Activities unique to 6/25
Georgia Conservancy and CNU Atlanta: Pop up city! A pop up city is a temporary installation taking a vacant city space and activating it with treatments that demonstrate the possibilities. This project will showcase how the city’s streets can serve a full range of uses, with potential reallocations of public space for bicycle, pedestrian, transit, environmental protection, commerce, and public use, in order to increase the public’s awareness of the city’s potential and build support for “complete streets.”
Also new 6/25, Laughter Atlanta Yoga, Atlanta Dream, Better World Books, Chair Massage by Gwinnett College. See below for details!
All 6/25 Activities
Bikes
Atlanta Bicycle Coalition: Bike Station with valet parking, membership information, and resources for getting started with bicycling around Atlanta!
Sopo Bicycle Coop: Sopo’s mission is to create equitable access to cycling by providing affordable bicycle maintenance, services and education. Their shop provides a central forum for sharing equipment, materials, and expertise, and facilitates affordable, practical, hands-on support for cyclists of all ages and skill levels. Activity: mobile repair shop, bike safety rodeo for kids, and bicycle carnival games!
GSU Bikes: We will have four loaner bikes available for the GSU community and other GSU students who wish to participate in the bike loop rides. We will also provide information about bicycling at Georgia State.
Fixie Bikes: displaying hand-crafted bikes made to order. “We identify with freedom to do whatever you like to your bike because as long as it rides it’s cool. It’s that feeling that we want to share with others. ”
Bike Tune-ups
Loose Nuts: roving bike repair from the Grant Park bike shop!
Zipcar: bike adjustments from the car-sharing company
Fitness/Martial Arts/Sports
Cordao de Ouro Capoeira : Capoeira is a Brazilian movement form that incorporates martial arts, dance, and song with acrobatics, cleverness, and cunning. It is a dynamic physical and cultural form of expression open to all.
Divas In Defense: self-defense demonstrations
Yoga
Yoga for Cyclists: get limber and loose with Alyson Laura, an avid cyclist herself!
Laughter Atlanta Yoga: Laughter Yoga is a complete mind and body workout that engages our senses through yogic breathing, stretching, clapping and unconditional laughter that is not reliant on jokes or comedy. In our session we will simulate laughter as exercise in a group, but with eye contact and childlike playfulness, the laughter will become real and contagious. We will intersperse yogic breathing with unique laughter exercises which will deepen the laughter and help you to feel healthier and more energetic. Laughter Yoga is not postural yoga, so no yoga mats or exercise clothing is needed. Just bring yourself and a willingness to laugh, let go and have fun!
Dance/Music
SALSAAtlanta: In 1999, Julián Mejia started the only dance school and performance group in Georgia dedicated to Cuban dances. He gives salsa classes in clubs in the greater Atlanta area and has traveled around the country teaching workshops on how to dance. He also helps spread the salsa with his website, SalsaCasino.com, and is co-founder of SalsaPower.com and LatinCoolNOW.com. SALSAtlanta offers dance classes every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
J.A. Etchison: Acoustic fingerstyle guitarist with jazz leanings, dedicated to performing fun music that makes people’s lives a bit easier.
Harper Continuum Dance Theatre: Create art through movement using environmentally friendly finger paint on a reusable canvas/dance floor.
Culture
The King Center and MLK Historic District: Visit the King Center – an oasis on a warm day – to explore the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and contemplate peaceful coexistence and cultural understanding. 5pm-8pm
| Performance Time | Name | Cultural Impact |
| 5:00 PM | CapoieraMaculele | Capoeira is a Brazilian movement form that incorporates martial arts, dance, and song with acrobatics, cleverness, and cunning. |
| 5:15 PM | Lauren | Lauren’s music touches on several themes that influence culture: faith being the most evident and defining of them all. |
| 5:30 PM | Kalaivani Dance Academy* | India’s contemporary classical dances are a very influential art form, since sculptures and pieces of literature from the past all depict some form of dance in India. |
| 5:45 PM | Dre | With a heavy Caribbean influence, Dre’s music emphasizes uplifting themes that surround Jamaican cultural awareness. |
| 6:15 PM | Music Integrity for Youth | Born in the South, the blues is an African American-derived music form that recognized the pain of lost love and injustice and gave expression to the victory of outlasting a broken heart and facing down adversity. |
| 6:30 PM | ||
| 6:45 PM | Egypt | The art of spoken word, as performed by Egypt, is to identify and empower African American roots. |
| 7:00 PM | Asha* | By focusing on the various dances from the Middle East, Asha takes us through a number of cultural realms, including Indian and Persian. |
| 7:15 PM | Chinese Shaolin Center | Tai Chi Chuan is a slow-motion, moving meditative exercise for relaxation, health and self-defense. |
| 7:45 PM | Calo Gitano Flamenco Dance Company | Caló Gitano specializes in live, interactive, and energetic flamenco presentations focusing on colorful Spanish culture. |
Kids Zone
Traveling Tim Dandy Featuring The Sandtown All-Stars: unique blend of children’s musical phonics, numbers, physical movement and crowd participation. The performance is lead by a charismatic and delightful adult host who takes the young audience on a fun-filled journey loaded with great educational songs and unexpected suprises along the way. All songs included in the performance are co- produced by 2-time Grammy Award Winning Artist song writer/ Artist- Timothy “Headliner” Barnwell Co-Founder Of Arrested Development.
All of Us Together/GSU Lofts: Old school play in the yard games. Adults will recollect childhood memories and children will learn something old school.
Big Bethel AME: Funday School Activities – horse shoes, musical chairs, golf putting, bowling, jump rope, hula hoop contest, checkers and other board games. Big Bethel AME Ampitheater on Auburn Ave
Better World Books: “wordskotch” and sidewalk chalk poetry contest.
Pets Zone
Friendly pets on leashes or in carriers are welcome at Atlanta Streets Alive!
Edgewood Avenue Animal Clinic: pet cool down zone with fresh water and milkbones, or you meet your new best friend through the Rescue Me! Animal Project.
Two Feet
Atlanta Stilt Dancing: walking, taking photos, doing tricks, and interacting with crowd. On stilts!
Water/Cool down zones
Misting tent: Woodruff Park near ABC Bike Station
SLIP N SLIDE: That’s right! Rumor has it there’s one in Hurt Park. Whee!
Chair Massage by Gwinnett College
Eat/Grow/Food
We hope you’ll support the local business communities of Auburn and Edgewood to thank them for supporting our event! Here’s a google map with places you should check out. MAP link
And definitely support our sponsors, Edgewood Corner Tavern, and Rolling Bones BBQ!
Sweet Auburn Curb Market Great and varied array of vendors. Don’t miss this! Cool air and great food. 209 Edgewood
Oakhurst Community Garden Project: Oakhurst Garden cultivates vibrant greenspace and inspires a community of environmental stewards. They will sow out seeds and pot up plants.
King of Pops will be at both events so you can pick up a refreshing popsicle to go with all that physical activity – located along route. Woodruff Park
General Information
Road Closures
Streets included in the road closures are Edgewood Ave from Peachtree St to Boulevard, Auburn Ave from Peachtree to Jackson, and Park Place bordering Woodruff Park. Park Place will be closed at 1 hour early on the day of each event and the remaining streets will be closed 1/2 hour preceding the event. All pedestrian traffic and activities will be cleared from the roads starting at the event end so that the streets may be reopened for automobile traffic.
Transportation
Participants are encouraged to walk, bike, or take MARTA to the event! The nearest MARTA train station is Five Points, which is located a block from Woodruff Park. You can visit the A-TRAIN trip planner to figure out the best way to downtown.
Parking
If driving to the event, on-street parking is available on many nearby streets (except those blocks included in the street closures). In addition, there are a number of public lots and garages near the route – see “Parking” on interactive map for specific locations.
Food & Drink
Outside vendors are not permitted at Atlanta Streets Alive. Attendees are encouraged to patronize all of the open businesses along the route, many of whom will be open special that day to participate in the event. There will also be free water available at all of the Information Stations.
Water / Info Stations
Please note the four water stations that will be located throughout the route at the following locations:
- Edgewood Avenue and Park Place (main water/info station, if you have any needs on the day of the event, visit this station)
- Auburn Avenue and Bell Street
- Edgewood Avenue and Boulevard
- Edgewood Avenue and Jesse Hill Drive (near the Curb Market)
Relief Stations / “Oasis”
These are designated spots on the route where you can stop in to get some relief from the heat:
- The King Center
- APEX museum (Auburn between Courtland St & Piedmont)
- Your Vitamin Lady (Auburn between Fort St & Hilliard)
- The Curb Market