Join the Halloween Bikers!

Halloween Bike Ride Sunday, October 30th: Shared Streets Not Scared Streets

Join hundreds of riders for a rolling Halloween costume party! The police escorted parade begins at City Hall Park at 2PM, winds through downtown and the Old North End, and ends with a Halloween party at Maglianero Cafe, 47 Maple St. (approx. 3 - 5pm). This is a family friendly, all ages event and open to bikers, walkers, skateboarders and in-liners.  And new this year…the Halloween Bike Ride will feature a costume competition!  The judges will award prizes in the following categories: Best Costume - Adult, Best Costume - Child, Best Decorated Bicycle and Best Group Costume (friends, neighbors, co-workers, get your game on).  In addition a King and Queen  will be chosen from those present for the ride to wear the coveted "Shared Streets" Crowns for the parade.  Judging will be conducted beginning at 1:30pm at City Hall Park.  Winners will be announced at the post-ride party at Maglianero.
For more information: www.localmotion.org/halloween and on facebook. Brought to you by Local Motion and the BTV Bicycle Cluster. Big thanks to our generous lead sponsor, Old Spokes Home with additional support from the Ben & Jerry's Foundation and Northfield Savings Bank.

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1st order blown, signed and packed at AO Glass.

24th of October.  Finally, the AO Glass Studio has finished the first order since we lit the furnace on the 4th of October.  the 48 Snow Folk in glass are all going to the VT Life Magazine.  Lukas is showing our second most popular item: the glass Polar Bear.   More about them soon.

Thank You Burlington VT!

What A Fantastic Evening!  Art Hop 2011 got an amazing start with fantastic weather and SO many people. We worked real hard this week to get everything up and running. 20'clock this afternoon though I had to stop the team to change gears and move into "social mode".  The glass blowing is then postponed to next week. We did meet and greet with I believe over a Thousand people this afternoon and evening! We had kids doing face paint outside and there was music from many directions. For example the magical self playing Piano at Justin Rose's cool piano tuner shop....It was inspiring to see all the happy people out today.
I have to recommend a really talented yoga teacher we are lucky to have in our town, Jane Jarecki. See http://www.janeyoga.com/tag/vt/  She helped me to keep my cool this afternoon : I had a yoga class with her in the middle if the day and she had put together a practice that was really grounding and helped me to focus happily on today's event.  It worked.

Front Porch Forum

http://frontporchforum.com/  Read about a very cool, humbling and heart warming way of being neighbors.  I hope  this idea can spread to many other "hoods" in the world. 

The founders of FPF just needed to communicate more with their new neighbors after moving to a new address: and created this whole wonderful community creating and embracing system of sharing local information- about local and international matters and issues!

Lucky are all of us who have this foundation to build our neighbor relationships on.  Thank you Front Porch Forum Burlington!

Embrace! at the Emigrant Institute of Sweden.

I'm very honored to be a participant in the cultural event Embrace! organized by the Emigrant Institute in Växjö. 

Read About Embrace Here

Opening day is September 14.

Maglianero- my favorite Cafe' and Cultural hub.

I don't have enough describing dynamite words for my all time favorite cafe and meeting place that I ever stepped into.

And then I've experienced a lot of cultural environments that are about drinking something envigorating and having a chat, in between ultra charming old ladies Tea houses in New Zeeland through anarchistic Cafees in Malmö to the old style espressobar in San Gimignano, Italy.  They are all about stopping and taking a break to get a chance to look up from what you're doing as an individual and be present with other people to share moments.

Maglianero's staff, coffee, hot chocolate, knowledge & spirit is a gift. 


Use it!

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