Emerging Artists

Shout Outs to Roanoke Public Libraries at VLA Annual Conference 2009

A few comments about Roanoke Public Libraries’ presentations at the Virginia Library Association 2009 Annual Conference, Williamsburg, VA October 29-30, 2009

Roanoke Public Libraries’ presentations integrated content from Emerging Artists series, Car Less Brit Experiment as well as other Roanoke Libraries events and programs.

31 October 2009 • car less brit roanoke public libraries roanoke emerging artists vla virginia library association justnathan river laker

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Car Less Brit joins the Polly Branch bike sculpture outside Taubman Museum Art.
An installation created for the screening of Veer, a fundraiser event for Sharebike.

photo copyright of Taubman Museum of Art

11 September 2009 • taubman museum of art taubman polly branch river laker car less brit roanoke veer sharebike

Urban Design in Roanoke

Star City Harbinger posted this story and video exploring alternate visions for the Heart of Roanoke. Includes terrific photographs from Kim Hardy.

more information on Heart of Roanoke project

7 September 2009 • car less brit eldon karr hank bostwick kim hardy river laker roanoke star city harbinger urban design photography appalachian architect

“honey, can you feed the goats” part 5; Car Less Brit september 3 2009

the goats need feeding once again. With guest Mark Cary driving the lawn mower.

4 September 2009 • goats car less brit beth deal roanoke river laker

‘a classic from ROFLCON conference, Boston, MA. 4/2008. Featuring ROFLConman, a previous incarnation of Car Less Brit

21 August 2009 • roflconman roflcon boston car less brit river laker

24 foot photo collage of Manif Spaciale

Short documentary of Suzun Hughes, Wilson Hughes Gallery, creating a 24 foot long photo collage of the August 7 2009 Roanoke Manif Spaciale.

Manif Spaciale is an event to help change the perspective of car drivers into that of appreciation for bicyclists through demonstrating visually the amount of road space a bicyclist would be taking up if they chose to drive a car instead of ride a bike. So the more bikers there are, the more space is left on the road for car drivers to take up.

13 August 2009 • wilson hughes gallery suzun hughes river laker car less brit roanoke manif spaciale photography

Suzun Hughes...

interviewed re her 24 foot long photographic documentization of Manif Spaciale, Star City Harbinger

10 August 2009 • manif spaciale suzun hughes roanoke car less brit river laker

“honey, can u feed the goats” part 4; Car Less Brit sunday august 9 2009

at the Jefferson Center, Roanoke, the goats need feeding once again

9 August 2009 • jefferson center beth deel myscoper roanoke river laker goats car less brit

Wonder-Filled Grand Openings Wed July 1, 6 - 8 pm

Car Less Brit Museum and Virginia Museum of Transportation announce wonder-filled grand openings of 3 new bike culture events at the very same time! Wednesday July 1, 6 - 8 p.m.

**The Wonder-Filled Grand Opening of the Car Less Brit Museum

* bike culture art
* a virtual roanoke bike gang ride
* interactive bike activities for all types/ages
* bike lane for kiddies to ride on
* live bike music from dj DickiE & Joey T
* pedal-powered blender smoothies —u gotta pedal for it
* flat tire repair competition —old school style
* bike culture exhibits —tonnes of stuff touched on. ‘except 4 lycra shorts, no, they’re mentioned too just not shown, hehe!
* more fun stuff than this!

**2 wonder-filled new exhibits at the Virginia Museum of Transportation

** A Bicycle Obsession: David Saville’s bike collection
* chronicling a century of cycling
* Tour de France memorabilia
* unique items signed by cycling celebrities
* & more!

**Remembering Artie Levin
* bike and artifacts belonging to Roanoke’s own “Mr.
Fitness” & founder of Blue Ridge Bicycle Club (BRBC)
* visit the automobiles & historic locomotives at the
Virginia Museum of Transportation while here
* & more!

**FREE ADMISSION to Virginia Museum Tranportation Museum during these opening events, usually about $8, but it’s not after them!
**ADMISSION IS ALSO FREE AT the Car Less Brit Museum wonder-filled grand opening, but for this museum it will be free afterwards as well —he’s got far more money than he knows what to lose it on —the tough thing will be finding a time after the grand opening when the museum’s actually open for viewing!
*u can bike between locations,
or enjoy free vintage transit ride provided by the Commonwealth Coach & Trolley Museum

and for food…
*custom-made British cuisine at Car Less Brit Museum
* Maggie Moo’s ice cream at VA Museum of Transportation.

* food kindly bought, picked up, cooked by RIDE Solutions —who’re becoming close to obsessive, even creepy, with their endless cash handouts!

and everything’s free

Facebook event page

28 June 2009 • Car Less Brit Museum Virginia Museum of Transportation river laker car less brit roanoke Commonwealth Coach & Trolley Museum bike culture maggie moo's ride solutions

Star City Harbinger feature on Car Less Brit Museum Pre-Opening Viewing & Press Conference

“Internet personality River Laker, aka Car Less Brit, is opening a museum on the corner of Kirk Avenue and 2nd Street across from Blue 5 near downtown Roanoke…”

10 June 2009 • star city harbinger roanoke river laker car less brit museum car less brit emerging artists

my most frequent bike ride (detail)

dirt on tracing paper, 2009

River Laker

created for Car Less Brit Museum

6 June 2009 • river laker emerging artists roanoke car less brit car less brit museum

“Bicycle: people + ideas in motion”

“Bicycle: people + ideas in motion” celebrates Philadelphia’s passion and commitment to the bicycle with a series of changing exhibitions, programs and events that explore the bicycle both as functional object and as a canvas for good causes, personal expression, civic mindedness and political beliefs.

‘it’s an awesome line up of art events, check it out!
river

5 June 2009 • river laker roanoke emerging artists car less brit bicycle: people + ideas in motion