Streets Alive! First Peek

In a Few Short Weeks ... Streets Alive! will be here. Scheduled for Sunday, September 25th from 1:00 - 4:30 PM, our free annual movement festival is back outdoors, taking health, wellness, fitness, fresh produce, and fun for all ages into the streets! Hosted by the University Place neighborhood, the 1.7 mile traffic-free festival route includes a park area, walking trails, and playgrounds.

What You'll Find at Streets Alive! look for even more in the coming weeks

Everybody's Welcome Neighbors from the area and neighbors from across the city come together at Streets Alive! The festival is a family, kid, pet, and wheelchair friendly event to get you up off the couch and moving. You can walk, run, bike, skate, push a stroller, or propel a wheelchair through the 1.7 mile traffic-free festival route interspersed with exhibitors, entertainers, and join-in activities. You can enter or exit the route at any point.

Sports and Fitness Get your fit on at Streets Alive! Get active with yoga led by Wild Root Yoga or a YMCA Pound class. Sharpen your skills with soccer clinic led by the Nebraska Wesleyan soccer team or learn some martial arts moves with Swanson Martial Arts. The festival route is also part of the Nebraska Sports Council LiveWell Challenge! Participants can walk, bike, run, or skate their way through the route as a LiveWell Challenge event. If you're interested in demonstrating your sport or leading a fitness class, learn more or apply here.

Farmer's Markets, Food Trucks You find tasty produce from Lincoln Fresh, Buy Buy Local Nebraska, and Community Crops' Veggie Van - locally grown and farm fresh. The Corner Kitchen food truck will offer tasty Mediterranian cuisine. If you'd like to offer your locally grown produce at Streets Alive! or you have a food truck that offers healthy food options, learn more or apply here. Music and Dance What's Street's Alive without tunes? Dance along with Andy William and the Nebraska All Stars, with their special blend of modern Afro-Cuban music and jazz and Cool Poppas offering R & B and soul music. Dance in the streets to the Lincoln Ukelele Group on the route with music from all genres. Enjoy the graceful dance moves of CK Dance Academy. If you're interested in providing family friendly entertainment (music, dance, puppetry, balloon art, clowning, marching bands, etc.), learn more or apply here. Health Resources Nearly 80 exhibitors have already signed up to offer free information, education, and health resources at Streets Alive! If you are a non-profit and would like to provide outreach about your organization in a fun and interactive way, learn more and apply here.

Kids Activities, Raffle Kids can join in sing-a-longs with guitarist Jim King, check out books on the Bookmobile, get kicking at the NWU soccer clinic, learn some martial arts moves, or chill out with kids' yoga. And what kid doesn't love climbing on a fire truck? Many of the exhibitors offer fun activities to help kids learn about good health, as well. Parents can also enter their child in a raffle to win a free bike. The Arts Enjoy art displays from the Lux Center for the Arts on the Streets Alive! Art Walk. Then get creative with draw-along 3-D chalk art sponsored by Children's Hospital, painting water colors with Southern Height Food Forrest, and do-it-yourself t-shirt art with Collective Impact.

Volunteer for Streets Alive! Join us. We have lots of fun ways to help with Streets Alive! We can always use extra hands. You can help with set-up and take down, be an information booth, entertainer, or exhibitor assistant or a safety monitor. You'll have fun and it will make you feel good. Learn more or sign up.

Streets Alive! Sponsors Many thanks to our all our sponsors, including our platinum, gold and silver funders: Platinum: Community Health Endowment , City of Lincoln, and Healthy Blue Nebraska Gold: KLKN TV and Lincoln Journal Star Silver: Bryan Health; Children's Hospital; John Henry's; KZUM radio; Rivers Metal Products; and Screen Ink

Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving and protecting the health, wellness, and fitness of Lincoln's children, families, and seniors. We also work to improve health equity in our community, addressing disparities among racial and ethnic populations with the highest burden of chronic disease.   Contact us.