Streets Alive! is almost here
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In Just A Few Days
... Streets Alive! will be here. Scheduled for Sunday, September 24th from 1:00 - 4:30 PM, our free annual movement festival is back, taking health, wellness, fitness, tasty food, music, art, and fun for all ages into the streets! Hosted again by the University Place neighborhood, the 1.7 mile traffic-free festival route includes a park area, walking trails, and playgrounds.
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What You'll Find at Streets Alive! | |
Everybody's Welcome
Streets Alive! 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.
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Sports and Fitness
Get your fit on at Streets Alive! Get moving with a YMCA Pound class or Zumbathon or try yoga classes led by Lincoln Yoga Center and Heart of Light Yoga. Learn some martial arts moves with Swanson Martial Arts or some sword fighting skills with the Nebraska Swordfighters Guild.
Get some wheels under your feet with roller skating from Good Life Skate Center and No Coast Junior Derby, and skateboarding tips with Precision Skateboard .
The Joy of Pedaling
Take a half hour bicycle tour of historic University Place with city historian Ed Zimmer, starting at 2:30. Learn about Lincoln's bikeshare program with BikeLNK. Kids can experience and learn about mountain biking with DEVO and register for bicycle giveaways.
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What's Good to Eat
Visitors can purchase tasty offerings from Pepe’s vegetarian-style Mexican, and The Corner Kitchen with authentic Middle Eastern fare.
The Lincoln Fresh truck and the Community Crops Veggie Van are providing free locally grown produce, Hiland Dairy is offering free milk, and HyVee is providing 600 free take-home meal sacks. Bottled water and fruit will be available from some exhibitors and at some information booths.
If you purchase goodies at MoJava’s on the the festival route, they will donate 10% of their proceeds during the festival to Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln.
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Support and Health Resources, Fresh Cuts
Nearly 100 exhibitors will be on hand to provide free health, wellness and support information, education, and resources. Several with have interactive fun for kids, as well.
Hometown Favorites Haircare and Fisher's Beauty & Barber will also provide free haircuts.
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Music
Jonathon Leach and Black Ophanim bring their blend of Latino jazz and Cool Poppas offer R & B and soul music
Jim King provides kid's music and Tevin and Nicole offer music and storytelling.
The Blue Raven Music Studio group, Cheap Death, shows off their talents, and Nicolas Li brings classical cello to the stage. Dance in the streets to the Lincoln Ukulele Group on the route with music from all genres.
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Art
The LUX Center for Arts shares their EMERGE Mural Art festival on the Streets Alive! route with music, food, and art activities and Our Dream Achievers shows the healing power of art and music therapy.
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Kids Activities, Fitness Challenge and Bike Give-Aways
Kids can join in sing-a-longs with guitarist Jim King, enjoy music and story telling with Tevin and Nicole, chill out with kids' yoga, or learn some martial arts, swordplay, skateboarding or roller skating moves. Kids can make bicycle smoothies and experience the joy of pedaling on mountain bicycles. Kids completing fitness challenges at the information booths between 1 - 3 PM can register for free bicycle giveaways from the Lincoln Bike Kitchen and Scheels. Winners announced at 3:15 PM, must be present to win. And, what kid doesn't love climbing on a fire truck? Many exhibitors also offer fun activities for kids.
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Streets Alive! Sponsors
Many thanks to our all our sponsors, including our platinum, gold and silver funders:
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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.
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