Bike culture and community: Veer to screen in Reno Tuesday June 23rd
On the heels of National Bike Month, the Tour De Nez and the Reno Film Festival, Reno’s cycling culture gets a special pre-release screening of Veer. This award-winning, feature length documentary film explores America’s fast-growing bicycling culture by profiling five people whose lives are inextricably tied to bicycling and the bike-centric social groups they belong to.
The event is a benefit fundraiser for the Reno Bike Project, a community bicycle shop and cycling advocacy organization, and the Holland Project, Reno’s non-profit youth-run arts, music and culture organization. (Disclosure: I’m on the Board for both Reno Bike Project and Holland Project. These grassroots young orgs are having a great impact on our community and culture.)
The film follows these characters over the course of a year, offering a behind-the-scenes look at their personal struggles and triumphs. Described as a “breakthrough documentary,” the film made its world premiere at the Victoria Film Festival earlier this summer and has won a Jury Award for Best Doc at the Calgary Film Festival, won Best Documentary at the Calgary Underground Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Documentary at the San Joaquin International Film Festival.
Veer examines what it means to be part of a community, and how social movements are formed.
Look at any city in the west with a vibrant arts, music and cycling culture and you have a city being recognized as a ‘best place to live’ now. Men’s Journal just pegged Reno as the ‘next Boulder’. (While I know that’s intended to be a compliment, I’ve passed on many opportunities to live in Boulder because Reno kicks Boulder’s ass on so many levels.)
What’s changed? Our culture. We’ve got a booming cycling-friendly creative culture in Reno that’s getting national attention. So let’s celebrate with a good movie and make sure the Bike Project and the Holland Project have the funds they need to keep our culture on a roll.
Tickets are $10.00 and available online at renobikeproject.com. Doors open at 7pm and the screening will be held at 8pm, June 23rd on the 3rd Floor of the Nevadan Hotel (west side of Virginia Street) at the Club Cal Neva.
Club Cal Neva will be operating a bicycle valet at the hotel valet. Afterwards the film’s writer and producer, Greg Fredette will lead a Question & Answer session about the film and cycling culture. A raffle for bike schwag and accessories will close out the evening.
Sponsors include Twelve Horses, Club Cal Neva, Silver Peak’s new Battle Born Beer, Chrome Bags and Reno’s Jet Lites.
Tickets available at the door, or save yourself the hassle of standing in line and print-at-home by buying online.
