This Saturday: Celebrate The Final Weekend Of Bike Month at The City Reliquary’s Bicycle Fetish Day
May 24, 2012
Back in April one of our favorite Williamsburg mainstays, the City Reliquary, celebrated its 10-year anniversary (check out some photos and video). This Saturday, the not-for-profit community museum will present another long-running event, its 8th Annual Bicycle Fetish Day. It'll be the perfect way to cap off your Bike Month festivities.
Running from noon to 6pm and taking place on Havemeyer Street between Hope and Grand, Bicycle Fetish Day will be a cycling-centric street fair featuring bike gear vendors including Horse Cycles, Velo Brooklyn and Taliah Lempert's Bicycle Paintings, the bike-oriented apparel of Outlier and Nona Varnado, and advocacy groups such as Transportational Alternatives and Times UP! There will also be delicious food and excellent contests--from "Best Vintage Bike" and "Best Commuter" to "Best Mutant Bike" and "Best Ugly Bike." Bring along your own ride and compete for some your rightful share of the prizes starting at 2pm. Following the fair, the Reliquary will host a Brooklyn Brewery-fueled after party from 6-10pm.
In addition to the new features that debuted at its anniversary celebration, the Reliquary recently unveiled its newest rotating exhibition, featuring images of the Bronx River by photographer Jahi Sabater. "The Bronx River was an actively polluted waterway until very recently, but has become a focus point for environmental justice groups," says Reliquary managing director Jay Chen. "Sabater's work mingles pastoral beauty with urban grit to give us a glimpse of a waterway that few have seen." This summer the Reliquary will be screening New York-focused films twice a month in its backyard. "We're hoping to arrange them chronologically, so that collectively, they'll show six ages of New York over the past century," Chen says.
The City Reliquary is also looking for volunteers to help out in its gift shop and as museum docents—shoot an email to vollies@cityreliquary.org if you're interested.
-- John Ruscher
