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Car Free Days are celebrated in Vancouver on Main Street, Commercial Drive and Denman Street, and in the Kitsilano neighborhood and North Vancouver.
Car Free Day is celebrated in Vancouver on Denman Street, Main Street and Kitsilano in mid-June each year, weekend Father's Day for the last two years North Vancouver had its own car-free day a week -end in mid-August and for the first time in 2017, the car free Day on commercial drive will be held in early July instead of June.
During their respective days without cars, there are favorable festivities in the family of all sorts progress in these areas.
In 2017 days without cars held the following days.
Car Free Days are managed festivals by volunteers where some streets are closed for the day, people are discouraged from driving, and there is entertainment and celebrations along the road There are street performers, food vendors, music shows and sometimes even dance events annually combined in Vancouver draw crowds of over 250,000 people.
The day before in June West End Festival Father runs along Denman Street Vancouver between Davie and Robson Here, there are thousands of people, street performers, artisans and food vendors filling the street If it's a sunny day, the English Bay beach is probably too busy in 2017, the day before father's day and so the date of this major event will take place Saturday, June 17
COUNCIL Combine your visit to the celebrations of the day free, Denman street car with a bike ride along the English Bay Seawall is in the direction of Stanley Park or to False Creek Or, after wandering through the festival, enjoy a picnic and sun on the sandy beach at English Bay.
The Commercial Drive Festival runs from 12:00 to 7:00 p.M. Sunday, July 9 In previous years it was held on Sunday, Father's Day, which was the same day the same event on Main Street Today festivities still occur along fifteen blocks on Commercial Drive between Venables and Grandview, just in July but instead of June.
Running since 2005, the event is original Commercial Drive Car Free Day Festival Vancouver is also an eco-festival not only encourages people to go without a car for the day, but in recent years, they manage to divert over 65 of their garbage in their efforts to become a zero waste event These people are serious about being green.
The Festival Main Street takes place from noon to 19 pm on Father's Day Sunday most Broadway years about 30 Avenue Here, too, there is live music, street performers, craft markets and activities for children.
Instead of a street festival where an entire street is surrounded, Car Free Day is celebrated by individually organized block parties throughout the Kitsilano neighborhood on both days of the weekend Father's Day There are barbecues, games and fun in every direction These events are especially fun and convenient for people living in Kitsilano, but also interesting for everyone just to drop while on a bike ride or a walk in the area.
COUNCIL Don t Make Kitsilano lead throughout the weekend the weekend of Father Back Kitsilano streets are narrow enough to navigate a regular day, so on the weekend of the Father, he'll nuts, all that it won t be just a single street that's blocked.
In 2017 without a car in North Vancouver Day is celebrated on 12 and 13 August with the Fun City Festival For its event without a car, on the lower part of the movement of rolling vehicles Lonsdale Avenue is replaced by people in swimsuits and giant water slide 1000 feet.
Each year a massive water slide is imported and set up for the day by sliding the city an American company based in Utah Unlike most other activities of the day, the slide won t be free, but he won t hurt to watch the excitement or other festival activities are also underway in the region in previous years toboggan tickets have sold out months in advance, so if you want to slip in 2017 don t wait until the last minute to book your tickets.
For more information about the event Car Free Day North Vancouver, click Fun Festival City.
For more information on the activities of this day around Metro Vancouver, visit the website of the Car Free Day Vancouver.
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