alley cat bike race april 11

March 27, 2015 in event

community kitchen alley cat poster

mark your calendars & come out to a food-themed alley cat bike race saturday april 11th!!! food skillz, not speed, required. registration for the race begins at 2pm at Duncan Plaza in the CBD (bring 10 bux for registration donation), race starts at 3. checkpoints will have food-themed challenges and you can earn extra points by scavenging edible items along the way & couriering them to the finish line for our veggie & crawfish boil AFTER PARTY at Handsome Willy’s with DJ Dieout, party starts around 5-6pm or so. did i mention there will be PRIZES?? …like coffee beans from Hey! Cafe, cassette tapes from Domino Sound, a tattoo from Sailor’s Cross, swag from NOBS, Tribe Bikes & State Bikes, gift certificates from Maypop Herb Shop, St. Coffee, Shake Sugary, Lost Love Lounge, Gerkin’s Bike Shop, Juan’s Flying Burrito, Theo’s Pizza, Half Moon Grill, and more.

this event will help community kitchen raise money to build two food-carrying bicycle trailers that will enable us to do everything we do by bicycle! …like pickup food donations from produce distros & grocery stores, and transport cooked food & supplies to our servings. that’s not all…the cargo trailers will also magically turn into food-serving tables that we can use when we serve food to the masses! check out these technical sketches from our commie kitsch fabrication engineer:

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oh, and a HUGE thanks to ben passmore for the sick flyer & NOLA Alleycat for the endless support. that’s what you get for losing the 2nd place prizes, drew!

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  • WHO?

    community kitchen is a volunteer-run food share in New Orleans that brings together folks who love to grow, gather, cook, and serve food in order to reduce food waste and hunger while supporting those most marginalized by capitalism and the industrial food system.
    read more about us...

    you can reach us via email:
    kitchen at commiekitsch dot org
    or fone: 504.383.3349

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  • WHERE? WHEN?

    current nola food-shares:

    * TUE :: community kitchen:
    hot food serving 3-4pm @ duncan plaza between city hall & the main branch public library.

    * WED :: hot food share, serving 2pm @ the mission in central city.

    * there should be more...
    you could start one!

    WHY?

    because there's too much food being thrown away, & because the right to be free from hunger is a fundamental human right.
    read Via Campesina‘s seven principles of food sovereignty...

    Family Farm Defenders: The Food Sovereignty Struggle within the Global Justice Movement

    "Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable."
    - Aurora Levins Morales