All Public Discussions will take place at 18th Street Arts Center in the main gallery unless otherwise noted. The schedule is as follows (please stay posted to our website for any changes in scheduling and/or change with public speakers: November 6, 9:00PM "HOW FAR TO GO: Alternative Transportation in the Santa Monica Area" with RIDE-Arc How can we get from point A to point B? Is this really a "Bronze" level city? Where does this city end, anyway? Why is there so much traffic? What about pedestrians? Can people stop walking on the bike path?!?! Join RIDE-Arc for a 16 mile route through Santa Monica and vicinity as we discuss issues of transportation, access, and urban planning. This ride is being held in conjunction with Diane Meyer's exhibition of works "Without a Car in the World" at the 18th Street Gallery in Santa Monica. RIDE-INFO: A majority of this ride will be at a slight incline. Whether you are heading up or down this slight incline is something else entirely. A portion of this ride will include a short uphill section on a "narrow" street with low lighting conditions, please be prepared for this. For various reasons which we will not be getting into, riding as a group in the City of Santa Monica has at times been known to be under intense scrutiny from the Santa Monica Police Department. Please obey all traffic laws and have adequate lighting for your bicycle. As this ride is in conjunction with the 18th Street Gallery, you will be required to sign a liability release prior to the ride's start. Thank you for working with us to make this happen! We will meet up between 9:00 and 9:30pm, we'll try to head out around 9:30 pm. The route will end where it begins, just like life. November 11, 6pm This event will be a roundtable discussion on how to live a car-less or car-free lifestyle for those interested in using their car less or even getting rid of it entirely. with Siel, writer and blogger, LA Green Girl http://greenlagirl.com Chris Balish, journalist and author of How to Live Well Without Owning a Car: Save Money, Breathe Easier and Get More Mileage Out of Life Paula Hess, Magazine Editor and Single Mom Panel: Walking in LA, 7pm Cees Nooteboom once wrote of LA, “In a city with streets longer than fifty kilometers, the measure of one foot is absurd, and so is the use of one’s feet as a means of transportation.” Taking it’s name from the Missing Person’s song which claims that ‘Nobody Walks in LA,’ this panel discussion will explore the social, spatial, and psychological aspects of walking in Los Angeles. With: Anastasia Loukeiras-Sideris, Professor and Department Chair, UCLA Department of Urban Planning Herbert Medina, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Loyola Marymount University Nigel Raab, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Loyola Marymount University, DJ Waldie, author Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir Damon Willick, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Loyola Marymount University November 14, 2pm “Transportation and the Future of Los Angeles” a panel discussion with: Browne Molyneux, Journalist and Blogger, Shame Train LA Claude Willey, Artist, Urbanist and Educator, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, California State University, Northridge Others to be confirmed December 2 7:00pm Mass Transit Themed Comedy Show with Kristina Wong (www.kristinawong.com)