‘A Shared Vision’

Linking community and government’s vision for a Walkable and Bikeable Manitoba

DATE:    Wednesday, February 27th
TIME:     6:30 pm registration, 7:00 presentation
MEET:    The Forks Atrium (inside The Forks Market beside the viewing tower elevator)
RSVP:    beth@resourceconservation.mb.ca  925-3772
Space is limited to MAX. 100 people - REGISTER SOON!

Please join us for an interactive evening with internationally renowned speaker Gil Peñalosa. Gil will highlight his experiences working with communities and elected officials to develop a shared vision for active transportation in the development of healthy and vibrant communities. Multicultural executive, global thinker and marketing strategist, Gil Peñalosa is passionate about improving quality of life through the promotion of walking and bicycling. Gil earned an MBA from UCLA’s Management School, and after years of private and public sector senior managerial experience, he became Commissioner of Parks, Sport and Recreation for the City of Bogotá (pop. 7m), Colombia, where he led the team redeveloping and building over 200 parks. He was also successful in closing 91 kilometres of the city roads each Sunday, the ‘Ciclovia’, where over 1.5 million people come out weekly to walk, run, skate and bike. Watch a video of Gil's work: http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/ciclovia/  Gil is Executive Director of the non-profit Walk & Bike for Life in Port Credit, Ontario, and believes trails are great equalizers, where every person has a sense of belonging, of being "equal" as a human being, and where everyone can go regardless of gender, age and economic, social or ethnic background. 

Organized by:
Winnipeg Trails Association & the Physical Activity Coalition of Manitoba (PACM)