Streets Alive!
is just around the corner
In a Few Short Weeks

... Streets Alive! will be here. Scheduled for Sunday, September 24th from 1:00 - 4:30 PM, our free annual movement festival is back, taking health, wellness, fitness, tasty food, music, art, and fun for all ages into the streets! Hosted again by the University Place neighborhood, the 1.7 mile traffic-free festival route includes a park area, walking trails, and playgrounds.
What You'll Find at Streets Alive!
Everybody's Welcome
Neighbors from the area and neighbors from across the city come together at Streets Alive! The festival is a family, kid, pet, and wheelchair friendly event to get you up off the couch and moving. You can walk, run, bike, skate, push a stroller, or propel a wheelchair through the 1.7 mile traffic-free festival route interspersed with exhibitors, entertainers, and join-in activities. You can enter or exit the route at any point.
Sports and Fitness
Get your fit on at Streets Alive! Get active with yoga classes led by Lincoln Yoga Center and Heart of Light Yoga or a YMCA Pound class. Or, learn some martial arts moves with Swanson Martial Arts.

Get some wheels under your feet with roller skating from Good Life Skate Center and No Coast Junior Derby, and skateboarding tips with Precision Skateboard .

The Joy of Pedaling
Take a bicycle tour of historic University Place with city historian Ed Zimmer. Learn about Lincoln's bikeshare program with BikeLNK. Kids can experience and learn about mountain biking with DEVO and register for bicycle giveaways.
Fresh Produce

You find FREE tasty produce from Lincoln Fresh and the Community Crops Veggie Van - locally grown and farm fresh.

HyVee is providing free take-home meal kits, Hiland Dairy is providing free milk,and Norland Water and several exhibitors are providing free bottled water.
Support and Health Resources

Nearly 100 exhibitors will be on hand to provide free health, wellness and support information, education, and resources. Several with have interactive fun for kids, as well.

Hometown Favorites Haircare and Fisher's Beauty & Barber will also provide free haircuts.
Music
What's Street's Alive without tunes? Dance along with Jonathon Leach and Black Ophanim, with their special blend of Latino jazz and Cool Poppas offering R & B and soul music.

Kids can sing along with Jim King, students from Blue Raven Music Studio show off their talents, and Nicolas Li brings classical cello to Streets Alive! Dance in the streets to the Lincoln Ukulele Group on the route with music from all genres.
Art
The Lux Center for Arts shares their EMERGE Mural Art festival on the Streets Alive! route with music, food, and art activities.

The Midwestern African Museum of Art drum corps brings the cultural sounds of Africa.
Kids Activities, Bike Give-Away
Kids can join in sing-a-longs with guitarist Jim King, chill out with kids' yoga, or learn some martial arts, skateboarding or roller skating moves. Kids can making bicycle smoothies and also experience the joy of pedaling on mountain bicycles, as well as register for free bicycle giveaways. And, what kid doesn't love climbing on a fire truck. Many exhibitors also offer fun activities for kids.
Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving and protecting the health, wellness, and fitness of Lincoln's children, families, and seniors.

We also work to improve health equity in our community, addressing disparities among racial and ethnic populations with the highest burden of chronic disease.