Biking and Public Art and Chicago LocalWiki

Come join us for a Saturday of biking, photographing murals and public art (your phone is a fine camera), and meeting at a local library to create public art pages that anyone can access!

We'll upload public art onto Chicago's local wiki, a website devoted to supporting Chicagoans in cataloguing things important to our city.

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Here's the game plan:

9am: Meet at The Kitchen Sink Coffee Shop and break into groups of 3-4

9am-10:45am: Bike around and locate and photograph public art. Note down the location. We'll have some public art maps available if you need some ideas of where to go first.

10:45-11am: Meet back at Chicago Bezazian Library (1226 W Ainslie St, Chicago, IL 60640) - we've reserved a room there

11am-12pm: Create new wiki pages for the art that you've photographed

12pm-1pm: (Optional) Eat lunch together at Tank Noodle

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We'd like to create something like Oakland's local wiki has created about their murals: http://oaklandwiki.org/Murals

For an example of what other cities catalogue, see Seattle's "secret public spaces" on their own local wiki: "http://localwiki.net/seattle/Secret_Public_Spaces

More info about the localwiki project & Oakland's attempts to catalogue its murals (a project I was involved in) can be found below:

Localwiki's grassroots efforts across the world here: http://localwiki.org/about/ (http://localwiki.org/)

"how to run a mural bikeabout" http://oaklandwiki.org/Oakland_Wiki_Bikeabouts