Huge Tigger is as soon as once more placing the pedal to the pavement for a trigger that hits near dwelling. Right now, Saturday, June 14, the third annual Huge Tigger’s Beltline BikeFest will roll onto the Atlanta Beltline’s Southwest Path, activating one of many nation’s most formidable infrastructure tasks as a platform for well being, wellness and connection.
The free, family-focused occasion, created by Tigger and powered in partnership with Atlanta Beltline, incorporates a celebrity-led group experience, stay musical performances, vendor market, wellness screenings and the giveaway of 200 bikes and helmets to native college students via Tigger’s nonprofit, the Huge Tigger Basis, which has change into a convention of the occasion.
“BikeFest is greater than only a bike experience. It’s a celebration of group and tradition and a automobile for youth empowerment,” mentioned Tigger, host of The Huge Tigger Morning Present on Atlanta radio station V-103 and in-arena host for the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks. “Annually, it’s extremely heartwarming to see the enjoyment on youngsters’ faces as they experience their bikes. I’m honored to pour into the following technology, particularly proper earlier than summer season break once they want secure, wholesome methods to remain engaged.”
A Journey with PurposeTaking place within the historic West Finish group, BikeFest displays the Beltline’s unique imaginative and prescient: a civic undertaking formed by and for the individuals. The occasion makes use of biking as a software to handle well being disparities that also stay current in lots of communities, the place charges of continual sickness and bodily inactivity stay disproportionately excessive.
Statistics additionally present that common biking helps reminiscence, studying and psychological wellness in kids, but entry to bikes has steadily declined nationwide over the previous decade. Beltline BikeFest exists to handle that actuality.
“It’s essential to me that our group stays bodily lively. All of us have to stay longer, more healthy, extra productive lives, not just for ourselves however for the generations following us. I additionally need Atlanta to see the Beltline as a useful resource in the direction of these targets,” mentioned Tigger, who pitched BikeFest to the Beltline in 2021 after rediscovering a love for biking in the course of the pandemic.
“When Tigger launched the concept for BikeFest, we knew we needed to make it occur,” mentioned Clyde Higgs, president and CEO of Atlanta Beltline, Inc. “The Beltline was designed for this. It was created to be a connecting level of concepts, individuals and customary targets. A conduit for collaboration. A residing, respiration engine for accessibility and inclusivity. Activations like BikeFest permit us to ship on that promise. Tigger’s imaginative and prescient was sensible in its skill to deliver collectively all the weather that make our metropolis nice.”
Occasion Highlights:
Celeb Journey (10 a.m.) | Led by Huge Tigger and his superstar pals together with:
Stars from Tyler Perry’s Sistas and Divorced Sistas, Davale and Khadeen Ellis
Critter Fixer vets Drs. Vernard Hodges and Terrence Ferguson
DJ Mars
V-103 Morning Host Jazzy McBee
America’s Subsequent Prime Mannequin Toccara
Love & Hip-Hop’s Lil Scrappy
Bike Giveaway (12:30 p.m.) | 200 free bikes and helmets for college kids from Atlanta Public Faculties, native homeschooled kids, youth from close by neighborhoods and members of native bike teams
Household Pageant (11 a.m. – 3 p.m.) | Well being screenings, youngsters’ video games, stay DJ units and extra at Lee + White within the historic West Finish.
WHEN: Saturday, June 14 | Journey begins at 11 a.m. (Verify-in opens at 9:30 a.m.)WHERE: Lee + White, 1070 White St SW, Atlanta, GA 30310
