The first Riverbank Path Promenade will be held on Sunday, July 19 from 1 to 5 pm along the south and west river bike paths, from River Road to Skinner Butte Park. The popular bike path will become a three-mile, mix-and-mingle Piazza.
“Other than two modest clusters of information and activity at River House and Maurie Jacobs Park, there will be no central venue,” said Eugene resident Jan Spencer. “Rather people will be the players, invited to walk, bike, push strollers, skate, picnic, and hang out any way they care to. Imagine along the bike path people showing art work, doing tai chi or yoga, engaged in spontaneous performance with passersby welcome to join in.”
According to Spencer, there will also be information tables and displays located along the path pertaining to environmental restoration projects, community gardens, points of historical significance, recreation areas, neighborhood projects and more.
“The goal of the Promenade is to have a free, local, participatory, low impact, creative, positive occasion at an existing and accessible public location. Times are changing and people can look to each other to have fun, build community and do it closer to home,” said Spencer.
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