This weekend’s Swerve Festival — a self-dubbed “new annual festival dedicated to celebrating West Coast creative culture” — offers a free bike valet service courtesy of LA County Bicycle Coalition — with priority seating for cyclers who take advantage of it.

So — Get a free music pass or buy film tickets here, then cycle over –

Then on Sunday: Fresh off their summer Farm Tour, bicycling duo and anti-plastic-bag activists The Ditty Bops perform at the Hollywood Bowl this Sunday, Sept. 30. (via blogging.la)

In other bicycling news, REI’s pledged a $100,000 grant to the Bikes Belong Foundation to support the Bicycle Friendly Communities program, which’ll provide a series of grants that’ll go toward projects to make US cities more friendly for cyclists. According to the press release, “The BFC review committee—comprising League and Bikes Belong staff—will invite communities that exhibit ambition and potential to improve their bicycle facilities and programs to apply for the funding.” Maybe LA can become one of these ambitious communities? (via Treehugger)

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