12/6: Social Media Training
2023-12-06 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Chicago)
We rely on volunteers to run our social media and are excited to train and onboard some new folks to contribute to our virtual presence! Join us on Zoom to learn about the tools we use, how to access them, and the type of content we like to post. Zoom link to join: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85978350347?pwd=[REDACTED]

Bike Team Meeting
2023-12-06 19:00 - 20:00 | Dry Spokes, 1901 Leavenworth St., Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Join us for our December Bike Team meeting in person at Dry Spokes. Focus will be on debriefing the Cranksgiving event on November 4th, collaborations with other bike groups/bike shops, and planning for 2024.

12/9: Coffee Meet Up
2023-12-09 10:00 - 11:00 | Astute Coffee, 1818 Dodge St, Omaha, Nebraska, 68102, United States Minor Outlying Islands
UPDATE: Free Bikes for Kidz Omaha (FB4K) has finished all of the bike builds for this year, which is great! So, FB4K does not need volunteers on Saturday. Instead we’re just going to have a coffee meet up at 10 am at Astute Coffee at 1818 Dodge St. There’s no agenda and anyone is welcome to talk biking or transportation in Omaha and learn more about Mode Shift.

12/13: Walkability Team Meeting
2023-12-13 19:00 - 20:00
Join the Mode Shift Walkability Team at their December meeting via Zoom to get involved in improving pedestrian infrastructure in Omaha. We will be discussing Walk with Us events, ongoing conversations with the City, and more. All are welcome to join and connect with the Walkability Team.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1076541523764886

12/14: Happy Hour
2023-12-14 17:00 - 18:30 | Site-1 Brewing, 2566 Farnam St., Omaha, Nebraska, 68131, United States
Join us for a happy hour at Site-1 Brewing from 5 to 6:30pm on Thursday December 14th. There’s no agenda, and all supporters of Mode Shift are invited. (Site-1 has a beer, cider, cocktail, and nonalcoholic drink menu — but no food. We are allowed to bring in outside food.)

1/3: Bike Team Meeting
2024-01-03 19:00 - 20:00 | Dry Spokes, 1901 Leavenworth St., Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Join the Bike Team for our January meeting in person at Dry Spokes on Wednesday January 3 at 7pm. Focus will be on 2024 planning including bike valet, bike ride, and education events.

1/11: Happy Hour
2024-01-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Muchachos, 1258 S 13th S, Omaha, Nebraska, 68108, United States
Join us for a happy hour at Muchachos from 5 to 7 pm on Thursday, January 11th. There’s no agenda, and all supporters of Mode Shift are invited. Muchachos is a restaurant on South 13th Street that offers tacos, rice bowls, and other dishes from New Mexico. Drinks include craft beer, cider, cocktails (including diverse margaritas) and sodas.

1/13: Coffee Meet Up
2024-01-13 10:00 - 11:00 | Myrtle & Cypress Coffeehouse, 517 N 33rd St., Omaha, Nebraska, 68131
Join the Bike Team on Saturday January 13 at 10am at Myrtle & Cypress Coffeehouse in Gifford Park area. Discuss biking and transportation in Omaha. Open to anyone.

2/21 Walkability Team Meeting
2024-02-21 19:00 - 20:00
Join the Mode Shift Walkability Team at our February meeting via Zoom to get involved in improving pedestrian infrastructure in Omaha. We will be discussing Walk with Us events, ongoing conversations with the City, and more. All are welcome to join and connect with the Walkability Team.

Please note that starting in February, we’re meeting on the third Wednesday of the month, rather than the second. The registration link has the updated dates. If you already had the meeting series downloaded to your calendar, please use the same link to re-register and get a new calendar invitation.

2/24 Walkability Sign-Making Party
2024-02-24 13:00 - 15:30 | Omaha Public Library – Downtown Branch, 1401 Jones St, Omaha, Nebraska, 68102, United States
Before spring arrives and another season of outdoor events begins, it’s time to refresh our collection of handheld signs. Come join the Walkability team at the downtown library (room 102) to exercise your artistic skills and/or get your favorite slogans on paper! Poster paper, markers, and snacks will be provided; feel free to bring any other sign-making materials you have handy. (Within reason — let’s not use spray paint, glitter, or anything else that would make librarians unhappy.)

2/28: Member Meeting: Omaha Climate Plan
2024-02-28 19:00 - 20:30
Join us for our membership meeting in February! We are excited to hear from representatives from the City of Omaha on transportation strategies included in Omaha’s Climate Action & Resilience plan. This meeting will be via Zoom; click link below to join.

3/20: Walkability Team Meeting
2024-03-20 19:00 - 20:00
Join the Mode Shift Walkability Team at our March meeting via Zoom to get involved in improving pedestrian infrastructure in Omaha. We will be discussing Walk with Us events, ongoing conversations with the City, and more. All are welcome to join and connect with the Walkability Team.

3/25: Evolving Omaha - Part 3
2024-03-25 18:30 - 20:30 | UNO Community Engagement Center, 6400 South University Drive, Omaha, Nebraska, 68182, United States
Join us for another video series on active commuting, city planning, and urban design in Omaha! 6:30 – 7:00 we’ll have time for visiting, and 7:00 – 8:30 we’ll watch a series of short videos with discussion. See you there! We’ll be at the UNO Community Engagement Center (CEC) in Room 221.

3/27: Member meeting: Dr. Bereitschaft on Walkability & Equity
2024-03-27 19:00 - 20:15 | UNO Community Engagement Center, 6400 South University Drive, Omaha, Nebraska, 68182, United States
We are having a hybrid membership meeting! You can join us via the Zoom link below or in the UNO CEC (ask front desk for room number). Dr. Bradley Bereitschaft from UNO will present on some of his research on walkability and equity. Facebook Event.

4/13: Coffee Meet Up
2024-04-13 10:00 - 11:30 | The Mill Coffee & Tea, 3105 Leavenworth Street, Omaha, Nebraska, 68105, United States
Join the Bike Team on Saturday April 13 at 10am at The Mill Coffee & Tea on Leavenworth. Discuss biking and transportation in Omaha. Open to anyone.

4/16: Bike Walk Give Day
2024-04-16 00:00 - 23:59
Bike Walk Give Day is a day to rally Nebraskans in support of the active transportation nonprofits serving their communities. It is a 24-hour, statewide, online-giving event to celebrate and support active transportation-related nonprofits within Nebraska. The inaugural Bike Walk Give Day is on Tuesday, April 16th, from midnight to midnight.

Support Mode Shift Omaha and any of 17 other active transportation nonprofits serving Nebraska communities!

4/24: Member meeting: Preparing for Omaha's Comprehensive Plan
2024-04-24 19:00 - 20:15 | UNO Community Engagement Center, 6400 South University Drive, Omaha, Nebraska, 68182, United States
Join us for our hybrid monthly membership meeting! We’ll be in person at the UNO Community Engagement Center (CEC) in room 209 and online on Zoom. Derek Miller from the City of Omaha will provide information about Omaha’s Comprehensive Plan. The Comp Plan is an opportunity to provide input into Omaha’s plan for the future.

4/27: Earth Day volunteers
2024-04-27 10:00 - 18:00 | Elmwood Park, Elmwood Park Road, Omaha, Nebraska, 68106, United States
It’s that time of year again!! Birds are singing, flowers are blooming, and Omaha is thawing out. Spring is here, and that means that Earth Day Omaha is just around the corner. Once again, Mode Shift Omaha will be providing bike valet parking for the event. Join us for a day of fun, learning, and admiring all of the two-wheeled vehicles coming to roost for a while in our corral. Hopefully it will be warmer than last year! There are only four volunteer spaces per two-hour shift, so don’t wait too long. Sign up here and lend a hand: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050C4FAEA72FA1FA7-48156925-earth#/

5/1: Bike Team Meeting
2024-05-01 19:00 - 20:00 | Dry Spokes, 1901 Leavenworth St., Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Join us for our May Bike Team meeting in person at Dry Spokes. Focus will be on planning a bike ride in May for bike month. Open to anyone interested in improving biking in Omaha.

5/11: Coffee Meet-up
2024-05-11 10:00 - 11:30 | Speilbound, 3229 Harney St., Omaha, Nebraska, 68131, United States
Join the Bike Team on Saturday May 11 at 10am at Speilbound Board Game Cafe on Harney St. Discuss biking and transportation in Omaha. Open to anyone.

5/14: Bicycle Thieves film screening
2024-05-14 18:00 - 19:00
This event is hosted by Filmstreams with Heartland Bikeshare. Official event webpage. Location at Filmstreams’ downtown Ruth Sokolof theater.

The event includes a showing of the film following by a discussion. Bicycle Thieves is an Italian film from 1948 that runs for 89 minutes. The panel will be moderated by Benny Foltz with Heartland BikeShare and include panelists: Clarice Dombeck, Manne (Manuel Cook), and Cait Dumas-Hein of Bike Walk Nebraska. More details on the event webpage.

About the film: “Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning® Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and profoundly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodies the greatest strengths of the Italian neorealist movement: emotional clarity, social rectitude, and brutal honesty.”

5/15: Walkability Team meeting
2024-05-15 19:00 - 20:00
Join the Mode Shift Walkability Team at our May meeting via Zoom to get involved in improving pedestrian infrastructure in Omaha. We will be discussing Walk with Us events, ongoing conversations with the City, and more. All are welcome to join and connect with the Walkability Team.

5/15: Ride of Silence
2024-05-15 19:00 - 22:00 | Twin Creek Trailhead, 3602 Raynor Pkwy, Bellevue, Nebraska, 68133, United States
Hosted by Bellevue Bicycle Club:

“The Ride of Silence 22nd Anniversary Ride

WHERE:Twin Creek Trailhead (3601 Raynor Dr., Bellevue, NE 68123)Join cyclists from all over the Greater Omaha Region in a silent slow-paced ride (max. 12 mph) in honor of those who have been injured or killed while cycling on public roadways. This ride is police escorted. Our proposed 13 mile route is here. (https://ridewithgps.com/routes/45543907)

On Wed. May 15th, 2024 at 7:00 PM, the Ride of Silence will traverse and unite the globe as nothing before it. Cyclists will take to the roads in a silent procession to honor cyclists who have been killed or injured while cycling on public roadways. We had six cyclists killed in Nebraska in 2023. More than the past five years combined. Although cyclists have a legal right to share the road with motorists, the motoring public often isn’t aware of these rights, and sometimes not aware of the cyclists themselves.

The Ride of Silence is a free ride that asks its cyclists to ride no faster than 12 mph, wear helmets, follow the rules of the road and remain silent during the ride. There are no registration fees. The ride, which is held during National Bike Month, aims to raise the awareness of motorists, police and city officials that cyclists have a legal right to the public roadways. The ride is also a chance to show respect for and honor the lives of those who have been killed or injured.

All riders are welcome on this ride, helmets are required, lights and visible clothing is expected. Bellevue Bicycle Club will organize this event and will be led by supportive club volunteers.

Please join us for a ride to honor and remember cyclists who have been injured or killed, and to raise awareness of the laws, how cyclists and other pedestrians behave on the roads and why, and to encourage camaraderie, inclusion, and the spirit of community. Ride with us.”

5/23: Bike Skills 101 by Bike Walk NE
2024-05-23 05:30 - 19:30 | Lewis & Clark Landing, 345 Riverfront Dr, Omaha, Nebraska, 68102, United States
This event is hosted by Bike Walk Nebraska & Heartland Bikeshare. Official event webpage

The Bikes Skills 101: Learn-to-Ride for adults is for older teens and adults who have never learned to ride a bicycle or have not been on a bike in a long time. A parent must be present throughout the class if a participant is a minor (under 19 years old).

With our safe, easy, and efficient curriculum, participants will gain the confidence to master fundamental bike riding skills.

In this class, you’ll learn:– Basic bike riding skills, including starting, stopping, steering, and balancing– Safe cycling practices– How to adjust a bike helmet for appropriate fit– How to use the Bikeshare system and about the overall benefits of cycling for health, fitness, and transportation

Bikes and helmets are provided for all participants.

Most participants will leave knowing how to ride a bike without support; if not, they’ll leave equipped to keep learning independently.

Participants will also gain access to the Heartland Bikeshare System.

This class is a part the Nebraska Equity in Active Transportation (NEAT) initiative which is funded by the Omaha Community Foundation.

5/29: 1st Ave Group Bike Ride
2024-05-29 18:30 - 20:00 | Brickway Brewery & Distillery, 1116 Jackson St., Omaha, Nebraska, 68102, United States
Join us for a group bike ride tour of 1st Ave in Council Bluffs! Mode Shift member Brandon Siracuse will provide a guided tour of 1st Ave as we ride together. We will depart from Brickway in the Old Market at 6:30. This ride is appropriate for expert cyclists and novices alike – we’ll be taking things at a slower pace and stopping frequently. We’ll end the ride back at Brickway, where you could join us for a drink.

Please note that this group ride will replace our monthly membership meeting for May.

6/18 Happy Hour at Bärchen
2024-06-18 17:00 - 19:00 | Bärchen Beer Garden, 6209 Maple St, Omaha, Nebraska, 68104
Mode Shift happy hours are back! Come hang out with your fellow active-transportation enthusiasts. No agenda, just a social gathering.

6/25 Walk with Us at MCC Fort
2024-06-25 16:00 - 17:00
Join Mode Shift Omaha on a pedestrian’s-view tour of the MCC Fort campus and its surrounding streets. We’ll be using a sidewalk audit tool to study the ways that infrastructure does, and does not, promote a safe environment for those walking and rolling in this neighborhood. Expect it to be a study in contrasts!

We will meet at the Institute for the Culinary Arts at 4:00 PM. If you’re coming by bus, Route 30 has the closest stop locations; if you’re driving, use the parking lot just off Sorensen Parkway, at the south end of campus.

8/15: Happy Hour at Saro Cider
2024-08-15 17:00 - 19:00 | Saro Cider Lounge, 1012 S 10th St, Omaha, Nebraska, 68108, United States
Come on down to Little Italy and enjoy a fantastic variety of ciders at the Saro Cider Lounge with your fellow Mode Shift supporters. Saro also serves mixed drinks, nonalcoholic beverages, and tasty shared plates, all gluten-free. The ambience is fun, the decor mid-century modern, and the car-free accessibility not too shabby.

Mode Shift happy hours are an opportunity to socialize with like-minded people, no agenda.

9/18 Walkability Team Meeting
2024-09-18 19:00 - 20:00
Join the Mode Shift Walkability Team at our May meeting via Zoom to get involved in improving pedestrian infrastructure in Omaha. We will be discussing our plans for team leadership, future events, ongoing conversations with the City, and more. All are welcome to join and connect with the Walkability Team.

10/16: Walkability Team Meeting
2024-10-16 19:00 - 20:00
Join Mode Shift’s Walkability Team for their monthly meeting on Wednesday October 16 on Zoom. The agenda includes discussion of a September meeting with the City, Walkability Assessments: request from Orpheum Theater Neighborhood Association, and more. Anyone interested in improving Walkability in Omaha is welcome.
