Art activist Jason Roberts will speak in Seattle on Wednesday, June 10 to share ideas and challenge us to make city streets come alive. He is the co-creator of Better Block, a demonstration tool that rebuilds streets using grass-root methods and quick, inexpensive, high-impact changes. By using elements such as bike lanes, café seating, landscaping and lighting, the project shows how blocks can be converted into walkable, inviting neighborhood destinations for people of all ages. Starting with one project in one neighborhood, he has repeated this work in other blocks and in other cities, and now the project has become an international movement.

Jason Roberts is the last of four speakers invited to Seattle as part of the Where are We Going? series this year, intended to inspire ideas for transforming Seattle streets, and is sponsored by the Seattle Department of Transportation, the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, and KUOW.

The event is free, but preregistration is required.

What: Build a Better Block: Rethinking Streets & Sidewalks as a Social Setting
Fourth presentation in series of speakers on urban transportation
Who: Jason Roberts, speaker
Joshua McNichols, KUOW, moderator
When: Wednesday, June 10, 6 p.m.
Where: Family Lecture Hall at McCaw Hall
RSVP here: https://betterblock.eventbrite.com