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Bikes of Wrath — Monterey Bay Area screenings, plus Steinbeck Country tips

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Here in Steinbeck Country, buzz about this film—The Bikes of Wrath—especially got our attention!

If you check the Monterey County Bike Calendar regularly, you may have noticed The Bikes of Wrath played in Monterey on April 3, 2019, a screening hosted by Velo Club Monterey at Cinemark Monterey 13 in the Del Monte Center.

If you missed that screening, note that there’s at least one more screening here in the Monterey Bay Area:
Monday, April 15, 2019, 6:30 p.m. at the Regal Santa Cruz 9, 1405 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz. Details:
http://tickets.demand.film/event/7207?fbclid=IwAR0WDKMDN2qnADK8oIfo-mtJ1xSj22fm4qsxRLKWCVIvjykLeAC3sQ1_8fU

The film previously played in Santa Cruz on March 15, 2019 at the Rio Theatre.

To find or schedule a screening of The Bikes of Wrath near you: http://us.demand.film/the-bikes-of-wrath/
Watch a trailer at the end of this post.
The Bikes of Wrath, as described on http://bikesof-wrath.squarespace.com, offers an “an in-depth look at today’s America through the lens of John Steinbeck’s seminal novel, The Grapes of Wrath.
“Five Australian friends [Leon Morton, Charlie Turnbull, Cameron Ford, Red Chaouki, Oliver Chiswell] attempt to cycle from Oklahoma to California in honor of the mighty westward migration undertaken by ‘The Grapes of Wrath’s’ Joad family.”

Grapes of Wrath and John Steinbeck’s hometown

Learn more about John Steinbeck’s book The Grapes of Wrath —winner of National Book Award and 1940 Pulitzer Prize for fiction—at the National Steinbeck Center, in Salinas, the Monterey County seat and its largest city. When visiting Steinbeck Center, plan your schedule to also experience nearby Steinbeck House, his birthplace and boyhood home—a participant in the HER Helmet Thursdays Project—discounts on Thursdays if you bike or bike-and-ride there.
On this site, check out Bike Salinas, including HER Helmet Thursdays spots. At the end of that section of the Tips for Bicycling Monterey County guide, you’ll see a long list of posts about Salinas on this site, such as:

If you enjoyed experiencing biking America through the eyes of the Aussie travelers in The Bikes of Wrath, you may also enjoy seeing some of the Aussies who bike Monterey County. Among those pictured on this site, see “Bike to Bach, as Aussie Carey Beebe does — Carmel Bach Festival” and “Aussies, others ask: Immigration – What’s up with U.S. policies?”

The Bikes of Wrath

This post was published on 6 April 2019. One or more changes last made to this post on 1 August 2019.

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