This Sunday, Central Street will be closed from its intersection with Willow Street in the Old City down to where it meets Oklahoma Avenue in Happy Holler. Don’t worry — it’s not for more construction.

Open Streets is an event that has gained popularity nationwide as a way to promote socializing and other outdoor activities on normally unfriendly pedestrian city streets. This October, Bike Walk Knoxville decided to bring the trend to Central Street and partnered with the City of Knoxville and Mayor Madeline Rogero to make it happen.

Kelley Segars, principal transportation planner with the Metropolitan Planning Commission, organized this weekend’s Open Streets event. According the Segars, the event will feature “all kinds of free games and activities and demo classes for people to try” along the length of the road.

“It’s just a good thing to show people that streets can be places and not just ways for us to get from point A to point B,” Segars said.

Food trucks and other vendors are some of the main attractions that Bike Walk Knoxville brought in for the event to supplement the stationary storefronts along the path. Annie Briere’s “Poutine Mobile” will be on the street with a unique dish to offer.

When Briere bought her truck about a year ago and relocated to Tennessee from Montreal, she brought a little bit of Canada to the South with her. Briere’s truck serves poutine, or what Briere calls the “French Canadian version of the loaded fry.”

“It’s French fries, cheese, and poutine sauce, our original sauce of a light brown gravy, and it can come with meat toppings, vegetables, all sorts of things, so you can go crazy,” Briere said. “It’s really comfort food.”

Open Streets will be a change in location from Poutine Mobile’s normal weekend site off of Papermill, but Briere is excited for this change of pace.

“As far as I can tell on social media so far it’s going to be very popular,” Briere said. “There are a huge number of people that I know who have already asked me if I’m going to be there because they’re going to be there.”

However, Poutine Mobile is only one of the multiple vendors who will guide attendees down Central Street this Sunday alongside musical guests and groups of various activity classes.

“It’s going to be a full three hours, so I’m sure everyone is going to find something fun to do,” Briere said.

Open Streets will be on Central Street from 1-4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 25.