Women and Cycling
This blog is arriving slightly late but we promise you’ll enjoy reading it. While ago we’ve successfully attended the Sunday Cycle Picnic in London, an event trying to encourage woman to get on bikes. We screened Belleville Rendesvouz and wonderful film programme of vintage cycle films curated by Ray Pascoe. As this event was all about the ladies and their two wheeled companions, Magnificent Revolution welcomed our youngest female volunteer. Her name is Taeko and she may just become our technical support.
We were happy to attend this event as woman and cycling have some history. In history of female and male inequality the bicycle became a tool of autonomy. With the help of bicycle, woman could get them selves from A to B without the dependence on men. Bicycle meant freedom. With the bike came off the corsets and on came the bloomers.
And just to spice it up a bit at the end.. the first woman to go around the world on a bicycle was Annie Londoderry. She was paid by a water company to become a cycling billboard and to even take up same last name as the Londoderry Lithia Spring Water company. She took off around the world becoming a mobile advertisement. What an amazing accomplishment. Shame it was all in the name of advertising. 
Cycle Sound
Few blogs ago, we mentioned that together with Jamie we were getting up to some bicycle related musical business. This is just a short note to bring you the fruitful result. A track made from bicycle sounds. We like it….could be even a slight bit darker, but then…this may Jamie’s soft side. Thank you Jamie!
Listen here please: ” music” - WARNING! includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats!
Sceaux Gardens Estate
Saturday was a miserable day but not for us. Magnificent Revolution and South London Gallery managed to bring educational fun to younger generation of the Sceaux Gardens. As evidence shows below, everyone had to have a go on the tall bike. The kids managed to create the most fun straw chaos the Sceaux Gardens Estate have seen in a while. The wilderness in the concrete jungle with some serious MCing. Kids got to power the mike for the debates about the issues that people wanted to bring up regarding their life on the estate. Bring it on! People didn’t ask for much: to be able to hang their laundry outside or grow veg in allotments near their flats. Simple.
