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New Forest Festival

September 16, 2010

The New Forest Festival is a celebration of Storytelling, Film, Food & Music inspired by the natural beauty and cultural heritage of its setting.  We will be launching the New Forest’s film festival by screening their first film ‘BEGGERS OF LIFE’ with bicycle power.  There will also be LIVE MUSIC by The Dodge Brothers. The festival [...]

Abel & Cole – Wheelie Big Bike Drop

September 15, 2010

Get on your bike and come to the launch of the Wheelie Big Bike Drop at Abel & Cole’s Pedal Powered Party! Saturday 25th September 11am – 3pm A&C HQ, Plough Lane, London, Sw17 OHB Pledge your bike and help Re-Cycle send 650 cycles to Africa. Magnificent Revolution will be helping out to pedal power [...]

Bristol Cycle Festival

September 13, 2010

We’ll be hitting the city streets of Bristol to present a very special Pedal Sessions at the Bristol Cycle Festival. Bristol Cycle Festival are proud to present almost 100 cycle-inspired events across Bristol in September featuring: Film, theatre fresh from Edinburgh Festival, sport, world renown walk-about, rides for everyone, book signings, nature activities, music, sculpture, [...]

Save The Arts

September 10, 2010

For more information about Save the Arts, please visit http://www.savethearts.org.uk. Over a hundred leading artists including David Hockney, Damien Hirst, Anthony Caro, Howard Hodgkin, Anish Kapoor, Richard Hamilton, Bridget Riley, Antony Gormley and Tracey Emin have joined the campaign to make the case against the proposed 25% cuts in government funding of the arts. The [...]

London Bike Power Workshop – Sunday 3rd October

September 9, 2010

Date:    Sunday 3rd October 2010 Venue: Lilian Baylis Old School, InsightShare Media Hub, Lollard Street, SE11 6PY Time:   11:00 till 17:00 Cost:    £40.00 MR facilitates this workshop for those interested in learning the ins and outs of pedal power generators. Our workshops have a good balance of theory and hands-on experience. Participants can discover [...]

Workshopping…

August 19, 2010

Once again, we ran a couple of workshops. In our usual tradition we were offered an unusual space to do our 1st workshop under. Yes, under is the word, as the spot was under a railway bridge arch on Union Street. We were kindly allowed to run the workshop there by The Union Street Urban [...]

The Thames Festival – Feast On The Bridge

July 29, 2010

Southwark Bridge 9pm Screening FREE We will be taking part in Feast on the Bridge during The Thames Festival. We we will do a free screening of “Gleaners and I” on a side of a large skip. As usual, the more legs the better! Runtime: 1 hr. 22 min. Genre: Documentary Synopsis: Veteran French filmmaker [...]

Shambala Festival 2010

July 29, 2010

We’re back at Shambala! “Shambala is a creative, non-commercial, ethical and family-friendly festival with a wild side. We have endeavoured to cultivate  a down-to-earth mix of creativity, the unexpected, a warm & friendly atmosphere, and quality entertainment. We feel striongly about partcipation rather than just consuming, and offer plenty of stuff to get involved with, cinemas,  many workshops (dance, [...]

Cyclescreen: Bristol’s Bike Film Festival

July 29, 2010

Magnificent Revolution are back in Bristol for Cyclescreen: Pedal Powered Cinema – World Bike Shorts is part of Cyclescreen: Bristol’s Bike Film Festival Bristol’s first dedicated bike film festival of inspiring cycling films, documentaries, lectures and interactive events celebrating cycling culture in its varied forms. Join us at, Watershed, Work1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 [...]

The Bristol Harbour Festival

July 29, 2010

Come join Magnificent Revolution at The Bristol Harbour Festival; one of the best-loved and most diverse festivals in the South West of England – and one of the biggest free events in the country. Bristol’s beautiful city centre harbour comes alive with music, dance, circus, children’s entertainment, ships and boats, markets and fireworks for this [...]

London Bike Generator Workshop

July 29, 2010

YET ANOTHER WORKSHOP FOR YOUR PEDALING PLEASURE……… PLUS FREE ENTRY TO OUR CYCLE POWERED CINEMA EVENT AFTER THE WORKSHOP Date: Saturday 14th August 2010 Venue: Union Street Orchard, 100 Union Street, London, SE1 0NL http://www.unionstreetorchard.org.uk/ Time: 11:00 till 17:00 Cost: £35MR facilitates this workshop for those interested in learning the ins and outs of pedal [...]

Bike Generator Workshop, London, Union Street Orchard

July 29, 2010

YET ANOTHER WORKSHOP FOR YOUR PEDALING PLEASURE……… PLUS FREE ENTRY TO OUR CYCLE POWERED CINEMA EVENING AFTER THE WORKSHOP Date: Saturday 14th August 2010 Venue: Union Street Orchard, 100 Union Street, London, SE1 0NL http://www.unionstreetorchard.org.uk/ Time: 11:00 till 17:00 Cost: £35 MR facilitates this workshop for those interested in learning the ins and outs of [...]

Refuge in Films

July 23, 2010

We’re going to do a little event catch up in the next few blogs. We’ve done loads of stuff lately but had no time to lay it all down for you to read. In June, we were very delighted to get involved with Refuge in Films. We pedal powered some musical performances by young migrants  [...]

Bike Lab

June 4, 2010

We are pleased to announce the launch of Bike Lab – a new home for all things pedal powered. The community site will allow you to share upcoming bicycle events, upload images and videos of your projects, as well as provide a forum and blog for you to share your ideas and technical know-how. There’s even [...]

The Magnificent Kingdom

April 30, 2010

As some of you may know we’ve been trying to get ourselves settled into an office. Starting from scratch ( no space and no money) has proven to be a challenging journey but nevertheless a rewarding one. We might be getting you excited but we’re not at the end of the journey yet. But believe [...]

Hebden Bridge Transition Town

April 30, 2010

The lovely part about working with Magnificent Revolution is getting to meet all the people around the UK that got together for the power up.  Their stories are sadly not making the headlines but they’re a definitely revolutionary.  People are starting to design their future energy existences. One could say that this event would be [...]