Bicycle Picnic
| September 7, 2008 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 5:00 pm |
We were invited to put on a pedal powered cinema at the Sunday Cycle Picnic in London Fields. Curator from the BFI is putting together a programme of films that we’ll pedal power midday onwards till about 5pm. Ladies need a bit of encouragement to get on the two wheeled beasties and cycle picnic is creating an opportunity specifically for that. It’s a fact that more gents than ladies cycle. Cycling is often perceived as male dominated territory and it’s time for the ladies to end this tragic situation. We’ve come to help once more! If you need a bit of chic for the picnic then visit London Cycle Chic
Pedals at the Growing Kitchen
We were very honored by the invitation to take part in the finishing ceremony of the Growing Kitchen project. We went down to pedal power a film about the transformation of a disused lawn to a beautiful veg garden for local residents on one of Shoreditch’s estates. The film was lovely and we’ll embed it on our website as soon as we get our hands on it. The kids were loving the bikes as usual. Youngsters pedal powered their own tunes barely touching the pedals. At first we powered some music and then film rolled on as soon as the sun set. Hopefully, the Growing Kitchen is just a beginning of a series of transformation of spaces on estates to something useful that can be shared by the community. The atmosphere was amazing. People were sharing recipes and generally enjoying each others company. Congratulations to Grass Shoots on their success.
What wood you do?
The people behind the TRUCK festival have given us WOOD as their contribution.
1 week before the festival we discovered that the rig we were suppopsed to power in the tree tent was rated at 5kW. Our calculations indicated that this is 62 bikes! Which left us 51 bikes short and a ,ot of work to do in 7 days. In reality, on testing the rig when we arrived on Thursday, it took just over 1kW of actual power. Just on the limit of a revolution.
After some debate with the organisers the decision was made not to try and power the beast, but instead to run our own smaller party and film tent. Luckily we had brought some wicked 1980s HH speakers kindly leant to us by Mike at Mullet Boy Studios in Cambridge. These monsters somehow only manage to draw 25W for each amp, beautifully efficiency, unlike todays energy wasting amps. Even the ITV Oxfrod news crew were impressed!
An early rise (ahem) on Saturday and some housekeeping and further sign drawing was underway before the bike powered debut of Bellevue Rendezvois.
Saturday night and another impromptu bike powered party. E-festival describes us as, the ” ‘Magnificent Revolution’ tent, with its sound system and lights powered by a row of bicycles, which are, surprisingly, an incredibly popular attraction at all hours of the day and night” SUPRISED! We wern’t……… Party people powering their own music. Beautiful!
Sunny sunday was a blinder and we took on our daytime role of providing child bike based entertainment at this family friendly fest. Taking those enthusiastic watts and using them to power some sunny sunday reggae!
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