***Holi Festival of COLOUR/l e a p into Spring + COLOURFUL WOMEN***
March 22, 2011
F I N A L L Y : is Spring here, then? Setting up the event in the rain that morning, it sure didn’t feel like it… But to our wonder, the skies stop being pests + let us get on with our first event of the season : HOLI, LEAP into SPRING + COLOURFUL [...]
L I V E A R T : LIVE ART : PART II
March 22, 2011
It’s because the last Live Art : Live Art was such a stonking success, that the wonders at Akemi Arts decided to treat the people of Manchester once again. Another all-round splendour of a line-up spilled out of Contact Theatre, luring non-stop participation from enthralled audiences trying their hands at life drawing, scrawling on huge [...]
>>MANCHESTER : WE ARE WELL<<
December 9, 2010
So out in the snow we went, skidding and slurping our way on the treacherous roads to the Town Hall, our precious kit clinging onto ropey trailers for dear pedal-power life. But arrive we did! And a fine honour it was to scrape our muddy filthy bicycles through the immaculate grand corridors of this prestigious [...]
~~ENVIROLUTION~~
November 8, 2010
A brief time-out from the I Bike MCR mini fest led us to Envirolution : Contact Theatre’s EXTREME ECO event blissfully placed on a spectacularly sunny Autumn Saturday; which we were super happy to get to spin sounds in (whilst watching a waste sculpture being progressively created). It seemed as though every single Manchester based [...]
***P-P-P amongst the I-BIKE-MCR mini fest***
November 8, 2010
WHAT a week for the wheeling world of Manchester : one WHOLE WEEK of ferociously full bicycle induced mayhem appropriately named CYCLOGEDDON; leading us nicely to Halloween. Splurged across the city-each day brought a new free invitation designed to lure fresh students into the free world of communal-cycling F U N.
**e c o : weekenda : supporting the 10:10 campaign**
October 18, 2010
This suspiciously fun and intriguing sounding weekend was placed in good timing of the national 10:10 climate campaign.. Eco Salsa? Never thought we would hear the day! But there we were- for a whole weekend of it! It’s funny what small decisions you make in life or random conversations you have with strangers that eventually [...]
>>C Y C L O G E D D O N is C O M I N G<<
October 8, 2010
The annual MINI FEST brought to you by I Bike MCR is wondrously on it’s way! This year it runs from Sunday 25th right through till the following Sunday 31st therefore meaning there’s a whole ferocious week of terrifying bike antics : l i t e r a l l y : there will be [...]
**L I V E A R T : LIVE ART**
October 5, 2010
As part of the Free For Arts Festival- our friends at Akemi put on a truly splendid show last night at Contact Theatre. The joint was awash with a full on fascinated + intrigued audience, all intently listening (to beautiful music from the wonders of Honeyfeet + Rik Warren) or waving (LEDS about as part [...]
~Pedal Powered JUKE BOX+home-made bicycle trailers~
August 23, 2010
It took us a few community gigs to realise that the young lads + lasses of today weren’t impressed at all by our strange musical choices: “why would we wanna pedal to hear that rubbish?”- fair enough- so we thought we’d give them an incentive to pedal.. Pick your favourite song off our jukebox list- [...]
~~25,000 girlguides @ Fusion:1/2 of them on our bicycles~~
August 6, 2010
..well perhaps not that many but we sure were SUBLIMELY SWAMPED in singing cyclists! Swarms of eager young ladies huddled around our tent eagerly awaiting to perform with their pedal powered bands which they had formed. This was the official launch of Karao-eco: it was Fusion Festival a.k.a The Girl Guides national Centenary celebratory event.
