>>pedal-poW(Wow)ered-paint-by-music-game<<
July 15, 2010
“Ah” we muttered to each other as we arrived at Prestwich Arts College to find out it was actually a ginormous secondary school + not the advanced creative college for over 18s that we had pitched our unusual + highly experimental pedal powered paint game for.. Nevertheless we got stuck in + worked our way [...]
* * Bike : Fabulous * *
June 28, 2010
A glorious blue skied day, bicycles, weird music, a Saturday and um, The Arndale Centre?
~”Karao-e c o” @ Cycle Chester~
June 28, 2010
We thought we’d pull out some extra stops for part one of two of our pedal injections into Bike Week- by furiously finishing our new workshop combining pedal power and karaoke (appropriately named Karao-eco) to deliver + encourage the people of Chester to put down their shopping bags, let loose, sing loud + abolish all [...]
**Stockport Loves Bikes**
June 7, 2010
5th June is World Environment Day, and Stockport will be celebrating with its “Stockport Loves Bikes” event in St. Peter’s Square.
>>UNDER THE RADAR<< alleycat + soundsystem
May 24, 2010
Cobbled inner city courtyard, lots of highly fit cyclists, r a c e s trick + track stand competitions, h o u r s of pedal poWered songs- (gloriously uninterrupted with these strong legged participants who are no strangers to pumping the pedals)
* * One hundred years of (cycling in) Platt Fields Park * *
May 11, 2010
Overwhelmingly so, the C E N T E N A R Y F E S T I V A L turned out to be the monstrously magnificent event it was anticipated to be- the dark clouds lingered, hesitated- then left- to part + be kind to us on this historic occasion. Hundreds of happy faces [...]
**Platt Fields Park >>BIG 100<< Centenary Festival**
May 4, 2010
F I N A L L Y the date has arrived!! Our grand, prescious, luscious, pluscious park turns 100 years old on the 7th May! A date that us at Friends of Platt Fields have been eagerly working towards for the last 18 months- now it is time to celebrate this historic occasion..
**serious shake stepping at school d i s c o**
March 20, 2010
Sustrans is the UK’s leading sustainable transport charity. Their vision is a world in which people choose to travel in ways that benefit their health and the environment. Every day working on practical, innovative ways of dealing with the transport challenges that affect us all. Their Bike It scheme is currently operating a HUGE drive [...]
An ***orange C R I T I C A L M A S S***
March 20, 2010
26th Feb @ Zion Arts Centre: It sure was nice to get in some pedalpowered action after these long frozen, wintry months of hibernation. Admittedly however, this particular D O was still inside but nevetheless still very much powered (for the best part) by the feet of many orange-clad Critical Mass-ers. The celebratory spring event, [...]
PoWerpedaled recycled Christmas tree @ Friends of Platt Fields Xmas Fayre
December 7, 2009
Children pedal poWer their favourite Christmas carols as well as getting amongst PoWWow workshops to hand craft junk + funk it up to make decorations + create our alternative recycled Christmas tree which is raised at the end of the event to be illuminated with the poWer of the pedals!
