**PEDAL POWERED SCREENING : This Wednesday!**
July 18, 2011
Come + enjoy an enchanting mid-week treat + watch an amazing film! Music from 8pm, film around 9pm (as soon as it’s dark enough) WOW- what a way to watch a brilliant film- beneath the natural canopy of a mini forest : with an incredible choice of tree stumps or bicycle saddles for seats. Bankey’s [...]
~~~Pedal MCR : Platt Fields Park : PROJECT OPEN!~~~
July 18, 2011
You would not believe the transformation of the Boathouse in Platt Fields Park! Formally used by PoWWow as a creative workshop, the building has now been turned in to the most glorious bicycle space you could imagine! Pedal MCR are now sharing the space alongside the arts project delivered by PoWWow to offer even more [...]
> > Pedal Powered Cinema @ Lost + Found Festival < <
June 14, 2011
We were delighted to be given a chance to launch our freshly built pedal powered cinema at Lost + Found Festival- an exciting new festival of performance and impromptu art which was randomly popping in unlikely locations across the city for a week, to surprise + delight the accidental audiences. On trams + in basements [...]
** Bicycle Village **
June 14, 2011
Every now and then, beautiful bicycle events happen. Bringing together all of the bike groups in Manchester and beyond, Bicycle Village was created in order to raise a load of cash for The Children’s Adventure Farm Trust who do unbelievable things for really deprived + disadvantaged children in the North West.. We laid on some [...]
~~ A really long bicycle ride ~~
May 9, 2011
One of our team, our Dan, is about to embark on a really big bicycle ride. On the 4th June 2011, he + three other lads will venture far up north to the tip of Scotland to begin an intensely challenging ride right down to the tips of Cornwall : a.k.a John O’ Groats to [...]
—ENVIROLUTION : returns : 18th June to PLATT FIELDS PARK!!—
May 9, 2011
WOW, we thought last years Envirolution was exciting, but now that this year it is returning once again to our beloved Platt Fields Park we are brimming with biking joy! It’s going to be cozily lurking amongst the green trees, herbs + tranquil space of the appropriately named Eco Garden- with once again the same [...]
**Call for : Submissions of short films**
May 9, 2011
Oh joy! The evenings are getting warmer + we can play out on our bicycles later wearing t-shirts and alas, set up our brand new pedal powered cinema rig and show some beautiful films at dusk. Smash pedal wollop, for sure it will be the power of the feet that enable this enchanting weekend of [...]
Ride to Glastonbury with PoWWow!
April 5, 2011
We are very excited to announce that this year, PoWWow Pedal Power have teamed up with Glastonbury Festival to offer a guided bike ride from Bristol to the festival. We will meet in central Bristol on Wednesday 22nd June, and ride in a group to the festival. Our trained marshals will be on hand to [...]
***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 [...]
Bike Power Workshop in Manchester
March 19, 2011
Magnificent Revolution are coming to Manchester to do a Bike Power Workshop on 23rd April – details below! Magnificent Revolution will be introducing its hugely successful Bike Power Workshop to Manchester on Saturday 23rd April. For those wanting an introduction to renewables and are mad about bikes, this course is a great way to learn [...]
**THE 5TH I Bike MCR annual festival is COMING!!**
March 15, 2011
What a lucky lucky cycling world Manchester has, soon to be hosting another furiously action packed I Bike MCR festival! Dissecting the city for everything it’s got, the festival will beam its way through the busy streets, parks and nearby country roads for a whole month! Officially launching itself on 25th March with an extra [...]
>>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 [...]
**Eco-ustic**
December 9, 2010
Brilliant! More imaginative methods at getting e c o in the title! This time the play on words had been formed by another group of super people who designed a wonderful night of live music powered by the very feet of the audiences. Targeting the students, the night was carried out in the Union; where [...]
~~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. We wanted to be [...]
**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. [...]
>>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? We’d only ever been in there to wee before… the horrendous enclosure of main stream shops, security guards and fluorescent lights that monopolises central Manchester, replacing where sunny streets existed and independent shops once traded. The prospect of spending a [...]
~”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 [...]
**BIKE LAB : community cycling website**
June 7, 2010
Magnificent Revolution have done another amazing thing: “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 [...]
**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) light till ten O clock; Cycling summer evenings begin! Keep a look [...]
* * 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.. The Centenary [...]
Great Northern Roller Racing
March 26, 2010
A little late notice perhaps but our friends at Great Northern Rollers are hosting their first roller racing night tomorrow as part of the 5th I Bike MCR Festival. 7.30pm PROMPT at the Lass O Gowrie Pub, Charles St. A fiver to race. Fun guaranteed! Share and Enjoy:
Magnificent Revolution Offspring!
March 22, 2010
These are the wondrous original-pedal-power wizards that inspired us so much to get tinkering at making our own generators; Magnificent Revolution is their name. They are a not-for-profit education project based in London. Made up of artists, musicians, designers, ecologists, and engineers, who have flourished into a cross-disciplinary organisation working in education, ecology, engineering, design, [...]
**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!
Post CM pedalpoWered party in the dark
December 7, 2009
Post Critical Mass pedal powered party in the dark- with fire + lanterns + vegan BBQs + high vis dancers- November 09