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Bonfire night saw us celebrating the launch of Anna Best’s Bearpit Cinema Yurt over at the Cyclopark in Gravesend. It kicked off with a Bearpit Bunch Bike Ride giving people the opportunity to ride some of the more unusual bicycles before settling down to a bicycle powered screening of the cult classic The Moon and the Sledgehammer.
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A couple of weeks ago we started the first of four pedal power cinema workshops with young people at the Aik Saath group in Slough.
Aik Saath (which means ‘Together as one’ in Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu), work together to build peace within Slough and the surrounding areas, tackling racism and conflict through peer-led training and facilitation.
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Last week was the Energy Saving Trust’s annual Energy Saving Week and to mark the occasion BT’s energy and carbon team invited us to raise awareness with their staff.
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In the summer we ran our YouWatt light bulb challenge at the Sanctuary Group‘s ‘Let’s Celebrate Shiregreen‘ event in Sheffield. Also attended by David Blunkett MP and snooker champion Steve Davis, so we were in good company.
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In September this year we went up to the north of England to deliver a series of pedal-power workshops to primary schools in and around Newcastle. Three days, three schools and 540 pupils later we returned to London a little bit hoarse but very pleased with ourselves.
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On Saturday night we were invited down to Brighton to join in the White Night festivities by the nice chaps at the Fortune of War pub on Brighton beach front.
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It’s funny now thinking back to just how tired we were after our Good Times at the Greenman. Luckily, the amazing healing powers of a couple of nights in our own beds set us up nicely to finish off the festival season with a trip to that magical mystery place; Shambala.
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Last night was a blast. Despite dramatic cloudy skies and the occasional shower earlier on in the evening, we were joined by a dedicated crowd of outdoor cinema enthusiasts, many of whom cycled to the park especially for the show. It was the second of our large scale pedal-powered cinemas for Peckham & Nunhead’s Free Festivals and the film of choice was the cult-classic, Flash Gordon.
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Continuing our amazing colaboration with the Great Ape Film initiative, Gearing Up 4 Gorillas have recently invested in a new Pedal Powered Field Cinema. This cinema will be used mainly in Virunga National Park (VNP).
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At 4.15am on 18th August, we packed up our kit and set off for Wales to join our friends in Einsteins Garden at The Green Man festival. We arrived slightly bright and bleary-eyed at 8.00am, just in time for breakfast. Nice touch? Well, this kind of set the tone for the rest of the weekend.
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Right-o, we’re massively behind with telling you tales of our summer adventures so in the next 24 hours we’re going to take you on a whistle stop blog tour of our time in the field. If you can’t be bothered to read it all, just look at the pictures! We hope they will whet your whistle and give you a feel for how pedal-power can work at festivals. Let’s start with the super weekend at Summer Sundae…
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Continuing the Free Film Festival, a free pedal-powered film screening of the sci-fi cult classic Flash Gordon comes to Peckham Rye on Saturday 17 September, 8pm.
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As a part of the Free Film Festival, cinema historian Richard Norman gave a bike-powered, illustrated talk on Peckham’s former cinemas on the site of The Tower Cinema just off Rye Lane in Peckham.
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What an absolutely beautiful evening ‘under the arches’ with the Free Film Festival turned out to be! After a last minute change of plan, we moved the event five minutes down the road to another railway arch. As it turned out, the new venue was visually a more interesting and dark enough for a screening. Luckily, everyone managed to follow the clues before turning up quite bemused to what became an ‘accidental secret cinema’!
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We’re still reeling from the last few weeks of festivals but even so, we’ve got a busy old month ahead of us and there’s quite a few things that you can all get involved with too so we thought we’d give you a heads up on with some dates for your diaries.
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After the racing, Save the Velodrome will be hosting a free night of have-a-go riding on the track, and a bicycle powered outdoor film night (part of the 2011 Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festivals, 8-18 September), showing the cycling classic, Breaking Away.
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A couple of weeks back we took our field cinema down to the Fortune of War pub on Brighton sea front to test out running a pop-up cinema down there.
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We’ve had three nights sleep in our own beds and at least four showers since we returned from WOMAD at Charlton Park and we’re only just starting to reassemble our minds (and bodies!), which were utterly blown by the brilliance of it all. We were invited by the lovely people at Tangentfield to provide the bicycle generators to power their stage in the Roots Architecture arena. Little could have prepared us for the unique and special experience of being part of their extended team.
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On Saturday 23rd July after dark, we’ll be setting up our mini-pedal-powered cinema on Brighton Beach Front outside the Fortune of War pub. We’ll be showing a selection of short black and white films. Join us for a pedal! Bring your blankets, pack your thermals.
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Through an unbelievable succession of chance meetings and incidental conversations an opportunity has presented itself to us. We have been offered a chance to put in a proposal to develop an Electric Pedals open space for workshops and community activities in the heart of London. We’re terrified, excited, up for it and clueless all at the same time.
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