For St.Pauls Carnival we were running bicycle costuming workshops with the public and building carnival floats out of broken bicycles. This was so successful that we spent 2009 running more bicycle costuming workshops, building more crazy bicycles, visiting lots of wonderful carnivals and making great contacts and collaborating with other organisations doing fantastic work with bicycles, from pedal powered music stages to unbelievable trick cyclists.
In our second year 2010 and in receipt of Arts Council Funding and support from Cycling City and Neighborhoud Arts we ran 'My First Bicycle School of Arts' and built 'The Bike Ride to the Moon', our first fairground ride.
'My First Bicycle School of Art' developed the art of bicycle costuming here in Bristol and went on to receive funding from Quartet Community Foundation in preparation for Bristol's first Freewheelin' Carnival. The Carnival was a great success with over 600 participants,
We've really got the Bicycle Bug now and have started organising rides, putting on events under the name of 'Sprockets and Dust', which has resulted in the formation of the legendary 'Les Velobici' a minibike dance troupe.
We helped set up the Bicycle Basket Market which is now out of our hands and run by a devoted group of local traders.
Thanks to a lot of cycling enthusiam here in Bristol and with the support of Cycling City, Bristols first Cycle Festival took place in September 2010. We are well happy to have been part of it and even more so to have seen the involvement of Bristols multi faceted cycling community.
We helped set up the Bicycle Basket Market which is now out of our hands and run by a devoted group of local traders.
Thanks to a lot of cycling enthusiam here in Bristol and with the support of Cycling City, Bristols first Cycle Festival took place in September 2010. We are well happy to have been part of it and even more so to have seen the involvement of Bristols multi faceted cycling community.
2010 has seen collaborations with Paddy Waters, Toybox and Magnificent Revolution to name a few.
In 2011 we spent 3 months at Larkmead School in Abingdon as part of a Creative Partnership exploring creativity in the classroom, using bicycles of course !
