creative arts organisation engaged in all things bicycle, merging play, community arts, sculptural work, carnival and performance since 2009.
In
May 2013 we set forth on a big bicycle story telling theatre adventure. Since then we have been cycling Europe, performing our show, The Adventures of Aaron Errant, always collaborating with other artists as well as bicycle and environmental
groups.
Read more about where we are cycling at the moment and what we're up to next, in our travel blog.
Read more about how we started and find out about some of our past projects in our archive.
Tuesday, 13 February 2018
Saturday, 17 August 2013
Saturday, 10 November 2012
Of what passed between Burn the Curtain and Spoke'n'Chain, with other surprising incidents
We have really enjoyed working with Burn the Curtain, theatre company from Devon, this year.
We had fun from the very beginning, when we were invited to join their devising weekend at Beaford Arts, where we ran a bicycle costuming workshop and inspired them about costuming bicycles and explored the array of different types of bikes they might be able to use.
We stayed the whole weekend and joined in with the other devising workshops and went on a bike ride along the proposed route for the performance.
Joe, Alex and Ruth came to our workshop and had a go on all of ours and Ape Projects crazy bikes that are there and went back home with some bikes to use in their show, Don Quixotes Adventures by Bicycle
We then did a bit of work together, going to events and schools around Devon, running bicycle costuming workshops and promoting the show. While we were down in Exeter we gave a little one to one tall bike riding tuition to Lizzy. Here she is riding the pink flamingo tall bike during the show in Exeter.
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We were having so much fun with our new friends that we volunteered to help with the Fremington shows.
We joined the Coyote gang and even got a bit of acting in!
When the 'Dutches' broke her leg on our day of we were required to improvise, provide emergency transport facilities and impromptu wizard assistance and chauffeuring so that the show could go on.
Sunday, 17 June 2012
What Giants ? A Kamishibai storytelling adventure
A storyteller arrives for our first Kamishibai Workshop at Nanoplex, the Cube
the Kamishibai Bicycle
busy working on our story
'Laundry Day on The Giant Red Planet'
On the road with the Stegosaurus at Bristols Biggest Bike Ride the next day.
“What Giants?” is a storytelling performance using Kamishibai [paper theatre] on a bicycle, specially created for the inaugural Bristol Biennial
Thursday, 17 May 2012
New Home for the Carousel at Centre for Alternative Technology and the Mini Carousel goes to the lovely APE Project
The Carousel now has a new home at the Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth
Where it will be ridden and ridden and used and adapted and so on, a very happy Carousel it is now.
The mini-carousel out and about with the APE Project,
this was our prototype for the adult version above.
Monday, 30 January 2012
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
We were here with bicycles and lights !!! woooooo-oo
Horrid Harriet, Deirdre, who slipped on a doughnut and Luigi who forgot to put the brake on the Ice Cream Van in the summer by the clifftop made an appearance at St Georges Park this eve.
(Pedal powered hobgoblins.)
Spiders collect treasures, bats find worms - Sugar Skull wheel of fortune at Illuminate Festival, St Georges Park, a truly beautiful day and event.
Video of event here
Saturday, 6 August 2011
Bike Morphing - Larkmead School - Creative Partnership Project
A Creative Partnership project with Larkmead School, Abingdon
over a period of 2 terms exploring creativity in the classroom context in
Geography, French, English, Drama, and Dance
can we fully engage students
of all abilities and
backgrounds in learning and
thinking through doing?
"Everyone
looks forward to lessons including teachers. Everyone is smiling.
Even teachers
enjoy
lessons"
......below are some examples of the work produced
ENGLISH
"We were really surprised and excited when we came into English and
saw a bike music
making
machine
it's
a bike .... that's just weird"
Performance poetry, dance and sculpture bicycle
A Haiku Wheel
The Island Stories Bicycle
The point of the story wheels was to get the
pupils to outline a small story in as many pieces
of paper as they could fit onto a bike wheel.
They did this in a way which was both creative
and required people to use their initiative.
The point of the story wheels was to get the
pupils to outline a small story in as many pieces
of paper as they could fit onto a bike wheel.
They did this in a way which was both creative
and required people to use their initiative.
FRANKENSTEIN
" Frankenstein out of bike parts. Back to life".
" Frankenstein out of bike parts. Back to life".
Electricity from Pedal Power
Young people thought about the ways a
bike
part could be used for making something else work, to create
something else with gears
to
power something.
Spiral text Wheel
FRENCH
"We
learnt about France in a funnier and more interesting way"
Fernand Leger inspired Art
More Fernand Leger inspired Art and Tableaux Vivant
"
I am seeing the class doing something I don't normally
see
and I like this. doing this kind of activity. Seeing a different side
to them.
I now want to use more art and drama in my French lessons"
GEOGRAPHY
"Our
Lessons are more creative. It sticks in your head. We had to try and
make a map of China
from
Bike Parts. It
was fun. Remember it. Look forward to lessons.
I really liked making
the map of China out of
bike
parts"
Bits of Broken Bicycles
Map of China
The
practitioners have shared with the school a love of learning and
their creative practices
proving
to young people that creativity goes beyond school and that
resourcefulness/creativity
can
make you enjoy life and learning.
The
practitioners have been able to introduce a new set of languages into
traditional subjects.
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Local Living Day at the Create Centre 11th June 2011
What a wonderfull day below pictures all worth a thousand words
Decorated Bicycle Wheels on the Station Platform
Bicycle Art School
Inspiration from Tim Wheatley and the Cyclotrope
The Spinning Story Wheels
Snakes and a Horn
Fun on the Mini-Dink
Pedal Powered Scalextric
Jon B - the Desperate Men
Sunday, 1 May 2011
Bicycle Wheel Dome
Gourds is planted, grow gourds ! grow gourds !
We can now walk inside it and see the sky !
The Gurt Wurm next.......
Sunday, 10 April 2011
The Bristol Light Project has begun
POSTPONED TILL 18th of June
Led Lights Benefit Workshop
13:00 to 18:00 Saturday 14th of May
Join the Bristol Light Project and craft your own Persistence of Vision lights for your bike wheels. The device is a single row of flashing LEDs that creates the illusion of (moving) images when the wheel spins. The lights we make will be programmable with any pattern of your own creation!
Book your place now. The earlier you book the easier it is for us to prepare. Choose your preferred colour or go all out and go for the RGB version that can display any colour under the sun. Pre-order additional kits to make at home. All proceeds go to the Bristol Bike Project.
No previous experience necessary as able technicians will be on hand to help and instruct you. Participants under 16 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.
for more information and to book a place go to http://www.thebristolbikeproject.org/?page_id=452
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Creative Partnerships
We are currently back at school having a wonderfully creative time with teachers and students from Larkmead School on a Creative Partnership Project delivered through Creative Junction.
Below are just a couple of examples of what we have all been doing.
English Lesson - a bicycle sound sculpture to accompany performance poetry
Geography Lesson - making a map of China out of old bicycle parts in the playground
Saturday, 15 January 2011
BRISTOL BIKE POWER WORKSHOP
read all about the wonderful Magnificent Revolution, Bristol Bike Power project
Thursday, 25 November 2010
Post Cycle Festival Exhibition
Bristol artists came together to present
Pedal Power!
an exhibition of cycling inspired art from this years Bristols Cycle festival at
The Showroom, an empty shop at 31 College Green.
an exhibition of cycling inspired art from this years Bristols Cycle festival at
The Showroom, an empty shop at 31 College Green.
'No Gears'
' Breaking the Cycle' Street Theatre Show
Tall Bike
My White Bicycle
Chinese Year of the Tiger
Furry Pink Wolpertinger
Bikes and Bees
The Freewheelin’ Carnival is provisionally booked in for Saturday September 24th 2011 (nearest Saturday to Car Free day) and we hope to build a programme of events around that.
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