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.

Illuminate 2011 flick pool

Video of event here

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.

FRANKENSTEIN
" 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.

Runner Beans and Butternut Squashes loving the Dome they is !

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 Cyclotrope Project here

The Spinning Story Wheels

Snakes and a Horn

Fun on the Mini-Dink

Pedal  Powered Scalextric

Jon B - the Desperate Men

Bicycle Wheel Dome

Gourds is planted, grow gourds ! grow gourds !

We can now walk inside it and see the sky !

 The Bicycle Wheel Dome for the courgettes, squashes and gourds is coming along nicely a couple more rounds and we'll be able to walk inside it and then the growing begins !

 The Gurt Wurm next.......

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

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

BRISTOL BIKE POWER WORKSHOP

and the Bristol Bike Power workshops

read all about the wonderful Magnificent Revolution, Bristol Bike Power project 

here