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Bike Film Festival This weekend

The years biggest event for cycling in NSW is rolling into town. The International Bike Film Festival. This year BikeSydney are hosting it at the Dendy cinema King St Newtown. So come along say hi and see some great movies.

For more details visit

http://bffsydney.org

http://http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/

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Celebrate the Tour with us

 

Picnic on the gallery floor. Bring blankets, baguettes, bottles of plonk, berets and bad accents. Free!

For those working in the city (or not for that matter) there will be a short ride to the gallery via a suitable grog shop to make the necessary procurements - meet at Martin Place at 5:45pm for a 6pm departure.

A big thank you to Empire Concepts and the National Film and Sound Archive for the films.

Brought to you by BIKESydney and the Bicycle Film Festival 2008 (Nov 14 + 15 Dendy Newtown).

A3, A4 and A5 posters and flyers are available - email elaena@gmail.com

Hope we see you there.

 

 

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Biennale 08 + bikes

 

With the theme “Revolution - Forms that Turn”, it’s no great suprise that bicycles feature in the works for Sydney’s Biennale.

Shaun Gladwell’s Ghost Rider (2008) is a sculptural amalgam of mountain bicycles, sound and video.

Shaun’s work is one of many on Cockatoo Island. There’s a myriad of atistic works to have a look at on the island and free ferries from the MCA.

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Bike Shorts

We had a great night at the Alexandria Hotel on Friday 4 April. About 100 cyclists rocked up for some big free bike love.  It was good to see lots of folk from the Bike Film Festival. A huge thanks to Gilbert for organising the social ride from the city to the Alex via some eye-popping alley graff, to Michelle and Paul for coordinating the films, to Jen for the photos, and to everyone who helped spread the word about the event.

We’ll be having a few more film nights this year - next one will be in July to celebrate the Tour de France. Make sure you’re signed up to the Bike Sydney mail-list for alerts. 

    

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Bike Shorts at the Alex

Join us for some Big Free Bike-love at The Alex.

Free films about cycling. Beer. Pub-grub. What more could you want?

Friday 4 April 08
6:30 for screenings 7-9pm
Alexandria Hotel
35 Henderson Road, Alexandria

Just turn up. Or ride with us to The Alex, leaving Hyde Park (Archibald Fountain) at 5:15pm.  

Brought to you by BIKESydney and the Bicycle Film Festival 2008 (Nov 14 + 15 at Dendy Newtown).

 

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2008 Bicycle Film Festival

 

Australian Deadline: Friday 7 March 2008

http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com

The International Bicycle Film Festival (BFF) is looking for films with a strong theme or character of bicycles. This includes all mediums and styles such as animation, experimental, narrative, documentary and music videos.

The BFF is held in over 15 cities around the world including Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, New York City, Los Angeles, Milano and London. In Sydney the festival is hosted by Bike Sydney.

The BFF is a  celebration of bikes through film, art and music and in 2007 the festival was attended by up to 100,000 people.

The BFF showcases the work of emerging and established artists. Past participants include Jonas Mekas, Michel Gondry, Mike Mills and Jorgen Leth.  

To be part of the fun in 2008 get the full run-down and the entry form at http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com

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National Ride to Work Day - 17th Oct

Time to encourage a friend/work place to jump on a bike - next weeks the National Ride to Work Day so there are a few breakfast locations around the place but the City of Sydney location is 30 The Bond. 30 Hickson Road, Millers Point 7am - 9am. For further info visit http://www.bv.com.au/join-us/126/

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New Rides Network : Guttermonkey.org has Launched

From the Gutter Monkey Crew

A new bike website “http://guttermonkey.org” was released tonight in Sydney, Australia to help people all over the world find riders they might like to ride with, and routes they can follow safely, using all the valuable knowledge that’s trapped inside the brains of experienced bike riders everywhere.

To do this, we’re hoping for your participation, because you’re the expert when it comes to your ride.

• Every back street you take and shortcut you ride represents the very best field research that money cannot buy.
• We want to gather that knowledge and get it into the hands of people who would love to ride each day, if only they knew how

Right now, guttermonkey.org is new, so we need lots and lots of bikers to contribute their rides to our rideFinder database as soon as possible, to start spreading the joy.

It’ll only take you a few minutes because we’ve made it really easy, and you can’t begin to imagine how useful that information is to someone who’s never ridden their bike to work before.

They can use guttermonkey.org to make contact with other people who are also interested in the same rides. They can swap ideas. They can ride together and feel safety in numbers. It’s not rocket science. It’s a community coming together, and we hope you can be a leader of our community by the simple act of sharing your knowledge with other folks out there.

Hundreds of gallons of coffee have been sacrificed to bring you guttermonkey.org. Team Guttermonkey is a community group (hopefully with a little more flair than most) and our guiding principle is to get millions more people all over the world riding their bikes on a daily basis. Bold? You bet.

We hope you like it. Especially the bit about the monkey

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Bikebus program up and Cycling

The BikeBus website and program are now in operation. So check it out at www.bikebus.org.au. Also included is a forums board where hopefully there will be some decent commuting dialogue.

For those thinking of starting a bikebus there is a training course being run shortly - just send an email to info@bikebus.org.au for further information.

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