2011-07-31 Celebration of Cycling Festival Coming to East London This Summer!

Celebration of Cycling Festival Coming to East London This Summer!
*Festival of the Bicycle, Sunday 31st July, 11am-5pm, Mabley Common, E9, London *

Dear LFGSS

Please find attached press release and poster regarding a grass roots cycling event taking place in Hackney, East London this Summer. Don't hesitate to contact me directly if you would like to find out more or set up an interview with any of our participants - I am hoping to confirm SKY sponsored road cyclist Ben Swift for the event.

Best wishes, Sophie Powell

Check out our Facebook group here!
Follow us on twitter! #festibike

Calibri]Celebration of Cycling Festival Coming to East London This Summer
*Festival of the Bicycle, Sunday 31st July, 11am-5pm, Mabley Common, E9, London *

This 31st July come to Mabley Common, E9, Hackney - at the heart of the Lea Valley cycle development and home to the award winning London Olympic 2012 velodrome - to experience a Festival of the Bicycle!
BICYCLE *SPECTACLE*ENGAGEMENT*CULTURE *PRIZES
Celebrating the weird and wonderful in cycling, bicycle arts and culture, and experiencing cycling!
This grass-roots event has been developed in collaboration with and endorsement of the Mabley Common Users' Group, MUF, Hackney Council, Velobici.cc, Penguin Books The Arcola Theatre,The Kenton Cycling Club Hackney, Hackney Youth Servicesand many more!

Expect Celebrity bicycle guest celebrity opening speech!
Try a Tandem – come along and try riding with two!
Grass Track Racing & Cycling Competitions! - do you have an unusual bicycle? bring it along! It might win a prize.
Signed copies of Rob Penn’s It’s All About the Bike up for grabs
Weird and wonderful in cycling! – tandems, penny farthings, tall-bikes, unicycles, classic frames!
Bike workshop – free maintenance, maps and advice for your bike and on cycling!
Bicycle crafting for kids!
Bicycle Art and Culture – Bicycle art, films, music, food and drinks!
Bumble Sale – a bicycle jumble sale, bring and buy unique bike kit!
The festival will have the best of a summer village fete feel, with a bicycle twist! Festival of the Bicycle takes place during the same weekend as Hackney Wicked Arts festival plus bicycle moving pictures back at The Kenton, E9 7AB after the event close at 5pm.

Organiser Contact Details - Press/Sponsorship/Media Partners/Endorsing Association/Volunteers If you are interested in sponsoring, exhibiting, supporting the event as a media partner or endorsing association or to take part in competition, display your bicycle, follow up press interest, or act as a volunteer, contact: festivalofthebicycle@gmail.com
Check out our Facebook group here]! Follow us on twitter! #festibike

This will be good. On the same week-end, it'll be the London Open, the biggest hardcourt bike polo tournament in London this year:

http://www.lfgss.com/thread64347.html

This will be very close by, in Hackney Downs, so there'll be no excuse for being anywhere else. :)

That weekend's also the launch of an exhibit (running much longer) of artsy photos of Hackney cyclists, taken as part of the Cycling Cultures research project. Photos will be up at a bunch of places, and you're meant to bike between them.
Exhibit locations:
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Er, any way I can delete the previous post? That's hideous.
My reply without the junk:
And also in Hackney...
That weekend's also the launch of an exhibit (running much longer) of artsy photos of Hackney cyclists, taken as part of the Cycling Cultures research project. Photos will be up at a bunch of places, and you're meant to bike between them.
Exhibit locations:
Lock 7 129 Pritchard’s Road, E2 9AP
London Field Cycles 281 Mare St, E8 1GR
Two Wheels Good 65 Stoke Newington Church Street N16 0UL
Push Cycles 35c Newington Green N16 9PR
Look Mum No Hands (LMNH) 49 Old Street, EC1V 9HX

Er, any way I can delete the previous post? That's hideous.

You will be able to once you've posted enough and are out of the Nursery--if you can still be bothered then. :) Click 'edit' and then 'Delete'.

They took a picture of me so I will be going.
Also the launch will include a cycle round Hackney but I can not make that because I will be at Cyclecamp in Austria http://cyclocamp.org/?page_id=12
Zeb

A bump is in order for this. The same week-end as the London Open, and very close by. Hackney is the place to be on the 30th and 31st.