6th Annual Cyclocamp

An International gathering of self-organised, DIT autonomous bike workshops, bike enthusiasts & activists, bike collectives and communities

After Linz, Grenoble, Leipzig, Rome and Timisoara, La Ouardine is to have the pleasure of hosting the 2015 edition of Cyclocamp Transnational

Over the course of 10 days, the hangars of La Ouardine will house bike mechanic meetings of the craziest kind imaginable: tall bikes, bike blenders, cargo bikes, tricycles, tandem cargo bikes, trailers and more.

And not a moment too soon, because this is something that is greatly lacking on the zad. We are all well aware of the fact that we are in the midst of a petrol war, which has created power struggles all over the world (and in France we know very well how to use this to our advantage) We also know that this war causes thousands of deaths, either directly or in-directly, every single day; yet we all still occasionally use vehicles for short journeys and errands.

Cyclocamp will therefore be the moment to make inspired machines, brilliant bicycles with which we can carry kilos upon kilos easily! We will also be creating pedal-powered machines for grating vegetables, beating butter, washing clothes, sharpening knives…

But we won’t pass all of our time getting our hands dirty, will also be:

• Talking about how bikes can crush cars and save the world,
  
• Screen-printing
  
• Learning to make pannier sacks
  
• Making jewellery, seat belts and lampshades
  
• Playing silly bike games
  
• Watching films about bicycles
  
• Performing improvised singing concerts
  
• Getting bicycle related tattoos
  
• Honk Honk (Pouet Pouet) etc etc…
  
  

This is a self-organised event, so if you would like to see or do something, bring it with you : films to project, canvases and (water based) paint, screen-printing equipment, and all kinds of materials and ideas

There will be tools, lots of bike frames, and vegan lunch/dinner provided

If it is possible to bring: a few tools, some bicycle related consumables, scrap metal (we mainly need tubes), welding rods, angle-grinder discs, or a few nuts and bolts (or even a pot of jam, coffee, peanut butter, or some chocolate…) that would be great!

And even better: If you could let us know in advance that you will be coming it will make it much easier for the vegan kitchen that will be feeding us over the 8 days to stock up on supplies

cyclocamp2015 arobaz riseup.net

Poster in english and directions of how to get here by or with bikes coming soon!

Website https://zad.nadir.org/spip.php?article2919