Initiatives, research and events where bicycles create positive social change
Celebrating First Nations in MTB As regular readers know, I have been involved in a number of decolonial projects this year – including putting together the Cycle Shifting: Refiguring First Nations presences in Morton Bay Bikeway project. The annual Chicks in the Sticks event was coming up and I was registered. This year, I wanted …
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by Sachie Togashiki This post is about my art bike that I represented for the issue of gender inequality. Gender inequality has been discussed for centuries and there are still gaps between genders in salary, parliament, etc. This issue is no matter what the country, this issue is happening in both developed and developing countries. …
Sunday was the revealing of the Bicycles Create Change Summer Program Art Bike Project – and what a success it was! It was a relaxed, colourful and highly informative session and not even the small amount of rain that came could dampen our enthusiasm. I picked the team up early and everyone was in good spirits …
Bicycles Create Change – Art Bike Presentation You are invited to an ART BIKE PRESENTATION on Sunday 13th March at 10.30am at the Bethania Community Gardens, Lota, Brisbane. Background: The Bicycles Create Change Summer Program has for the last 8 weeks, been working with 4 international students (from Japan, Cameroon, India & Columbia) on a collaborative learning …
The pre-loved high-end bike in the picture below was on sale at a property auction. No one wanted it – it was too old and daggy and from the reaction of the crowd appeared in no way cool enough to buy, let alone ride. I looked at this forlorn bike and thought of the previous …
This blog is dedicated to celebrating bicycles in their many forms. Art is a fundamental aspect of this passion, and I have shared numerous posts featuring artists who incorporate bikes in their work, such as: As someone who delights in discovering artists who use bikes in their creations, I was delighted to stumble upon an …
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Working with bikes in creative ways is an ongoing theme for this blog. So is education. So it makes me particularly happy when I see these two passions combined. Previously, I’ve posted on a wide range of bike art projects, like: Dissident Bicycles (5 part art series) @Artcrank makes me happy The Adelaide Bike Art …
I am recovering from a 3-week intensive marking bender. My eyes are itchy, my lower back aches and my approachablity is incendiary. A tight uni turnaround to mark 28 x 6,000-word research reports and 28 x 2,000-word workplace assessments (both Masters level and worth 80% of the total course!) PLUS 21 x 3,300-word undergrad mixed-method …
This post is the second in the series looking at the development of the Sri Lankan community bike patrol project. In the last post, I used a 2012 article by Gita Sabharwa to provide some background for this initiative. This second post shares a 2017 EU-CIVAP article by Johann Rebert, Deputy Country Representative (Sri Lanka) …
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Bike art trails have been featured previously on this blog in various conceptions. They include Dubbo’s unique Animals on Bikes paddock art tourist trail in NSW and London’s interactive community bike art installation Bow Bells Ring by Colin Priest. For this post, we travel to the beautiful city of Adelaide. Adelaide’s Bike Art Trail project …