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This page has space for earlier events where the upcoming 2010 WNBR Nudecastle was promoted and/or the Newcastle WNBR team took part in bike activities or supported in some way.

This Is Not Art

01 to 05 October 2009
Newcastle, Australia
Independent, emerging and experimental arts festival.
It's the five days of the year where you get to meet and collaborate with fellow creatives, share your ideas, passions and skills, showcase your work, and reinvigorate your practice at the nation's most inspiring party!

This Is Not Art - innovating, developing and showcasing emerging art and new media forms.

This Is Not Art festival is an annual extravaganza which includes; workshops, panels, performances, speakers, special events and exhibitions that challenge ideas about making art, making culture and making noise.

Throw in some experimental indy theatre performances, artist networking, industry exposés, and a some ripe social & political cheekiness, and you have a rough idea of what This Is Not Art Festival has become - the largest and most diverse annual media and arts festival in Australia.

The groups that will come together to program the 2009 This Is Not Art festival include:

• Electrofringe
• National Young Writers' Festival
• Sound Summit
• Critical Animals
• The Crack Theatre Festival (for more about TINA click here)

Bike Love Corral

Bike Love Corral is a This Is Not Art "Special Event".
We love push bikes and will provide the bike, accessories, activities and fun for FREE! Bikes are the easy, cheap, enviro friendly way to get around town and connect with our community. All day: Bike fixing and traffic skills workshops. Help fix / check your own bike OR choose one to help fix and keep. Buy or borrow bikes from the Newcastle Community Bike Library. Bike Activism workshops on Bike User Groups, Bike Co-op models, Critical Mass & World Naked Bike Ride.

Newcastle Community Bike Library
Buy or borrow bikes, helmets, locks and lights (cheap deposit applies).
Pre-register to borrow a bike: email Dan newcastlecriticalmass(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au by 20 Sept. These must be picked up from NBEC by or on 1st Oct. More bikes available each day at the Corral in Civic Park.

• Location: Civic Park
• Days: Thursday - Monday
• Times: 11.00 to 16.00

Bike activist groups supporting the Corral have special events each day in Civic Park:

Critical Mass - Friday
Global Ride Celebrating Cycling. Assert our right to ride on roads and not in the car door death lane.
criticalmass.wikia.com/wiki/
Start Civic Park 18.00. Bike decorating from 16.00 to 18.00

World Naked Bike Ride - Saturday
Peacefully expose the vulnerability of cyclists, humanity and nature in the face of cars, aggression, consumerism and non-renewable energy. Oz rides in March.
australia.worldnakedbikeride.org
Semi-naked promotional ride (wear at least minimums): Start Civic Park 17.00. Body painting from 11.00 to 17.00

Newcastle Bike Ecology Centre - Sunday
Community volunteer bike help concept offering free bikes / help all year round Fri / Sat at Islington
newcastlebikeecologycentre.blogspot.com
Community Bike Re-use Workshop 2-3pm,

Newcastle Cycleways Movement Inc. - Monday
Work with Government bodies to improve bicycle facilities in the greater Newcastle Area. Its aims are to promote the safe responsible use of bicycles for transport, leisure and fitness. Members get bike riding insurance, discounts, rides, legal advice, and more.
users.hunterlink.net.au/~magsb
How to lobby govt. workshop: 2 – 3pm

• Bike Love Corral webpage.

Flyer / Poster

Planning Meeting Dinner

Flyer for the WNBR Newcastle Planning Meeting Dinner

A WNBR Plannning Meeting Dinner will be held on Friday the 7th of August 2009 on the coat tails of the Critical Mass bike ride held that same evening. The Critical Mass bike ride assembles at Civic Park, opposite the Newcastle Town Hall at 5:30pm for a 6pm start. The ride will take about an hour and lead riders to the Premier Hotel, 1 Brunker Road (the Nine Ways), Broadmeadow at 7pm. Please try to come on the bike ride if at all possible because it is a fun team building event and is very similar to WNBR apart from being clothed. A selection of beverages and meals are available on the menu including vegetarian and vegan dishes.

Decisions that need to be made include the ride time, assembly place, route, location of the painting place and party. Please come along with your ideas. If you would like to volunteer to help with publicity, media, party organisation or other roles that help make the ride a success, please come along to the Planning meetings.

The Planning Meeting Dinner is one of the formal planning meetings organised from time to time and usually take place in a friendly pub.

Cultural Stomp

Civic Park, Newcastle on Saturday June 6 2009 from 9 am to 6 pm
Exploring the theme of "Be The Change".

The Bike Corral

Be the change you want to see in the world by RIDING A BIKE. It is the fun environmentally sustainable way to transport you, your family and things. Get there without noise, air pollution or climate changing, green house gasses. Foster fitness and friendlier, gentler community spaces rather than competitive, angry, fat, lazy, egotist car culture.

The Bike Corral consists of these Sustainable Bike Culture Activism groups in Newcastle :

• Newcastle Bike Ecology Centre

Come and help make your bike safe, learn to fix bikes, learn cycling skills (to stop getting annoyed by cars), fix a pre-loved bike, donate bikes/parts or get parts: all these for FREE. Also buy or borrow a bike from the bike library. Fridays & Saturdays 9-5. 106 Robert St, Islington 2296 phone 49 616 582. Advocacy, Newsletters & more! newcastlebikeecologycentre.blogspot.com

• Critical Mass

Global monthly bicycle ride to Celebrate & Promote Cycling. Assert your right to use a whole lane safely because the bike “lanes” are legally too narrow. Meet at Civic Park, Newcastle 5:30pm for 6:00pm ride on the 1st Friday of every month. criticalmass.wikia.com/wiki/

• World Naked Bike Ride

Peacefully expose the vulnerability of cyclists, humanity and nature in the face of cars, aggression, consumerism and non-renewable energy. Australian rides are held in March every year. australia.worldnakedbikeride.org

• Newcastle Cycleways Movement Inc.

Work with Government bodies to improve bicycle facilities & promote the safe responsible use of bicycles for transport, leisure and fitness. Rides, insurance, newsletters, discounts, legal advice, and more. users.hunterlink.net.au/~magsb

Links

• Friends of the Cultural STOMP Festival Newcastle on Facebook.
• Cultural STOMP Festival webpage on Octopod web site.

• Return to Newcastle page.