Ju l iana’s Bike Fest iva l of ar t and cyc l ing

Events programme July - August 2013

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein1930

Pedal-power

Featuring live events, art exhibitions, workshops, interactive games, and artistic interventions, Juliana’s Bike is organised by East Street Arts and forms part of Leeds Bike Fest and the Grand Départ Cultural Festival.

Because of their nature, some of the events need to be booked in advance as spaces are limited.If you have any problems booking please call East Street Arts office on: 0113 248 0040 Mon–Fri 10–4

Juliana’s Bike c/o East Street Arts, Patrick Studios St. Mary’s LaneLeeds LS9 7EH0113 248 0040julianasbike.org.uk

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Craftwork

Citizen BikeTues 9th - Tues 30th JulyTrinity Leeds Shopping Centre, Briggate

9am-8pm daily

Can Leeds collectively clock up 2,115 miles, the distance of the Tour de France, in record time? Artist Adam Young thinks we can! His adapted exercise bike with a mile-o-meter clocks our efforts in the Trinity Shopping Centre. A webcam keeps watch (no cheating now) allowing the world to see our progress. Leeds citizens, come and rack up the miles!

Voyage bike

VoozekJuly 2013Venues across Scotland

Follow Kasia Breska aka Pencilboxgirl’s progress online as she sets off on a 200 mile Scottish road trip in July on her customised Ridgeback Voyage bike with her best friend Laika “a Border Collie crossed with a space dog” who accompanies her in a specially adapted dog trailer (also known as a Voozek). Watch their adventures unfold through the Scottish glens, lochs and moorlands, and see her drawings of the rustic landscape at www.studiovoozek.blogspot.co.uk

Laika “a Border Collie crossed with a space dog”

Exhibition

I came, I saw, I bicycled Sat 6th – Sun 21st July Ground Floor, The Corn Exchange, Call Lane, Leeds, LS1 7RB

Thursday - Sunday 12 - 6pm, free entry

also:

July/AugustGreen Room, The Reliance Bar, North Street, Leeds, LS2 7PN

Daily 12 - 11pm

Visit a display of work from East Street Arts members and studio holders presenting an artistic response to bikes and cycling. Exploring and challenging the bike as an object and the role it plays in the way we engage with our environment the exhibition features work by artists and designers including: Thomas Hoare, Daniel Lane, Andrew Lister, Fiona Stuart-Clark, Sam Lee, Eliza Southwood and Kasia Breska.

The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.Ann Strong 1895

Seacroft Gala Sat 6th JulySeacroft Village Green, Fearnville BMX Track & Graffiti Wall (Fearnville Sports Centre)

12– 4pm

Join in the family fun and bring your bike to take part in cycling of all descriptions. Use your pedal power to make a smoothie or try pulling some tricks on their BMX ramps!Hosted by LS14 Trust.www.leedsbmx.com

In 1913 I had the happy idea to fasten a bicycle wheel to a kitchen stool and watch it turn.Marcel Duchamp

When the artist Juliana Bellente left Leeds last year she took most of her belongings with her, except her bike.

Collaboration

Juliana’s Bike Sun 7th JulyLeeds Bike Fest Marquee at Skyride, Cookridge Street, Leeds

11am – 4pm

Come and see Leeds’ first hotel on three wheels - ‘Juliana’s Bike’ - and experience this weird and wonderful bike in action at Skyride. Adapted from a rickshaw frame it includes a space to sleep, a wood burning stove, toilet, lights, sink, and an awning for riders to sit outside and watch the world go by. The marquee also hosts a series of workshops, exhibitions, a café, live art and fresh bread delivered by bicycle.

Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. H.G. Wells

Rider Spoke Sat 6th & Sun 7th JulyEast Street Arts, Patrick Studios, St Mary’s Lane, Leeds LS9 7EH

7-11pm / Gameplay/cycle approx 75mins.

Price: Free

Tickets: Booking a place and timeslot is essential, please visit: www.rider-spoke.eventbrite.co.ukBicycles are provided or use your own, consoles and earpieces provided to all riders (over 16’s only).

Four times BAFTA nominated Blast Theory are bringing their captivating Rider Spoke project to Leeds and want you to join in and create a new interactive map of the city. A console and earpiece mounted on your handlebars guides you through the streets and asks questions so that you can leave your thoughts, confessions and memories at secretive hiding places across the city for others to discover.

Night Ride Sat 13th July Leeds to Hornsea

6pm onwards

Follow #nightrideleeds on twitter and instagram to keep up with the event

A group of unprofessional Leeds cyclists (a pop-up artists’ cycling club) ride 100 miles from Leeds to Hornsea, on the East Coast, all in the name of fun. Normally used for daily commutes (or nipping to the shops) the bikes and their owners put themselves to the test to see if they can navigate the dark roads of Yorkshire. Keep up with this radical art action by following their escapades online.

Culture Generator Sun 14th July Inkwell, 31 Potternewton Lane, Chapel Allerton

Leeds, LS7 3LW

Workshop 11am-5pm requires booking as places are limited: bookings@esamail.org.uk or 0113 248 0040

Pedal-powered social event from 5pm is open to all.

Learn how to make your own bicycle-powered generator and power a vintage caravan cinema with your own two feet. There are also plenty of opportunities to ask questions and develop your own bike-powered projects. Hosted by Rayon Rose and Electric Pedals, there will be a pedal powered sound-system, bar & pizza from 5pm.

How to Build a Bicycle TrailerSun 14th & 28th July Pedallers’ Arms, 37 Mabgate Green, Leeds, LS9 7DS

12-3pm

www.pedallers-arms.orgBookings: benmilner@gmail.com

Learn how to make a bicycle trailer following an easy to replicate, low cost and weld-free design. The trailers built on the day will be available in return for a donation to Pedallers’ Arms for use of their workshop space.

CycloGeographicSat 20th & Sun 21st July East Street Arts, Patrick Studios, St Mary’s Lane, Leeds LS9 7EH

11am-3pm

www.paulhurley.org/skylabstories.net Bookings: adam.young@esamail.org.uk

Join a small team, either the ‘Situationists’ or ‘Romantics’ and embark on a journey of adventure and discovery, fuelled by prompts and provocations, your escapades will be recorded through pictures, texts and tweets. CycloGeographic is a series of creative cycle explorations of Leeds with artist Paul Hurley & poet Caleb Parkin. (Over 16’s only)

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.H.G. Wells

Study for VoozekKasia Breska

Introduction to Fine Art PaintingTues 23rd, Weds 24th & Thurs 25th July Barkston House, Croydon Street, Leeds, LS11 9RT

10am - 3pm

Free and concessionary rates are available for adults 19+ living in LeedsBooking and details: lotte@esamail.org.uk

An introductory course in painting and mark-making led by Paul Digby at his studio in Holbeck. It is aimed at beginners and those with some experience. Learn how to make and stretch a canvas and create a painting, using bicycle parts as inspiration. Part of East Street Arts’ Community Learning Programme.

On Your Bike...? Sohail Khan Juliana’s Bike workshop June 2013

This space is yours

A Zine in a Day Sat 27th July White Cloth Gallery, 26 Aire Street, Leeds, LS1 4HT

11am onwards

Bookings: tweet @culturevultures if you’d like to get involved or visit www.theculturevulture.co.uk for more information

The Culture Vulture will make a zine in a day, themed on cycling in Leeds, and are looking for contributors and collaborators to make it happen. Do you want to join in? The team are seeking people who can set a page out, photographers, artists, storytellers, distributors, copy editors, cake bringers or calamari creators and a willing commercial printer.

The Adventures of Don Quixote by Bicycle Fri 9th, Sat 10th & Sun 11th AugustTemple Newsam Park, Leeds

Fri 6-8pm

Sat 11am-1pm and 3-5pm

Sun 12-2pm and 4-6pm

Prices: £6 adults £3.50 children

Tickets: www.donquixote-bybike.eventbrite.co.ukbookings@esamail.org.uk

Follow the classic story of Don Quixote and his reluctant squire Sancho Panza on their amazing horsicycles at Temple Newsam Park. Join in on your bikes and witness the unfolding of this heroic medieval tale with travelling actors and become part of the story yourself. Spectacular characters on two wheels present fun for all ages and abilities, you just need your bike and a sense of adventure. There’s also a chance to customise your bike into a horsicycle on the day.

Members’ CommissionsThe following artists have been commissioned by East Street Arts to create new work for Juliana’s Bike over the coming months:Alfie StrongCarla MossIan KirkpatrickBobby NixonNicola Parkin

Artists in residence Dave LynchImage: Benedict Phillips

History

What is Juliana’s Bike? When the artist Juliana Bellente left Leeds last year she took most of her belongings with her, except her bike. She also left East Street Arts with a challenge, to create a new bike for her, and this has been the inspiration for an eclectic new arts programme in the city, Juliana’s Bike.Contributing to the city’s preparations for 2014’s Tour de France; Juliana’s Bike will programme key events over three years starting this summer 2013. Forming part of Leeds Bike Fest, Juliana’s Bike includes fashion in the 21st century, performance and live art responding to pedal power, and inventions to make life more interesting through bicycles. East Street Arts and partners will explore the potential of cycling through a range of activities including transportation, sport, interaction and other imaginative happenings in the city.

Juliana’s Bike Artist Residencyjulianasbike.org.uk/residency/

During 2013, artist Dave Lynch will explores the potential of pedal power processes though research, design and play. Working with scientists, engineers, designers and makers he investigates how mechanical devices can create playful and meaningful interactions with the world around us and includes pedal-powered time travel, fire-breathing robots, and mind controlled actions. The aim is to create a large-scale installation for the 2014 Tour de France and its development can be followed via his blog. Dave Lynch is an artist, director & inventor working internationally with installation, moving image and projection. Look out over the coming months as further pedal-powered inspired work emerges as part of Juliana’s Bike.

Pedallers ArmsInkwell

Corn ExchangeTrinity Shopping Centre

SkyrideWhite Cloth Gallery

Barkston House

Patrick Studios

Pedallers ArmsInkwell

Patrick Studios

Seacroft

Temple Newsam

TheNorthSea

Find our map on Google: tinyurl.com/julianasbike

East Street Arts is a contemporary visual arts charity based at Patrick Studios in Leeds, and was founded by Jon Wakeman and Karen Watson in 1993. It believes art and creativity can transform the world for the better and initiates multiple areas of activity developing engagement between artists, their peers and audiences. eaststreetarts.org.uk

Our PartnersLeeds City Council Leeds Inspired Arts Council England Leeds Bike Fest Darwin Construction Space 2 Lille Council Restrap H20 MenCap Charles Hunt Pedallers’ Arms Leeds Met University Paper Girl Blast Theory Burn the Curtain Woolgather Compass Live Art

And thank you to the team of volunteers who have worked on Juliana’s Bike.

Change through creativityPatrick Studios

St Marys Lane LS9 7EHeaststreetarts.org.uk

Juliana’s Bike is a trailblazing celebration of art and cycling that kicks off in July 2013. Come and take part in a smörgåsbord of artistic events and workshops including; the Adventures of Don Quixote by bike, a pedal-powered caravan cinema, a bike hotel on three wheels, night rides, art exhibitions and even a dog on wheels!So why not join in and get on your bike this summer?