→ At A glance!
→ Cycling Advocacy Meeting | → The Sense of Cycling | → Cycle Tour | → Cycling Documentary Night | → An Óige Cycle | → Critical Mass Ride | → Cycling & Arts Movie Night | → Cycling Workshops | → Red Singing Bikes | → Cycling Cinema | → Cycling Picnic | → Reinventing Two-Wheels

At A Glance!

At A Glance

Cork Cycling Arts Festival proposes various events from Monday 21 to Sunday 27 July 2008.

Open your (he)art!

• The Sense of Cycling (art exhibition)
• Red Singing Bikes (musical show)
• Cycling Workshops
• Cycling Picnic
• Reinventing Two-Wheels (happy party)

Switch on your brain!

• Cycling Advocacy Meeting
• Cycle Tour (guided tour on bike)

Push the pedal!

• An Óige Cycle
• Critical Mass Ride

Open your eyes!

• Cycling Documentary Night
• Cycling & Arts Movie Night
• Cycling Cinema

Download "Cork Cycling Arts Festival" programme (PDF)
Download "Cork Cycling Arts Festival" programme summary (PDF)

Cycling Advocacy Meeting

Let’s Talk About Cycling…

Cyclists, Future Cyclists and Cycling Friends are all welcome to join the Cycling Advocacy Meeting held at UCC on Monday 21 July 2008 as part of Cork’s first ever arts festival celebrating the bicycle culture in Cork.

This public meeting will open Cork Cycling Festival and will offer a two-hour session of lectures by local and international speakers followed by a public debate.

Learn about the “Cycling Experience in the City” and share valuable knowledge and experiences with other cyclists, experts and community leaders.

Amsterdam-based Pascal van der Noort, one of the most famous cycling experts in Europe (Velo Mondial), will take part in this special event to share his extensive knowledge of cycling-friendly cities.

The public meeting is organised by University College Cork and Cork Cycling Campaign.

Venue: O'Rahilly Building, ORB 212, University College Cork
Date: Monday 21 July – 6pm to 8pm
Free entrance

Download "Cycling Advocacy Meeting" flyer (JPG)
Download "Cycling Advocacy Meeting" programme (PDF)

The Sense of Cycling

Artists Explore the Cycling Experience

Every cyclist experiences a wide range of feelings while pedalling and riding a bicycle.

Sensual pleasure, absolute freedom, feeling like a child, vulnerability among traffic, social interactions with other cyclists and pedestrians; all of these create the unique “cycling experience in the city”.

Artists mastering different art forms (visual art, sculpture, photography, music) will be asked to reflect on “the sense of cycling” and participate in / perform during an interactive arts exhibition.

The core idea of this interactive arts exhibition is to let the public discover, or re-discover those sensations they have or have had while cycling.

The invited artists are:

• Delphine Arnault
• Joanne Collins
• Rob Ireson
• Tom Campbell
• Donnacha Cahill
• John Downes
• Matteo Pinagli

A trad session will accompany the official opening of the art exhibition on Tuesday 22 July

Venue: Unitarian Church, Princes Street
Date: Tuesday 22 to Saturday 26 July – 10am to 6pm
Opening: Tuesday 22 July – 6pm
Free entrance
(donation possible)

Cycle Tour

A Guided Visit Of Cork…

Enjoy a fun, friendly guided bicycle tour of Cork. Are you ready to discover the rebel capital as you've never seen it before?

Cyclists meet at 6 pm in front of the Unitarian Church.

Cyclists who take part in the “Cycle Tour” bicycle ride release and discharge the festival organisers and associated partners from any and all claims, demands, actions and/or liabilities on account of any injury to them or damaged or stolen items of equipment which may occur from any cause whatsoever, including negligence or other fault on the part of anyone released hereunder, during their participation in or transportation to or from said ride.

Venue: Unitarian Church, Princes Street
Date: Wednesday 23 July – 6pm to 8pm
Free participation

Red Singing Bikes

The Symphony Of Wheels

Did you know that infrared radiation is used for healing purposes due to its warming and pleasant effect? Red is also the color of power and emotional outbursts, its general effect is stimulating and appetising, it announces the mating season, and it’s the favourite color of children!

Cork Community Bikes present the “Red Singing Bikes”, their last astonishing, and melodious creation on wheels!

Cyclists meet first on Daunt Square at 6 pm and the cycle is followed by a get-together in a secret venue of Cork.

Cyclists who take part in the “Red Wheels” bicycle ride release and discharge the festival organisers and associated partners from any and all claims, demands, actions and/or liabilities on account of any injury to them or damaged or stolen items of equipment which may occur from any cause whatsoever, including negligence or other fault on the part of anyone released hereunder, during their participation in or transportation to or from said ride.

Venue: Daunt Square, Saint Patrick’s Street
Date: Wednesday 26 July – 6pm
Free participation

Cycling Documentary Night

Chain Reaction

Documentaries and movies related to cycling will be screened on Wednesday 23 July evening as part of the festival. Indulge yourself with food for thought!

The documentaries to be screened were produced in different countries, including Ireland, and include both amateur and professional productions.

The cycling documentaries night will take place at the Unitarian Church at 9 pm. The evening will be free of charge but donations will be made possible.

Please arrive early as seats will be available on a “first arrived first served” basis.

Venue: Unitarian Church, Princes Street
Date: Wednesday 23 July – 8pm
Free entrance
(donation possible)

An Óige Cycle

Stay Young At Heart

An Óige, the Irish Youth Hostel Association (IYHA), is the Hostelling International's association for the Republic of Ireland.

The Cork Kerry Regional Group organises ever Thursday night during the summer short and long group cycles.

The meeting point is located on Emmet Place at 7 pm in front of Cork Opera House. All are welcome.

There is a social gathering for all after the cycle in Tribes Café on Tuckey Street from approximately 9.15pm to 11pm. Meet old friends and new, indulge the taste buds and catch up with all the latest…

Cyclists who take part in the “An Óige” bicycle ride release and discharge the festival organisers and associated partners from any and all claims, demands, actions and/or liabilities on account of any injury to them or damaged or stolen items of equipment which may occur from any cause whatsoever, including negligence or other fault on the part of anyone released hereunder, during their participation in or transportation to or from said ride.

Venue: Cork Opera House, Emmet Place
Date: Thursday 24 July – 7pm
Free participation

Critical Mass Ride

We Are Traffic!

Critical Mass is a grass-root, non-political, non-commercial and self-organised movement therefore remains independent of any leadership or organisation.

Critical Mass rides are organised everywhere in the world to celebrate cycling and draw attention to how unfriendly cities, in which cars have the upper hand, have become to cyclists and pedestrians.

In China, both motorists and bicyclists have an understood method of negotiating intersections without signals. Traffic would "bunch up" at these intersections until the backlog reached a "critical mass", at which point that mass would move through the intersection. That term was caught on and later applied to this US-born movement.

Critical Mass rides are organised every last Friday of the month and cyclists meet at 6 pm in Daunt Square.

Cyclists who take part in the “Critical Mass” bicycle ride release and discharge the festival organisers and associated partners from any and all claims, demands, actions and/or liabilities on account of any injury to them or damaged or stolen items of equipment which may occur from any cause whatsoever, including negligence or other fault on the part of anyone released hereunder, during their participation in or transportation to or from said ride.

Venue: Daunt Square, Saint Patrick’s Street
Date: Friday 25 July – 6pm
Free participation

Cycling & Arts Movie Night

So Bicyclicious...

“Bicyclicious” is an original visual journey through cycling around artistic variations. The selection of heteroclite and surprising movies includes short films, video clips and visual experiments.

This event aims at presenting the work of international and local artists in line with the bicycle culture. You will be surprised by the inspirational power of the bicycle…

The short movies to be screened were produced in various countries and include both amateur and professional productions. Some of them are even exclusive films screened for the first time in Ireland!

The programme will be kept secret until the screening night. Please arrive early as seats will be available on a “first arrived first served” basis.

Venue: Unitarian Church, Princes Street
Date: Friday 25 July – 8pm
Free entrance
(donation possible)

Cycling Cinema

Cyclinematic Materpiece!

Saturday night will be the great opportunity to watch one of the cycling cinematic masterpieces. Rediscover a rather unappreciated tribute of the Seventh Art to the bicycle culture.

The programme will be kept secret until the screening night. Please arrive early as seats will be available on a “first arrived first served” basis.

Venue: Unitarian Church, Princes Street
Date: Saturday 26 July – 8pm
Free entrance
(donation possible)

Cycling Picnic

A Wonderful Afternoon to Rediscover the Joy of Cycling

People are warmly invited to get off their bikes and join the festive picnic event organised on Sunday 27 July.

The picnic will take place at the Atlantic Pond near the stadium and along the disused old railway until the Douglas River Estuary Bridge. This quiet, safe and car-free greenway is a safe place for children and one of the rare cycling route leading out of any town or city in Ireland.

This will be the perfect opportunity for families to enjoy a pleasant summer afternoon in a quiet and preserved venue, to chill-out and to strike up friendships with other cyclists.

Discover the original “CYCL-Sculptures” created by Mahon Community Centre and the paintings of Mayfield Community Art Centre, created as part of Global Fest Youth Arts Festival 2008, as well as many other surprises…

There is a “feeder” bicycle ride at 12am from Emmet Place to the Atlantic Pond and another feeder ride back to town at 6pm.

Cyclists who take part in the special “feeder” bicycle ride release and discharge the festival organisers and associated partners from any and all claims, demands, actions and/or liabilities on account of any injury to them or damaged or stolen items of equipment which may occur from any cause whatsoever, including negligence or other fault on the part of anyone released hereunder, during their participation in or transportation to or from said ride.

Venue: Atlantic Pond, Docklands
Date: Sunday 27 July – 12am to 6pm
Free participation

Reinventing Two-Wheels

Happy Cyclists Get Together!

“Reinventing Two-Wheels” Party is a joyful get-together evening with many surprises to close Cork Cycling Festival.

This social evening will be organised for all partners, sponsors and participants. Join us to enjoy and share the last moments of the festival by chilling out in the beer garden of the Fransciscan Well.

Venue: Franciscan Well, North Mall
Date: Sunday 27 July – 6pm to late…
Free entrance

Cycling Workshops

Do It Yourself!

Cork Cycling Arts Festival offers you the unique opportunity to attend three exceptional workshops on Saturday 26 July. All welcome!

“Pimp My Bike” Workshop: give a new life to your bicycle with Rob Ireson.

“Fix Your Puncture” Workshop: learn how to check your bike before you ride far away, to change a flat or to fix an annoying squeaky brake with Cork Community Bikes.

“Cycling Stickers” Workshop: Naomi Fein and Szymon Malicki facilitate a workshop where you are invited to share your ideas, feelings and wishes for creating a cycling future for Cork, while using the creative process of making stickers.

Venue: Unitarian Church, Princes Street
Date: Saturday 26 July – 2pm to 6pm
Free participation
(donation possible)

Download "Cycling Sticker Workshop” programme (PDF)