The Local Crew: Building a Network of Conscious Organizers

One of my goals—as we move across these urban landscapes filled with bicycle dreams, sustainable schemes, and musical life-loving intentions—is to record little conversations and interviews with the local contributors of each bicycle music event we organize. Here in this post we have Cara Sandys, our fairy-godmother of Southampton, where we first hit land after our ocean journey. Cara works with Southampton’s Transitions group http://transitionsouthampton.org who works in the community to help develop positive solutions to Peak Oil and Climate Change with positive visions of a sustainable future. She notes in this interview that our performance in Southampton got her connected with the owners of King Alfred’s Pub – who now want to make the pub a green business and now intend to collaborate with Cara and the transitions group to hold events in the future. Yes!! Connecting inspired minds and offering a great musical time!

Our second video is with Adam Thompson, the London Bicycle Music Festival local 5-star organizer. We all want to celebrate the success of the London event and acknowledge the hard work Adam contributed to it. Adam (who also organizes bike workshops in Hackney twice per month and bicycling film society events) worked hand in hand with the London Cycling Campaign to coordinate publicity for the event, gather volunteers, organize food sponsorships AND best of all…has garnered support from an enthusiastic community to keep this festival going as an annual event! Hooray!! Another success of this event was in introducing Adam to the crew of Re-Cycle, Merlin and Rita, whose lovely faces you will see in future blog posts. What might happen in the future for these like minded bicycle enthusiasts??!!
Stay tuned for more input from informed and inspired organizers!

-Heather Normandale, Pleasant Revolution, June 11, 2010