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Bike-in Movie!

[ September 17, 2010 7:30 pm to September 18, 2010 12:00 am. ] TONIGHT!!!

The closest drive in movie theater to Brooklyn is like 4 hours away.

So we are going to make one.

Bike Style

We will be showing: Pee Wee’s Big Adventure!
St. Mary’s Hall – 191 Leonard @ Maujer
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Live Music From:
Dan Friel (Parts and Labor)’
www.myspace.com/danfrieldanfriel
Band Of Bicycles
bandofbicycles.com
Lame Drivers
www.lamedrivers.com
Ocean Swell
facebook.com/oceanswell
DJ Keili
wfmu.org/playlists/KH

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All $ goes to help fund the arts program at a [...]

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Bike to Work!

[ May 21, 2010; 6:00 am to 10:00 am. ] Join Band of Bicycles, Transportation Alternatives, and Martha Stewart on your commute to work tomorrow (6am-9am). It’s Bike to Work Day! Stop along 26th street on the West Side bike path in Manhattan for some extraordinarily awesome bike-blended morning goodness, get your bike tuned up by Baby Willis the Bike Mechanic, and enter the raffle [...]

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Bushwick Rocks the Bike Shop: Benefit, Film Screening, and Concert.

[ April 24, 2010 4:00 pm to April 25, 2010 12:00 am. ]
- SATURDAY APRIL 24 –

BUSHWICK ROCKS THE BIKE SHOP
Benefit for Bushwick Farmers Market/EcoStation:NY and the Bushwick Food Co-op
with hosts BAND of BICYCLES and BUSHWICK BIKE SHOP
@ Bushwick Bike Shop 1342A Dekalb Avenue [map]
Cookout 4:00 – 7:00pm
7:00pm Film (No Impact Man) & Discussion
9:00pm Music by BROOKLYN COUNTY FAIR (final lineup TBA)
$10 suggested donation or wotugot [...]

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The Bushwick Food Co-op presents: Food, Inc. Co-hosted by EcoStation: NY

[ February 23, 2010; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]

The Bushwick Food Coop and The Bushwick Farmers’ Market invite you to a special screening of:

FOOD, INC.

A film about the big businesses behind the food we eat.

Featuring special guests from the Bushwick Farmers’ Market, staff from Councilwoman Diana Reyna’s office, and music by Free Advice. Come mingle with neighbors, have a beer, and watch a [...]

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Benefit and party for Freegan Bike Workshop

[ February 12, 2010 10:00 pm to February 13, 2010 4:00 am. ] NYC Activist run all-volunteer free community bike workshop has a fundraiser to reopen at new location:

The Freegan Bike Workshop was formed in November, 2005 and has operated out of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn for the past two years. The FBW provides refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community, focusing on children and lower income households. The [...]

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Compost Sifter/Tumbler

Made of bike rims, scrap steel, hardware cloth, rollerblades, a shipping palette, and a few screws, this sifter will soon be separating soil at the Secret Garden in Bushwick.
Check out more photos here.

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8ft Pedal-Powered Zoetrope for Spectres of Liberty Public Art Project.

The B& broke into Oh Ten in collaboration with Dara, Josh, and Olivia from the Spectres of Liberty project.  After just over a week of intensive planning, building models, grinding, welding, chopping, tweaking, and singing, a prototype is born.  She’s a beautiful baby zoetrope, measuring 8 feet across and standing around 6 1/2 feet up [...]

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Why we need more–and safer–bike lanes in NYC

Another cyclist has been killed on Delancey Street.  This time, a woman struck by a school bus.  More here, on the Bike Blog NYC: Tragedy Strikes Just Days After Memorial Ride.

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Recycle-A-Bicycle Turns 15 Years Old!

Recycle-A-Bicycle Turns 15 Years Old!
Keeping Children on the Road and Bikes Out of the Trash since 1994.

WHEN: Monday, December 14, 2009; 6-9pm
WHERE: Superfine, 126 Front Street, Brooklyn
CONTACT: Helen Ho at 917-226-4466 or helenshirley@gmail.com
Pasqualina Azzarello at 718-858-2972 or director@recycleabicycle.org

BROOKLYN, NY – On Monday, December 14th Recycle-A-Bicycle will be holding its 15th [...]

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A Feminist Focus on Climate Change

Here’s an interesting article from our pals at GlobalSister.org.  Read the full story from our very own Merrisa Silk here.

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