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Celebrating Cycling CDT Update: Film Festival @ Dukes
For the third year running the Dukes is supporting Lancaster's status as Cycle Demonstration Town with a Bike Film Festival aimed at encouraging, respecting and celebrating cycling.
Tickets cost £5 (concessions £4) - call 0845 344 0642 to book/reserve.
All the Gallery events are free but spaces are limited. Tickets can be obtained from the Dukes' Box Office - book early to avoid disappointment.
Highlight of the week is our pedal powered film on Friday 11th all 80 minutes of it! (see below for full details).
Work on the cyclist powered electrical generator system is still in progress but we're confident it will be fully operational by the 11th. As the DVD and projector take quite some amount of power we'll be needing 3 cyclists at a time.. so please come prepared to hop on and have a go even if just for 5 minutes.
More info here.
Full Programme of Events
Monday 7 April 7.30pm FREE
The Carbon Cycle
In 2006 Dr Kate Rawles cycled 4553 miles from El Paso to Anchorage along the spine of the Rockies, exploring American attitudes to climate change.
In this interesting and thought provoking talk Kate will share all that she learned about climate change beliefs in the USA - starting with "heck honey I sure think it's just mother nature" and what we in Europe can learn from the most oil-intensive culture on earth about the urgent changes necessary if we are to respond to the climate change challenge.
Tuesday 8 April 6pm
Beijing Bicycle (PG)
Dir: Wang Shuai 113 mins.
With: Cui Lin, Lee Bing
Subtitles
Set in modern day China, Beijing Bicycle is a poignant bitter-sweet tale that reveals the hardships of growing up in one of the most overpopulated cities of the world. Peasant lad Guei has moved to the city and become a bicycle courier, hoping to make his dreams come true.
But schoolboy Jian needs a bike to impress his girlfriend and doesn't think twice about stealing one. A deceptively simple fable about human nature, the award-winning film is a powerful study of pride, jealousy and the corruptive powers of capitalism.
Wednesday 9 April 6:30pm
A Boy, A Girl and A Bike (U)
Dir: Ralph Smart UK1949 92 mins b&w
With: Diana Dors, Maurice Denham, Honor Blackman
This comedy drama follows the romantic intrigues and class conflicts within a Yorkshire cycling club. The boy is Sam Walters. The girl is Susie Bates. The bike is one of several used by a British cycling club. Boy and girl have fun pedalling about the countryside until the girl's pretty head is turned by David Howarth, a wealthy young man with a snazzy sports car.
Friday 11 April 7pm FREE
B.I.K.E: THE MOVIE
Directors Jacob Sepitmus and Anthony Howard create a gritty, conceptually dichotomous and visually stylistic film with B.I.K.E. The film is a depiction of the Brooklyn chapter of the Black Label Bike Club, a fringe network of tall bike jousters that combine and justify their medieval inspired competitions with environmentalist and anti-consumerist rhetoric and politically radical ideals.
Taking place in the context of the 2004 Republican National Convention, B.I.K.E. is a riveting look into the ways in which identity is important for a collective of fiercely independent people.
It is hoped that this will be the Duke's & Lancaster's first pedal powered film - so come prepared!
The system has been developed by Dr Martin Burbidge, a local electronic and radio frequency research consultant. The demonstration will be accompanied by a brief presentation explaining key features and motivations for the system.
Monday 14th April 2- 4pm [Gallery]
Children’s Cycle Workshop
Come along and find out about how fun cycling can be and take part in two different but interesting and fun activities.
Suggested ages 7 - 11 (children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult)
Make your own dustcap! Children will have an opportunity to design and make their own unique dustcap! The dustcaps will be posted after the session as they need to be baked.
Maintenance class with Dr Bike
Cycling is fun but it's important that children can recognise when their bicycle isn’t working and be able to carry out basic and routine maintenance. Come along and let Dr Bike show you how to fix your own bike.
Monday 14 April 6pm
Belleville Rendez-vous (12A)
Dir: Sylvain Chomet France 82 mins
Voices: Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin, Monica Viegas
Subtitles
This delightful animated comedy is hilarious, touching and full of Gallic charm. It tells the story of Madame Souza, a tenacious old woman whose cyclist grandson is kidnapped by the big-shouldered, wine-guzzling French Mafia. However, with the unexpected help of three eccentric old ladies, Madam Souza and her exceedingly podgy old hound save the day!
Download poster (pdf)