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Few events have as many exciting components as Neighborhood Bike Works’ annual Bike Part Art Show. The Art Show is a fantastic celebration of cycling as a green and healthy mode of transportation, local arts and artists, and innovative reuse of waste materials, all for the benefit of NBW’s free after-school programs and scholarships for our summer camps.
Every year since 2003, Neighborhood Bike Works has invited local artists to dig through our old parts bins for bits with artistic potential as the basis for works of art, or to create works otherwise celebrating bike culture. Then we put on a show of the amazing results, which are sold in a silent auction to fund our free youth cycling programs and summer camp scholarships. It doubles as a great party!
Want to get involved? Volunteer, be a bike part artist, or sponsor the show in 2010! Email artshow@neighborhoodbikeworks.org .
Party, silent auction, and craft boutique
Friday, Sept 18, 2009, 7-10 pm
Auction closes at 9:45 pm
Studio 34 Yoga|Healing|Arts
4522 Baltimore Ave in West Philly
$5 suggested donation at the door
View a selection of work before the auction:
We want you to take home some Bike Part Art on September 18! Click here to find out how.
- Art! by over 60 participating artists. The show has grown annually to feature all media of art & craft inspired by bike parts and cycling, including paintings, prints, sculpture, photographs, light fixtures, assemblage, jewelry, and furniture.
- Craft! New this year: shop for all things bicycle-emblazoned at the cash-and-carry Bike Motif Craft Boutique, with items from over 40 local and national crafters.
- Music! by Kiss Kiss Kill (love songs that make you want to die), DJ Ross of Love, and Fatima Adamu
- Beer! by Dock Street Beer and Victory Brewing Company
- Snacks! by Bacchus Market and Catering, Lily's Barter Bakery, Yummalish Bake Shoppe, Whole Foods Market, and others
- Raffle! Win a Fuji track bike, or other valuable items from GoCycling LLC, R.E.Load Baggage, The Reiki School and Clinic, Monarch Hardware, and many more
- Photos by NBW students! Photographer JJ Tiziou led a workshop at Neighborhood Bike Works's summer camp in August 2009, sponsored by PhotoLounge. See the talented results at the auction - and purchase a print to take home with you.
- Plant Sale! by Graceful Gardens, a bike-borne gardening company that provides design, installation, maintenance, coaching and consulting services for urban gardens in Philadelphia.
Questions? artshow@neighborhoodbikeworks.org
How to bid in the silent auction
We want you to go home on September 18 with a piece of Bike Part Art! Here's how:
- Register: When you arrive, sign in at the auction table and get a bid number.
- Bid: Write your bid number and price on the bid sheets next to an item, paying attention to the opening bid and bid increments (opening bids range from $4 to $700; more than half the works open at $50 or below).
- Buy it now: If you can’t stand the thought of someone else winning a work you love, you can trump all bids by paying the “buy it now” price at the auction table. Take the work with you when you leave!
- Check-out: If you are the high bidder when the auction closes, remove the bid sheet from the wall, take it to one of the payment centers (the auction table, the Bike Motif Craft Boutique, Studio 34’s front desk, and the bar), pay for it, and take the work with you when you leave.
- Pay by cash, check, credit card, or paypal.
We are so grateful to contributing businesses and our other sponsors, without which this awesome event wouldn’t happen:
Plus Fabric Horse, TabasFunding, the Galleries at Moore, and all libations/raffle contributors.
Thank you!
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