Thanks to the REI - Conshohocken store and Charles Kline, REI Outreach Specialist-Conshohocken, for hosting riders from the Norristown and Philadelphia Neighborhood Bike Works this past Sunday, August 22nd.
REI staff provided a comprehensive tour of the REI bike shop, store floor, and gave useful insight into the skills REI requires in potential employees and their bike mechanics specifically. The satisfying breakfast they provided put a cherry on the top of a fruitful morning.
This was another successful event in our productive relationship with REI.
In preparation for this Sunday’s Gran Fondo and expo at Memorial Hall, there will be two smaller expos at the Piazza at Schmidt’s in Northern Liberties. Neighborhood Bike Works will have a booth at the Piazza on Friday and Saturday. We’ll be promoting NBW and selling NBW t-shirts, summer camp t-shirts and Philly jerseys from GoCycling LLC. Come check us out:
You are invited to participate in the 8th Annual Bike Part Art Show
The Bike Part Art Show is an art exhibition and silent auction that benefits our youth cycling programs. This year, the show will be held at Highwire Gallery with the auction on Friday, December 3rd. The auction doubles as a celebration of art and cycling, including a raffle, live music, and plenty of local food and drink. The works will remain on display in the gallery for the entirety of the month.
You can get involved with the show by:
donating an original work of art to be auctioned at the show
volunteering
sponsoring the show
How to donate art:
All artwork submitted to the show should be made in the spirit of bicycling, make use of bicycle parts or have a bicycle theme. You are invited to visit our shop and raid our inventory of bicycle parts to use as a medium for your work. Part raids will be held on Tuesday evenings beginning June 22nd from 6:30pm – 9:00pm and will continue for the rest of the summer. The deadline for submission of works is the first week in November.
How to volunteer:
Volunteers are a big part of the show and can help in many ways including: installation and deinstallation of the show, picking up food and drink, working the auction table, the craft boutique and the raffle, bartending, and greeting people at the door.
How to sponsor the show:
Sponsors can support the show with a monetary donation, with a donation of food and/or beverages for the event or by donating an item for the art show raffle. NBW accepts donations from individuals and businesses with all proceeds going toward our youth programs.
Send an email to artshow@neighborhoodbikeworks.org or call our shop at (215) 386-0316 if you’d like to donate a work to the show, volunteer, become a sponsor, or if you have any questions about the 2010 Bike Part Art Show.
This Saturday is the annual Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby. Once again, Neighborhood Bike Works will be participating in the event. We will have groups of kids riding to the event from the 40th street, Haddington and N. Philly shops. We will also be offering bike parking at the event. We need volunteers to help supervise these rides and help out with bike parking for the event. These are great opportunities to help out NBW, support our riders and see the derby!
If you’d like to volunteer, send an email to volunteers@neighborhoodbikeworks.org. We look forward to hearing from you!
Hey, check it out! Paul, a long-time youth volunteer with Neighborhood Bike Works and member of the NBW Youth Racing Team, made this cool time-lapsed video of himself building a bike. Paul has been fulfilling — and exceeding! — his high school community service requirement by volunteering at Neighborhood Bike Works for the past three years. In that time, Paul has participated in many projects and helped us in so many ways. He is an invaluable member of the Bike Works community. The bike in this video is actually one he got from Bike Works!
On the first Friday of each month, Old City’s art scene comes alive as galleries open their doors, musicians take to the street corners, and visitors flock from around the city. On Friday, April 2nd, 6:00-9:00pm,Dhyana Yoga will host the Neighborhood Bike Works (NBW) First Friday Fundraiser at 68 N. 2nd St (near Arch).
The event will feature a “Yoga for Cyclists” class at 8:15pm ($5 suggested donation) taught by Trevor Dye, graduate of Dhyana Yoga’s teacher training. There will also be free refreshments and snacks, an information booth with NBW staff members, and a yoga and bike-themed raffle. Prizes include gift certificates for individual yoga instruction, a bike repair class, and bicycle-themed artwork. All proceeds will go to NBW’s mission of increasing opportunities for youth through bicycling.
A message from Sergio Armani about the NBW’s Cross-PA Ride next summer:
We have scheduled our first meeting to plan next summer’s multiday, round trip ride to Harrisburg and I want to encourage you come! The meeting will be held on Tuesday, 11/17/09 from 7-9pm at Free Library of Philadelphia main branch.
Leland Mayne, NBW Board President, and David Cicero Bevacqua, Program Coordinator, will be at the meeting to answer any questions and to give us direction as to what will work best with the kids. During my latest meeting with David, he expressed that there are a number of kids that would like to ride with us and I’m excited to bring this aspect into the ride!
My vision for the committee is one that has us all working towards the same goal of having fun, while organizing a ride that is about the kids! While the overall mission is to raise funds and awareness for Neighborhood Bike Works, it is ultimately about the kids that NBW serves. I hope that we can keep this in mind and come together as one group with the ultimate mission of giving the children of Philadelphia and Norristown a Ride of Dreams!
We’re pleased to announce that Bikes Work has been selected for the 2010 Council on Foundations Film & Video Festival! Bikes Work is a short film made in 2008 by Neighborhood Bike Works youth and staff in partnership with Scribe Video Center.
The Council on Foundations Film & Video Festival celebrates creative and effective film and video projects funded partially or wholly by foundations. It will be held on April 25-27, 2010 in Denver, Colorado.
Bikes Work will also be screened at the Council on Foundations‘ Fall Conference for Community Foundations, September 13-15, 2010 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Sergio Armani, a new volunteer here at Bike Works, is starting an effort to organize a multi-day ride next summer that will raise funds for and awareness of NBW.
The ride will be in the early summer, either from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh (5 to 7 days) or round-trip ride from Philadelphia to Harrisburg (4 days) potentially including a rally/meeting with legislators in Harrisburg before our ride home.
We are looking for volunteers to join the planning committee – we’re in need of folks that can help with logistics, PR, fundraising, sponsor support and rider recruitment.
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This Saturday is the annual Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby. Once again, Neighborhood Bike Works will be participating in the event. We will have groups of kids riding to the event from the 40th street, Haddington and N. Philly shops. We will also be offering bike parking at the event. We need volunteers to help supervise these rides and help out with bike parking for the event. These are great opportunities to help out NBW, support our riders and see the derby!
