bicycling

The award-winning feature-length documentary "Ciclovida: Lifecycle" pedals alongside a group of small farmers from Brazil who bicycle more than 6,000 miles across the South American continent.

They use the year of travel to exchange natural seeds, songs, and ideas about new ways of relating to the land. Moving stories from landless peasants, indigenous communities, and small farmers inform the travelers and viewers understanding of the struggle to survive in the face of global agribusiness incursion and the takeover of mono-crops for making biofuel.

With practically no money and no support crew, the protagonists rely entirely on their resourcefulness and the solidarity of people they meet along the way. They carry with them only the simplest of necessities, their radical ideas and philosophy, collected heirloom seeds, and a video camera.

We've got new neighbors!!!! Welcome!!

Veer explores America’s fast-growing bicycling culture by profiling five people whose lives are inextricably tied to bicycling and the bike-centric social groups they belong to. The film follows these characters over the course of a year, offering a behind-the-scenes look at their personal struggles and triumphs. Veer examines what it means to be part of a community, and how social movements are formed.

Check out www.veerthemovie.com

At 9pm, the stage will welcome Blister Pack (Worcester, MA), and BEWARE! The Other Head of Science for the Bike!Bike! Northeast party.  The Bike!Bike Northeast gathering of bicycle motivators from all throughout the Northeast will be taking place during the day of April 24th.  Interested?  Join us!

Bicycle organizers from not-so-far-off lands will converge on our post-industrial town for a meeting of the minds on all things bicycle culture in the northeast US. Discussions, skillsharing sessions, and bicycle fun. More info & Registration at http://www.troybikerescue.org/bikebikene.

SATURDAY SESSION