Power Bike Parade rained out OCT 17, see us instead OCT 24!!

**POWER BIKE PARADE
**SAT OCT 24 (our last ride!)
**6:30 - 7:30pm

Power Bike Parade won't be riding tonite, Sat Oct 17th due to garbage weather. So our next and last ride is SAT OCT 24, at 6:30pm along 14th street in Manhattan, starting at the Con Edison power plant on the east side & continuing back and forth for about an hour. Come join us on the ride if you have a bike, or if not, just come and see us/the rest of the festival!

Power Bike Parade is a bike-powered electronic orchestra that demonstrates the use of an alternative power source by converting the kinetic energy of pedaling a bike into electricity used to create a festival of electro-acoustic music and glittering LED lights. The two-rider parade takes this everyday act of riding a bicycle, and expands it into a visual and sonic spectacle, re-appropriating the act as a performance and a venue for expression.

The bikes are outfitted with contact microphones, speakers, and custom bike instruments to amplify the sounds the bike makes during a ride, while LED lights are mounted on the bikes to light our way, amplifying and transforming the bike ride itself into a performance.

Big thanks to Brooklyn Bike & Board for material & logistical support!

**We really need people to document, so if anyone could come out Sat Oct 24th and take some pictures or shoot some video, that would be SUPER helpful!!** contact us at: semiotech.info@gmail.com

Thank you for Your Visit, Have a Nice Day

Hello AIOP team, fellow artists, and followers…

It has been an exciting 2 weeks of performances and installations…

Inspired by a real situation, I’ve created another one…maybe even more realistic since it brings out very strong reactions. And I am not talking only about the police officers who brought my performers to the Union Square police station accusing them of scaring people in the army outfits. I am talking about people on the street, passerbys, who stop or not. They truly completed my work that is, after all, the mirror of the day to day life. I like the smiles, the anger, and the comments like “it is about endangered species”, “Oh! It’s about China”, “I don’t understand”, “It must be art”, and “What kind of demonstration is that?”…. I like all of them, as any comment assures me as an artist that I am on the right path and gives me the energy to accomplish this kind of public “action”.

I hope you can join me by finding us this and next Saturday, between 2-5pm along 14th and Union Square.

Here is a video of last Saturday's “action” created by Technology Artist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXrKQVwPU

buzi, buzi,

Olek

http://www.agataolek.com/

credits:

first 3 pix by See-ming Lee (http://www.seeminglee.com/), last two by Olek

Join a Breadline for the Unemployed, Underemployed
and Low-Wage Workers of our
Great City of New York!

In these tough economic times, we will revisit the breadline as a tool for subsidizing low wage employment that pervades our service economy.

Our Human Resource Department will be available to help you access your benefit of a free peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Rev. Billy and the Church of Life after Shopping will also be present to bless the line and those souls who need a raise or employment.

For those who like to give back a little, call 347-256-4429 or email commonthreadsart@gmail.com to find out how you can volunteer at the breadline.


After you get your bread, you can join the party at the Art in Odd Places Festival opening at TheaterLab 137 14th Street btw 6th & 7th Aves http://www.artinoddplaces.org/


PB&J for a Retail Economy is produced by Alicia Canary, Martin Munoz and Leah Danger. This performance piece is a part of Retailing 14th Street, a collaboration of the Common Threads Art Collective and artist Stephanie Rothenberg with the support of the Retail Action Project.

Retailing 14th Street intends to bring awareness to the experiences of 14th Street retail workers during the run of the Art In Odd Places Festival in October.

Check out http://retailing14thstreet.blogspot.com/ for the calendar of more Retailing 14th Street public interventions.