John Coster Blog: We came We Reported We Conquered

Sky Ride and the 8th Bike Film Festival are now over and the feedback from people has been fantastic.
The 50 community reporters did a great job of capturing the cycling event that saw over 12,500 people enjoy the traffic-free streets of Leicester.
Phoenix Square played host to the film festival with audiences enjoying Jacques Tates [...]

CAPs Off To Tara & Andy

Well done to the CAPs or Community Action Photographers led by co-editors Tara Gatherer & Andy Williams.
They put in a great effort with their team and have been rewarded with a great article on page 12 of today’s Leicester Mercury – http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Citizens-Skyride-photos-capture-atmosphere-day/article-2589849-detail/article.html
The thisisleicestershire website has a photo gallery of their images -http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/skyridegallery.html
And also BBC [...]

Special Olympians Take Part In Sky Ride

James Black
Amongst the cyclists taking part in Leicester’s Sky Ride event on August 29th were a team of Special Olympians.
The team got involved with the event through Steve Humphries the organiser of the GB Special Olympics which took place in Leicester in the summer of 2009.
The group of 11 cyclists began the course at Abbey Park [...]

Heavenly Chorus At Sky Ride

James Black
Over 60 members of the Emmanu’–El Apostolic Gospel Academy attended Leicester’s Sky Ride event yesterday.
The choir started the bike ride at Leicester’s Abbey Park before making their way along to Phoenix Square. I had the opportunity to chat to Pastor Samuel and Bishop Mark Anderson about the group’s activities.

The Emmau’-El Apostolic Gospel Academy has been [...]

Action Homeless at Sky Ride

James Black
Many of the cyclists who took part in Leicester’s Sky Ride event on August 29th were either competing in the event to raise money for charity or awareness of a particular charitable organisation.
Jonathon Cryer, Senior Fundraiser for Action Homeless talked to me about the important work carried out by the organisation and his participation in Sky [...]

12.5k Cyclists Take Part In The Leicester Sky Ride

Leicester’s Sky Ride saw 12,000 cyclists fill the city streets and enjoy some of the iconic landmarks in a traffic-free environment.
The 50 media volunteers based at the Phoenix Square Film & Digital Media Centre captured all the excitement of the day including You Tube films, Photos on Flickr, Ipadio audio interviews and lots more including [...]

8th Bike Film Festival Open

Fantastic start to 8th Bike Film Festival with approx. 50 people enjoying the first film – Jour de Fete.
The film festival taking place at Phoenix Square Film & Digital Media Centre is on till Sunday.

Come & join us and meet the Volunteer Media Hub Reporters who are available to interview you about your review!
8th Bike [...]

Castle Councillor At Sky Ride Launch Party

James Black
On Wednesday 26th August the launch party of Sky Ride & 8th Bike Film Festival took place at Phoenix Square.
Citizens’ Eye has set up a media hub within the Phoenix to capture all ofthe events leading to and including this Sunday’s Sky Ride. Throughout the evening many of the local dignitaries and organisers of Sky Ride in attendance were interviewed by Citizens’ [...]

Media Centre Launched

Phoenix Square – the impressive Film & Digital Media centre in Leicester played host last night to the launch event for Sky Ride & 8th Bike Film Festival.
The Media Centre volunteers had set up in the afternoon and the stage was set for the launch event to include live music by The Slowdown Boys. The [...]

VIP Launch For Annual Celebration Of Cycling In City

THE LORD Mayor of Leicester will make a pedal-powered arrival to Phoenix Square for the VIP launch of the Ride Leicester Festival on Thursday (26th) August 2010.

It will mark the start of a weekend-long celebration of all things bicycle, including Sunday’s headline event Sky Ride Leicester.
The Lord Mayor, Cllr Colin Hall, will arrive by pedicab [...]

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