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The Otesha Project (Aus) and The Nunnery Bike Workshop are hosting a bike brunch fundraiser on Sunday 12 October in Newtown… $5 all you can eat… 9:30-12pm
Bring your bike for a re-tune…
Money goes to a great cause, the Otesha Project (Aus.): Cycling for Sustainability which 17 crew members are involved with. Leaving in November on a 5 week bike trip – riding from Brissie to Newcastle stopping at High Schools along the way to talk about sustainability issues and perform a play on enviromental sustainability & social justice issues. Hoping to empower and provoke thought along the way.
Hope you can make it to the FUNdraising brunch!
We would love to have your support and hang out on a beautiful Sunday!
Details:
Where: 16 Sloane St, Enmore
When: Sunday 12 October 9:30am – 12
What: $5 all you can eat brunch
Why: to fundraise for Otesha’s 17 tour members to cycle from bris-newcastle to visit schools and engage kids on sustainability issues…
All the money helps us further develop our project and help pay for needed equipment and other expenses along the tour.
If you can’t make it perhaps you might consider making a donation to our cause by checking out our goal to get enough funds to support youth after we have left communities – http://otesha.org.au/biketours/nswtour
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You are invited to the GRAND opening of the Newtown Community Café this Sunday, May 6, 20007! |
What’s Happening?
| 11:00 AM | All Day Bike Club DIY Bicycle Maintenance Come down and repair your bike, learn how to fix parts of your bike, hang out, or help at the Nunnery Bike Workshop |
| 12:30 PM | Polyamory Picnic and discussion Come and discuss what polyamory is and how people can make it work? |
| 1:30 PM | Screen Printing workshop with Miss Kate Come out and learn how to create and print your own designs |
| 3:00 PM | How can non-Indigenous activists can be better allies with Indigenous activists Ray Jackson Wiradjuri Elder is hosting a workshop on how non-Indigenous activists can be better allies to Indigenous activists and Indigenous struggle. |
| 5:00 PM | Official Opening of Newtown Community Café We are starting with Acknowledgement of Country then performances by Tom Citizen, Emma T, Edwina, Annie Free, Dylan and friends and Pete and open space for you! |
Is There Food?
Are you kidding? There will be amazing scrumptious vegan treats and drinks on a pay as you feel basis 
Hope to see you all there!
More Details on the Nunnery Community Café Read the rest of this entry »
We are having a working bee at the Nunnery to set things up a little better than they are currently operating. It’s an exciting time cause new things are on the horizon and we’d love for you to head out and give us a hand (the more the merrier).In particular we have a few ideas of things that need to get sorted out for the day.
- Setting up the signage (thanks JP) about how stuff should work around the workshop
- Creating tool boards so that we can buy some more tools
- General cleaning (our storage shack needs some serious TLC)
- Getting keys sorted out for new openers and closers (oh heh if you want to be part of that contact Maurice)
Okay so I might be interested but what are the deets?
Where: Nunnery (but of course) – check out this map
When: 11:00 AM till dark (call ahead if you think it’s to late for you to arrive)
What if I only have a small amount of time?
That would be great because every little bit that you can offer will help. Even if it is to come by and say “Hi guys”, provide hugs, and then leave again. We’d really like to spruce things up and get our new system rolling out the Nunnery.
At the Nunnery Bike Workshop we are thinking about labelling all the bikes that leave our humble grounds for a new life with their loving owners. We really don’t have a cool design that we could print onto a label and stick on each bike that we say farewell too.
That’s where you come in…
We would really love to see or get some designs (here’s our old design that we use for spoke-cards) from some of the crazy folk out there that we could use for our bicycle workshop! So do you have the skills to pay the bills? Hopefully someone out there in internet land has a keen interest in designing us something rad that we could use.
We’ll post all the entries here as we receive them and then people can vote on which one they like!
Ready, Set, GOOOOO!
Oh and you can send your designs to mullets_for_freedom ATTTT yahoo dot com dot au
Oh oh and here are some designs that we have found! Feel free to vote on some of them too!
[Apologies for the really late post on this one folks]
Tonight at the Nunnery Bicycle Workshop we will be fixing up a few bicycles for volunteers to use at R.E.G.E.N. 2007! 
“R.E.G.E.N [Random Evolution of Growth, Entertainment and Nature] is an incorporated, non-for-profit collective of environmentally concerned individuals and is coordinated by both environmental and music professionals. The collective includes members with tertiary qualifications in environmental science as well as significant experience in the fields of environmental management and bush regeneration (see coordinator summaries below). These skills are combined with those of professional music event organizers to create a unique team with a broad skills-base, and the capacity to achieve environmental objectives through creating an atmosphere that encourages community involvement and awareness.” – R.E.G.E.N.
Okay so what do they actually do?
It’s a massive gathering of people celebrating music AND planting 12, 000 trees this year while dancing to music. How cool is that!
I might have some time?
So a few of us will be gathering at 6:30 PM and working for a few hours to try and put together a fleet that can be used at this exciting event! If you are unsure whether we are still there give Maurice a call on his cellphone (0437940265) if you want to drop down.
Mmm don’t think I have time sorry!
That’s alright if you are attending R.E.G.E.N. and either ride your bike their (super cool factor) or are driving with a bike on the back we’ll have a repair tent (we = Nunnery Bike Workshop) ready to help you out with your bicycle repair woes.
Hope to see a few of you out there!
Well at the last Monday Nunnery Bike Workshop anyone who was interested was invited to sit down in a collective meeting to discuss how we could move forward to make our group more sustainable long-term.
We spent about 2 – 3 hours discussing a wide range of ideas, new plans, and all that jazz and came up with some changes and future thoughts for the Nunnery Bike Workshop. If you wish to help out in making any of this possible it would be great to see new/old faces at the workshop helping out! 
You should see some changes coming up soon but I’ll outline the basic volunteer jobs that we noted would be super useful around the bike workshop (if you’re new here check out this posting to get a good idea of what’s what)
Volunteer Jobs
- Phone contact - We could definitely use someone to be a phone contact (maybe something we could rotate) for the workshop.
- Email contact – We are currently waiting to be approved for a new email address and would love someone or for that matter more than one person to maintain our email list. The questions we receive aren’t that tough and could use some fresh people to respond to new interests.
- Getting bikes – We could use some people to find places to obtain new donations of bicycles, parts, etc.
- Organizing donations – This is pretty similar to obtaining bikes but relates more to things that we regularly use around the workshop (i.e. patches, patch glue, chain grease, tubes, helmets, lights, and all that goodness). Some of this stuff is really nice to have especially for new people who are just starting out on bikes and don’t have a lot of $$ to buy everything.
- Help w/ signage – We are planning on having signs around the workshop to make it easier for people to know where everything goes, how things should look, and be able to get a good feel for things when they just arrive. JP has started a bunch of this work and could use some help with the completion (thanks JP for doing this secretly bro!)
- Ways to contribute list – We could really use a list to identify the various regular volunteer jobs that can be done around the workshop to keep those beautiful gears that our workshop is in motion.
- Selling bikes @ market – Occasionally, we fix up bicycles and then take them to the Newtown market to be sold. It would be nice if we had volunteers to show off our new wears and sit there waiting for a lucky new owner to snatch up the bicycle and help support our cause. Plus the market is a great place to meet some cool people.
If you are interested in more things we discussed feel free to continue reading… (oh and feel free to comment as we love to hear from you out there!)
If not bail out now…
The Nunnery Bike Workshop has setup a new email list that we want to use to send out various random messages to people who have been involved in the workshops in the past.
It’ll be a good opportunity to keep people posted on upcoming events, working bees, and also notify people when we could use someone to come and help us out open/close the workshop. As you know we are a collective and completely rely on the support of the community to keep this thing rollin. So we’d love to see heaps of people join this list to keep things that way!
To sign up check out our mailing list page for more deets!
ACT NOW WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!
If you haven’t already heard the Nunnery Bike Co-op has been featured on the front page of the February 2007 release of the South Sydney Herald.
I think the article did a rad job at covering all the issues thanks to great quotes from Tash, Brianna, and Mark. The article did a fine job at covering the best parts of having a bicycle co-operative. The ramifications of having a co-operative in communities to help divert waste, encourage poor bikes from ending up in a trash bin, and reusing bike parts. Also, having a co-operative encourages a sense of community, self-esteem building, and a better awareness of bicycle maintenance for the average person. Hi-fives to all of that and more!
Nice work guys!
- Shane
PS – I miss the bike club heaps!
JP is going cycling in Tasmania for the summer and Maurice can’t open every week, so to keep bike club open, we need you! Put yourself on the roster by downloading the roster, adding your name to open or close, with the time that you can commit to and email the file back to me, or just call me and i’ll put you on it (Maurice – mullets_for_freedom@yahoo.com.au, 0437940265). Alternatively, if you can’t put yourself down on the roster but you want to know when the bike club will be operating, you can simply view the roster.
