CITIES ARE NOT FOR CARS!

We are glad to invite you to a Cyclocamp, a Forum of bike recycling and
community workshops and the 10th Interplanetary Critical Mass
(Ciemmona), which will take place in Rome, May 24th – June 2nd 2013

Rome is a city where mobility is exclusively thought for cars. Few
bicycles, little public transport, and lack of perception of the streets
as a common good. Public spaces in Rome are seen and used as parking
lots, while everything that doesn’t move in a car represents an
obstacle. Thanks to this adverse horizon, the daily use of a bicycle in
Rome brings along an intrinsic subversive status. Biking fast in between
tons of slow and smelly scrap metal naturally leads us to imagine a more
equal, just and car-free future. Seen from a bike saddle, cars in our
city seems like animals of a remote past. Thus, in 2002, Critical Mass
was born in Rome followed by people’s Bike Kitchens. As soon as these
two paths crossed, without any help from the State or the Municipality,
the bicycles had exponentially multiplied and the urban biker appeared
in the roman metropolitan landscape.

After ten years of wrenches and ideas, we would like to reflect about
the meaning and the evolution of today’s Bike Kitchens and Bike
Communities, the sense of the reappropriation of the common spaces and
the importance of the knowledge exchange. We feel the need to think
about our bike riding direction and about the meaning of our mechanical
skills. Starting from these questions we decided to share these thoughts
with others Bike Kitchens which have similar experiences and horizons,
even though belonging to dissimilar metropolitan environments. Places
where, for example, biking is already part of the means of transport and
it’s regulated by laws and standard normative, or places in which Bike
Kitchens are sponsored by public or private entities, or can be
organized as non-profit entities.
For all these reasons we thought to create a gathering between the Bike
Kitchens and Critical Mass which will take place the preceding week to
the 10th Ciemmona (May 29th, 30th, 31st).

Therefore we decided to host a Cyclocamp and a Bike Kitchen Forum, not
only for greasing ourselves from head to feet but also for sharing
thoughts, ideas, practices and knowledge. We are convinced that putting
together all these Bike Kitchens, in their similarities and mainly
differences, we will be able to bring a renewed conscience in our global
thinking and local acting. In order to promote this discussion we
thought that could be useful to concentrate it in the three first days
before the Ciemmona (29th , 30th, 31st of May) in which will take place
the Forum.

We will pleased to see you partecipate from the 24th of May to the 2nd
of June in a series of events: Cyclocamp, Forum of bike recycling and
community workshops and the 10th interplanetary Ciemmona. For all the
participants, the garden of the CSOA eXSnia will be available for your
camping tents, your skills, your ideas, etc.

The camp site is totally free and you have to collaborate in its
organization and management. We are strictly anti-fascist, anti-sexist
and anti-racist. Please do not join us if you do not recognize yourself
in these fundamental values.



Roman people’s Bike Kitchen Network



The Cyclocamp:
http://ciclofficinepopolari.it/en/iniziative/2013/cyclocamp-roma/,
http://cyclocamp.org/
The Forum:
http://ciclofficinepopolari.it/en/iniziative/2013/forum-delle-ciclofficine/
The 10th Interplanetary Critical Mass (Ciemmona): http://ciemmona.org/en
The location: http://exsnia.it/ciclofficina


Please send a confirmation email to: info@ciclofficinepopolari.it
Book a space for your tent sending an email to: accommodation@ciemmona.org
Do you need a bike? We’ll do what we can! Write to:
accomodation@ciemmona.org
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