updates to end another year with
December 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Friends! Thank you for being with us for 2008 as we performed at Portland’s first ever Sunday Parkways (a 6-hour car-free 6 mile loop in N and NE PDX!), held a fabulous Bicycle Bash after-party for the Multnomah County Bike Fair, toured the west coast with Tour de Fat, and showed our hot pink and black spirit around Portland and Vancouver, B.C. We were part of a group that organized and put on an international Bike Dance Symposium where we created the B!ke CASCADIA community of bike dancers and activists. Go CASCADIA!! Go dance!!
In other news, the six year old across the street got his training wheels off the day after we did some maintanence in his bike at my place, but then his bike got thrown away when he got a flat tire. I’ve been spending some of this holiday vacation fixing up a completely rusted-out 12-incher I found in a free pile this fall. The pile was comprised of various sizes and styles of decrepit kids’ bikes left over from a Time-Based Art event in NE PDX. I grabbed three of them. I didn’t see the bike-art event, but my guess is art and performance with tiny bikes is likely to be unlimited in its capacity to intrigue audiences.
And in other In Other Words news, Portland’s feminist bookstore reported some amazing success in fundraising recently. They are working on restructuring things to support their long-term sustainability. A quick update: “We will be able to pay back our short-term loan and begin digging ourselves out of debt. As phenomenal as this, we still need to raise another $8,000 by the end of February to meet our second goal, which will enable us to pay down our expiring line of credit. We are still encouraging our supporters to make tax-deductible donations if they’re able. We also encourage you to come buy 50% off books at our After Solstice Sale, which will be running January 12th-February 14th.”
See their website for more news and information regarding the organization, their fundraising, and how they got their roof fixed after it caved in with snow.
Those are some tidbits of things going on outside Sprockettes. As for what’s going on inside, we’ll let you know soon as we know!! Thanks to the Brutal Snow, Freezing Rain, And Ice Storm Extravaganza of 2008, Sprockettes had to cancel our last two practices of the year. None of us had DOT-approved chains for a our bike tires so we couldn’t make it to our practice space. We hope that everyone is warm, safe, peaceful and cozy and ready to wrap up 2008.
We’ll see you in the new year!






