Free White Bikes at the GI Art's Festival

The Witte Fietsenplan, was an anarchic free transport programme and the most famous manifesto of the Provos, the Dutch counter culture movement of the 1960’s.  They infamously released 50 or so, free to use, specially painted white bikes which were scattered across the city of Amsterdam. The event was a statement against the rise of consumerism, pollution and congestion caused by the privately owned vehicle.

As part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art [GI], NVA have paid homage to this event by introducing 50 white bikes into Glasgow. The bikes will be located outside GI participating venues, allowing the public to borrow a bike to cycle to any of the GI venue's/events. Keep an eye out for the bikes outside the Tramway. The universal combination lock code for the bikes is 6510.

The project will be launched  in a mass Ride Out at 11.30am from Kelvingrove Park to George Sq on Thurs 15th April. If you have a bike then the GI, NVA and Central Station invite you to join them.* You don't have to have a white bike any colour will do!

Central Station are also asking people to film the ride out, bike cams, videos, mobiles, if you up-load your footage they'll edit it altogether into one big crowd-sourced film, and put it online. They've also got 5 White Bikes for Central Station members to pitch to ride out on, and be a part of the artwork on the day. Details on how to get on one of these click here

Hope to see lots of white bikes in and around the Tramway over the next few weeks.