Bike Racks and Music Show…
A couple of quickies I thought SD readers may find interesting…
Bike Rack Sculptures, Look at it, Lock it. It’s Art that Works
February 27th, 2008 : An exciting new phase for Tecumseh’s Gallery without Walls. Get moving, ride your bike around town then lock it to our function art pieces. This first time project promises to deliver living working art in our beautiful town. We are asking artists to create bike racks that will have two functions, 1. To encourage more bicycle riders within and into downtown, by providing racks that they can lock there bikes up to. 2. To create a greater appreciation for public art. You don’t have to be a cyclist to appreciate the curb appeal. We are confident the local community and visitors alike will enjoy these unique additions to our local Tecumseh streetscape. The Tecumseh B.I.A. is calling all artists to submit designs. The artist will then fabricate the winning sculptures. Artists get possible commissions and great exposure.
If you’re an artist who works in a medium that would translate into a utilitarian bicycle rack, get your applications in very soon. Application deadline is April 30, with the winner’s being chosen by March 15
Taking hints from a program run by the Louisville Downtown Management District, Tecumseh’s program shows a commitment to both alternative transportation and the support of local artisans. They are to be commended for their efforts and I look forward to riding out that way and locking up my bike.
Also, after buying yet another guitar from my guitar doctor/pusher, Steve Chapman told me about another local event taking place later on in April. “The Other Guys’” are presenting a Spring Music and Collectibles show taking place at The Players’ Club (1530 Langlois) on Sunday, April 27th from 10:00 am ’til 4:00 pm. I don’t know exactly what is being sold at the show, but I do know that Steve is taking his entire inventory of guitars and amps (one of which I REALLY want but can’t afford right now. Argh!) LP’s, 45’s, CD’s, Posters, Collectibles and more are going to be offered, along with the special musical guest Kelly “Mr. Chill” Hoppe of Big Sugar fame. If you’re into music, get out there and see what these people have to offer. There’s a 3$ admission and an ATM on site for those impulse buys.
Tags: Alternative Transportation, artist, arts, event
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Those bike racks would never fly in Windsor. We are litigation scared! If someone bumped their head Eddie and friends would think they would sue the city. I understand where this hysteria comes from. After all with a mayor who wants to sue everyone he thinks the same thing will happen to him much like a dictator starts to believe that everyone is against him. Oh how the mind plays tricks when it has absolute power.
Shhhh!, if you don’t tell them its not possible, we might just be able to sneak it through
My daughter actually cracked her head quite badly years ago on the flock of colourful seagulls sculpture at the riverfront. You mean I could have sued?!?!?
Good for Tecumseh! At least they know the value of the arts artists to their city! Not like our mayor, who belittles our arts groups in public when the come asking for money just to maintain their meagre funding from the city, in the last city budget hearings.
The city of Chatham just got a large grant to work on their Capitol theartre for the performing arts, while ours sits darken! They also know the value of the arts to their community and to tourism.
Obviously our mayor and council don’t need outside ideas for the arts, the mayor and city council knows best on how to keep the free loading beggars in place and the damn free lunches they get all the time! Windsor doesn’t need no stinkin’ bicycles, “We’re not China or Holland!” and alternative transportation ideas..The SUV and VANS are kings of our roads! Only poor people ride bicycles and that is not Windsor’s image! So get over it and buy a locally made SUV you idiots!
Bike racks, Windsor doesn’t need no artsy fartsy bike racks, we need parking, acres and acres of parking and wider and wider roads. so wide that a senior with a walker can’t cross them in time, trying to get to the hospital(s)!
We have Canada’s largest sculpture garden, but no tourist downtown can find it, much like the bus station, It is so far off the beaten chewed up sidewalks of downtown, that no person, least alone a tourist would walk the five kilometres to find it! Unless you come via the bridge in your mad dash to the Casino!
Would offering our artists to design bike racks for the city be considered a taxable income, so as not to seen as a free lunch, not with the attitude of this city council it wouldn’t! Parks and Recreation will just shop their catalogs for something designed somewhere else and be done with it! Saving the city the embarrassment of defending such a foolish option from the ridicule of the public in Windsor, as wasting tax payers dollars, the city wants to spend the money first, It has to be made somewhere else to be respected!
There is now appearing more and more progressive thinking in the county’s bedroom communities on what makes a city than in our city. They have come to understand the limitations and the great potential of their communities than this city and I give them a lot of credit in seeing the trends in their communities. The need for newer libraries, performing arts, civic places for performances and wall space for their artists, That with limitations they can offer walkable neighborhoods and truly being cities in their own right, while Windsor rots like an old Maple tree! Looks good on the outside but don’t cut to deep it is rotten in the core!
This is an aside: Why isn’t there a front door bus stop at Metropolitan Hospital as there is at Devonshire Mall? Going East on the 1C, from downtown and west Windsor, Transit Windsor riders, many which are seniors or the walking poor, are let off at a stop at the corner before and have to cut through landscaping and an acre of parking, or, then have to walk a block further eastward to get to an unshovelled sidewalk to get to the hospital’s front door.
Those coming from the east have to cross six lanes of traffic, many with walkers, mother’s with strollers and children, without enough time to safely cross that street, to use those unshovelled sidewalks and still navigate an acre of parking to reach the front door.
Don’t they deserve the same equal access and convenience as those that drive, either to the hospital or Devonshire Mall? I mean during the holidays the 1A goes into the Roundhouse Mall before navigating all the twists on turns to get to Devonshire Mall so that riders don’t have to cross the eight lanes of traffic to get to it. But we ask the poor…awh I mean Transit Windsor riders to walk a block further to get health care!