Beauty and the Bike

Street cred on a bike? For most Darlington teenagers, the bike is something to leave behind with your childhood. But in a lot of European towns and cities, the bike is a mark of cool, a fashion statement that also gives young people independence from their parents and public transport. DMG’s Beauty and the Bike is inviting teenage girls from Darlington to join their counterparts in a cycle-friendly city, Bremen in Germany, to explore their own ideas of street fashion – and whether the bike can play a part. Participants will feature in a television documentary and a major exhibition of portrait photography. A number of the group will be travelling to Bremen at Easter to meet their German co-participants.

Medienwerkstatt Schlachthof
Dokument@r

You can see the projects website at Beauty and the Bike and the new bike rental scheme at Velodarlo