Thanks to all of you for coming on down to the Café and Workshop during our 4 month stay at The Hidden Kiosks. Our time is over at this fantastic pop-up shop location. Don’t forget to follow us on twitter to find out where we end up in the future. We will be offering more and more in our new premises and look forward to seeing you all there.

Thanks go out to:

The Creative Coop – for their support and loan of the kiosks.

15 Queen Street – for ongoing support.

Mike Polom – for his continuing support with our social media and website creation.

Cool Publicity – for keeping Colchester in the loop.

Colchester Circle – for their continuing help with marketing.

Kayleigh Jowers – for helping the guru fulfil the dream.

David Howe – for being dave and for his expert help in building the café.

Jonny Buffalo – for giving his time to help get the guru get off the ground.

Charlotte Lawford – Mrs. Guru – for her patience and supporting the guru through difficult times.

All of the live acts – who played tremendously every Wednesday night, even when their fingers were getting frost bitten, they played on through.

A big thank you to the Hidden Kiosks project for our 3 month stay. It has helped get The Bike Guru brand up on its feet and out there to the Colchester public.

Wednesday the 28^th of December will be the last night that the Kiosks will be open until we find a new premises.

We will have live acoustic acts performing from 7 pm following the arrival of the bike ride cyclists who are Promoting the new Crouch Street cycle route that is due to open in the near future.

We even made friends with the fantastic group mentored by Chris (AKA Monkey) who breakdance outside the kiosks on Fridays at 5pm.

Come and join us to bid farewell to the Kiosks as The Bike Guru Café/workshop. We have enjoyed ourselves immensely and met some great friends along the way, we’ll see you all at the next chapter!!

Chapeau!

It’s Friday, so I thought I’d pop to the neighbours to borrow some sugar. And as a true nosey neighbour would, walk on in and have a look around.

I heard a funny story the other day of a woman walking through firstsite, climbing her way through as she suffered from vertigo. With the floor styling and wall combo, it does look somewhat odd as you pear through.

It feels claustrophobic as you walk looking for pennies, but as you raise up, there’s a certain openness to the design of the building. As I sit in the window, watching over the tops of the houses in New Town, there is a certain peace attached. With the phenomena of all the winter sunshine baking through the window, it feels euphoric.

One thing that baffles me is, (this may sound prejudice) but the walls of hoarding make the place feel as if it’s separating itself from the actual people. So it’s free entry in here, but the walls of metal are a huge deterrent and even from afar make the place look closed / uninviting.

The space in here is lovely. It does have a relaxed feel so you can go and find out more as to the goings on in here, or just find a pew and relax / reflect in peace and quiet.

If you haven’t had a proper look around, you should. It’s free so you’d be a fool to miss the chance. The current pieces in the University space are amazing. Mexicano Lithographs that tickle me every time I see them.

They are even representing the bike culture with a couple of bronzed HERO bicycles. These are traditionally very cheaply made in factories across India and shipped out to the poor countries and sold at extortionate prices to the locals. They do however reflect this irony in their casting. Lovely job.

Chapeau

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