The 2022 Cycle Arts Festival is coming to Renfrewshire.
It will take place from August 1 to 7 on the traffic-free cycle path that runs between Paisley and Lochwinnoch.
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It’s a week-long calendar of events geared towards encouraging everyone to visit this unique cycle path with arts exhibitions, live events and cycling activities.
The festival will take place along seven miles of the National Cycle Route 7, a cycle path that is designed for both walkers and cyclists.
Rikki Payne, Arts Manager at OneRen, the local charitable trust providing cultural, leisure and sporting opportunities to help people enjoy active and healthy lives, says: "At this festival we have a stunning array of community developed projects that really highlight the talented artists and creative communities we have in Renfrewshire, the Cycle Arts Festival has an outdoors organic slant asking us to examine and celebrate our remarkable natural environments in Renfrewshire both urban and rural”
Katie Rowland, Art and Diversity Coordinator for Sustrans Scotland says it will shine a light on local talent.
“Sustrans is delighted to support this brilliant festival which showcases the creativity and talent of people who live in Renfrewshire. It’s very much a community event and we hope people who live both locally and further afield will come along, see for themselves and make use of this brilliant, traffic-free section of National Cycle Network Route seven in the process," she explained.
Place Partnership at OneRen in collaboration with local arts and community partners, Sustrans and Cycling UK have developed the event.
It is a series of outdoor arts and environmental engagements that link to local places and communities to celebrate and recognise the value of our unique environments. The festival pushes boundaries of creativity in terms of what kind of activities can be delivered outside.
At Kilbarchan, local artist Phillipa Tomlin creates a permanent art installation created in collaboration with local residents. It combines uplifting poetry and a permanent mural, inspired by exploring our connection to nature, the pigeons and other birds that live along the cycle route.
The Cycle Arts Festival and the Cycle Arts Renfrewshire website are projects funded by Place Partnership based at OneRen, with Sustrans and Cycling UK. The Place Partnership project in Renfrewshire is funded by Creative Scotland and Renfrewshire Council through Future Paisley.
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