Bite the Biscuit Neighbourhood Market starts again this Sunday!

Bite the Biscuit Neighbourhood Market is a market, a community art project, a cultural event and an experiment.

It takes place at the former St. Matthew’s Church on Boulevard and Anlaby Rd., by the flyover. This landmark building has recently been acquired by Giroscope, an organization working locally in the Boulevard area. Giroscope’s plan is to give the building a new use that will be beneficial for the local community, at the same time respecting its historical importance to the people of the neighbourhood.

The market is making its second appearance, holding four sessions during the first two weeks of May.

The dates will be Sunday 5^th of May, Thursday 9^th of May, Sunday 12^th of May, Thursday 16^th of May.

Bite the Biscuit Neighbourhood Market will present a market with local products and services, a warm welcoming space for families with small children, a local post office for sending letters around the neighbourhood, a little library (in collaboration with Western Library) and a live radio show. Each Thursday, the market will share the former church with a weekly Repair Cafe.

Repair Cafe

The Repair Cafe is a weekly event where people get together to repair broken stuff, sharing skills and learning from each other. If you have something broken and you’d like to repair it, it’s an enjoyable place where you could try and do so, with others, over a cuppa. Different sessions focusing on different types of repair take place throughout the day:

10-12.30 Bikes

11-1.30 Sewing & Textiles

10-12.30 Furniture & Small Appliances

1-3.30 Electronics & Computers

We can’t promise that we can help fix everything but we’ll help you have a go

Bite the Biscuit Neighbourhood Market is still at a pilot stage, with the intention of continuing the market as an on-going feature of the new space. It is an initiative of Boulevard area neighbours in collaboration with Giroscope and local artists. This experiment continues the work done as part of Bite the Biscuit Boulevard Radio, a weekly ‘radio/teahouse’ the aim of which is to bring neighbours together in relaxed conversation.

Bite the Biscuit Boulevard Radio:

The radio used to broadcast live on the Internet every week from the Boulevard Village Hall, when it still existed. Now it appears in different spaces such as the Western Library, Child Dynamix nursery, the Boulevard Corner Café, the Giroscope offices and the Giroscape garden. Bite the Biscuit is a radio/teahouse meaning that its just about having a cuppa and a snack as it is about broadcasting music and interviews live. The shows are highly improvised. Everyone is invited to come and hang out, talk on the radio and requests songs. We are always happy to have people come, tell us about things they are doing and thinking, play music, read poetry, make comments (even controversial ones;—). The radio aims to be a tool for local economies and local self-organization. Its aim is to bring people together in relaxed conversation. It is currently looking for people to get involved and form part of our team, help us decide on content for the shows, interviewees, sections and music, and learn about the simple techniques we use to stream audio live on the Internet.

Bite the Biscuit Neighbourhood Market dates:

Sunday 5^th of May

Thursday 9^th of May

Sunday 12^th of May

Thursday 16^th of May

from 11am to 4pm

at the former St. Matthew’s Church on Boulevard by the fly-over

For more info: Tel: 07732295838 |email bitethebiscuit@giroscope.org.uk

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