Bikeathon Ontario, Canada was the answer to a challenge launched at the Civil Society Conference in Țara Făgărașului, when Gabriela Covaci presented the documentary about Romania, made by Amazon Prime, in which the part about cultural identity and Romanian traditions was filmed at the Museum of Canvases and Stories in Mândra, with which it has had a great collaboration for many years.
Gabriela is the founder of Arts4People Movement Canada, an NGO that promotes and supports cultural identity, home away from home, but also projects of heritage communities in Romania.
Bikeathon is a new opportunity to involve the diaspora in education and community development projects in Romania. It is a natural continuation of supporting the projects for children, run by the Museum of Canvases and Stories.
It is the way a community from overseas and countries embraces another community at home and walk through life, shoulder to shoulder... A portion of this journey, together, will be, here, on a bicycle.
If you don't get to pedal (we know, Canada is big:) you can support us with a donation: with 10 dollars we can buy 2 good books for children, or 10 tiles or 10 bricks, handmade, for the Cultural Barn, which will host the activities of alternative education, intended, for free, for the community!
