Thursday 26 August, 7.30pm til late
Slowdown Boys confirmed for Ride Leicester Festival Party at Phoenix Square Cafe. All Welcome! Bike Park provided. Arrive by bike - FREE with a smile
Jour de Fete
Friday 27 August
Tati's debut feature brings his anarchic cycling postman to life in rural France beating errant car drivers and adrenalin-fix cycle race junkies with slapstick genius. Cert U, Jacques Tati, France, 1949, 1hr 20mins, subtitled & wonderful
Matt Welton
Sunday 29 August Award-winning poet Matt Welton (Guardian Book of the Year 2003) will launch Ride Leicester's '100 Words for Bicycle' Blog with an introduction to Alan Sillitoe's 'Saturday Night Sunday Morning'
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
Sunday 29 August, 12pm A Bike Film Festival tribute to the late great Alan Sillitoe (1928 - 2010). Albert Finney's debut performance as a womanising Raleigh Factory Worker looking for social freedom in a pint glass and the arms of several good women. Based on Sillitoe's own experience living & working at the Nottingham bicycle factory. Cert PG, Karel Reisz, UK, 1960, 1hr 29mins
