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Gamelan Bike Bike | All Ages Workshop
Sat, Apr 18
|Yellowhouse Art Centre
“Gamelan Bike Bike has proved to be a fertile environment for cross-cultural artistic innovation, presenting Indonesian music from a uniquely Vancouver perspective” (Jakarta Post)
Time & Location
Apr 18, 2026, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Yellowhouse Art Centre, 2517 Sturdies Bay Rd, Galiano Island, BC V0N 1P0, Canada
About the event
Saturday April 18 2026
11am - 1pm
All Ages
*Under 7 with a caregiver
$15 / PWYC
Gamelan Bike Bike draws its musical inspiration from Bali, Indonesia and its raw materials from the scrap metal bins of Vancouver. Founded as a community-based project, the ensemble brings together a diverse group of artists to materialize and animate new experimental instruments. They transformed over 100 discarded bicycle frames, along with other scrap metals, into a range of tuned metallophones and gongs that form the foundation of their sound. The ensemble is dedicated to performing new music for gamelan, including compositions from guest composers I Putu Gede Sukaryana (Balot) and I Putu Swaryandana Ichi Oka from Bali. The ensemble has presented performances with the Western Front, Vancouver New Music, Vancouver Folk Music Festival, and in 2024 released Teka-Teki, an album of original works with the Indonesia-based label Insitu Recordings. Gamelan Bike Bike is…
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Workshop
April 18 11am -1pm All ages *Under 7 with a caregiver
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