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Students pedalling to power a school screening at Melbourne Girls’ College
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Melbourne Girls' College — Pedal Powered Cinema

Australia, Melbourne · School programme

Active last verified 2026-09 annual event
Battery-buffered AC
not disclosedNot disclosed
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Websitehttps://sustainabilityfestival.au/event/pedal-powered-cinema-2/

Melbourne Girls' College runs an annual Pedal Powered Cinema in Richmond, Victoria, reaching its 14th edition on 28 February 2025. Guests pedal bicycles and rowing machines the school designed in-house — its "Be-SPOKE" generators — to charge the batteries that run the screening.

Key facts

  • Edition

    14th annual, 28 February 20251

    Documented

  • Equipment

    In-house 'Be-SPOKE' pedal and rowing-machine generators1

    Documented

  • Architecture

    Generators charge batteries that power the screening1

    Documented

  • Venue

    Yarra riverbank, Richmond, Victoria1

    Documented

“MGC is hosting its 14th annual event where guests are invited to literally power a film. Be-SPOKE designed pedal and rowing machine generators will allow film watchers to add their own human energy to the batteries.”

Melbourne Sustainability Festival, event listing for MGC's Pedal Powered Cinema, 28 February 20251

The school's sustainability program, coordinated by Andrew Vance, organizes the event and promotes it through the Melbourne Sustainability Festival; no commercial pedal-cinema provider is involved 1. The year of the first edition is not recorded 1. As of the 2026 status sweep the school continues to run it annually.

Specifications

What do these labels mean?

FieldValueConfidenceSources
Edition14th annualDocumented1
Generator typeIn-house 'Be-SPOKE' pedal and rowing-machine generatorsDesigned and built by the school; no external commercial provider identified.Documented1
BufferBatteriesChemistry, capacity and any inverter are not disclosed.Documented1
Rider output / system wattagenot disclosedNot disclosed1
Line diagram of the school's pedal and rowing generators charging batteries that run the screening
Pedal and rowing-machine generators → batteries → screening1 Image: BicycleCinema.org, drawn from the research corpus
Map of Victoria, Australia, marking Melbourne with an annual-event badge for the school cinema
Melbourne1 Image: BicycleCinema.org, drawn from the research corpus

Sources

  1. [1]Melbourne Sustainability Festival — MGC Pedal Powered Cinema, 28/02/2025sustainabilityfestival.au

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