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Students pedalling to power a school screening at Melbourne Girls’ College
Photo: Melbourne Girls' College (bespokegear.co.uk) — via bespokegear.co.uk

Australia and New Zealand

New Zealand's entry is a historical installation: Gap Filler's cycle-powered cinema, built as post-earthquake placemaking in Christchurch in February 2012. Australia's two entries are annual school and community events, in Melbourne and Hobart, run without a commercial pedal-cinema supplier.

Documented here

The three entries differ in recurrence. Gap Filler's cinema was installed on 9 February 2012 in earthquake-damaged Christchurch, with custom stands and LED feedback for up to a dozen riders, and a related installation followed in Auckland in 2015; no organization carried it into an ongoing programme, so it is listed as historical rather than active 1. Melbourne Girls' College reached the fourteenth annual edition of its Pedal Powered Cinema on 28 February 2025 2, and AAEE Tasmania's Hobart event ran most recently on 22 August 2026 3.

Both events in Australia buffer with batteries and neither uses a commercial supplier: Melbourne Girls' College charges batteries from its own "Be-SPOKE" pedal and rowing-machine generators 2, while the Hobart system is documented only as bikes, batteries and inverters 3.

Elsewhere in the world

Sources

  1. [1]Gap Filler / Architectural Record / Trigger Marketingen.wikipedia.org
  2. [2]Melbourne Sustainability Festival — MGC Pedal Powered Cinema, 28/02/2025sustainabilityfestival.au
  3. [3]National Science Week / Inspiring Tasmania — Pedal Powered Cinema, 22/08/2026www.scienceweek.net.au

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