Bertie's Story
I am cycling to raise funds for the Bridges for Music Academy, a pioneering creative school in the township of Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), and to sponsor the education of many young underserved creatives. The Academy is a 1000 sqm modern facility with world-class recording studios, computer rooms, DJ rooms and a pioneering program combining music, entrepreneurship and mindfulness.I recently visited the Bridges for Music Academy and was astounded at the sheer magnificence of the multipurpose music faclity. I would like to record a few tracks there with my Tripolize Triplet Trio and the full backing band. I humbly ask for your contribution to this noble couse and to empty your pockets in the much needed direction of youth development and talented musicians and musicicologists in the making. Thank you so much for your support!I started riding at 6 years of age on a BSA Bike in the lane behind my house in Bakoven. The experience of freewheeling down the lane is embedded in the recesses of my mind and as Einstein once said, "It's like riding a Bicycle!". Well now that I know how to ride, what better way to experience the island than to cycle or sail around the land or sea, as a non-motorised proponent of walk, cycle, row, sail and surf, I'm totally stoked at the prospect of the 100km challenge on the Spanish Island of Ibiza, This before I head of from Cape Town in July to sail to Tanzania to the Tsongo Tsongo islands, compitent crew with time on their hands are most welcome!I devoted 12 years of my life to the founding and furthering of the Bicycling Empowerment Network that imported >25,000 second hand bicycles from NL, UK and the rest of Europe, participating in a Bicycle Partnership Programme funded by the Dutch Foreign Ministry of Culture. I traveled to Brazil and Colombia and to Utrecht a number of times to international bicycle partnership conferences, the hightlight was the ertswhile Mayor of Bogota, Mr Enrique Penolosa's 50th Birthday Celebrations at a 400 seater restaurant called "Carne"!
