The totally awesome cycling magazine and blog Urban Velo posted about Mama Agatha today! Make sure to check out the link to our teaser on Urban Velo here and follow their website for a great digest of cycling news.
Mobycon, the Delft-based independent traffic, transportation and mobility research and consulting company, published a feature on Mama Agatha in their June newsletter. Check it out!
The team of Mama Agatha would like to thank Annie van Cleve for conducting the interview with Fadi, and her colleague at Mobycon Angela van der Kloof, who has been a tireless supporter of Mama Agatha from the start. Mama Agatha would not be possible without Angela’s help and expertise – in fact, Angela is a pioneer of cycling courses for immigrant women, who started this work 20 years ago and also trained Mama Agatha herself.
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Here’s a brand new still from last week’s filming session. More and more women in the course are cycling in the parking lot and soon the first of them will head outside to the streets of Amsterdam!
Mama Agatha has been featured on Polish cycling portal aleszprycha.pl! For those of you with command of the Polish language, check out the nice article by Agnieszka Gruszczynska.
Mama Agatha’s summer course is in its 5th week. Her students – migrant women from India, Pakistan, China, Ghana, Suriname and elsewhere – can now cycle without anyone balancing them. Next week, they move from the gym onto the parking lot… Just a few more weeks before they hit the colorful streets of Southeast Amsterdam!
Aoife Glass, writer and editor at Total Women’s Cycling recently wrote a fantastic article called The Uplifting Story of Mama Agatha. A big thank you from the Mama Agatha team!
Head over to Total Women’s Cycling or follow them on Facebook for the best cycling-related features, tips and giveaways!
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The very first Mama Agatha teaser is here! Have a first exclusive peek into Mama Agatha’s cycling class with her and Sulan, a Chinese woman who is just taking her baby steps on the bike.
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Aaaand action! Mama Agatha just entered production a few minutes ago! We’re super excited to start filming together with a diverse and colorful group of women from all around the world determined to master the bicycle, and our talented crew – director Fadi Hindash, cinematographers Sanna Mensonides and Nina da Costa, and sound recordist Susanne Helmer. Stay tuned for some exclusive previews of the first footage.
This documentary is made with support from Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and Camalot.
We are very happy to unveil the new website for Mama Agatha! This website is the central resource for all things related to the short documentary, so keep checking back. We start filming in June 2014 and will be posting pictures and teasers regularly. You can add this site to your bookmarks (press Ctrl+D/⌘+D in your browser) or like Mama Agatha on Facebook:
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