The Cafe needs a new place to live! We are moving out of 22 Jesus Lane on 25th August.
Contact us to get involved with future plans.
The Café Project [was] a non-profit, volunteer-run café, bookswapping library, art gallery, cinema, discussion and performance space all packed into a cosy venue in the heart of Cambridge on 22 Jesus Lane open weekday evenings, but sometimes also hosting events during the day and on weekends. Our café is eclectic, improvised, open to everyone - students and non-students - with very cheap prices (tea and cake 50p each)! It has always and will continue to rely on volunteers!
After more than three years, with great sadness the cafe project is leaving 22 Jesus Lane, as Jesus College will be using the premises to build student accommodation.
We plan to move out on Thursday 25th August.
This means:
1) The cafe won't be available to use after this date, so start looking for alternative premises for any regular events (sorry that this is short notice, we only recently found out from the college ourselves).
2) We are having a moving-out extravaganza on the 25th August, so please come and help out, we will be there most of the day from 11am onwards. Also, if there are things in the cafe belonging to you or your group please either take them away before this date, or let us know what they are and we will make sure they avoid the bin! There will be rewards for those who come on the day of perishable items such as free boxes of tea! Let us know if you can come!
3) The cafe project will be looking for new premises in the autumn, if you have any ideas that we can follow up, or you would like to be involved in finding a new place, please let us know. We feel that this is an opportunity to reinvigorate the cafe project, so we also want to hear ideas for new directions or emphases, or things that could be done better, so that the cafe project #2 is bigger and better and more exciting! We will be keeping hold of many things such as projector, hifi, crockery etc as well as remaining funds to take to the next place.
For all of these things, please contact us at soc-cafe-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk (this is better than sending to any other email addresses you may have for us, and we will definitely respond!)
Thank you for everyone who has been involved and used and supported the cafe at different points, and please forward this message to other people in your groups/networks who use the cafe.
The cafe is hoping to put on more musical events/gigs, mainly acoustic but a variety of styles. If you'd like to play, or know someone who would, get in touch with hugh who will be co-ordinating them: hs454[at]cam.ac.uk
The Peoples Cinema, films for the people! RETURNS!
Come and enjoy a regular series of thought provoking documentaries, lesser known cinema and general oddities. We are fully liscensed to sell tea and cake to the audience :)
Cafe open from 7:30pm, films begin at 8pm, stay around for discussion afterwards.
THIS WEEK - 'SUPER SIZE ME'
While examining the influence of the fast food industry, Morgan Spurlock personally explores the consequences on his health of a diet of solely McDonald's food for one month.
This fortnight's People's Cafe is the turn of Strawberry Fair - get involved!
This important Cambridge cultural event is back on next year!.. after being forced to take a year off we're now in a position to go ahead with the planned 'Shake-Up' - reorganising/shaping/new areas/more local involvement/less nonsense/more fun!
And we're now looking for even more new recruits and local groups to make SF 2011 the fair of the decade.. as it just begins!
So if you've had an unexpressed urge to get involved before then now's the time to express yourselves! ..and if you haven't then get the urge (;DX), with the new Village Green area, 'Off-grid' eco area, 'Hodgepodge/blaggers/cabaret stages and much more besides, these are exciting times for Strawberry Fair and Cambridge as a whole.
Strawberry Cafe is broadening it's night to include groups that compliment each in their wish to bring people together to address world issues at a community level - 'Think globally, act locally';
Zeitgeist Movement;
Imagine a world without war, poverty, misery or money. Imagine a world where all people work together in a spirit of cooperation and not competition. Imagine this safer saner world and you are closer to understanding what the Zeitgeist Movement is about.
Humanity's Team;
a global movement with the prime intention of awakening the world to Oneness.
The People's United Community;
in truth we find peace and in unity we can cause change.
Transition Cambridge;
responding to the challenges of "peak oil" and climate change. Changing now because we want to - not waiting until we have to.
Strawberry Fair;
in light of the recent cancellation of this years festival the cafe gives the community a chance to get involved with this free volunteer run community music, entertainments, arts and crafts fair and make sure that this important cultural event takes place next year.
(If you're part of a group that you feel also compliments the above groups then please let me know, ta)
Always check the website for our full timetable of events (including some during opening hours and others outside of these hours) here , or sign up to our mailing lists here.
We are open to all every week at these times:
Monday 7.30pm-11pm - with Amnesty International letter writing from 8pm
Tuesday 7.30pm-11pm - cafe open as usual
Wednesday 7.30pm-11pm - cafe open as usual, plus Creative Commoners from 8pm: an informal creativity jam. Come along with projects, use the Cafe's materials, skillshare and socialise or just get on with your own thing in a corner. All welcome, and if you'd like to run a workshop, that'd be brilliant too! Some Wednesdays there will be the Feminist Philosophy Reading Group- check the calendar to find out when.
Thursday 7.30pm-11pm - Open as a Cafe, hosted by Transition Towns fortnightly and Freedom Night fortnightly
Friday 7.30pm-11pm - Peoples Cinema from 8pm
We hope to extend our opening times again, if you have events you would like to put on, please get in touch!
This week, as well as lovely amnesty letter-writing, the cafe is having a bit of a get together for anyone new to come and find out more about the cafe in an informal setting, with lots of cake etc!! Come along to the meeting from 6.30pm or just swing by any time after 7.30pm to come and meet people! Bring an instrument and maybe we'll play some music!
Submitted by natalieszarek on Thu, 08/01/2009 - 12:41.
This is the launch of the Café Project website at cafeproject.org! Hopefully, this site will assist the running of the project in the times to come.
All this would not have been possible without the help of my friends Timwi and Roman, who are hosting our website on their server free of charge. Thanks so much! Timwi has also spent countless hours setting up the underlying software and writing lots of excellent, customised code for the Café Project. If you like the dynamic features of the website (in particular the volunteer time-slot/role system, or the café mailing list subscription system), please send him an email: <cafeproject[AT]timwi.de>.
