cafe open 

Strawberry Fair is having a big shake-up this year, returning to its roots as a community festival.

As part of this there will be fortnightly Strawberry Fair nights at the Cafe Project for people to come and find out more, talk through ideas, and get involved with making Strawberry fair an amazing community event!

For more details, contact Pan: 

pete [at] teacher.com 

The Peoples Cinema, films for the people!

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 Weeks Film: The People Speak

(Ben or whoever is doing the screening will be volunteering too, if you want to help out, you're more than welcome! If it's your first time just let us know and we can come a bit early and show you the ropes)

C4 is open to anyone who enjoys drawing - from manga to children's comics to graphic novels to one-panel cartoons - and would like to just come and sit down with us to have coffee and draw and talk... There are people from loads of different backgrounds and with very different drawing styles. One person in the group is a freelance comic artist, but beginners are more than welcome! Generally every Saturday session is very flexible, people can drop in at any time and although we often have group projects and activities, there's no compulsion to take part in them. At the end of last year we also had a 24-hour comic event: 5 of us stayed up 24 hours to draw a whole 24-page comic. We'll certainly be doing that again this year.

For more info contact Clémentine <cmb88@cam.ac.uk>

 cafe open

Mop the floor!

To be done any time on Sunday before 2pm (to leave enough time for the floor to dry before the  first shift at 3pm)

Enjoy making the Cafe extra-specially clean!

:)

 Cafe Open for a long, chilled out Sunday afternoon.

 The Cambridge branch of the DF movement (http://www.spanthatworld.com) is putting on a jam session for all. Bring guitars, songbooks and plenty of breath for a good old singsong. 

 The Cambridge Social Inclusion Team will be putting the cafe to good use on Monday daytimes as a private meeting space for appointments etc.

A meeting to discuss all things Cafe related and make decisions about said things. We are certain to discuss things such as baking, filling volunteer shifts, opening times, upcoming events & banking along with whatever else people think needs discussing.

Meetings run by consensus, generally with a big pot of tea, and should be incredibly inclusive and friendly...

If you have any agenda items for the meeting (whether you're coming or not), or are excluded by the day/time and would like to let us know when would better for you, please send a message to soc-cafe-discuss XXX lists.cam.ac.uk (where XXX stands for @ ) .

Peace & Love,

The Cafe

Lovely tea, cake, amnesty letters

 A specifically vegan baking session for the cafe, meet in the cafe at 1.30pm, bring any recipes or outlandish/specialised ingredients with receipts and you can be reimbursed, but check our baking page for details of the ingredients we already have in the cafe (sugar, flour etc). Otherwise just bring yourself - no experience required!

We'll meet up, and walk or cycle to the kitchen. We will be baking in a kitchen in a squatted building (which, by the way is very friendly, safe, exciting and legal!) The kitchen is also not very well-equipped, so if you have any useful utensils/big mixing bowls, please bring them along.

We're planning to make vegan pizza as well (just to eat ourselves!), so bring any toppings along (again, vegan please), we'll have the basics.

If you can't meet at 1.30pm and want to come along later for a bit, or have any questions, contact ali <alasdair.mussell[at]yahoo.co.uk> or 07849434636.

Please sign up for the shifts or let me know so that I know who to expect. x

CAN women get together for gender chat before the meeting!

mmm...tea.....

Film showing by UNIFEM Cambridge

UNIFEM is the Fund for Women Agency at the United Nations. It works to raise awareness and funding to promote social, economic and political empowerment and equality of women in developing countries, as well as domestic violence and forced prostitution in developed countries. UNIFEM Cambridge has organised its January – June campaign around the food crisis and the role that women play within it. This cycle of films link food to women in a light-hearted but deep way.

“Eat, Drink, Man, Woman” by Ang Lee is the story of an old Hong Kong chef who lives with his three unmarried daughters, Jia-Jen, a chemistry teacher converted to Christianity, Jia-Chien, an airline executive, and Jia-Ning, a student who also works in a fast food restaurant. Their life turns around the ritual of food and the preparation of an elaborate dinner each Sunday; however, unexpected events happen and start changing the life of one of the daughters, affecting the whole household.

meeting

 Transition Cambridge Fortnightly Committee meeting pre-Transition Cafe

Cafe with Transition Cambridge!

Come and find out about Transition and meet the Transition crowd!

http://www.transitioncambridge.org/

The Peoples Cinema, films for the people!

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 we'll be watching The Corporation, to mark the end of Fairtrade Fortnight. The Corporation does what it says on the tin, enlightening us to the history of corporate law and the rise of the multinational to dominate the world today. It's a long film, but a really great watch, so bring snacks!

(Ben or whoever is doing the screening will be volunteering too, if you want to help out, you're more than welcome! If it's your first time just let us know and we can come a bit early and show you the ropes)

C4 is open to anyone who enjoys drawing - from manga to children's comics to graphic novels to one-panel cartoons - and would like to just come and sit down with us to have coffee and draw and talk... There are people from loads of different backgrounds and with very different drawing styles. One person in the group is a freelance comic artist, but beginners are more than welcome! Generally every Saturday session is very flexible, people can drop in at any time and although we often have group projects and activities, there's no compulsion to take part in them. At the end of last year we also had a 24-hour comic event: 5 of us stayed up 24 hours to draw a whole 24-page comic. We'll certainly be doing that again this year.

For more info contact Clémentine <cmb88@cam.ac.uk>

 cafe open

Mop the floor!

To be done any time on Sunday before 2pm (to leave enough time for the floor to dry before the  first shift at 3pm)

Enjoy making the Cafe extra-specially clean!

:)

 Cafe Open for a long, chilled out Sunday afternoon.

 The Cambridge Social Inclusion Team will be putting the cafe to good use on Monday daytimes as a private meeting space for appointments etc.

Lovely tea, cake, amnesty letters

Fundraising evening for Haiti, with talks and films from 7.30pm, food and then the third Acoustic Vibes open mic night, from 9 (any money from which will be going to Haiti type causes). Be there or be somewhere else! (but you should be there)

Meetings to organise Christ's College Charity Events

The Marxist Discussion Group are showing the film 'Bread and Roses' by Ken Loach, film starting at 7.30pm.

Art workshop exploring storytelling about the everyday through pictures. Contact Miriam (miriam.schoneberg@anglia.ac.uk).

Strawberry Fair is having a big shake-up this year, returning to its roots as a community festival.

As part of this there will be fortnightly Strawberry Fair nights at the Cafe Project for people to come and find out more, talk through ideas, and get involved with making Strawberry fair an amazing community event!

For more details, contact Pan: 

pete [at] teacher.com 

TED Chat is an opportunity for thought provoking discussion on a wide range of topics. It is open to all and no prior knowledge is required.

The format is that we'll watch one of the TED Talks, and then there will be an opportunity for group discussion. Usually we'll cover 2-3 talks in an evening. Some weeks they may all be on a particular theme, such as sustainable development.

This Week :

The theme for this week is 'Appropriate Technology', I have chosen two talks on this theme :

Amy Smith talks about how she used students at MIT to to develop alternative fuels to reduce deforestation and respiratory diseases caused by the use of wood biomass for cooking.

Cat Laine talks about how she combines the ideas behind international development and venture capital to help foster local businesses that meet the needs of local populations.

If you have a TED talk you'd particularly like discussed please contact me : alex [at] alexrice.co.uk

The Peoples Cinema, films for the people!

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 weeks Film: To See if I'm Smiling

A documentary exploring the expreiences of six Israeli women during their time in the Israeli army. The army in Israeli is one of the only in the world to have conscription for men and women, this documentary explores both the different experiences met by women in a still male dominated combat situation, and the broader experience of conscription and the occupation.

(Ben or whoever is doing the screening will be volunteering too, if you want to help out, you're more than welcome! If it's your first time just let us know and we can come a bit early and show you the ropes)

C4 is open to anyone who enjoys drawing - from manga to children's comics to graphic novels to one-panel cartoons - and would like to just come and sit down with us to have coffee and draw and talk... There are people from loads of different backgrounds and with very different drawing styles. One person in the group is a freelance comic artist, but beginners are more than welcome! Generally every Saturday session is very flexible, people can drop in at any time and although we often have group projects and activities, there's no compulsion to take part in them. At the end of last year we also had a 24-hour comic event: 5 of us stayed up 24 hours to draw a whole 24-page comic. We'll certainly be doing that again this year.

For more info contact Clémentine <cmb88@cam.ac.uk>

 cafe open

Mop the floor!

To be done any time on Sunday before 2pm (to leave enough time for the floor to dry before the  first shift at 3pm)

Enjoy making the Cafe extra-specially clean!

:)

 Cafe Open for a long, chilled out Sunday afternoon.

 The Cambridge Social Inclusion Team will be putting the cafe to good use on Monday daytimes as a private meeting space for appointments etc.

 Weekly meditation class, please don't arrive after 5.35pm as we're already getting into the meditation then. For more info contact: patbai77@hotmail.com

A meeting to discuss all things Cafe related and make decisions about said things. We are certain to discuss things such as baking, filling volunteer shifts, opening times, upcoming events & banking along with whatever else people think needs discussing.

Meetings run by consensus, generally with a big pot of tea, and should be incredibly inclusive and friendly...

If you have any agenda items for the meeting (whether you're coming or not), or are excluded by the day/time and would like to let us know when would better for you, please send a message to soc-cafe-discuss XXX lists.cam.ac.uk (where XXX stands for @ ) .

Peace & Love,

The Cafe

Lovely tea, cake, amnesty letters

 CAN men-only break-out stuff.

Film showing by UNIFEM Cambridge

UNIFEM is the Fund for Women Agency at the United Nations. It works to raise awareness and funding to promote social, economic and political empowerment and equality of women in developing countries, as well as domestic violence and forced prostitution in developed countries. UNIFEM Cambridge has organised its January – June campaign around the food crisis and the role that women play within it. This cycle of films link food to women in a light-hearted but deep way.

This is the second film (see also the 3rd March):

Mr Slimani, an old man of Algerian origins who has been working for all his life at a port, dreams of opening a restaurant. He is divorced and with a difficult relationship with the “women” of his family. However, thanks to his dream, the entire family re-compacts to the point that perhaps that dream is not just a dream.

Meetings to organise Christ's College Charity Events

 Cafe Open, lots of tea and cakes and books and fun people!

 Transition Cambridge Fortnightly Committee meeting pre-Transition Cafe

Cafe with Transition Cambridge!

Come and find out about Transition and meet the Transition crowd!

http://www.transitioncambridge.org/

Shell, BP, etc are extracting oil from tar sands, not only destroying the local environment and contributing masses of greenhouse gas emissions, but also driving indigenous people off their land. Sounds awful? Well, yeah. Come and find out what we can do in Cambridge to stop it happening.

The Peoples Cinema, films for the people!

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.

(Ben or whoever is doing the screening will be volunteering too, if you want to help out, you're more than welcome! If it's your first time just let us know and we can come a bit early and show you the ropes)

C4 is open to anyone who enjoys drawing - from manga to children's comics to graphic novels to one-panel cartoons - and would like to just come and sit down with us to have coffee and draw and talk... There are people from loads of different backgrounds and with very different drawing styles. One person in the group is a freelance comic artist, but beginners are more than welcome! Generally every Saturday session is very flexible, people can drop in at any time and although we often have group projects and activities, there's no compulsion to take part in them. At the end of last year we also had a 24-hour comic event: 5 of us stayed up 24 hours to draw a whole 24-page comic. We'll certainly be doing that again this year.

For more info contact Clémentine <cmb88@cam.ac.uk>

 cafe open

Mop the floor!

To be done any time on Sunday before 2pm (to leave enough time for the floor to dry before the  first shift at 3pm)

Enjoy making the Cafe extra-specially clean!

:)

 Cafe Open for a long, chilled out Sunday afternoon.

 The Cambridge Social Inclusion Team will be putting the cafe to good use on Monday daytimes as a private meeting space for appointments etc.

 Weekly meditation class, please don't arrive after 5.20pm as we're already getting into the meditation then. For more info contact: patbai77@hotmail.com

Lovely tea, cake, amnesty letters

mmm...tea.....

 cafe open 

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)

For more details, contact Pan: 

pan [at] teacher.com 

TED Chat is an opportunity for thought provoking discussion on a wide range of topics. It is open to all and no prior knowledge is required.

The format is that we'll watch one of the TED Talks, and then there will be an opportunity for group discussion. Usually we'll cover 2-3 talks in an evening. Some weeks they may all be on a particular theme, such as sustainable development.

This Week :

The theme for this week is 'Appropriate Technology', I have chosen two talks on this theme :

Amy Smith talks about how she used students at MIT to to develop alternative fuels to reduce deforestation and respiratory diseases caused by the use of wood biomass for cooking.

Cat Laine talks about how she combines the ideas behind international development and venture capital to help foster local businesses that meet the needs of local populations.

If you have a TED talk you'd particularly like discussed please contact me : alex [at] alexrice.co.uk

The Peoples Cinema, films for the people!

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.

(Ben or whoever is doing the screening will be volunteering too, if you want to help out, you're more than welcome! If it's your first time just let us know and we can come a bit early and show you the ropes)