<p>Events happening at the Café.</p>
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)
The Marxist Discussion Group are showing the film 'Bread and Roses' by Ken Loach, film starting at 7.30pm.
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:
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.
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)
cafe open
Cafe Open for a long, chilled out Sunday afternoon.
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
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.
Cafe Open, lots of tea and cakes and books and fun people!
Cafe with Transition Cambridge!
Come and find out about Transition and meet the Transition crowd!
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's film is Sa Vidya Ya Vimuktaye: Knowledge is that which Liberates about an Indian school at the forefront of an organic educational revolution. The film-maker will be talking about the film afterwards!
Cambridge - Join American filmmaker Chad Robertson for a glimpse deep into the mountain peaks of the Indian Himalayas, where meditation and a revolutionary style of education are changing a school and a community.
Sa Vidya Ya Vimuktaye: Knowledge is that which Liberates explores the world of Ashram Paryavaran Vidyalaya (APV), a school and ashram at the forefront of an organic educational revolution. For the past seven years, APV has experimented with progressive and constructivist pedagogical approaches to provide rural children with a superior holistic education far outside the Indian norm. With APV’s Link Syllabus, teachers strive to link core learning concepts to the individual child’s interest, local reality, and multiple intelligences. Demonstrative teaching techniques are used in the classroom and students are encouraged to show their comprehension by teaching their peers. APV has fully integrated meditation with teachers and students practicing mindfulness several times throughout the day.
There is a trailer here http://www.apvschool.org/screening/.
cafe open
Cafe Open for a long, chilled out Sunday afternoon.
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 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:
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.
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)
cafe open
Cafe Open for a long, chilled out Sunday afternoon.
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