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Fracking Shambles at Hagglers!

An anti-fracking fundraiser to help us print a huge banner for the wall at Hagglers Corner to get more people aware and involved in stopping this toxic industry!

TICKETS HERE: http://bit.ly/2naZmBi

Come and dance, listen, talk, shake, rattle and roll,.. show your support for a frack free planet!

Extra funds will go to court costs of protectors fighting fracking on the front lines in the UK.

We have wood fired pizza from the Sunshine Pizza Oven, live music from The 20ft Squid Blues Band, Bell Hagg Orkestar and more TBC, DJs DisOrientalist, Chiv, Moonmonkey, bringing global beats and funk and more, and some brilliant inspirational speakers coming to share their learnings…

Please keep checking in for updates, and share, and invite your friends and even strangers… let’s unite to fight fracking!

Vegan Valentine’s Fest

Vega Mama presents the Vegan Valentine Night Fest (on 16th, not 14th Feb!)

Note new venue: The Yard, 891/2 Worship Street, Shoreditch, London EC2A 2BF

Over 80 vegan traders selling everything from vegan food, drinks, cakes, chocolates, wines, clothes, shoes, cosmetics and lots more! We will have a number of charities attending so we can all support the great causes for our planet!

Vega Mama’s monthly events is about bringing the vegan community together and everyone else in one place and creating a vegan world for one night with fun and vegan love! Families, children all welcome!

There will be live entertainment throughout the night  with speakers, DJs & cookery demos, plus live music from Sam Garrett and Antarma.

This is a phenomenal venue with a huge capacity.

We will be having a Vegan Speed Dating Night in a separate room for our Vegan Singles, Vegan Lesbians, Vegan Gays.

Vegan Speed Dating includes entry to the Vegan Fest plus, vegan canapés + vegan drink £20.00 – Please note: Tickets for Speed dating cannot be purchased at the door.

The Speed Dating event duration is 1 1/2 hours and the speed dates last for 3 minutes. To find out if a speed dater has matched a fun game will be played. The participants can then go on to enjoy the Valentine Night Fest and hopefully with their new friends or matches.

This is a fun event and no one needs to feel down cast if they didn’t match as you may end up just finding a best friend for life instead of a partner. It’s about having fun and enjoying the moment. Its all Vegan Love either way!

Adult Early Bird Advanced £5.00 (until 28th Jan)

Adult at the door £10.00

Children Free

Vegan Speed Dating includes entry to Vegan Fest plus, vegan canapés + vegan drink £20.00 from Eventbrite. Tickets for Speed dating cannot be purchased at the door.

PARTNERSHIPS
If you’re interested in any of the following:

↘ Sponsorship
↘ Drinks or food supplier/trader
↘ Music or Entertainment
↘ Charity partnership

Email: info@vegamama.co.uk

 

Birthday Discoux @Cowley celebrating 15th anniversary

OMG OMG OMG OMG…. TIME FLIES…

Yes…it’s has been 15 years…
15 years sice Cowley Club first opened its door to th ecommunity….

So many years of so many wild parties, amazing gigs, inspiring talks,meetings and screenings, so many cakes eaten, so many cakes dropped….

So many great and commited volunteers …so many important local compaigns that made these 15 years so special…

It’s time to celebrate…its time to get together…it’s time to dance our revolution…

A very special party is to be had…all volunteers, members and guests more than welcome to join us… for a birthday tea or a pint or a crazy dance off.

What with SlutDisko in semi-retirement after years of inspiring, hot dance-floor parties,
we will try and pay homage and re-capture a little of those legendary Saturday night atmospheres once again.

that very special Saturday 27th January 2018

… Birthday Discoux …. the community&DIYethos in action + wild dancing

v / 7pm-2am / Donations.

Irresistible Music. Unpredictable Themes. Joyful Coordination: Cowley Club Spirit.

THE Usual and unusual DJs

‘No Bias Disko Heat In Every Direction’

Vegan venue since 2003. Run entirely by volunteers.

Safer Spaces policy in place. We want this place to be open and welcoming , and encourage atmosphere of mutual respect and exclusivity therefore Racism *Sexism *Homophobia *Transphobia won’t be tolerated.

Its your club too so please be kind to other members and the volunteers.

Safer Spaces Policy

The following behaviours will not be tolerated in the Club: *Sexual assault, sexual harassment and unwanted touching *Physical violence (except in self defence) *Verbal harassment and threats

If you experience or witness behaviours that you feel contravene the Safer Spaces Policy, tell a volunteer on shift or someone you can trust, or if you feel able to, approach the person directly to talk about their behaviour. It is reasonable to ask people to leave the Cowley Club premises in certain circumstances – and the power to make this decision rests with the volunteers on shift.

Cowley Club’s 15th birthday! A night of DIY, lo-fi folk punk

It was 15 years ago the Cowley Club first opened its doors. Set up by a group of local activists, it followed a series of squatted cafes along London Road that operated under the name of the Anarchist Teapot.

15 years is an amazing length of time for a members’ club so we’re celebrating the landmark with a night of lo-fi folk punk. On the bill are:

POG
A blistering mix of orchestral flourishes and folk punk roots. The first time we played at the Cowley Club was in 2002, about 3 months after it opened so it’s lovely to be taking part in this event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSvEyYuTqdY

JIMMY AND THE WORN OUT SHOES
Egg and chips pound shop pop that will make your mouth smile and your heart do little skips and hops. Comes somewhere between Jonathan Richman, the TV Personalities and of course the Blue Minkies, who half of the band used to be in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW_2rLjxVcI

CHUCK SJ HAY
Folk punk that is inventive, unique, brutally honest and utterly brilliant. Every time we see Chuck they manage the impossible by being even more splendid than the time before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lbCFdZISu0

SUBURBAN DEATH TWITCH
Melodic and acerbic cello and piano-led indie pop that recalls the best of Sarah and WIAIWYA Records, but with a much better sense of humour. Just wonderful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_wTYzKJ6Bk&feature=youtu.be

Suggested donation £5, doors open 7.30pm

Walthamstow Vegan Market

Last market Sunday 3rd March 2019

Walthamstow Vegan Market showcased a delicious range of vegan food from E17 and beyond, handily held at Wild Card Brewery so you can pick up great booze while you’re there.

The market was held on the first Sunday of every month at Wild Card Brewery’s Lockwood site off Blackhorse Lane.

The stalls serve from 11am-4pm, with the bar staying open for drinks after you’ve filled up on all the vegan goods!

The market promises live music, great beer and the finest vegan food there is to offer.

Click here for more Vegan Markets.

 

Notts Gig4Grenfell 2!

Line up (more and times to be confirmed)

Jack’s Got A Plan
Ashmore
Capital Calling
Mizzred and James Malavi
Benjamin Hibbert and Chai Larden
K-Harmony
Parisa East

 

Nottingham Renters Alliance and Notts Activist Wellness are hosting a duo of fundraisers very soon.

We are happy to announce we are having another Gig4Grenfell on Sunday February 11th and a new event Poetry4Grenfell on Sunday March 11th, both at The Maze on Mansfield Road.

The events will run 6pm-11pm, with a suggested donation of £5 for entry. The space is wheelchair accessible from the back door so let us know in advance if you need it. It’s 16+ but under 18s must be accompanied by an adult.

There will be vegan food by Yemoja Foods in the courtyard and vegan cake by Alistair Johnson of Queens in Mansfield.

All money raised from both of these events will go directly to grassroots organisers at Grenfell with an emphasis on families, asylum seekers, refugees and those not getting support from other organisations or groups. We are hoping that the money can be used to provide basic necessities as well as to offer therapy and self-care support to those affected by the devastating tragedy.

Our line ups will include a variety of different, mostly local, performers, all of whom are incredibly talented and with established fan bases.

If you would like to support these events, donate any money or are wanting to perform please contact Eshe Kiama Zuri on Facebook.

Kent DuChaine + Indian Meal

HOT INDIAN CUISINE SERVED FROM 7PM

Kent DuChaine has listened to, hung out with, opened up for, traveled and played with most of the great Blues men and women his whole adult life.

The list is too long to name them all, but some of the major ones are: Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, Koko Taylor, BB, Albert and Freddie King, Willie Dixon, Bukka White, Johnny Shines, Robert JR Lockwood, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Furry Lewis and Son House. These were the big Country and Urban Blues influences who Kent heard and/or played with.

Kent’s early days with the Blues involved him both living and learning the Blues life. He has played in most of the major Blues festivals in the U.S.A. and Europe and was part of a Grammy nominated album recorded at the prestigious Smithsonian Institute Festival of Folk Life in Washington D.C. The theme of the festival was “The Roots of Rhythm & Blues, The Robert Johnson Era” and was recorded and released by Sony Music. It featured Robert Johnson’s old buddies, Johnny Shines, Robert JR Lockwood, Honeyboy Edwards, and Henry Townsend.

Kent attended two of the early “Ann Arbor Blues Festivals” in the 70’s. It united together virtually every  important Blues man and woman in the world who performed for the three days and nights in August. His dedication and talent for the blues earned him the honor of opening two shows for Bukka White, spending time with Mississippi Fred McDowell and befriending his hometown Bluesmen, Lazy Bill Lucas and Mojo Buford in  Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has even hung out with Muddy Waters who he later paid his last respects to at  Muddys’ funeral in Chicago. You will have to wait till you see him on stage to hear if he took up Muddy’s offer of  some reefer and Champagne!

The Blues were happening all around Kent at this time and he ended up playing alongside Kim Wilson in a band called “Aces, Straights & Shuffles”. Willie Dixon heard the band and complimented Kent on his slide playing sounding like a young Muddy Waters. Willie arranged a recording contract for the boys to help them launch their career by putting them on stage with Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins and Margie Evans.

Kent spent time in Austin, Texas in the mid 70’s, soaking up the blues at “Antone’s”, who where beginning to bring in alot of the old Blues men. He met Stevie Ray Vaughn and learned that there where others who shared the same passion and respect for the real Blues.

Around this time the most incredible thing happened: after searching for ten years, Kent found his beloved 1934  National Steel guitar, Leadbessie. After some time, Kent could see that the solo Blues life was where he wanted to go. Traveling the roads alone allowed him the opportunities he was seeking. Following the Blues trails unhindered  gave him the freedom to play where and when he wanted, for what ever he could get, even if it was just a meal and a drink. The solo life built his following, reputation and talent for the real Blues.

By the late 80’s he was doing 300+ shows a year all over N. America. He was blessed by the Blues in 1988 by coming across the great Johnny Shines who was living in Alabama. Kent had been based there already for seven years so he knew his way around. The two of them together were a sight to see….” The Young and the Old”.  Kent and Johnny traveled for three years and did over 200 shows together. He also recorded a W.C. Handy award winning album with Johnny and Snooky Pryor. The Blues rained down April 21st 1992, just four days before the two of them where to celebrate their birthdays together, Johnny passed away. Kent understanding that this is life, carried on alone.

He has spent most of the last 24 years traveling back and forth to Europe and has done 100 plus European tours of 4-7 weeks each. He has logged millions of miles and many 1000’s of shows.

You can have the opportunity to see what Kent DuChaine can do and hear what he knows by coming to The Sumac Centre on Saturday 18th November.

 

Dorset Radical Bookfair

Dorset’s fourth Radical Bookfair will take place on Saturday 8th August
2020 at the Corn Exchange, Municipal Buildings, High St East,
Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1HF.

We’re a ten-minute walk from either railway station – Dorchester South
or West. The stalls will be on the ground floor, wheelchair access to
meeting rooms on first floor is via lift.

Dorset Radical Bookfair

Stalls from individuals, non-hierarchical groups and campaigns, grassroots unions, independent and non-commercial booksellers, artists, publishers and distributors. Priority given to those active in class struggle, antifascism, anti-oppression, environmentalism and mutual aid.

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