This Saturday a number of groups in Cardiff and south Wales are hosting an event to mark World Homeless Day.
It’s an event to raise awareness and to get people involved in taking further action together with people who are homeless.
Daytime – 3pm to around 6pm - info-stalls, music, free food, art, kids activities, speakers, free-shop and workshops; including destitution, squatting and skipping.
Evening – 7pm to 11pm – live music and a DJ, bar
“We are currently occupying the Sixth Form College Building on Newport Road, and transforming it into a space for the community to use. We have been working towards an open day to show people the work we have done and explain what we are about.
We are doing all this on a tiny budget and learning as we are going. Our lives aren’t perfect and our project might not be perfect but we’re building together, putting aside our differences, like we hope everyone can, and creating something beautiful, unique and community based.
We have already cleaned up the building and the surrounding area, risking our own safety in the process to pick up used syringes, which have been around this building since long before we arrived, and disposing of them properly. To continue making this a safe space for the community, we are twice daily checking for and disposing properly of any more that we find.
As far as we know this building has been empty for two years, a situation all too common in Cardiff, when the population of people homeless is growing.
There are plans to build 40 flats here, which would be a massive unneeded disruption in this part of our community. We have already collected over 100 signatures from people living in the local area, in less than two days, opposing these plans and supporting our projects and vision with a passion.
We are planning to continue to keep the land next to us as a community car park, benefitting people in an area which has seen commuters parking outside people’s houses. Parking problems will get worse if the out-of-character development goes ahead. We are staying to stop this happening.
We have been careful to keep noise to a minimum, due to elderly neighbours in our community, and we believe a building site will be a stressful environment for all, but particularly the elderly and those attempting to learn in the nearby school.
One of our projects is to use the space to help to restart Cardiff People’s University; providing a range of unaccredited, but good quality, courses “by people, for people” and all free of charge.
The majority of us in this building have been through the housing list and realised how little help there is and how stressful it can be. We aim to offer unbiased and wide-ranging advice, information and support for, without judgement, or patronising, anyone in a similar position. This will include courses run by ourselves and information on where anyone struggling financially, or who finds themselves homeless, can get the best help, e.g food, clothes, shelter. We will also have a ‘free-shop’ of donated goods, open for anyone, where everything will be free.
We invite everyone who is positive minded and open-hearted to help us or take advantage of the advice we are offering and the projects we are aiming to make happen.
Everyone needs a little bit of help, even us, and we are extremely grateful to our local neighbours, many of whom have already been kind enough to donate us goods, furniture, gardening equipment and flowers, which we are in the process of planting for a community garden.”
From
The Squat 50 Collective
contact: squat50[@]riseup[.]net / 07405 788 793
For more info on squatting in Cardiff see: http://cardiff.squat.net
We welcome back Bristol Antifa skacore punks Atterkop back through our doors with special guests, Dead City Riot- Hardcore ska all the way from the USA, on the first day of their European tour!
Also playing will be Chewed Up and Public Order act, so don’t miss out
Atterkop- http://www.riotskarecords.com
2014 will see them continue to tour while fundraising for causes close to their hearts.
Atterkop have one simple goal, to make music for social change not fashion or profit.
DEAD CITY RIOT EUROPEAN TOUR 2014 -
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The “anarcho punk/skacore” force to be reckoned with, DEAD CITY RIOT, hailing from Connecticut, USA are heading back to Europe for the second time this year. On this occasion they will be armed with a full length record and a shed load of new tunes.
Chewed Up – http://www.chewedup.co.uk
A DIY Anarcho-ska project from Sheffield. Bits of Choking Victim hammered together with bits of UK82, 80s Crust. and US 80s HC.
Played with the likes of Discharge, Subhumans, Dogsflesh, Morning Glory, Restarts, Barb Wire Dolls and many more.
Public Order Act-http://www.facebook.com/carnivalpunks
Dub Punk from Bristol!
Suggested donation of 3quid
Profits split between South Wales Antifa and The RBU Social Centre funds-
Give what you can!
Drink tolerated DRUNKENNESS NOT
BYOB
Doors at 5pm
Love and Peas. E. xX
Folk Art and Gardening day at the Red and Black Umbrella- The Revolution is Growing!
This Sunday we will happily be opening our doors to the community as we host an autonomous folk arts, bbq, music and fun day on sunday. Bring paint ya’ll!
From 11am onwards we will be sharing music, vegan food, seeds and art.
We ask and encourage those who use the space to bring vegan food, seeds to swap, paints to decorate our newly white-washed social centre walls and gardening supplies that we can use for the edible garden that we hope to start cultivating this year.
We have a nice clear space ready for Sunday, thanks to those who attended our productive (work) day yesterday. It’s time for the space to get a new face on!
Ideas for the outside of the building greatly appreciated.
We welcome families and dogs
57 – 5 8 clifton street, cardiff.
Love and Peas! xX
If you’re organised enough to carry ’round a diary (I am definitely not) penciling in the
1st AND 2nd of November is highly advisable as it will see our first festival!
A two day event ending on the 2nd November to celebrate 2 YEARS of the occupied building in Cardiff. Easy enough to remember, right?
Beginning as a vague plan to host an Anarcho-Folk festival in Cardiff; the event has now evolved into a two day celebration of the ‘Brolly. 
The space it has provided us has been invaluable to many, so we invite anyone and everybody who has shared the space with us to come, in particular any guests we have had to stay, musicians who’ve played and individuals who’ve led any lessons or workshops. Please come and celebrate with us!
This is an open event and will be donation upon entry to pay the acts who are travelling. Any excess money donated to us will go towards Cardiff squat funds and to Freedom Press Bookshop (who are still raising money to repair their shop and replace up to 700 books lost after fascists petrol-bombed their shop earlier this year).
Nobody will be refused entry if they cannot pay.
We will be releasing more information over the next two weeks to keep you all in suspense, just know that you will need your best dancing boots and both headliners will be supported by amazing local acts and musicians.
If you would like to play at the festival, run a stall or workshop on either of the days get in touch.
Also, any help with cooking or supplying skipped/vegan food for the festival would be much appreciated as we will have many mouths to feed!
Doors TBA
Drink tolerated after 7pm, Drunkenness not.
No drugs, no thugs!
Love and Peas, Emy xx
The next meeting about the Social Centre will be on Saturday March 2nd at 6pm. We want to be a space for communities and activists to get the most out of, so come along with any ideas and projects you want to share / help create. Or just to be part of the discussion of where we go next.
All welcome. (Dogs – let us know in advance. No pigs.)