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Surplus Charity Fundraiser – Royal Oak – Saturday 15th

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Surplus Charity Fundraiser Part 1
SurplusFest are holding a fundraiser for two local Cardiff charities. To raise much needed funds for Cardiff Foodbank and Cardiff Women’s Aid. All money raided will go to the organisations.
Please come and support the event, round the corner from us, where Broadway meets Newport Road.”This is a family friendly event and we welcome everyone to come and join in.

We have a circus workshop in the afternoon where you’ll be able to learn new circus skills including poi, juggling, hoopla and many more skills…..

PLUS lush munch from the lovely FOOD NOT BOMBS!

Plus a BBQ selling Burgers and Hotdogs

We also have someone coming down to do some Henna for the afternoon and a fire show in evening.

There will be a firepit in the garden for folks to keep warm

DOORS 2PM-12:30AM

ENTRY ADULT £6, CHILDREN £3

COME STOMP YOUR FEET AND RAISE SOME FUNDS!!!!!!!!”

Happy Birthday…to Food not Bombs Cardiff!

The Red and Black Umbrella would also like to wish a very happy birthday to Food not Bombs untitledCardiff…

*Two years of weekly serves this week!*

There is a party tomorrow night to celebrate -

BONFIRES NOT BOMBS! 7pm at the Wells Hotel, 77 Craddock Street, Riverside, West Cardiff

The Wells Hotel would like to invite you to a bonfire gathering in our wonderful yard, to celebrate Food Not Bombs Cardiff / Bwyd Nid Bomiau Caerdydd’s 2nd Birthday, Bronwen Little Eris Davies’s Birthday and of course bonfire night!

There will be delicious vegan food and cake, and if you would like to donate it will go to Food Not Bombs Cardiff! We will also be accepting donations of non-perishable foods (lentils, pulses, oil, tins of veg etc)

Come along…. Feel free to bring fireworks, wood, cake, food, musical instruments etc…..

https://www.facebook.com/events/685680071545992/

Food Not Bombs has celebrated two years of weekly serves! Woohoo! We are continuing to serve free meals at 12:30pm every Friday outside the back of Central Market!untitled2

As winter is approaching the plan is to prepare supplies in the kitchen for a cold and damp winter and make sure they don’t get spoiled!!!

Wishlist:

SEALED CONTAINERS AND LOTS OF THEM – Tupperwear, Big Jars, Chinese Takeaway Plastic Pots, Large Yoghurt Pots, Celebration Chocolate Pots etc…. Any containers which has a sealed lid!

Whilst we’re at it, these are some other things which you might be able to donate if you wanted:
- Bowls (ideally plastic)
- Mugs (ideally plastic)
- Cleaning Products: antibacterial spray, washing up liquid, sponges etc….
- Kitchen Roll / Serviettes
- Large Yoghurt Pots for carrying the food in or washing dishes in.

DIOLCH / THANKS

Cardiff Homeless Action event for World Homeless Day

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.

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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

http://cardiffh​omelessaction.o​rg/

Birthday Festival Announcement! 1st-2nd November 2013

We are very pleased to announce that our friends Will Tun and the Wasters will be travelling down to play our 2 year birthday party this Saturday!

(There will be a zine program for the event up online this week with more information and updated times, there are sure to be some changes to times and acts, so keep an eye out)

Here is a vague outline of what is to come this weekend!

Friday 1st November

4pm Doors open.
4.15-5pm Squat cracking workshop/ Q+A. What better way to break open the event?
6pm Onwards, Live music. The night will be opened with a short open mic session/jam, then we welcome various local support acts including Emma Musty, Emy Lou, Chili, Tree of sound and Taffy Twp to play. Also travelling down to open is Ash Victim- A DIY folk-punk singer-songwriter not to be missed!
The night will be headlined by Special Guests TBA.

Saturday 2nd November

4pm Doors open.
Vegan food will be provided by Food Not Bombs.
There will be a Badger Cull info stall with people present to answer any questions you may have about the cull or being in the cull zone.
Ble Mae Ellen Mai?  will launch the new edition of ‘Bitch’ zine.
The free shop and Radical Library will be open as usual.

4.15-4.55pm Anti-raid workshop/Q+A. Updates about what the UKBA have been up to recently, including new laws and tactics being used. What we as individuals can do to help Asylum seekers and Refugees.
5-5.55pm- Screening of ‘Coconut Revolution’. The Coconut Revolution is a 2001 multi-award winning documentary about the struggle of the indigenous peoples of Bougainville Island.
The movement is described as the “world’s first successful eco-revolution“.

6pm Onwards Live music from more local support TBA and Daf and Jay of Kilnaboy.

9.45-11pm- Will Tun and the Wasters. Don’t miss it!

Sunday 3rd November

12pm Sustainable energies workshop.
3pm Film screening of ‘Gasland- part 2′.
5.30pm Relaxed board games and open mic.

 If you would like to volunteer at this event please contact us [07596821368]

Volunteering can be anything from helping to cook, stewarding for half hour on the door or behind the bar, helping to keep communal areas tidy by litter picking or just being around to help if and when we may need it.

The festival is suggested donation, nobody will be turned away if they cannot afford to pay.
Drink tolerated, drunkenness not.
We ask that nobody smoke indoors before 9pm.

Any profits made will be split between Cardiff squat funds and Freedom press bookshop in London.

We hope you can make it! Emy xx