“The greatest wealth is health…”
On the 10th of December at 3pm the Red and Black Umbrella crew will organise the first “autonomous fitness collective” session. It will aim to be inclusive for all those that that take part – and could become a weekly feature
, with newcomers always welcome. They will also hopefully be fun and aim to support and inspire our local community. Also sometimes it’s just good to be fitter than those we oppose…
If you’ve missed our People’s Kitchens make sure you head down to the Red and Black Umbrella tomorrow night!
We’ll have hot delicious vegan food made and served from our brand new kitchen!
And mulled apples – a delicious winter warmer!
All welcome from 7pm to come and eat with us! Event is free but donations welcome to cover costs.
Hope to see you then!
RBU x
We are going to step outside of the ordinary the normed and find ourselvesin a group that is female dominated in number.
Saturday 9th November, 2013. 2.30pm
Groups are rarely that, they are mostly mixed or male dominated, as a gender we often do not have much access to female social space. Social space,-club space eating or drinking space, is male dominated. The street is mixed. In order to be sure of this we must skew the balance against the norm and draw the invitation line at women only. This is a group conciseness window which we can use to experience Normed human interactions objectively.
I want us to explore body language, space and status, using theatre games and demonstrations. The best way is by having fun. This is not about being deadly serious.
x
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
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
A one-night zombie-invasion came to the RBU last week as zombies filled the bar and the gig-room…luckily some nifty folks got it on film and turned it into a music video for that artist known as Cosmo…
You can watch the music video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x4a6srwA4M
And find out more about the illustrious work of Cosmo here: http://cosmoguitar.net
Thankfully by the end of the weekend, most of the zombies had cleared off, possibly to take on some other act, (like the status quo? or maybe even queen?), and usual social centre milarky resumed shortly afterwards…to continue into the winter…something really sending a shiver down our spines!
Thanks again to all for the great night!
All power to the un-dead!
…is advertising for friends to join in an equality based meditation practice.
Equality for the compassion and openness to contribute with and for each other, an openness that is only possible without hierarchy.
There will be a meeting to begin where experience and practice for that meditation are discussed and agreed on by method of reaching a consensus.
There will be meditation followed by a chat about what happened during the meditation if people want to talk about it and a meeting about any business relevant to the group.
7.30pm – every Thursday at the Red and Black Umbrella
Free, Donations are Welcome.
For more info contact @sageofhappiness on twitter or email lloprit@live.co.uk.
There is also more info on the blog http://sageofhappiness.blogspot.co.uk.
No Borders Morocco :-
of migrants in Morocco to the EU Border control regime by European anarchists staying in Tangiers, a city on the Morocco-Spain/Africa-EU border.We’re unable to host the talk tonight as no-one from No Borders Morocco can make it due to an ongoing issue in another city…
…but we’re happy instead to show the film 14 Kilómetros, by Gerardo Olivares, about the situation there. One of the activists plans to come to Cardiff to share some of the info-talk prepared, and the music that’s been written there, another time soon.
The location has also changed…
New details:
Tonight (17th July) at Cardiff’s newest squat – on Moira Terrace, opposite the prison.
There will be a film screening of Gerardo Olivares’ movie “14 Kilometros”
8pm to 11pm.
More info about the group – http://beatingborders.wordpress.com/
Share an evening of crafts, sewing, knitting and learning over a nice cuppa and probably some good conversation, come along to our new sewing circle!
6-9pm, 11th July. xXx
On saturday the 13th of july, cardiff abc has organised a one day anti-prison event at the red and black umbrella. The event aims at creating a wider awareness and critique of the ever expanding prison society and people’s struggles against it.
The event will run from 1-11 and is split into two distinct parts.
From 1-6 there will be space for meetings, discussions, talks, workshops and skillshares, for the most part the discussions will be relatively informal and structureless so as to not stifle creativity and originality. We are asking attendees to not bring alcohol to this portion of the event
to discourage all day drinking and encourage clear, sober and respectful interaction.
From 6-11(ish) there will be a variety of music and poetry being
performed. There is a suggested donation of £5 for this portion of the
event with any excess after costs going to cardiff abc to distribute to
various prisoners/defendants that we are in contact with (for more info on
this just ask.)
There will be hot vegan food available from the beginning of the event, as
well as a variety of relevant zines; all for donation.
Hope to see you there.
Cardiff Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
Email: cardiff_abc@riseup.net
Website: http://www.abccardiff.wordpress.com
Postal: Cardiff ABC, c/o Red & Black Umbrella, 57-58 Clifton St, Adamsdown, Cardiff, Wales, CF24 1LS.