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Creative Arts & Makers Club . Wednesdays at Sumac

The Creative Arts & Makers Club at Sumac now happens every Wednesdays.

Activities include:

  • Cloth mending, including darning, sewing patches.
  • Card making.
  • Up cycling, eg peg bags.
  • Scap/sketchbook keeping. Why do it, ideas and practice.
  • You ideas, inspiration, skills and requests very welcome

Resistance Exhibition

Since the early 1980’s the Rainbow Centre in Nottingham – now the cooperatve behind the Sumac Centre, has provided space, facilities and resources for a huge diversity of radical campaigns for positive social change. Our closely supported the emerging Road Alert network, @EarthFirstUK & later , Camps and more.

Nottingham Rainbow Centre  linked up with the (unrelated) London Rainbow Centre, and numerous other ‘Info Shops’, ‘centres for change’ and similar initiatives all over the UK. This was a powerful network, with its own media, such as SchNews, Squall, Undercurrents, ARC News, Free Information Network newsletters such as Notts FIN AKA Ned Ludd’s News,  and later Nottingham Indymedia.

Nottingham is dubbed the “City of Rebels” due to its long history of protest and defiance against the establishment.

As Left Lion, today’s batton carrier for indy media puts it:

As wider society became more conscious of environmental issues and animal rights, the activist subculture, which had loosely centred around the old Environmental Information Centre, needed a home. It found it in a little building on Mansfield Road, where various groups, including the Nottingham Friends of the Earth and CND, formed a collective space for gathering, learning and reading known as the Rainbow Centre.

Protests in Nottingham . Left Lion August 2018

All this leads us to …

The Resistance Exhibition

Documenting over 40 years of protest and resistance in the UK, through photos, videos, text and objects.
Resistance Exhibition, aims to foster a public archive of a vibrant protest culture in the UK; a documenting of history by the people who made that history.  It is an organically evolving archive that aims to span 25 years of movements for social change, from the 1990s road and animal rights protests to squatting and housing, from domestic violence and disability rights to LGBTQI and feminism, from anti-war and anti-racism to anti-capitalism and climate justice, and much more…

We are pleased to offer an exclusive opportunity to view the Exhibition, and discuss its contents with one of its curating team, at the Sumac Centre on Sunday 8th June. As well as the physical exhibition Sumac Screen Room will stream related activist filmed footage and you can explore our Rainbow Archive.

This event is the 3rd in a series, following and connecting DISCLOSURE: Unravelling the Spycops Files, with Kate Wilson on Sunday 1st June, and the   Battle of the Beanfield – 40th Anniversary Presentation  on Saturday 7th June.

As at many ofthe campaigns documented by the exhibitiion there will be #FoodByVeggies including Sumac Sunday Brunch and  #SamosasForSocialChange.

 

Fundraiser for Tiger CIC

Tiger invites you to join us for a birthday celebration.

We will have some fabulous talents performing for us – music and spoken word.

Enjoy the performances and some delicious Tiger Eats food.

There will also be a short talk about Future Tiger and we will have some great prizes on the raffle.

Our tasty Tiger Eats rescue food is building a following. Generally vegetarian, or vegan by default, we put together a menu every fortnight for members to pre-order and collect.

Jack is planning to serve two of our favourites on the night:

  • Not Butter, Not Chicken
  • Beluga Lentil Dhaal
  • Rice
  • Naan

Cake will also be available!

Free Entry on the night.

Suggested donation for food – £6.

There is a bar onsite.

Please come along and join us.

Book your ticket online (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/acoustic-night-with-tiger-tickets-1353279949759) or message shelley@tigerprojects.co.uk to let us know if you plan to pay on the night so we have an idea of numbers for the food.

See you there!

Tiger Team

Please share the event:

Mastodon: https://social.coop/@Veggies/114502991671818898

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/Veggies.social.coop.ap.brid.gy/post/3lp3lgaxtprq2

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJm-MniNsPJ/

 

20th Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Day ceremony

Join us in Nottingham on 29 April

Notts Friends of Standing Together will host a screening of the Joint Memorial Day Ceremony, organised annually by Combatants for Peace and the Parents Circle.

Live stream of a powerful act of defiance against the forces that seek to divide us. Now in its 20th year, this ceremony serves as a beacon of hope, reminding the world that even in the face of unimaginable loss, we can come together in solidarity. Broadcast from Tel Aviv-Jaffa, the event is organised by bi-national (Palestinian and Israeli) anti-Occupation groups Combatants for Peace and Bereaved Families Forum.

Please share the posts from  UK Friends of Standing Together on facebook and  from instagram

Share and display this poster (PDl

Please share and display the PDF poster and the posts via  Mastodon social.coop/@Veggies/UK Friends of Standing Together on facebookinstagram and Bluesky.

 

 

More screenings worldwide may be seen at https://www.cfpeace.org/memorial-screenings

 

Notts Dining Coop

😋👩‍🍳🍽 NOTTS DINING CO-OP IS HERE

Notts Dining Co-op is a food project providing free/cheap communal meals to the Nottingham community.

We’ll be running events at the Sumac Centre on 1st & 3rd Tuesdays monthly, which will include a hot meal, time to spend with friends or to meet new people, and an opportunity to get involved with the project. Come along to session find out more!

📆 When: 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 7-9pm
📍 Where: Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone St, New Basford, Nottingham NG7 6HX
❓️ What: pay- what-choise meal & social space
🧍‍♂️ Who: Everyone is welcome!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCSWZTeO5Uw/

This entry is for the 3rd Tuesdays monthly. See also listings for the 1st Tuesdays.

Sumac Sisterhood

A welcoming, safe and friendly place for activities from arts & crafts to discussion groups.

Third Friday Monthly.

On Friday 18 April we have a clothes swap and live music at our Sumac Sisterhood evening!

All donations will go to Nottingham Women’s Centre 🥰

🌼Sumac Sisterhood Night hosted by ZEN 🌼

A Charity Clothes Swap raising money for Nottingham Womens Centre
🌻🌺🌼🌸🌷

🎶 Live music with an all female line-up

🌺 HOW IT WORKS:
Bring along a bag of clothes and walk away with the same amount you bring.
~Please bring clothes in condition you’d be happy to take home yourself.
~Organise your clothes into sizes so they can placed in the right spot.
~Please also bring an empty bag for all of your selected garms to take home with you
👗👖🥻👚👙

We are all about sustainability
♻️Reuse, repurpose, Recycle♻️

Another persons trash is another persons treasure 🍀🌟

We will also have ‘sale rail’ for selected nicer items with proceedings donated to the charity. If you would like to contribute to sell then please drop me a message to let me know in advance & don’t forget to bring along some cash if you are interested in purchasing and contributing towards the cause.

This is a great way to update your wardrobe without the cost, extend the life of pre loved garms, whilst making a positive impact on our environment
😊♻️❤️🌎

Its a fun sociable evening, with good company, music and cheap drinks in a friendly venue. The Sumac centre is a hub for the community ran by volunteers.
We ask kindly for non members to sign up as a member at the bar.
Drinks and snacks are available at a very low price.
There will be a changing rooms in the disabled toilets.
And the beautiful garden space with seating to relax in too.

🌺Venue: Sumac Centre
🌺Date: Fri 18th April
🌺Time: 7-10pm
🌺Address: NG7 6HX

🌼£2 suggested donation

Any items leftover will be donated to share wear in Nottingham

Please respect that we will only be able to accept one bag for life per person to limit the amount leftover at the end

Before taking to share wear we will offer any clothing left at the end to homeless or anybody who is in particular need making sure nothing goes to waste. 😊

We look forward to thrifting with you
💜💜💜

Details from sumacsisterhood@gmail.com

PDSA Fundraiser

Please join us for our PDSA Fundraiser!

An evening of a good meal, some music and good vibes.

All proceeds go to the local PDSA Pet Hospital on Radford Road! Hope to see you there!! 💚

The bar will be open and there will be a meal in support of our local PDSA who provide necessary and critical care for pets and animals everywhere! It’s a £5 suggested donation for a meal and a good evening

The new PDSA Pet Wellbeing Centre is less than a mile from the Sumac Centre at 581 Radford Road, Nottm NG7 7EB

See details from an earlier event at https://sumac.org.uk/event/pdsa-nottingham-fundraiser/

 

private event (Dolls 4th Mondays)

The Dolls Dining Co-op (DDC) is intended to provide a free vegan food for transfeminine people.

DDC is on the second and fourth Mondays at 7-9pm

 

Wednesday Pop-up Cafe and Warm Space

Join us at #Nottingham Sumac Centre for meals/snacks, unlimited hot drinks, free wifi (laptop available) and a warm space. Just £3 for food.

Also radical book stall, #RainbowCentre Archives, community food hub for wholefoods & zero waste supplies, free share foods, informal meeting space with zoom & big screen facilities.

Initially every Wednesday 1pm – 3pm. at 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham NG7 6HX . Direction & contact

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Green Festival Planning Meeting

Planning meetings continue for Nottingham Green Festival, a sustainable-themed festival, organised by a volunteer cooperative planning group.

The  Green Festival wil be held at Nottingham Arboretum on Sunday 8th September 2024 and your support is most welcome.

Join us at the Sumac Centre, or get in touch for details to join the online via zoom.

Note that times may change between Winter & Summer meetings – see future  meeting dates … (Also event listing on Veggies Diary)

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