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Gladstonebury Festival – Sumac 25th Anniversary Weekend

Sumac Centre is 25 this year.

The Rainbow Centre, established in 1984, relocated to the Sumac Centre in June 2001.

*25th, 26th, 27th September*

Three days of peace, love and music at the  Sumac Centre

Please print and display the flier

Friday 25th kicks off with an evening of Poets and Performers.

Saturday 26th features the Big Gig in the evening, with Drivelheads, The Sporadics and anarchistwood.

Sunday 27th sees an all-day Acoustic Community Garden Party . Sunday Brunch,  campaign stalls,. many local acts film screenings, Veggies Burger Bar, Forest Fields Social Club.

Sunday also features a presentation by Sparrows Nest Library of their archivevof over 2000 items from the Rainbow Centre, in the prehistory of the Sumac Centre.

Fully detailed (draft) program further below.

From Ned Ludd’s News, published from the Rainbow Centre in 2002, archived at Sparrows Nest Library (pdf)

Work on the new independent community, resource and centre at 245 Gladstone Street nears completion. Formerly the

BACK Events for Monday February 6th, 2023 – Sumac CentreRainbow Centre, the name ‘The Sumac Centre’ has now been adopted after a shrub in the gardens.

The former Sitch Ukranian Social Club was purchased by the Rainbow Centre collective in June 2001. Major reconstruction work was undertaken by NECTA (Nottingham Environmental Construction Training for All) and other local trades people. Since then volunteers from the local community have worked on, replacing floors, walls, ceilings, doors, windows, stairs, toilets, electrics and plumbing!

Finally the end is in sight.

The newly plastered walls and refurbished toilets are being‘ painted, the community cafe is being built and the furniture fireproofed. Sufficient facilities are now completed for the centre to have hosted or booked meetings for local residents groups, animal rights conferences, training days, environmental/roads gatherings and more.

With a final push it is hoped that the new centre will be ready to open during June, after which work will continue for the planned Social Club.

With completion of this first phase so close supporters are urged to get involved, both with the final works, which continue on a daily basis, and with planning the activities and running the centre once opened.

As there has been so much more work to be done than expected, the opening date, and therefore opportunity to earn income, has been deferred several times. However the mortgage and other bills wait for no one, so the gap in funding continues to grow. We have been very encouraged by
the practical support, grants and donations received, but for long‘ term security we are very keen to invite investment by way of loans, with interest offered from 0% to 5%, repayable over I, 5 or I0 years.

If all goes to plan the official opening date is the 22″“ June.

 

Reserve this weekend for a series of events loosely based on the template of the Rainbow Centre 40th Anniversary Festival in 2024.

 

Gladstonebury

Sumac Centre Community Festival

Celebrating 25 years of Sumac.

Fri 25th / Sat 26th / Sun 27th of September 2026

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Music * Food * Activism * Workshops * Solidarity

Food by Veggies and Notts Dinning Coop

Friday Night 25th Sept indoors + Vegan Bar

Doors open 6pm

Vegan Food £5 Suggested Donation (Serving 18.30hrs)

Acts £5 Suggested donation

Poets and performers.

Jimi Strange 19.00 to 19.20 (Rad Folk)

Lytisha Tunbridge 19.30 to 19.50 (Poet)

Cath Mackie 20.00 to 20.20 (Spikey Folk)

Andrew Mznyox 20.30 to 20.50 (Poet)

Noah Drillhead 21.00 to 21.20 (Punk Solo)

Bearded Tit 21.30 to 22.00 (Rad Poet)

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Saturday Night 26th Sept indoors + Vegan Bar

Ticketed £12 Through Fixr 18+/no dogs

Doors open 17.30

Vegan Food Suggested Donation £5

(Serving 18.00hrs)

Drivelheads 19.00 to 19.40 Notts (Local Rebel Rousers)

The Sporadics 20.00 to 21.00 Bournemouth (Sub punk/festy music)

anarchistwood 21.30 to 22.30 London (Theatrical Pr@nk rock)

(DReSS up FeRal optional)

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Sunday Day 27th Sept Garden Party/Bar

Family friendly/Behaved dogs on lead

Event free/Donations welcome

Vegan Brunch 11am till 2pm (£5)

11 am onwards campaign stalls

12am till 2pm The Sparrows Nest “The Sumac Archive Project”

Talks/Quiz/Bookstall/Zine making

2pm till 7pm (Veggies Catering)

One Mic Stand (Poets)

Jesse Perrett (Poet) 14.00 to 14.20

Rachel Joy (Poet) 14.30 to 14.50

Spoken Goat (Poet) 15.00 to 15.20

Yard Sessions/Acoustic acts

Pixie Styx (Assorted gubbins, D.I.Y tunes)15.30 to 16.00

Blossom (Folk Singer) 16.10 to 16.40

Paul Carbuncle (Punchy political PuNk) 16.50 to 17.20

Jessi Eastfield (Eastfield Rail PuNk) 17.30 to 18.00

Klezmer Tanz (Traditional roots) 18.10 to 19.00

Music Meets Solidarity – Fundraiser for Al Harah Theatre and Notts Refugee Forum

Join us for an afternoon where music meets solidarity

We’re coming together to raise vital funds for Al Harah Theatre and Notts Refugee Forum.

Venue: Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, New Basford, NG7 6HX

Date: Saturday 4th April

Time: 4pm

Tickets: £7.60 . Get your tickets here.

Featuring: Crazy Able, Abid Baig, Ace Ambrose & Ghost Riders. With a guest appearance via video link by a member of Al Harah Theatre group.

Food and drinks available to buy at the event.

Private event (Dolls 2nd/4th Mondays)

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

DDC is on every Second and Forth Monday at 7-9pm

 

No Creative Arts & Makers Club this week (18th)

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
Community singing session, profits donated to local food bank.

Blossom’s Big Sing: Folk Against Fascism & We Shall Overcome

Let’s learn again to sing together and brighten up the long dark evenings!

In these difficult times, getting together to sing can be a radical act of sustenance for our souls.

Come along with your voices and join Blossom for an evening of chorus songs. All are welcome to lead in song – any style welcome, the more the merrier.
Just listening and enjoying the cafe corner or bar is also fine.

Free entry, but any donations welcome in the bucket to support a local food bank and cover room hire cost welcome if you wish / can support.

During Forest Fields Social Club events under 18s must be accompanied by an adult who remains responsible for them whilst on Sumac premises.

Wednesday Pop-up Cafe and Cool Space

Pop-up Cafe : every Wednesday

Join us at Sumac Centre cool space for hot drinks, free wifi and hot meal.

There is often a meal at about 1pm for a suggested £3 donation, or what you can afford.

Also community food hub for wholefoods, zero waste supplies & free food redistribution, radical library and book stall, #RainbowCentre Archives, games library & toy box, informal meeting space with zoom & #SumacScreenRoom facilities.

Every Wednesday 11am – 4pm at Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham NG7 6HX . Direction & contact.

Community Food Hub

We redistribute fresh foods from Foodprint and Sanatan Food Bank, saving their surplus veg from going straight to landfill.

Pop in during the regular Sumac Sunday Brunch or Wednesday pop-up cafe & warm hub, or at other times on our events diary.

SUMAC FOOD REDISTRIBUTION

FREE – PLEASE TAKE WHAT YOU CAN USE OR SHARE

  • Food is a right, not a privilege.
  • Food poverty, the inability to afford, or to have access to, food to make up a healthy diet, affects 8-9% of the UK population. [Ref: Sustain]
  • Food loss and waste accounts for 8-10% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. [Ref: United Nations UNFCCC]
  • The Sumac Community can play a valuable role in tackling food waste.

Surplus foods are shared with Sumac by Sanatan Food Bank and FoodPrint. As well as being good for the Sumac Community, we provide a valued service to them by helping reduce their waste, which would otherwise go to landfill or incineration.

This, together with an option of sharing our surplus with Sherwood Exchange and local animal rescues, gives SIX opportunities for these foods to be consumed!

It is the obsession with perfection by the food industry and supermarkets that is driving the food waste crisis.

The planet benefits by surpluses being diverted from landfill, even if it ultimately ends up making compost for the Sumac Garden.

food.gov.uk recommends a visual check or the ‘smell test’ to assess the quality of fruit and veg, or packaged foods with a ‘best before‘ date. Packaged foods should not be given or taken if past its ‘use-by‘ date. Our volunteers make every effort to check that everything is edible, vegan and not subject to an ethical boycott. Please draw any inappropriate goods to our attention.

We need more help.

If you value this initiative, please ask how you can support our work.

For more information see the Community Food Hub post by Veggies.
You could also read or share the latest version of the Sumac Food Redistribution flier.

 

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