News from Kebele social centre (Bristol)

Kebele social cen­tre in Eas­t­on, Bris­tol, remains (sad­ly) the only per­ma­nent rad­i­cal vol­un­teer run such cen­tre in Bris­tol – that means no boss­es and no paid staff. As we look for­wards to the 11th anniver­sary of the found­ing of Kebele, we hope that read­ers & activists will go out and set up their own rad­i­cal cen­tre, in their part of town. Bris­tol needs not one, but many, long-term rad­i­cal social cen­tres, if we are to tru­ly build an alter­na­tive to the dom­i­nance of the cap­i­tal­ist con­sumer cul­ture and its destruc­tive nature.

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Kebele social cen­tre in Eas­t­on, Bris­tol, remains (sad­ly) the only per­ma­nent rad­i­cal vol­un­teer run such cen­tre in Bris­tol – that means no boss­es and no paid staff. As we look for­wards to the 11th anniver­sary of the found­ing of Kebele, we hope that read­ers & activists will go out and set up their own rad­i­cal cen­tre, in their part of town. Bris­tol needs not one, but many, long-term rad­i­cal social cen­tres, if we are to tru­ly build an alter­na­tive to the dom­i­nance of the cap­i­tal­ist con­sumer cul­ture and its destruc­tive nature.

To cel­e­brate our 11 years of dogged, often cre­ative, activ­i­ty and resis­tance, we’ve hav­ing a par­ty – on 8 Decem­ber. It’ll be a late one, with bands, dj’s, PA’s, cabaret, café. Full details to fol­low short­ly.

Mean­while, adding to Kebele’s news (see  http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=25284) our evo­lu­tion from a hous­ing co-op and kul­ture project to a com­mu­ni­ty co-op is stuck in the mire of bureau­cra­cy and legal minu­ti­ae. But we have in any case gone ahead and launched our new web­site at  http://www.kebelecoop.org so check it out to see what we have on. Why not add our web­site to your links page? (check our local and oth­er links at  http://www.kebelecoop.org/Links.html ).

We are also about to under­take major roof repairs of the build­ing, and at the same time give the café space a makeover. We are work­ing on plans for a revamp of the cen­tre, to clean it up and make the over­all space more acces­si­ble and wel­com­ing, and to bring in new activ­i­ties.

Kebele has the fol­low­ing reg­u­lar activ­i­ties on, so come along:

Mon­day – Screen­print­ing work­shops from 7–9pm
Tues­day – Begin­ners Ital­ian class­es 5–6.30pm
Wednes­day – Bike work­shop 12–4.30pm: cheap parts, advice & help to get yer bike back on the road. Some cheap recy­cled bikes to buy too.
Sat­ur­day – Infos­hop 11–2pm: rad­i­cal books, mags, pam­phlets too numer­ous to list, plus stick­ers, music, t‑shirts and loads of free info. All yer rad­i­cal shop­ping!
Sun­day – Veg­an Café 6.30–10pm: due to pop­u­lar demand the food often runs out so come ear­ly.

For full details see  http://www.kebelecoop.org/Events.html

Over the last month we have also had film nights, an open mic ses­sion, open meet­ings on the ‘Kingswood Col­lier­s’ and Ross­port protest camp (in Ire­land), a Bris­tol Colum­bia Sol­i­dar­i­ty Cam­paign ben­e­fit bash, plus local cam­paign and oth­er organ­is­ing meet­ings from the likes of the Bris­tle Col­lec­tive. There’ll be more such events com­ing up. We are also cater­ing for the Bris­tol Per­ma­cul­ture group’s ‘South West Per­ma­cul­ture Con­ver­gence’ on 26 Novem­ber at St Wer­burghs Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre (see  http://bristol.indymedia.org/whatson/calendar.php), and for an as yet to be announced ‘Winter Solstice/Yule Social’.

If your campaign/group wants to hold an event get in touch to dis­cuss! If you fan­cy get­ting involved with one of Kebele’s sub-col­lec­tives then see  http://www.kebelecoop.org/Collectives.html and get in touch! We’ve got lots of ideas and plans, but we need peo­ple like you to help put them all into prac­tice.
Kebele social cen­tre, 14 Robert­son Rd, Eas­t­on, BS5 6JY
Tel 0117 939 9469 dur­ing open hours (see above)
kebelesocialcentre@riseup.net
http://www.kebelecoop.org