Events – Cowley Club

February 2019

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				1 Cowley Café 12:00 Cowley Café Feb 1 @ 12:00 – 17:00 Tickets Come down to The Cowley Club and enjoy our cafe. Tea, coffee, food and cakes (all vegan!) every week from Wednesday to Saturday, open from midday. Browse the bookshop, check out the library, have some tasty vegan lunch or enjoy a cuppa in the garden. Euphonic Open Mic featuring James Brett 20:00 Euphonic Open Mic featuring James Brett Feb 1 @ 20:00 – 22:00 Tickets Euphonic launch night featuring James Brett. Indie acoustic soloist born and raised in Brighton, influenced by the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Oasis & The Velvet Underground to name but a few. Writing relatable originals about everyday emotions & situations. Open Mic Brighton – Friday night bi-weekly event at the Cowley club. If you haven’t been[...]	2 Cowley Café 12:00 Cowley Café Feb 2 @ 12:00 – 17:00 Tickets Come down to The Cowley Club and enjoy our cafe. Tea, coffee, food and cakes (all vegan!) every week from Wednesday to Saturday, open from midday. Browse the bookshop, check out the library, have some tasty vegan lunch or enjoy a cuppa in the garden. Jumble and Vintage Sale 12:00 Jumble and Vintage Sale Feb 2 @ 12:00 – 16:00 Tickets Come down and snoop for some amazing treasures…. Vintage clothes, books, bric a brace and generally quirky items. Grab some great bargains, scoff vegan cake and support your local plant-based community centre. Let’s reuse, recycle/ and rehome stuff that otherwise clutters our homes or would be thrown away If you would like to donate stuff[...] Boom Boom Racoon / Pog / Chuck SJ Hay 20:00 Boom Boom Racoon / Pog / Chuck SJ Hay Feb 2 @ 20:00 – 23:00 Tickets An evening of folk punk to put a bit of rage and warmth into the cold dismal winter. Featuring BOOM BOOM RACOON All the way from Bristol, the Racoons are bin-loving, state-hating ska kids who play angry offbeat folk music. https://boomboomracoon.bandcamp.com/releases POG Brighton-based folk punk collective that get compared to Belle and Sebastian far more[...]	3 Syrian Maté Café 12:00 Syrian Maté Café Feb 3 @ 12:00 – 16:00 Tickets Music workshop and café
4 Migrant English Project 10:00 Migrant English Project Feb 4 @ 10:00 – 15:30 Tickets The Migrant English Project provides… Free and informal English lessons for refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants. A welcoming, friendly and safe space where people can meet others and receive support Support, basic advice, referrals and signposting when needed Free lunch & refreshments during the project Every Monday 10am – 3.30pm, children welcome. Welfare Rights Advice 17:00 Welfare Rights Advice Feb 4 @ 17:00 – 18:15 Tickets General meeting 18:30 General meeting Feb 4 @ 18:30 – 20:00 Tickets Get involved at the general meeting	5 Yoga Classes for All 10:00 Yoga Classes for All Feb 5 @ 10:00 – 11:30 Tickets Yoga Classes for All – free. Contact bija@riseup.net with any queries. Mutual Aid vegan foodbank 13:00 Mutual Aid vegan foodbank Feb 5 @ 13:00 – 16:00 Tickets Vegan foodbank, open to all, no referrals needed Jollof Cafe 13:30 Jollof Cafe Feb 5 @ 13:30 – 15:30 Tickets Family friendly community meal	6 Cowley Café 12:00 Cowley Café Feb 6 @ 12:00 – 17:00 Tickets Come down to The Cowley Club and enjoy our cafe. Tea, coffee, food and cakes (all vegan!) every week from Wednesday to Saturday, open from midday. Browse the bookshop, check out the library, have some tasty vegan lunch or enjoy a cuppa in the garden. Cantifa! 19:30 Cantifa! Feb 6 @ 19:30 – 23:00 Tickets Come down to the Cowley Club every Wednesday for a mid-week drink with Brighton Antifascists, featuring their famous £2 cans!	7 Cowley Café 12:00 Cowley Café Feb 7 @ 12:00 – 17:00 Tickets Come down to The Cowley Club and enjoy our cafe. Tea, coffee, food and cakes (all vegan!) every week from Wednesday to Saturday, open from midday. Browse the bookshop, check out the library, have some tasty vegan lunch or enjoy a cuppa in the garden. Cowley Reading Group 18:30 Cowley Reading Group Feb 7 @ 18:30 – 19:30 Tickets Sahlins’ “The Original Affluent Society” Inquiries to cowleyreading@gmail.com Evening meal 19:00 Evening meal Feb 7 @ 19:00 – 23:00 Tickets Enjoy a vegan evening meal at the Cowley Club, cooked by the best volunteer vegan cooks in Brighton. The bar is open from 7pm ready for you to place you order and grab a drink, with food served from around 8pm. Free software clinic 19:00 Free software clinic Feb 7 @ 19:00 – 20:00 Tickets The library offers a free software clinic on Thursday evenings. We can help you: Browse securely and anonymously with Tor and Tails Learn about free and open source alternatives to commercial software Install free alternatives to Apple and Microsoft on your PC or laptop, such as Ubuntu or Mint Get advice and guidance on building[...]	8 Cowley Café 12:00 Cowley Café Feb 8 @ 12:00 – 17:00 Tickets Come down to The Cowley Club and enjoy our cafe. Tea, coffee, food and cakes (all vegan!) every week from Wednesday to Saturday, open from midday. Browse the bookshop, check out the library, have some tasty vegan lunch or enjoy a cuppa in the garden.	9 Cowley Café 12:00 Cowley Café Feb 9 @ 12:00 – 17:00 Tickets Come down to The Cowley Club and enjoy our cafe. Tea, coffee, food and cakes (all vegan!) every week from Wednesday to Saturday, open from midday. Browse the bookshop, check out the library, have some tasty vegan lunch or enjoy a cuppa in the garden. Fundraiser for anti-coal protectors 18:00 Fundraiser for anti-coal protectors Feb 9 @ 18:00 – Feb 10 @ 00:00 Tickets On 14 November, 8 land defenders (including a wonderful Brightonian) who took direct action to stop Banks Group from opening a new opencast coal-mine in County Durham were found guilty and fined £8,323 for doing the right thing. That’s why we are joining together for an evening of delicious food and great music and performance[...]	10 Sunday Roast 13:00 Sunday Roast Feb 10 @ 13:00 – 16:00 Tickets Join us for one of the Cowley Club’s legendary Sunday Roasts! Obviously 100% vegan, obviously super scrumptious and obviously all proceeds going back to the community. This time we will be fundraising for The All African Women’s Group The All African Women’s Group is a self-help group of asylum and refugee women who have come[...]
11 Migrant English Project 10:00 Migrant English Project Feb 11 @ 10:00 – 15:30 Tickets The Migrant English Project provides… Free and informal English lessons for refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants. A welcoming, friendly and safe space where people can meet others and receive support Support, basic advice, referrals and signposting when needed Free lunch & refreshments during the project Every Monday 10am – 3.30pm, children welcome. Welfare Rights Advice 17:00 Welfare Rights Advice Feb 11 @ 17:00 – 18:15 Tickets	12 Yoga Classes for All 10:00 Yoga Classes for All Feb 12 @ 10:00 – 11:30 Tickets Yoga Classes for All – free. Contact bija@riseup.net with any queries. Mutual Aid vegan foodbank 13:00 Mutual Aid vegan foodbank Feb 12 @ 13:00 – 16:00 Tickets Vegan foodbank, open to all, no referrals needed Jollof Cafe 13:30 Jollof Cafe Feb 12 @ 13:30 – 15:30 Tickets Family friendly community meal Defending the Weald: Protecting our local ancient woodland ecology 19:00 Defending the Weald: Protecting our local ancient woodland ecology Feb 12 @ 19:00 – 21:00 Tickets Local ecological campaigner and author Dave Bangs talks about his new book ‘The Land of the Brighton Line’ and the fight to defend the ancient woodland on our doorstep in the Weald from the encroaching tide of fracking, airport expansion, new house building, new road and rail links and industrial scale wind turbines and solar[...]	13 Cowley Café 12:00 Cowley Café Feb 13 @ 12:00 – 17:00 Tickets Come down to The Cowley Club and enjoy our cafe. Tea, coffee, food and cakes (all vegan!) every week from Wednesday to Saturday, open from midday. Browse the bookshop, check out the library, have some tasty vegan lunch or enjoy a cuppa in the garden. Cantifa! 19:30 Cantifa! Feb 13 @ 19:30 – 23:00 Tickets Come down to the Cowley Club every Wednesday for a mid-week drink with Brighton Antifascists, featuring their famous £2 cans!	14 Cowley Café 12:00 Cowley Café Feb 14 @ 12:00 – 17:00 Tickets Come down to The Cowley Club and enjoy our cafe. Tea, coffee, food and cakes (all vegan!) every week from Wednesday to Saturday, open from midday. Browse the bookshop, check out the library, have some tasty vegan lunch or enjoy a cuppa in the garden. Evening meal 19:00 Evening meal Feb 14 @ 19:00 – 23:00 Tickets Enjoy a vegan evening meal at the Cowley Club, cooked by the best volunteer vegan cooks in Brighton. The bar is open from 7pm ready for you to place you order and grab a drink, with food served from around 8pm. Free software clinic 19:00 Free software clinic Feb 14 @ 19:00 – 20:00 Tickets The library offers a free software clinic on Thursday evenings. We can help you: Browse securely and anonymously with Tor and Tails Learn about free and open source alternatives to commercial software Install free alternatives to Apple and Microsoft on your PC or laptop, such as Ubuntu or Mint Get advice and guidance on building[...]	15 Cowley Café 12:00 Cowley Café Feb 15 @ 12:00 – 17:00 Tickets Come down to The Cowley Club and enjoy our cafe. Tea, coffee, food and cakes (all vegan!) every week from Wednesday to Saturday, open from midday. Browse the bookshop, check out the library, have some tasty vegan lunch or enjoy a cuppa in the garden. Open mic 20:00 Open mic Feb 15 @ 20:00 – 22:00 Tickets Semi-regular open mic night, come and bring your talents, or just enjoy those that do	16 Cowley Café 12:00 Cowley Café Feb 16 @ 12:00 – 17:00 Tickets Come down to The Cowley Club and enjoy our cafe. Tea, coffee, food and cakes (all vegan!) every week from Wednesday to Saturday, open from midday. Browse the bookshop, check out the library, have some tasty vegan lunch or enjoy a cuppa in the garden. Matilda’s Scoundrels / Primeval Soup / Nana 20:00 Matilda’s Scoundrels / Primeval Soup / Nana Feb 16 @ 20:00 – Feb 17 @ 02:00 Tickets Ill Fitted DIY and The Cowley Club presents… MATILDA’S SCOUNDRELS One of the UK’s most exciting and hardworking bands, playing everywhere around the UK and Europe, but somehow never coming to The Cowley Club, until now! Punk rock for fishermen, folk for the punx, and something for everyone FFO: Everything from Dropkick Murphys to Days[...]	17 Fermentation Class – 2019 welcome 12:00 Fermentation Class – 2019 welcome Feb 17 @ 12:00 – 17:00 Tickets A great way to explore the magic of kimchi, sauerkraut, kefir, kombucha and other amazing fermented and pickled foods. As well as the whole heaven of raw cheeses. Should be a great fun afternoon. A mixture of demonstrations and hands on kitchen tasks. Help us spread the word and invite friends that might be interested.[...]
18 Migrant English Project 10:00 Migrant English Project Feb 18 @ 10:00 – 15:30 Tickets The Migrant English Project provides… Free and informal English lessons for refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants. A welcoming, friendly and safe space where people can meet others and receive support Support, basic advice, referrals and signposting when needed Free lunch & refreshments during the project Every Monday 10am – 3.30pm, children welcome. Welfare Rights Advice 17:00 Welfare Rights Advice Feb 18 @ 17:00 – 18:15 Tickets	19 Yoga Classes for All 10:00 Yoga Classes for All Feb 19 @ 10:00 – 11:30 Tickets Yoga Classes for All – free. Contact bija@riseup.net with any queries. Mutual Aid vegan foodbank 13:00 Mutual Aid vegan foodbank Feb 19 @ 13:00 – 16:00 Tickets Vegan foodbank, open to all, no referrals needed Jollof Cafe 13:30 Jollof Cafe Feb 19 @ 13:30 – 15:30 Tickets Family friendly community meal All of this is temporary – acid communism and anarchism series 19:30 All of this is temporary – acid communism and anarchism series Feb 19 @ 19:30 – 22:30 Tickets Plan C Brighton presents, at the wonderful Cowley Club… A video lecture from Mark Fisher followed by hosted conversation with Plan C Brighton. Following on from our two workshops on Acid Communism and Anarchism, we present a session that will look at the idea of ‘capitalist realism’, which is the problem to which acid communism[...]	20 Cowley Café 12:00 Cowley Café Feb 20 @ 12:00 – 17:00 Tickets Come down to The Cowley Club and enjoy our cafe. Tea, coffee, food and cakes (all vegan!) every week from Wednesday to Saturday, open from midday. Browse the bookshop, check out the library, have some tasty vegan lunch or enjoy a cuppa in the garden. Cantifa! 19:30 Cantifa! Feb 20 @ 19:30 – 23:00 Tickets Come down to the Cowley Club every Wednesday for a mid-week drink with Brighton Antifascists, featuring their famous £2 cans!	21 Cowley Café 12:00 Cowley Café Feb 21 @ 12:00 – 17:00 Tickets Come down to The Cowley Club and enjoy our cafe. Tea, coffee, food and cakes (all vegan!) every week from Wednesday to Saturday, open from midday. Browse the bookshop, check out the library, have some tasty vegan lunch or enjoy a cuppa in the garden. Free software clinic 19:00 Free software clinic Feb 21 @ 19:00 – 20:00 Tickets The library offers a free software clinic on Thursday evenings. We can help you: Browse securely and anonymously with Tor and Tails Learn about free and open source alternatives to commercial software Install free alternatives to Apple and Microsoft on your PC or laptop, such as Ubuntu or Mint Get advice and guidance on building[...] State Funeral / Never / Gutter Knife / Plastics 19:30 State Funeral / Never / Gutter Knife / Plastics Feb 21 @ 19:30 – 23:00 Tickets Illegal Activity Presents: All profits go to Pavilions drug and alcohol services: Pavilions provides adult Drug & Alcohol Services for Brighton & Hove. Support is available to anyone concerned about their drug or alcohol use, or for the families & carers supporting those struggling with substance misuse. www.pavilions.org.uk State Funeral – Tory Party Prison https://statefuneraluk.bandcamp.com/releases[...]	22 Cowley Café 12:00 Cowley Café Feb 22 @ 12:00 – 17:00 Tickets Come down to The Cowley Club and enjoy our cafe. Tea, coffee, food and cakes (all vegan!) every week from Wednesday to Saturday, open from midday. Browse the bookshop, check out the library, have some tasty vegan lunch or enjoy a cuppa in the garden. SYLPH #2 20:00 SYLPH #2 Feb 22 @ 20:00 – Feb 23 @ 01:00 Tickets Every Man His Own Football presents… SYLPH #2 featuring – Mike Neaves Totally fit techno lad from London. Plays in Nitkowski and Plurals, amongst other things. We’ll see a table covered in little boxes and cables, the kind of tech shit I’ll never understand, somehow it works though; generating skittering drum machines w/ moody synth[...]	23 Cowley Café 12:00 Cowley Café Feb 23 @ 12:00 – 17:00 Tickets Come down to The Cowley Club and enjoy our cafe. Tea, coffee, food and cakes (all vegan!) every week from Wednesday to Saturday, open from midday. Browse the bookshop, check out the library, have some tasty vegan lunch or enjoy a cuppa in the garden. Tugboat Captain / Garden Centre / Beloved Ghosts / Chalk Joke 19:30 Tugboat Captain / Garden Centre / Beloved Ghosts / Chalk Joke Feb 23 @ 19:30 – 23:00 Tickets TUGBOAT CAPTAIN – solo Glorious London’s Son Of An Indie Gun Going Strong By Himself. https://tugboatcaptain.bandcamp.com/ GARDEN CENTRE – solo Brighton’s Fav’ Dormouse Strumming And Playing With Electronic Otters Through Desertlike Sunflower Fields https://gardencentre.bandcamp.com/album/garden-centre GREETINGS FROM THE BELOVED GHOSTS French/UK Lo-Fi 3-Piece Dream Of A Sweet & Sour Wedding Between The Town And The City[...]	24 Sunday Roast 13:00 Sunday Roast Feb 24 @ 13:00 – 16:00 Tickets Join us for one of the Cowley Club’s legendary Sunday Roasts! Obviously 100% vegan, obviously super scrumptious and obviously all proceeds going back to the community. This time we will be fundraising for The All African Women’s Group The All African Women’s Group is a self-help group of asylum and refugee women who have come[...] Clothes swap 17:00 Clothes swap Feb 24 @ 17:00 – 21:00 Tickets Swapping is the new shopping! Clean out your closet and join us at this fundraising event for the vegan food bank. bring gently used clothing, shoes & accessories that you no longer want and trade up for as many new pieces for your wardrobe as you can carry out. .Never been to a clothes swap[...]
25 Migrant English Project 10:00 Migrant English Project Feb 25 @ 10:00 – 15:30 Tickets The Migrant English Project provides… Free and informal English lessons for refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants. A welcoming, friendly and safe space where people can meet others and receive support Support, basic advice, referrals and signposting when needed Free lunch & refreshments during the project Every Monday 10am – 3.30pm, children welcome. Welfare Rights Advice 17:00 Welfare Rights Advice Feb 25 @ 17:00 – 18:15 Tickets “Whatever the Penalties”, WW1 conscientious objectors 19:00 “Whatever the Penalties”, WW1 conscientious objectors Feb 25 @ 19:00 – 21:00 Tickets In the lead up to the International Day of Peace on 21st September, Brighton Peace and Environment Centre will be running a once a month screenings at the Cowley Club, sharing a series of short films all about peace. We will be kicking off our series with “Whatever the Penalties”, The story of conscientious objectors[...]	26 Yoga Classes for All 10:00 Yoga Classes for All Feb 26 @ 10:00 – 11:30 Tickets Yoga Classes for All – free. Contact bija@riseup.net with any queries. Mutual Aid vegan foodbank 13:00 Mutual Aid vegan foodbank Feb 26 @ 13:00 – 16:00 Tickets Vegan foodbank, open to all, no referrals needed Jollof Cafe 13:30 Jollof Cafe Feb 26 @ 13:30 – 15:30 Tickets Family friendly community meal	27 Cowley Café 12:00 Cowley Café Feb 27 @ 12:00 – 17:00 Tickets Come down to The Cowley Club and enjoy our cafe. Tea, coffee, food and cakes (all vegan!) every week from Wednesday to Saturday, open from midday. Browse the bookshop, check out the library, have some tasty vegan lunch or enjoy a cuppa in the garden. Cantifa! 19:30 Cantifa! Feb 27 @ 19:30 – 23:00 Tickets Come down to the Cowley Club every Wednesday for a mid-week drink with Brighton Antifascists, featuring their famous £2 cans!	28 Cowley Café 12:00 Cowley Café Feb 28 @ 12:00 – 17:00 Tickets Come down to The Cowley Club and enjoy our cafe. Tea, coffee, food and cakes (all vegan!) every week from Wednesday to Saturday, open from midday. Browse the bookshop, check out the library, have some tasty vegan lunch or enjoy a cuppa in the garden. Free software clinic 19:00 Free software clinic Feb 28 @ 19:00 – 20:00 Tickets The library offers a free software clinic on Thursday evenings. We can help you: Browse securely and anonymously with Tor and Tails Learn about free and open source alternatives to commercial software Install free alternatives to Apple and Microsoft on your PC or laptop, such as Ubuntu or Mint Get advice and guidance on building[...] Efa Supertramp / Geigerzähler / Pog 20:00 Efa Supertramp / Geigerzähler / Pog Feb 28 @ 20:00 – 23:00 Tickets Efa Supertramp + Geigerzähler with support from Pog and 1 more TBC Tour of England + Wales 2019: Folk-Punk in Four Languages! Combining a punk attitude, folk instruments and four languages Efa Supertramp and Geigerzähler will tour England and Wales to rant, sing and play to anyone who will listen to them this spring. Having[...]

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