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- Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:28 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: No Berlusconi Day - Petition and Fundraising
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4830
Re: No Berlusconi Day - Petition and Fundraising
All sounds good except for the raising funds bit -- not sure that will really be possible with an event in the cafe??
- Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:53 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Quick Question
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14067
Re: Quick Question
Shit, I was wondering the same thing yesterday.
Nae good.
Nae good.
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 4:16 pm
- Forum: Workshops
- Topic: One Man's Junk workshop this Sunday 1-4 (11th April)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9360
- Mon Apr 05, 2010 7:01 pm
- Forum: The Building
- Topic: stairs mural!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13939
Re: stairs mural!
me four.
- Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:10 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: web links opening in new page
- Replies: 15
- Views: 23190
Re: web links opening in new page
I wonder if Jane is in favour of web links opening in new pages?
- Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:59 pm
- Forum: The Building
- Topic: Mural Proposal. Cassie .
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10822
Re: Mural Proposal. Cassie .
It's hard to tell with just that one image to go by. I think it could be quite good, and I really like the texture/contour ideas she talks about. I'd be up for seeing it somewhere in the building, but I'm not totally convinced about such a prominent (and big!!) space as the stairs leading up to the ...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:20 pm
- Forum: The Building
- Topic: Proposal: 'International Branding' photo exhibition
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9914
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:46 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Giant Marble Run
- Replies: 45
- Views: 57828
- Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:10 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: web meet-o-rama?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 61512
Re: web meet-o-rama?
I really don't think you need me to complicate the issue, and I should've held back from putting my two cents worth in! No, you shouldn't have held back your points Lynn. Thank you for posting. As soon as I read all the reasons from the techie people as to why we should use drupal my head goes to m...
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:01 pm
- Forum: Workshops
- Topic: The Bike Cafe - proposal
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10958
Re: The Bike Cafe - proposal
Nice. Check with Graeme and Nix to see what kit we already have? There has been some bike fixy-fix happening quite a bit over the last few years.
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:17 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: our website, so big and scrolly
- Replies: 100
- Views: 143129
Re: our website, so big and scrolly
Can I suggest that this thread is closed, and anymore website chat waits for the meeting?
I don't think people's differences are going to be worked out on this thread and new misunderstandings seem to emerging.
Pretty please?
I don't think people's differences are going to be worked out on this thread and new misunderstandings seem to emerging.
Pretty please?
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:09 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: our website, so big and scrolly
- Replies: 100
- Views: 143129
Re: our website, so big and scrolly
I am still in favour of changing to tumblr in the interim until we are happy with drupal. This isn't "tearing down" anyone's anything, it's just that primping and preening is best done behind closed doors in the privacy of your bedroom mirror BEFORE showing your pretty face to the world, rather tha...
- Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:56 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: our website, so big and scrolly
- Replies: 100
- Views: 143129
Re: our website, so big and scrolly
I don't think I'm gonna vote in the poll. I'm not sure how the results of the poll will help us, and forest doesn't make decisions by polls or by majority. The poll is useful in that it sets out a number of possible solutions though. It doesn't look like the two camps are going to see eye to eye on...
- Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:32 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: our website, so big and scrolly
- Replies: 100
- Views: 143129
Re: our website, so big and scrolly
Maybe it would be an idea to get a simple artistic front page we like over a simple tumbler structure in an interim until the mechanics of drupal get worked out into a bug-free pretty website that is the dream? Especially if milk has a new crew coming together. This way the new team could have enou...
- Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:41 pm
- Forum: Kitchen
- Topic: zapatista coffee for the cafe?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10008
Re: zapatista coffee for the cafe?
From what Zapatista suppliers? We used to buy it direct from the crew in Hamburg that process/package the coffee. I would recommend going direct with them if you decide to start it up again. And yeah, it was stopped because the strength of the euro against the pounds was making it pretty expensive. ...
- Thu Dec 24, 2009 8:03 pm
- Forum: Minutes
- Topic: Cafe and events meeting 3rd december 2009
- Replies: 28
- Views: 47860
Re: Cafe and events meeting 3rd december 2009
Humorous menu descriptors are tres important. But so is readability...can CIA/ForPub be both witty and concise???
Also, what's the point of this salad plate malarky when there is only ever one fancy salad now?
Also, what's the point of this salad plate malarky when there is only ever one fancy salad now?
- Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:41 am
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: how to set up a social centre
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2982
how to set up a social centre
"How to Set Up a Social Centre", compiled and published by Radical Routes A 92 page guide to legal structures, business planning, property maintenance, licencing, policies, housing legislation, running a bar / cafe and more. Available by post for £3.50 from Radical Routes 16 Sholebroke Avenue Leeds...
- Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:10 pm
- Forum: The Building
- Topic: new proposal for the front room
- Replies: 19
- Views: 27164
Re: new proposal for the front room
Nice...make sure she knows there's a good chance they'll get broken?
- Sat Nov 21, 2009 9:52 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Tree for Ellie at Forest
- Replies: 26
- Views: 29869
Re: Tree for Ellie at Forest
Of course. But is the garden really the best place to put it? If we end up leaving the building will something happen to the tree?
- Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:01 pm
- Forum: Minutes
- Topic: Artists Facilities Meeting - Wednesday 11st of November
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13535
Re: Artists Facilities Meeting - Wednesday 11st of November
Wow...big meeting! Looks goooood.
- Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:57 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: left over monster bikes?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12281
Re: left over monster bikes?
Yeah, I was there too - although only for one day, and Sean took mine for its spin. I was more wondering which bikes are still kicking around and if they still work? Anyway, I'll try to take a look tomorrow.
Bill is with baby these days...?
Bill is with baby these days...?
- Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:56 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: left over monster bikes?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12281
left over monster bikes?
Got this email today after a random phone call in the cafe: Hi Shannon, Thank you for your help with this. Would be great to get this story shot with the bikes that are still left and some of the people that made them. I'd would like to take them out either in the city or around the surrounding coun...
- Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:45 pm
- Forum: Kitchen
- Topic: green city order
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4977
green city order
Dearest kitchen managers/etc: I was wondering if I might be able to add some items to the Green City order this week? They're for me/the flat, not the Forest. I used to do this back in the day and just put it on a separate invoice so it didn't mess up the Forest books. In exchange, I could just do t...
- Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:40 am
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Free shop!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 15482
Re: Free shop!
I left a bunch of stuff for the free shop last night, up by the balcony where the sign is that says 'don't leave things here.' I'm sorry. I called before I came in to make sure it would be okay, but when I got there the free shop crew wasn't around and the free shop key didn't work. It is all clean,...
- Thu Nov 05, 2009 3:18 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Bowery 1st birthday party!!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4019
Re: Bowery 1st birthday party!!
Well, at least there are some advantages to deportation.
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- Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:25 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Rampart Social Centre Evicted
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3640
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:25 am
- Forum: Front of House/Gallery
- Topic: Illustrator volunteer for consensus gesture images?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9944
Re: Illustrator volunteer for consensus gesture images?
http://seedsforchange.org.uk/free/shortfacilitation
One finger, two fingers and silent applause. Scroll down.
One finger, two fingers and silent applause. Scroll down.
- Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:05 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: @foresttweets
- Replies: 35
- Views: 41453
Re: @foresttweets
In general I think if we applied the pragmatic argument to everything we do we would not exist, or we would just be another Udder Belly. What is the forest for? To me it's about saying fuck you to the mainstream and doing it our own way. 'Everyone else is doing it so we should too' doesn't hold wat...
- Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:40 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: @foresttweets
- Replies: 35
- Views: 41453
Re: @foresttweets
I heart chombee.
- Fri Jul 03, 2009 9:16 am
- Forum: The Building
- Topic: July FOH meeting Monday 6th at 7pm in the Action Room
- Replies: 13
- Views: 20260
Re: July FOH meeting Monday 6th at 7pm in the Action Room
Not really my place to step into these decisions these days, so I'll keep it quick. I think we need to be really careful about paying people for stuff like this. Of course Madga's art is worth it, that's not really the question. But I think it opens a big fucking can of worms about ethos, who gets p...
- Mon Jun 15, 2009 2:42 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Can we give the Forest a new push???
- Replies: 85
- Views: 82819
Re: Can we give the Forest a new push???
Where is the barfing smiley?
- Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:23 am
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Can we give the Forest a new push???
- Replies: 85
- Views: 82819
Re: Can we give the Forest a new push???
There is zero ventilation - essential for a public toilet.
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 4:53 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Can we give the Forest a new push???
- Replies: 85
- Views: 82819
Re: Can we give the Forest a new push???
Also, what do bladder infections have to do with unsightly toilets? Have I been missing out on something? Do women regularly rub their vulva on the seat? Microbiology isn't my strong point, but as far as I know bladder-infection causing microbes don't jump from the toilet seat, into your vagina. Jus...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 4:41 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Can we give the Forest a new push???
- Replies: 85
- Views: 82819
Re: Can we give the Forest a new push???
Regardless of how we feel or our behaviour, and that is my interpretion of gender, we are in a form though. Actually, no. If you want to get all uppity with your biological imperative there are more than just XY and XX variations in the world. It's not all 'feeling' or 'behaviour.' There is more to...
- Thu May 28, 2009 10:43 am
- Forum: The Building
- Topic: A new meeting!
- Replies: 37
- Views: 38638
Re: A new meeting!
The work is great. But she will just supply the design and Forest crew will have to paint it - is that right?
- Wed May 27, 2009 4:49 pm
- Forum: Kitchen
- Topic: Kitchen Managers Wanted
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5092
Re: Kitchen Managers Wanted
Who's leaving?
- Wed May 20, 2009 1:46 am
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: bill is cute!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6180
Re: bill is cute!
double true!
- Sat May 02, 2009 6:01 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Does anyone have the time or expertise to promote this play?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3092
Re: Does anyone have the time or expertise to promote this play?
shit, I just double posted this...really hope someone will take this on and look into it!
- Sat May 02, 2009 6:00 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Howard Zinn's Marx in SOHO
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2963
Howard Zinn's Marx in SOHO
These folks are trying to put a UK tour together during the end of July/first week of August. Sounds quite good and could be great for Forest Fringe or even in the cafe? For nearly four years we have been touring Howard Zinn's, one man show, MARX IN SOHO. Howard Zinn's is most known for his book, A ...
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:46 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Madame Nana's Cafe JACOBINS - Forest inspired Korean seed
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13262
Re: Madame Nana's Cafe JACOBINS - Forest inspired Korean seed
It's so clean because it was college space I think?? It is nice to see the white walls morphing in the photos... Awesome.
- Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:27 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Call For Submissions - TWEE
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4740
Re: Call For Submissions - TWEE
Sounds fucking cool. But didn't Forest Fringe launch in 07??
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:30 pm
- Forum: Make/Sell
- Topic: Stolen Stories Sales / Budget
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8840
Re: Stolen Stories Sales / Budget
I think originally we decided that budgets didn't roll over from one year to the next, which makes sense if the budgets are set in line with the money we have in the bank account and making a decent yearly prediction of income/expenses, etc. From what I've been reading, it sounds like finances aren'...
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:34 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Teenagers- are they all evil?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 52847
Re: Teenagers- are they all evil?
Looks like utter and total wank to me. (Thanks for wading through it Milk.)
- Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:40 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: FOREST
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6239
Re: FOREST
didn't you hear about the make out party?
- Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:04 am
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Send me your posters!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14362
Re: Send me your posters!
Great!!
- Thu Dec 18, 2008 4:24 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: good one
- Replies: 30
- Views: 27308
Re: good one
Look at the three email addresses it was sent to...
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:51 am
- Forum: Kitchen
- Topic: Cleaning System and Colours
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7275
Re: Cleaning System and Colours
fancy pants! who knew you could be so anal retentive...(i also like it.)
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:25 am
- Forum: Kitchen
- Topic: those squares
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13801
Re: those squares
They are surprisingly genius.
- Mon Nov 10, 2008 2:54 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: other cool foresty organisations
- Replies: 84
- Views: 181173
Re: other cool foresty organisations
Also in Malmo:
Utkanten
20 Industrigatan
http://www.utkanten.net/english.php
Autonomous social centre extraordinaire...really great warehouse space with lots of politics, art, food and more.
Utkanten
20 Industrigatan
http://www.utkanten.net/english.php
Autonomous social centre extraordinaire...really great warehouse space with lots of politics, art, food and more.
- Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:57 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Teenagers- are they all evil?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 52847
Re: Teenagers- are they all evil?
lets not have one of those epic discussions. If the council is already kicking up a fuss about the cameras then i would say that it's almost now a complete neccesity and therefore Ryan you should just buy them immediately. It would be nice not to go through the epic discussions again, but it is als...