A new Okasional cafe is due to open soon.  Watch this space!

2pm-5pm Textiles skill share

Jewellery and crafts making- there will be stuff provided but bring your own too!

2-6:30pm- Legal observer workshop

Legal observer is the art of collecting evidence to assist activists in legal proceedings. This session, run by Green and Black Cross, is beginners’ training in what you need to look out for and do as a legal observer.

9pm-2:00am- Folk Fights Night

Folk Night…Music night.

This will be the last late night event at the Cafe, with music from The Happy Soul, Avital Raz & f Q Too, Tom Yates & Friendly Friends, Karima Francis, The Yossarians, and more special guests!

Donations on the door, lots and lots of special booze, astral revelations & provident visions of the future. & jam …..

followed by A Dj eventings 60′s garage, funk, & souliness …

Be there or be eaten by tiny shoes…..

2-4pm – Making stuff out of rubbish

Does what it says on the tin. Belts out of inner tubes, wallets out of tetra packs…laptops out of cereal boxes…yeah!

5-9pm- OKcafe- OKsong

OK, what happens if you gather up a lot of OK musicians to forum an OK supergroup and write an OK song about squatting/ the cafe? Let’s find out!

All welcome, no musical talent required, just a sense of rhythm!

6-8pm- Mexico and The Movement for Peace

Documentary and discussion;

An independent collective of documentarists in Mexico directed a documentary about the war in Mexico and they show it at the cafe;

”Mass-media is not accurately showing what the war in Mexico is being like and affecting every single one of us and our families

http://emergenciamx.org/

6-8pm-When Protest Goes Wrong

When Protest Goes Wrong: arrest, detention, courts, imprisonment – it could be you! Green & Black Cross workshop on experiences of the legal and punishment systems.

8-9pm – Red & Black Cross meeting

5-7pm- A brief history of the No Borders network in Manchester

A brief history of the No Borders network, focusing on Manchester. Come and meet other people interested in No Borders activism.

6-10pm- Black Star Ital ‘Cook Up’

A night of reggae riddems, ital food and easy skanking with Black Star Dub Collective’s cooks and djs

7pm – Manchester Traveller Solidarity

7-9pm Writing a press release and Creating your Own Media

In this session, we’ll look at:

- how to write a press release to get the media to take notice of your event, action, campaign or project.
- the daily routines of local and national media and how to best fit into them
- how to use independent media platforms such as Northern Indymedia
- how to use easy DIY web editing programs such as WordPress
All welcome – no previous experience required.

If you have your own laptop, please bring it. Otherwise, computers will be provided.

9-11pm -Invisible Circus film showing

How to turn an old fire station into a circus/arts type place….Bring some popcorn and come to watch this film at the okcafe’s big screen.