1st March 2011
In this weeks newsletter
- A journey of great ale proportions
- Lo Fi crafts
- Free For Arts
- Get your gigs on
Ale Trail
Getting deeper
Well Common’s second beer trail is well and truly in full swing. We have had some lovely ales from all around the country already. Sheffield’s Kellam Island was one of the early highlights with their excellent pale rider, a lovely refreshing light ale. We then visited North Wales via the Conwy brewery. Following that we went to Derby with 99 Red Baboons from Blue Monkey, a delicious red ale with a roasted malt flavour. Then its back up north with the Bank Top brewery for our Boltonian beer geek.
This is going to continue until all the staffs home-brews have been tasted and showcased at Common, some however are proving hard to source as some of our staff are from the far points of the country. We will get there though, however hard the journey.
It’s all worth it for a good pint.
Lo-Fi DIY
Making Things Happen
Turning beloved scraps of paper, letters of love and maps of the world into beautiful books. On Tuesday 1st March you can do exactly that in the Kestrel Suite from 6pm till 9pm. With the aid of Caroline Coates you can create artist books, notes and scrap-books from just a few simple and careful folds of an A4 piece of paper along with a few simple book binding stitches.
All materials are provided for which the Lo-fi collective ask for a £1 donation, however they also encourage you to bring your own pieces with you to give your books that sense of nostalgia and personality. Anything from wrapping paper to drawings to maps can all be turned into your own wonderful little book. So come down and get crafty, Lo-Fi now takes place on the first Tuesday of every month at Common.
Email nico@opheliabutton.co.uk to confirm your attendance.
Free For Arts Festival
Catalogue and Open Submission Launch
On Thursday 3rd March in the Kestrel Suite between the hours of 6 and 8, the Free for Arts Festival will be hosting their first networking event of 2011. Celebrating their latest expansion into the land of print, this evening offers you the chance to purchase one of their limited 2009 – 2010 full colour, lavishly illustrated catalogue. Plus there is a complimentary limited edition screen-printed canvas with the first few catalogues purchased, so get there early to make sure you don’t miss out.
Not only this, but the evening sees the opening for their submission process to be involved and submit your ideas for this years Free for Arts event (7th – 14th October). Submissions will be open until the end of May so come on down and find out more, ask those burning questions and treat yourself to a glass of some limited complimentary wine.
Ticket vendors
Without booking fees
We are very excited to announce to you, our lovely customers, that we now sell tickets for even more live musical rendezvous than ever before. Just added to our collection are the annual Sounds From The Other City festival. On May 1st they take control of 13 venues across Chapel St in Salford.
Acts already confirmed include Twilight Sad, Those Dancing Days, Wave Pictures and D/R/U/G/S, tickets are priced at a mere £18. We also have tickets for Mount Kimbie at the Deaf Institute, which is poised to sell out very quickly, and priced at only 10 of your English pounds. If these two beauties weren’t enough we also sell tickets for every single Hey Manchester! show, highlights of which include Jesca Hoop for £8 and the Travelling Band for only £10.
So next time you are in treating yourself to a chilli and a pint of the latest guest ale, don’t forget to purchase your gig tickets WITHOUT booking fee. Now you can’t say fairer than that!
http://soundsfromtheothercity.com/
http://www.heymanchester.com
THIS Week At Common
Tuesday 1st // Lo-Fi DIY
6pm until 9pm – free
Wednesday 2nd // Common Knowledge
7.30pm until 11pm – free
Thursday 3rd // Free For Arts Launch (Kestrel Suite)
6pm until 8pm – free
Thursday 3rd // Stop Making Sense
9pm until 2am – free
Friday 4th // Freitags with Will (Tramp!)
9pm until 2am – free before 10pm / £2 after
Saturday 5th // Friends In Common with Sean Canty
9pm until 2am – free before 10pm / £2 after
NEXT Week at Common
Wednesday 9th // Pull Yourself Together
8pm until midnight – free
Thursday 10th // Stop Making Sense
9pm until 2am – free
Friday 11th // Freitags with Benjamin Yourself
9pm until 2am – free before 10pm / £2 after
Saturday 12th // Pumping Iron
9pm until 2am – free before 10pm / £2 after
Remember to use your ‘shiny orange members card’ to get 10% off food and drink all day every day (t&c apply) – lost your card? drop us an email with your name and address – thanks