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THIS WEEK AT FOREST:
Tuesday
5.45 - 7.15 pm - Grammofonstunde
Thursday
4 - 6 pm: Tea, Cakes, War & Peace - conversations on peace, conflict and security with Edinburgh Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT)
6 - 8 pm: OPEN MIC! music/poetry/storytelling
Friday
7 - 8 pm: Performance and Readings of Translations for International Translation Day
8 - 10pm: Shorts - Open Screening
Saturday
2 - 5 pm: Paulo Niño aka Takt Art presents: Different Drummer DJ-Set
5 - 8 pm: Ask a Monk In Forest Cafe
Sunday
FREE BARBER’S, 7 - 9 pm
FOREST CAFE IS LOOKING FOR A KITCHEN MANAGER!!!!
Hiring: Kitchen Manager
The Forest is a community arts space and volunteer run cafe, the running of the is effectively split into three groups: volunteers, Night managers and Kitchen managers. Volunteers are responsible for most of the ‘frontline’ work in the cafe including customer service, food preparation and keeping the cafe running well. Night managers are longer term volunteers with greater responsibilities and look after the cafe in the evenings from 7pm - 11pm. As a Kitchen manager you will be working closely with both of these groups, but are responsible for much more, a preliminary list is set out below but more can be explained at the interview.
Work as a Kitchen manager is demanding, dynamic and a significant responsibility within a large and diverse community, however it is rewarding and one of the best jobs in the city. Previous experience working in management, kitchens, arts spaces and in diverse communities is a significant plus to any application alongside an understanding of what the Forest is and how it operates.
If you have any questions, please pop into the cafe and ask to talk about the role. Even if you have never been involved with the Forest before you could still have a very strong application.
RESPONSIBILITIES . Food preparation - vegetarian/vegan. . Ensuring food hygiene standards are met. . Administration. . Stock taking and ordering. . Menu setting. . Customer service. . Cash handling. . Ensuring the wellbeing of customers and volunteers in line with the safer spaces policy. . Organisational oversight of the cafe. . Engagement with the wider Forest projects as a community organiser. . Training new volunteers on a regular basis. . Volunteer recruitment. . Working closely with other kitchen managers and the Night managing team.
Rate of pay: £7.85/hour + holiday pay.
Hours: 10am - 7pm (9 hours), 2 - 3 days/week.
Shift pattern: Shifts are split between 3 kitchen managers each month and are arranged on a monthly basis as a mutual arrangement.
Application: Please email your cv and a cover letter to forestrecruitment@outlook.com, please also include a contact email address for two references.
Deadline: Noon 19th of September 2016.
Interviews: To be arranged, 20th - 31st of September 2016.
Job start date: 1st of October 2016.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO APPLY VIA FACEBOOK, IN THE COMMENTS OR WITH PRIVATE MESSAGES!!!!!
SEND ALL EMAILS AND ENQUIRIES TO forestrecruitment@outlook.com
Calling all:
musicians, poets, dancers, storytellers, buskers, artists, activists, mimes, dreamers, crafty people, …
bring your tunes, art, installations, stories, ideas, workshops and friends to Forest Cafe this August (or anytime, really)!
Get us on events@theforest.org.uk if you want to be a part of it - just send us some dates you’re interested in, a bit about what you wanna do, and we’ll get back to you.
We can offer to feed you and provide a space of some wonderful vibes.
During August we will also put together theme days and mini festivals (featuring local bands and movie makers for example), more details to follow soon.
Hope to see you at Forest soon and please spread the word to everyone you want to see perform here.
Forest <3 you! x
Small print:
- all our events are free
- there is yummy food and it’s byob for guests (with a small corkage fee)
- nothing too loud & no amplified music after 8pm unfortunately :(
- equipment: we probably cannot host a full orchestra (but would totally be up for trying!?) but are equipped to host and amplify any setup smaller than that, just let us know what equipment you need
- crazy/experimental ideas more than welcome/encouraged!
Next Wednesday (July 6): Tibet Scotland Connection: Tibetan food, music from 6 pm and 2 short films on Tibet at 8. More info: http://ow.ly/elxD301LsN8
Tomorrow! Open mic night at Forest, come sign up during the day or just drop by a bit before 6. Share, tag, spread the word, come along and bring your friends!
Ellen’s Pence and the Three Farthings and their hoopy mayhem jam on the Forest stage at Meadows Fest.
Definitely Famous is a regular zine distributed through The Forest, take a look at:
Faarket! - Forest’s First Monthly Art Market!
Saturday 26 September 2015 15:00 - 18:00
Calling independent artists to come sell their wares!
Email foresteventsedinburgh@gmail.com with the subject line ‘Faarket!’ or msg Forest Happenings page via Facebook to sign up for a free stall space!
Join the - FB event
You want to sell your artwork and printed / knitted / carved / crafted / moulded / mulched goodies? Faarket!
How was the festival? Here are some of our recent guests from the afternoon live music sessions in the cafe:
Sexy Flail Family: https://sexyflailfamily.wordpress.com/
Twin Headed Wolf: https://twinheadedwolf.bandcamp.com/
Alex Maxwell: https://www.facebook.com/alexmaxwellartist?hc_location=ufi
Sticky Biscuits: ww.stickybiscuits.com
Genesee: https://www.facebook.com/Geneseeing
Amy Fitz Doyley: https://soundcloud.com/amyfitzdoyley
Alley Lyold: https://soundcloud.com/amyfitzdoyley
Alabaster de Plume: http://www.alabasterdeplume.com/
photo credit: Malcolm King
REGULAR EVENTS AT THE FOREST, as always, all free! Gramophonestunde, Tuesdays 6-7 pm
Gaelic workshop, Wednesdays 2.30-3.30 pm
Free The Technics Two, Wednesdays, 4-7 pm
Craftivism, fortnightly, Thursdays 6.30-8.30 pm
FOOP, Food Cooperative, Fridays 3-6 pm
For recent updates from the organisers please visit the Forest fb group.
photo credit: Margarida Jorge
Isaac Jackson at 4by8 GALLERY at The Forest
follow the artist’s work on: http://www.ijmj.co.uk/
your submissions to: 4by8@theforest.org.uk
Forest 15th Birthday Party!
It’s never happened before and it’ll never happen again. We’re celebrating our last half-price bus tickets and our first action films in the cinema, because Forest just turned 15.
Festivities are split between a banquet at the café until 8pm, then a late-night boogie in a secret(ish) nearby cavernous basement. We can tell you it’s huge, it’s collectively run, it’s 5 minutes from Forest, and we can make some ACTUAL NOISE!
Forest has loved you for 15 years xXx
3pm - THE BANQUET @ 141 Lauriston Place [entry free and open to all, £10 to feast]
Soundtrack provided by: SiNK - When Forest does dinner music… https://youtu.be/llX2uZhEWkU Mama’s Broke - Powerful, gritty Americana dripping with fiddles, banjos and fire. https://mamasbroke.bandcamp.com/releases and DJ Paulo Niño bringing the sunshine indoors.
Main courses provided by us- £10 will get you access to all the colourful, healthy, spicy, filling, vegan, ethically-sourced food we can make. Menu details may drool through to this event page as we all get excited ahead of the party…
Sweet things provided by you – for PRIZES! It’s basically a cake competition, eh. How to win stuff: - ’Cakivism’ (for the righteous cake iced with change) - ‘The Mad Scientist’ (well we’ve never seen THAT before…) - ‘Close your eyes and open your mouth…’ (for the ugliest tasty cake or the tastiest ugly cake) - ‘The Van Winkle’ (for the cake that’s got it all, taste and looks, pure mouth poetry)
Then the great and terrible migration to…
8pm – THE BOOGIE @ a nearby underground cavern full of excellent fools [free, BYOB, going ‘til about 1am]
Hours of sweaty mayhem featuring (provisional line-up):
The Matatunes Bashy Basque/Fifer accordion-and-trumpet punk with a recurring ska infection and a lot to shout about. https://soundcloud.com/matatunes/beware-of-the-man
Tryptych and Flo Electrifying, earthy soul, inescapable beats and masterful vocals. https://youtu.be/9l6cEaA-5j0
A frickin’ ceilidh One-night-only ceilidh band [NAME] are an [ADJECTIVE] ensemble of [NOUN/IMAGERY] drawn together exclusively for this one revel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVonyVSQoM
The Badwills – tarantella heroes of Edinburgh, and the last band to play at the old Forest www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSuAywoXs5E
DJs Sweaty ones, loud ones, and to-be-confirmed ones. https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
Get involved – e-mail events@theforest.org.uk if you have party ideas See full August schedule here: www.facebook.com/events/1632499100330466
Forest loves you xXx
HARD ROCK MONDAY, 10th of August from 12 am
A very special menu will complement the spirit(s) of the day, you can follow the event in Forest fb group for the menu updates:
Growing Undergroung - INTO THE LIGHT! - Forest’s Open Stage (BYOB + corkage), Forest’s very open stage, 4 - 8 pm, Sunday the 9th of August
Sign up by getting in touch or on the sheet in the café. Some slots will be available for acts just turning up. Slot length depends on demand (you’ll have at least 15 minutes though).
Your slot is yours. You can do anything with it. BUT It’s you we want! Please make sure there’s something of you in your performance.
