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GROUP BIKE RIDE: MEET AT THE CHE @ 12 NOON
Cooking Volunteers: Meet at the Che @ 11am
Everyone is welcome to our Gas-Free Beach Day where we will raise awareness on the importance of alternative transportation and food consumption.
Now with rising gas prices and threats to sustainability, it is essential to bring together those who are socially, environmentally and globally aware to create a more powerful collective for social and global change.
Participants will commit to either riding bikes, taking the bus or driving veggie-fueled cars to get to our event where we will hold mini workshops on sustainable living including bike maintenance, Veganism, and demos of veggie-fuel conversion, celebrating alternative thinking with fun beach activities, food and conversations.
Only socially and environmentally responsible Vegan, organic and fair-trade food will be provided since it takes more energy to produce meat and its by-products, and much more harmful chemicals to produce non-organic foods. We also seek to reject the unfair international labor and environmental practices of multi-national Corporations by depending on local business rather than on foreign production and the use of excessive oil.
Come with a gas-free mindset and learn more about what you can do to change your individual lifestyles among and within the local community in order to be globally conscious.
If you are interested in creating a more democratic global system, where the local voice of every region in the world reigns over the way the world works, transports, eats and thinks instead of accepting the current one-way flow of information, consumption, and globalization, we are looking to create solidarity between all interest groups.
It is through this collective process that we can achieve collective security for not only ourselves and our nation, but for the world.
Help us spread the idea of People Before Profit.
To get involved, contact:
Fran Avendano
favendano624@gmail.com
The Die Young show on Friday night and the Thou/Leech show on Saturday night have both been moved. NEITHER SHOW WILL BE HAPPENING AT THE CHE! The Die Young show has been moved to a house, and we don't know where it is exactly, but if we find out, we'll post it here. Thou and Leech will both be playing at a secret location on Saturday night. If you want to see them, meet at Gala Foods in South Park at 8PM.
Hey everyone, hope you're having a great summer. Here's some goings-on at the Che this summer. First of all, our walk-in fridge broke and will cost almost $14,000 to fix! Holy shit! So please be warned that we may be raising door prices for shows by a dollar or two for a while to try and make money to fix the walk-in. Also related, there are no All You Can Eats this summer. We actually wanted to do AYCE's this summer but when the fridge broke we decided that it would be too stressful. We may however, do one summer AYCE, a special vegan donut all you can eat. Keep an eye on this website for a date. We also have a whole bunch more shows this summer and you should all try and come out to them. We also plan on deleting our myspace eventually, so you all should start to use this site to find out about upcoming events. We plan to make a fancy automated e-mail list to announce events, which you'll be seeing in the coming months. Ok, that's about it for now. It's hot as hell, go swimming at the beach and eat vegan ice cream!
Sorry to everyone who came to the AYCE yesterday. The chili was not cooked enough. We sometimes suck at cooking beans. We now know how to cook beans so don't be worried, all future Che beans will be thoroughly cooked. Sometimes we are making this up as we go and we want to thank all people who come to the AYCE's for sticking through it with us. We know that every once in a great while there is an AYCE that goes horribly wrong, but we think that as of late, they've been damn good mostly. So don't be scared, come back and have a good time eating with us, or better yet, come and cook and eat with us. Maybe your added knowledge will help us not mess up. Who knows, you could save the Che AYCE!
Just in case you needed another reason to boycott the Bejing Olympics, Rebuilding the Rights of Statues and Hedgehog, two of China's most exciting bands that were scheduled to play the Che Cafe on April 17th, were denied their visas. We aplogize for any inconvenience this may cause.
FREE FUCKING PASTA! Come eat free pasta at 5:30-7:00 PM!!! Oh shit, free!!!! Come volunteer at 3PM if you want to help out and get FREE food, oh wait, the food is free this week anyways!!! Oh shit, why would you volunteer then?!?! Oh shit, to be legit and not a fucking poseur! Oh shit, I spelled poser with a "eu" because I'm legit.
There are still a limited number of tickets that will be available at the che cafe on the day of the show at 5:00. hurry because they will go fast. Also there will still be a pre-sale here: Che Cafe ( Friday 02-22-08 from 8:00-11:00 p.m.) tickets are $8 and are available for pre sale on these dates and a few at the door on the day of the show at 5:00 p.m.
We have reserved a small number of tickets to sell at the door on Saturday, January 19th. They'll go fast, so show up early. Doors open at 6:30. However, the Che never opens a door without closing a window.
It's our first All You Can Eat dinner of the Winter Quarter, and the first AYCE is always free pasta (donations welcome). Come help cook at 3PM or come eat between 5:30 and 7PM. We could always use help cleaning, afterward and throughout the cooking and sharing portions, as well. Also, you're invited to stay for our Che Collective meeting at 8:30PM (every Thursday), and we can always use help planning future All You Can Eats. It's all done by volunteers!
Damo Suzuki of the legendary Krautrock group CAN will be performing at the Che with a supporting band of local musicians. The group will be comprised of:
Rafter Roberts (Bunky, Rafter) - electronics
Dan Wise (Kil Me Tomorrow) - Guitar
Andy Robillard (GoGoGo Airheart) - Drums
David Wightman (Powdered Wigs) - Bass
Topher (SKU*Modal) - Woodwinds
and visiting guest
Tommy Grenas (long time Damo collaborator)
An opening set by Riververb will kick things off at 9PM, doors at 8PM. Tickets will be sold on a strict first come, first served basis.
A bipartisan coalition of Federal officials has sabotaged our AYCE plans by calling for a "major holiday" on the 4th Thursday of November. Seem like an odd choice of date? We think so, too. It's just a little too coincidental that we happened to be planning to have pizza at our All You Can Eat dinner, and now they're suddenly inventing some bogus "holiday" devoted to "giving thanks." Clearly, it's a plot. What country has a holiday to give thanks? A country wholly committed to thwarting the greatest AYCE dinner ever. That kind of country. Yeah, no AYCE on November 20th, but there will be pizza on November 27th. Also, a film called The Root of All Evil.
The US government started these fires to stop us from sharingvegan food and watching interesting videos. The whole UCSD campus is closed (see www.ucsd.edu for details). The Che is not in danger, but the air is smoky, so we're cancelling the events scheduled for Tuesday, October 23rd. We have no cancelled any other events at this point, so don't assume the meeting on Thursday and the Gabnet event on Friday aren't happening. Check back for further updates.
Thanks to the dedication of inumerable Che volunteers over the past few years, we have successfully completed all the necessary maintenance to have our kitchen open. On Thursday, October 4th, we received a grade of A on our health inspection, so we shall have All You Can Eat vegan dinners starting Tuesday, October 9th and each Tuesday thereafter until the end of the quarter. Next week (October 9th) will be free pasta, 5-7PM. Come at 3Pm if you want to help cook. Volunteers always eat free.
You may have noticed that our kitchen has been closed for a long time. That's because the health inspectors started cracking down on some major maintenance issues within the past few years, and we just haven't had the wherewithal to take care of all of it (lots of money, time, and effort), but now we're ready. The health inspector is coming on Thursday, October 3rd at 4PM, and we're ready except that we should do a quick, thorough cleaning before he arrives. Whether or not we have All You Can Eat vegan dinners this fall is entirely contingent upon this, so if you want to help out and make sure it happens, please come help clean and bring a friend. We'll be here at noon, and the more help, the better things will go.
