Seomra Spraoi Sunday Café, Bike Workshop and Cinema

dublin | miscellaneous | event notice Thursday May 21, 2009 17:36 by Seomra Spraoi seomraspraoi at gmail dot com

Awesome vegan food, this & every Sunday at Seomra Spraoi, 10 Belvedere Court, off Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin 1. Food Served 3 to 4pm Suggested donation for food €4 /more/less as you can afford. Along with weekly Bike Workshops from 2 to 4pm, and Seomra Spraoi Cinema from 7.30 to 10pm.

See http://www.seomraspraoi.org for map directions.

Peoples kitchen Sunday Cafe, 3 to 4pm
enjoy a chilled out afternoon on Sunday with affordable, freshly cooked vegan food in good company, or you could just kick back with your meal and check out some of the books and zines in the library.

Bike workshop, 2 to 4pm
there will be people meeting every Sunday afternoon to work together on each others and rescued bikes, swap bike stories and hopefully go on to organise more cool interesting bike related stuff.

Seomra Spraoi Cinema, 7.30 to 10.00pm
A film screening of Spike Lee’s “Do the right thing"

"Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American ensemble film produced,
written, and directed by Spike Lee. The film deals with issues of
racial conflict in the multi-ethnic community of Bedford-Stuyvesant, a
neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, during the hottest day of the
summer. Director Lee also stars in the film, alongside Danny Aiello,
Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn,
and John Turturro. The film is also notable in that it marks the
feature film debuts of both Martin Lawrence and Rosie Perez.

Upon its release, the film received mixed reviews and was met with
much controversy, as many critics felt the film might incite riots
from African-American viewers. Still, the film was a success at the
box office, and received numerous accolades and awards. The film has
grown in stature over time; in 1999, it was deemed "culturally
significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for
preservation in the National Film Registry, one of five films to do so
in its first year of eligibility. In 2007, the American Film Institute
listed the film as the ninety-sixth greatest American Movie in Film
History."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_the_right_thing

There will be an open meeting for people to join the cinema group before the screening at 6.30pm. Anyone interested in showing films or in possession
of good films that could be shown are welcome. Looking to recruit
members for group. (Group generally shows films on Sunday evenings and
sometimes helps others to show films at other times during week.)

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Seomra Spraoi - autonomous social centre in Dublin

Seomra Spraoi is an autonomous social centre in Dublin city centre. It is run by a non-hierarchical collective on a not-for-profit basis. It hosts workshops, gigs, political meetings, film screenings, a vegan cafe and lots more. The centre seeks to be a hub of positive resistance in a city and society where public spaces have been eaten away by consumerism, property speculation and the culture of the car.