Manchester Buddhist Centre

Earth veget­arian cafe, in the Buddhist Centre base­ment, is changing

After Sat­urday 24th July it’s clos­ing for two weeks and reopen­ing in a dif­fer­ent way at 11 am on Monday 9th August.

Dominic Berry tells us more …

On Monday 9th there will be some acous­tic music acts play­ing through­out the day for free and some changes to the menu, also an exhib­i­tion by pho­to­grapher Ian Wal­lis. On the 9th there will be a com­pli­ment­ary fresh fruit juice for every­one com­ing to see the pho­tos and a free light buf­fet that even­ing, 6 — 8 pm.

Full open­ing days and times from then on will be announced soon.

What about the food?

There are no plans for Earth to stop selling all vegan food. But the menu will change. A lot of people have been giv­ing their opin­ions on what they do and don’t like about the food, the prices and the dif­fer­ent things that hap­pen at Earth and the new look Earth will be a res­ult of hav­ing listened to all this. We still want your ideas!

More events

There will be a much greater focus on reg­u­lar events at Earth. The exist­ing ones have been really pop­u­lar and well received so there are plans for a great deal more to hap­pen in this space — espe­cially in the even­ings. Earth are really keen on sup­port­ing people in the com­munity in get­ting their events hap­pen­ing and using the cafe as a space for this.

So far we have events tak­ing place on 9th, 13th, 18th and 25th August

I’m going to be work­ing with Earth for a bit to help set up lots of dif­fer­ent types of events — poetry, music, com­edy, live art exhib­its, meet­ings, clubs — you name it! The people who will be staff­ing Earth are really keen to sup­port and assist events organ­isers and those who attend the events.

Send your ideas!

If you want to chat about ideas for stuff that could hap­pen, please mes­sage me -
thepoetdominic@hotmail.co.uk.

Liv­ing in Manchester’s north­ern quarter, I see many small, local busi­nesses come and go. I see more and more chain stores tak­ing over. I think Manchester’s really lucky to have Earth, I really want to see how it can evolve and I’m really up for work­ing to make some great stuff hap­pen there.

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