Olive Cooperative Stalls

Olive Cooperative will be out and about over the next few weeks. Come and meet Olive Cooperative members, talk about Palestinian Fair Trade, and buy delicious Palestinian oil, food and gifts for you and your loved ones:

Whalley Range Amnesty International Christmas Greetings card event - Sat 29th Nov 1-4pm

St Margaret’s Church, Rufford Road, Whalley Range, Greater Manchester - an opportunity to send messages of hope and common humanity to people being held prisoner around the world - and to browse for ethical christmas gifts from the stalls

Chomsky@80 on November 29th 10am to 5pm

A day of workshops and discussions - Central Hall, Oldham St, Manchester

www.chomskyat80.org.uk.

MERCi Fair 4th Dec 08 12-6pm, 22a Beswick Street, Manchester M4 7HR

Click here for directions to Merci (opens in new window). MERCi is the Manchester Environmental Resource Centre initiative, home to Olive Cooperative, amongst many other progressive social-change organisations.

Openspace Christmas Fair - 5-7.30pm on Tuesday 9th December.

Unit 1 41 Old Birley Street Hulme Manchester M15 5RF The office is directly behind the Kim-by-the-Sea cafe on the ground floor. It can also be accessed directly via the car park at the rear of Homes for Change / Work for Change (The large yellow brick building that is 41 Old Birley Street). *OpenSpace* is a new co-operative for small organisations and freelancers working in the creative, environmental or social enterprise sectors.

Palestinian Film Festival - Manchester, Saturdays 22nd Nov, 29th Nov, 6th Dec & 13th Dec

We will have a stall on Sat 6th Dec, and we’d really love to have stalls each saturday, but unfortunately we don’t have anyone able to run them just now. If you are interested in covering one of these days, or part of a day, please please get in touch.

Four day festival (22nd Nov, 29th Nov, 6th Dec & 13th Dec) of Palestinian film & culture, aims to celebrate a people dispossessed of their land, their way of life and their foreseeable future. Tickets on the door are £2.50 for each day, which includes food. 2.15pm to evening - WFA Film Society, 9 Lucy Street, Manchester - location map

22nd Nov
2.15pm - Photo-Journalists in Palestine: a presentation & the film “Shots that Bind”, plus speakers journalist Muthanna Al-Qadi and peace activist Daniel Russell.
5pm - Palestinian Buffet
6.30pm - Film: “Jerusalem - East Side Story”, plus speaker Suzy Allott, peace activist.

29th Nov

2.15pm - Film: “Zaynab’s Story - a call to boycott Israel”, plus speaker from the Boycott Israeli Goods campaign
5pm - Palestinian Buffet
6.30pm - Short films: “Stranger in My Home - Jerusalem”, “Voices Through the Rubble”, “Larnaca to Gaza”, plus speaker Musheir El Farra, human rights activist.

6th Dec

2.15pm - Arabic Music Workshop, with Reem Kelani *NOTE* - there is a £5 additional charge for this workshop; please book in advance by phone as places are limited.
5pm - Palestinian Buffet
6.30pm - Film: “A Palestinian Journey”, with the director Osama Qashoo speaking afterwards, plus speaker Sarah Irving, writer & activist.

13th Dec

2.15pm - Poetry and embroidery with Nahida Izzat, Palestinian poet & artist now based in Liverpool
5pm - Palestinian Buffet
6.30pm - Film: “Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land”, by Dr Ahmed Almari, Palestinian consultant radiologist from Jenin, now living in Bradford.

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We’d love to get out and do more stalls, but we just don’t have enough people to run them. If you would be able to spare a few hours to run a stall, or know of an event near you that you could take an Olive Cooperative stall to, please get in touch with us at infoATolivecoop.com or 0161 273 1970 - we’d love to hear from you!