Relaxe (Audrey Ginestet, 2022)

By: börek - December 1st, 2025  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday December 7, 2025, Relaxe, documentary film by Audrey Ginestet, released in 2022 * 92 minutes * in French with English subtitles * door opens at 20:00 * intro & first film starts at 20:30 * free entrance.

Manon has been a defendant in the Tarnac case for ten years, accused with eight other people of participating in a terrorist undertaking while sabotaging high-speed lines in France. As their trial approaches, Audrey Ginestet is taking her camera to join the group of women who helps Manon preparing her defense.
In novembre 2008, the french anti-terrorist police raided a farm in the Tarnac village in Corrèze. For the media and the state, the Tarnac Nine was the new enemy group of conspirators against the state who claimed Julien Coupat to be the author of The Coming Insurrection book. Coupat spent over six months in jail before being released on bail. He was held for a significantly longer period than other members of the Tarnac Nine because French police believed him to be the leader of the group, which they described as an anarchist cell. On April 12, 2018, Coupat and other members of the Tarnac Nine were acquitted of the most significant remaining charges, particularly conspiracy and sabotage, although some members were still convicted of lesser, symbolic charges, and ordered to pay fines.

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to screen a movie, let us know: joe [at] lists [dot] squat [dot] net

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Food for Abolition, voku for a no border anti-carceral collective in France

By: börek - September 27th, 2025  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday October 2, 2025, FOoD for AbolitioN, voku for a no border anti-carceral collective in France. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Come eat some delicious food, hang out and get cozy. Food is vegan, served from 7pm. The money will go to an anticra collective, a no border anti-carceral collective organizing against detention centers in France. […Lees verder]

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VoKu benefit for a (no) border collective

By: börek - September 1st, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday September 2nd, 2024, VoKu benefit for a (no) border collective. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Progetto20k is a self-organized collective actively struggling since 2016 against the border system. It is located in the region of Ventimiglia, on the Italian side of the coastal border with France. It aims to support People on the Move who face the violence of the European racist migration policies.
The collective has the aim of being a horizontal, anti-racist, transfeminist and anti-capitalist project that takes decisions in assembly. This past months it has been active directly at the border for monitoring and information, and in the city campement of Via Tenda, opening the self-organized space Upupa. Progetto20k has been trying to bring forth their autonomous politics in the struggle, working alongside several humanitarian organizations active on the territory.
The collective recently had to stop their activities this summer, but there is always money needed for house repairs and possibly re-starting again after using this break for internal reflections.
Come along for a delicious meal because the only good nation is a donation 😉

Ventimiglia, dove la violenza del confine è strutturale https://www.meltingpot.org/2022/11/ventimiglia-dove-la-violenza-del-confine-e-strutturale/

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.

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Benefit Voku for L’Auberge des Migrants, Calais

By: börek - April 2nd, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 4 April 2024, Benefit Voku for L’Auberge des Migrants, Calais. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

We are a crew of former members of “Foodbank Maastricht”, where food is regularly rescued from being thrown away, redistributed, and transformed into vegan three-course meals. Foodbank saves hundreds of kilos of food weekly and feeds hundreds in Maastricht.
On this Thursday, we are cooking a wonderful three-course vegan meal from rescued ingredients in Joe’s Garage, raising money for “L’Auberge des Migrants” in Calais, northern France. “L’Auberge des Migrants” is a network of employees and volunteers that provides support for people in exile on the France-UK border. Since 2008, they have been active in the region, providing direct material aid, support and advocacy to everyone who needs it.
In one of their main projects called “Woodyard”, volunteers distribute up to 10 tons of wood a week to people in camps, meeting essential winter needs. Their main focus lies on working in solidarity and questioning the dynamics of oppression and humanitarian governance, offering autonomy to volunteers to better respond to the difficulties of living conditions on the border. Through their actions, “L’Auberge des Migrants” fights to promote a dignified, unconditional and appropriate hospitality for all. […Lees verder]

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Film screening: Une île et une nuit (An Island and One Night)

By: börek - February 26th, 2024  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 3rd March 2024, Film screening: Une île et une nuit (An Island and One Night) * 2021-2023 * 100 min * multi-lingual (11 languages) * no subs * Free or pay what you can * doors open at 20:00, film starts at 20:30.

Around a campfire travelers, vagabonds and pirates tell their stories, share their dreams and adventures. From language to language and story to story they tell their tales of how they reached this imaginary island which could be a reality. The island comes under threat from the forces of development, capitalism, technology and gentrification.
A film made organically, collectively and non hierarchically by the inhabitants and users of a community called Le Quartier Libre des Lentillères, located in Dijon, France facing eviction and development as well struggling against all borders.
The Quartier Libre des Lentillères was born out of a demonstration in 2010, in Dijon, at the end of which a hundred people cleared and then cultivated quality land left abandoned and threatened by a real estate project. From there was born the Pot’Col’Le, an open and collective gardening dynamic based on the exchange of knowledge. The Jardin des Maraichères, managed on a self-employed basis, supplies weekly non-profit markets at free prices. At the crossroads of these two large plots, dozens of small allotment gardens are intermingled. In the midst of all this, busy farms, a dynamic of building huts and maintaining places open to all for walks, for workshops for the exchange of diverse knowledge, concerts or atypical parties. From all this is born a colorful neighborhood, mixed collectives fed by several hundred people.
However, all these dynamics are threatened: the SPLAAD (Société Publique Locale d’Aménagement de l’Agglomération Dijonnaise) and the Grand Dijon want to destroy this creative boiling that produces a neighborhood as we want to live it, outside the established frameworks, to replace it with a real estate project of “eco-neighborhood”: the “ecocity of market gardeners”. The first phase of construction has begun on the industrial plot of land of the former slaughterhouses, but we intend to oppose the work of the second phase of construction which concerns the Quartier libre des Lentillères. We are more determined than ever to fight so that solidarity prevails over business. Join us!

Une île et une nuit https://piratesdeslentilleres.net/
Quartier Libre des Lentillères http://lentilleres.potager.org/
https://radar.squat.net/en/dijon/quartier-libre-des-lentilleres

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to screen a movie, let us know: joe [at] lists [dot] squat [dot] net

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Voku Benefit for Unaccompanied, Homeless Minor Support Group

By: börek - January 10th, 2024  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 22 January 2024, Voku – Benefit for Unaccompanied, Homeless Minor Support Group. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Come and eat with us to support a collective in Marseille that helps unaccompanied, homeless minors.

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.

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Voku Benefit for legal support group and squat in Briancon

By: börek - September 3rd, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 7 september 2023, Voku Benefit for legal support group and squat in Briancon . Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Come eat our delicious vegan food 🙂 The money of the voku will go to the “Groupe Sans Nom”, a collective active in Briancon who organizes collective and individual legal support at the French Italian border to make sure people on the move know their rights. They also help with connecting people crossing the border with solidarity networks across the country and arranging a safe travel. They need money at the moment to continue organizing this support. Another part of the money will go to Le Pado, a squat that opened in Briancon on the 7th of August to host people and that is currently struggling to make the building livable due to the repression of the municipality.

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.

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Movie night: Low Life

By: börek - May 28th, 2023  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 28 may 2023, Movie night: Low Life * dir by Nic Clotz and Elisabet Percival * 120 minutes * in French with English subtitles. Doors open at 20:00, intro & film start at 20:30.

Higher education = low life.

Spend any amount of time with anyone, no matter how dull they seem or how boring they fancy themselves. The stories they will slowly wind up telling you about their life will reveal moments of magical beauty and heartfelt dreams. Life is never fully devoid of poetry, but most ‘realistic’ mainstream movies try pathetically hard to steer away from magic, chance encounters, and the beauty of earnest, unheroic struggles. A film without poetry, as we often argue in the underground cinemas, should not even consider calling itself realistic.

This little flick throws itself with all its weight in the opposite direction. Unafraid of dipping here and there into classical French pedantry, it sets its winding dialogues and monologues to immersive electronic music, elevating the nervous dreariness of student life as we read about it in the media and the ‘user-generated content’ of the socials to a quest for deeper connections and meaning.

The choral cast of Low Life is made up of about a dozen first-time (or one-time) performers and a bunch of supporting actors plucked from films such as Blue Is the Warmest Colour. The camera moves with incredible lightness through its gritty urban settings, first on the cobbled streets, where a cop is badly wounded while trying to evict illegal immigrants. And later on through the labyrinthian spaces of their crumbling squat, where art student Carmen and her Afghan lover tacitly lock themselves up to prevent his deportation.

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to screen a movie, let us know: joe [at] lists [dot] squat [dot] net

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