The cold weather may be here, but as usual, the EasySundays team will be doing its best to entertain you and keep you warm.

Bring your friends and family along to the last brunch of this year, at the Maison de la Solidarite, 133 rue du Viaduc, 1050 Ixelles:

♥ Festive & seasonal home-made food

♥ Hot Wine; fair-trade coffee; a fair-trade juice bar

♥ A special solidaritea & oriental pastries corner

♥ Live ITALIAN pasta show, cooked on the spot by our guest cooks!

♥ An Icelandic a capella choir

When: Sunday 27 November, 12.30 – 16.00

Where: Maison de la Solidarite, 133 rue du Viaduc, 1050 Ixelles (Very close to the Marie Haps Institute; rue du Viaduc is a perpandicular connecting  rue de Trone and chaussee de Wavre)

You can consult our Facebook event here.

This season is about sharing….So we’ll be collecting funds for two different causes!

1. The Swedish/Tanzanian association Yatima heart to heart, www.yatima.se to help with the food-supply to orphan children in a childrens’home in the village of Bumilayinga, located 650km away from Dar es Salaam.

2. Samusocial.be. We will be supporting the emergency housing center for people in great need. 215 persons in need live here from single people to whole families.

You may have some things you do not need anymore: Any donations e.g. clothes along with toys, literature (FR, NL) or non perishable food, are welcome!

Metro:line 2; stop Trône

Bus:95-96-38-60,stop Blyckaerts; 54-71 (stop Fernand Cocq)

Tram: 81-82 (stop Flagey)

The EasySundays team tries to make the EasySundays brunches as sustainable as possible. As much as we can, we are using seasonal and local fruits and

vegetables, organic and fair trade products.

You can also help us by not wasting food and/or consumables such as cutlery and dishes.

EasySundays is back!

We are kicking off the new season with our next event ‘Simply Brunch’ at the Brussels Info Place, BIP, at Place Royale.

When: Sunday 2 October, 12.30/16.00

Where: Brussels Info Place, 2-4 Place Royale, 1000 Brussels

You can consult our Facebook event here.

On Sunday 2 October we will be eating seasonally & locally and acting globally:

We’re going to tease your palates with seasonal and local fruits and vegetables, inspired by the award-winning Campaign ‘Manger local et de saison‘ of Bruxelles environnement.

The proceeds of this event will go to the Swedish/Tanzanian association yatima, www.yatima.se, active in the Iringa District of southwest Tanzania, in the villages of Matanana, Bumilayinga and Ulole, 650km away from Dar es Salaam.

These villages are largely affected by HIV. Many children are orphan and live under very poor conditions.

Yatima has set up and maintains day-care centers to give children the chance to a childhood without removing them from their social context.

For the children the day-care centers mean security, food, shelter and education.

The Yatima project also sustains an organic farm as a means of securing the food supply for its activities.

Come along and spread the word!

The EasySundays team

As EasySundays is also about networking, we are going to be distributing flyers and information about EasySundays at the European Job Days Brussels that takes place on Saturday 1st October at the Berlaymont-Schuman.

The European Job Day Brussels is a recruitment event where you can meet up to 40 employers and have on the spot interviews for jobs.

It’s also a unique opportunity to access practical information on all aspects of mobility in Europe and to create your own job.

Free registration and job offers on www.jobdays.eu

EasySundays is now 2 years old! Having started in a great little bookshop in Ixelles with a handful of friends, we’re now happy to have a large network of people coming out to support great causes over homemade yummy food with great music and great company across Brussels.

When: 17 April · 12:30 – 16:00
Where: The Hub; Rue du Prince Royal 37; 1050 Ixelles
Cost: 10EUR/person (and kids eat for free
To confirm, RSVP on Facebook

To mark our 2 years, we will be holding a birthday brunch at The Hub (http://brussels.the-hub.net/) to support a great local cause, Clair de Clown (http://www.clairdeclown.be/Clair_de_Clown/Bienvenue.html) .

The charity is all about being there for others, and so we think it’s a perfect birthday gift for EasySundays which is all about getting people together and giving an extra helping hand to such great charities that could really benefit from additional support.

About Clair de Clown: http://www.clairdeclown.be/Clair_de_Clown/Bienvenue.html
“Le rire c’est la vie, c’est pouvoir continuer quoiqu’il arrive, avec espoir et courage.”
Clair de Clown is a local NGO that goes to homes and hospitals to spend time with children and the elderly to provide warm company and friendly smiles to those with medical difficulties.

About the venue: http://brussels.the-hub.net/
The Hub “A coworking members space for people acting to create a better world.”
The Hub is a space-based and online community for change makers to access the knowledge and tools they need to build solutions for social and environmental impact. Located across 5 continents and locally in the heart of Brussels, the Hub provides sustainably designed coworking spaces, events focused on social innovation and professional tools that help members reach their goals faster, surrounded by a community that makes everyone smarter and more effective.

Music? Of course!
For this special occasion we will have both our EasySundays resident DJ A (http://soundcloud.com/plaintaste), pumping out amazing tunes as usual as well as a little live Jazz by Michelle Mildiner (www.michellemildiner.com) and Mark Baxter (www.guitarlessons.be).

Michelle Mildiner is a jazz, acoustic and folk singer. She has been involved in bands and projects in Belgium, Northern France, Bristol, Manchester and London, and was interviewed by TV Brussel last year. Mark has played in a number of bands and duos ranging from jazz, blues, rock, reggae, bossa nova, classical and world music. He has been a guitar teacher for over 20 years. Currently, Michelle and Mark are playing at Lava Bar in Brussels. Their music is an eclectic, soulful mix of jazz standards and modern acoustic and ballads.

For more information please see www.michellemildiner.com and www.guitarlessons.be

Our food?
Always home-made and fresh. Buffet-style brunch.

Spread the word and come in packs!

How to get there:

• metro to Porte de Namur
• tram 92, 94, 97 to Stéphanie
• bus 71 or 54 to Quartier St-Boniface

Thanks to all who came out for our special Valentine’s Day “chEasySundays”brunch on February 13th at the BIP. It was a great turn out and the support given to Mothers at Risk was phenomenal.

A big THANK YOU to everyone who came out for the last EasySundays event of 2010!

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On 5 December, EasySundays provided four exciting wines from New Zealand, Australia and Chile to put some smiles on childrens’ faces in Cambodia! It was a great turnout – so thanks to all!

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The wine: All wines were provided and presented by Max at Crush wine. Have a look at his shop just off Place du Luxembourg: 39 rue Caroly, B-1050 Bruxelles. What we tasted: Lindauer Sparking Brut (NZ)  – WHITE; The Ned Sauvignon Blanc (NZ) – WHITE; Bremerton Mathilda Plains (AUS) Cabernet Shiraz – RED; and, Indomita Chilean Carmenere – RED.

The venue: Le Cercle des Voyageurs, 18 rue des Grandes Carmes, 1000 Brussels.

The charity: All proceeds from the event went to Pour un sourire d’unfant, Cambodia.

More about the NGO  Pour un Sourire d’Enfant:

Created in 1993 the NGO, Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (For the smile of a child) provides education to children that live in extremely poor and harsh conditions in Cambodia. The NGO started by bringing meals to the garbage dumps where children worked day and night with nothing but what they found in the dump to take ton their mouths. Today PSE has set up 6 schools in different cities of Cambodia and provides free and quality education, as well as meals, health care and even housing for more than 6000 children a day. It’s important to remember the terrible recent history of Cambodia where the Pol Pot regime left as legacy many broken families. PSE is helping these families start again , and any help is welcomed and truly appreciated by these smiling children.

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We would like to thank all of you who came out to the pancake brunch “It’s all in the mix!” on October 24th to raise money for Think Pink. We are pleased to say that we were able to raise over 500 EUR for the charity. This money will specifically go towards a campaign for the very first “Race for the Cure” event which Think Pink will organise in Namur on May 22nd.

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For more infomation on Think Pink: www.think-pink.be.

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After a restful summer holiday, EasySundays was back in Brussels in full force on September 12th for a flavoured brunch in the beautiful premises of the Brussels Information Place (BIP).

All proceeds from the brunchwill go to the Maison de Jeunes le 88, le88.be , a youth organisation situated in the Marolles. MJLE88 offers young people daily activities, support with homework and creative and sports workshops. The funds collected on the 12th will support a planned study trip to Puglia, Italy, where a small group of youngsters from the Marolles will meet peers from a local youth association.

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Special thanks: Organic bread and condiments were kindly offered by the Bio Shop Brussel ‘Den Teepot’ and coffee, tea and hot chocolate offered by ‘Tout l’or du Monde’. Thank you so much!

Thanks to all who came out and made this brunch our biggest success yet! Stay tuned for a follow-up on the MJLE88 trip to Puglia as well as details on our next brunch.

This last EasySundays event for the season, took place on Thursday, July 1st in a relaxed afterwork garden party atmosphere.

The 10 euro entrance fee included a welcome drink (wine or juice) and live music played by “Mandra” (Balkan and Kleismer music band).

The proceeds of this event went to the NGO Quinoa, that supports projects promoting education as a means of development in several regions of the world.

About the venue: The venue is Mundo-b, an eco-renovated building, home for several NGOs including Quinoa. The ground floor cafeteria run by “Kamilou” has access to a beautiful garden.

EasySundays tried its taste buds out on some artisan Belgian beer! For our very first beer tasting event, we went Double and Triple on April 25th at Moeder Lambic,  Place Fontainas 8, 1000 Brussels View Map

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All funds raised went towards the Democratic school in Peru, which EasySundays has supported in the past. The school has made a lot of headway thanks to support from organisations such as EasySundays. Last April, EasySundays helped cover the costs for the school to get their water system up and running.