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Are you an Aussie Banksy?

Painters, street artists and muralists - fancy yourself the Australian Banksy? Brisbane artists are invited to submit expressions of interest to participate in a temporary public art project at the iconic Gasworks site. Up to 20 artists will be selected to produce site-responsive works on the hoardings, along the high-profile Newstead street front. Street-smart painterly interventions, depictions of the historical Gasometer structure and surrounds, or your brilliant vision of the future of this vibrant community will earn you the chance to make your mark.

An artist fee of $200+GST will apply for each panel (approx 1.7×2.4m). Artists must be available to complete the work during the month of November. To be considered for this opportunity, please submit up to three indicative images of your work and a brief paragraph describing your relevant experience and concept for the site, to Wendy at em@artworkers.org Please indicate whether you are proposing work for one or more panels. The closing date for expressions of interest is Wednesday 5 November 2008.

Help us Win

Last year Urban Grind was runner up to The 3 Monkeys for best coffee in Brisbane. This year we need your help to make sure that doesn’t happen again. It’s not that I don’t love The 3 Monkeys but I would rather we won that category. So if you do love your Urban Grind coffee please be kind enough to support us buy voting in the map village 2008/2009 Eat/Drink ‘best place’ awards.

We are actually nominated in 4 categories. Look for categories numbered 4, 7, 10 & 20. I guess we don’t have to win them all but it would be nice. Oh, and by entering you stand the chance to win something too. Click here to start voting now! Thanks heaps! Morgs.

Change to opening hours for Saturdays

Hey all, just a quick note to let you know that we will be closing at 1pm on Saturdays from now on. Um that is all for now unless you want to talk about this.

PARK(ing) Day Brisbane 2008

This Friday the 19th of September is International PARK(ing) Day. And this year in Brisbane it is going to be big. You can find all of the details, including park locations on the Brisbane PARK(ing) Day Website. Last year we kicked it off in Brisbane but Yen has taken it so much further this year than I ever dreamed. Brisbane is on it’s way to being one of the biggest PARK(ing) Day cities in the world. So if you see a PARK stop and check it out - try it out. And if you get a chance tell Yen how wonderful she is by leaving a comment on her weblog. This would not have been possible without her. You rock Yen!

First Kiva loan paid back.

Just received some great news. One of our first Kiva loans have been paid back in full. How cool is that? You can check out all of the info here. We all made this happen together. Your tips, the staffs volunteering of those tips to Kiva. Give each other a clap. Now I am off to make some more loans. Should be able to make about another 2, but don’t rush to our loans page as it can take about 3 days for the Paypal transaction to go through. So far we have made $125 worth of loans in $25 dollar amounts with one paid back. Thank you everyone. It gives me a real buzz to be able to do this kind of thing.

Free Play Saturday

This Saturday only, till Midday the arcade machine at Urban Grind will be on free play. It is free the same way the wireless internet is free. You do have to be a customer to play the machine for free. So if you havn’t had a play yet now is your chance. Bring a friend, should be fun. There are 39 classic games to choose from. Reminder that the Galaga comp is on at the end of this month. Don’t forget to register. See details here. We are getting people registering that have never played before so don’t be afraid it is all meant to be a bit of fun.

Crop to Cup

I get asked every now and then about Fair Trade. Urban Grind does not serve certified fair trade coffee. I have various reasons for this but it is too late in the evening to try and explain with this post - ask me sometime. What I do have though is some news from DiBella Coffee on the subject. They are not certified either which we could go into if I wasn’t supposed to be in bed but I will quickly say this “What would the world look like if we had to certify random acts of kindness?”

Anyway if you are interested in reading about what DiBella is doing to connect with and support it’s growers please visit their news page and read Crop to Cup. If you have trouble finding the news post I have posted it here too. Just click on the ‘read more’ link.
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Emma and Tom’s Juices

As of today we now sell Emma and Tom’s Juices. We still love Nudie but think that Emma and Tom’s might be better value. All the flavours are awesome with Greenpower as my favourite. So… same price, more juice. Be sure to check out their website for all the juicy details.

Closed this Ekka Public Holiday

Just a quick note to let u know that we are closed this Ekka public holiday which I am pretty sure is Wednesday the 13th. Have fun what ever you do. I won’t run into you at the Ekka - not my thing.

We collected 3kg of Mobile Phones

In the 6 months that we had our first Mobile Muster box, we managed to collect 3kgs of phones, batteries and accessories for recycling. It seems that everyone you mention mobile muster to always has a broken phone some where that they knew they should just throw in the bin but until now didn’t know what else to do with it.

Since July 2007 Mobile Muster has collected over 100,000 kgs which included 788,600 handsets and batteries as well as 47,200 kgs of chargers and accessories. To get more info just visit mobilemuster.com.au

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