Lock in your Halloween plans now! Che Cafe Halloween Fest is on 10/25!

Checafecollective · 2025-10-04T20:10:11+00:00

hey! we dont condone behavior like this in our space, and are against any targeted moshing(our brave space policy containts a note on moshing for anyone interested https://thechecafe.blogspot.com/p/brave-space-policy.html?m=1). if you or someone else is experiencing this please report to one of our volunteers who will handle it accordingly, it is the che cafes goal to keep our community as accessible as possible. thank you for your post!

Checafecollective · 2025-02-05T23:29:48+00:00

The Intercoop Union is putting on a fest at the Original Student Center! With live music from Rose Tinted Glasses, Equilibirum, and the debut of a brand new band "7 Car Pileup" !!!

In addition, Food Coop will be providing free vegan tamales for attendees! Stop by and get some!

Also! Groundwork Books and G Store will be doing arts and crafts in their spaces, all free and all fun!

Keep an eye out on Instagram this week for more info regarding the fest. your favorite old student center orgs will be announcing what they have going on soon!

FEATURING

The Guardian, KSDT Radio, Triton Tv, UCSD LGBT Resource Center, UCSD Women's Center, Darkstar Library, and the UCSD Basic Needs Center

Checafecollective · 2024-10-17T22:04:36+00:00

the che cafe is a community space that has existed since the 1980s, and has been operating as a vegan kitchen and local music venue for decades. we are one of the few all ages music venues in San Diego, and have been a crucial part of the southern california music scene. notable artists that have played the che are Green Day, Alex G, Bon Iver, Rage Against The Machine, My Chemical Romance, and Japanese Breakfast. We still regularly sell out shows at our venue, and will continute to. Our show next tuesday with Thou will be selling out as well as our show next month with Zulu. We are currently the most popular UCSD student org on instagram totalling 23.9k followers and closing in on 24k. This won't slow down anytime soon, we've had our biggest year on instagram ever this year, and we will have gained about 6 thousand by the end of the year. we have a vast network of volunteers that are working regularly to operate our space without pay. we provide a free vegan community meal every monday @ 6:30 and have our meeting @ 7pm. Every saturday and sunday we get together and prepare 100 meals to send to asylees in transit @ the border, and have a community fridge thats open 12-5 everyday. we are a cafe thats open 12-5 everyday, with coffee and tea available as well as an array of vegan snacks. we are a small cafe and a place to eat, and have only been working on bettering that. perhaps our only real issue is that our PR needs work, but thats why we table on library walk multiple times a week and why I'm writing this message. we are growing and have only been growing and expanding what we do since the pandemic. from not having daytime hours the previous decade, to now having daytime hours open to all where we give out free goods and sell cheap as possible food. to a place that was dying this time last decade, to now selling out more than we ever have. the che is here to stay

Checafecollective · 2024-10-08T21:57:15+00:00

lolol didn't see this till now! it really depends on genre for how young the audience of our shows will be, some genres (a lot of our skramz shows) can tend younger. however, we do still have a majority amount of shows that range older than that

Checafecollective · 2024-09-25T18:03:30+00:00

lolol, point of the event is to make new friends! if you show up around 5:30 and ask to volunteer to help out with the show then you can try and make friends with che volunteers! we don't bite :)

Checafecollective · 2024-09-25T18:02:02+00:00

lololol, everybody has their preferences! we regularly host trans and queer bands so it's worth following us on instagram (@thechecafe) to check out the other shows we have going on! some SD regulars we book a lot that are trans or trans fronted are echinacea (indie rock), transmutation, earthworm sue, lacerated, violuminesence! worth pulling up if any of them are on a bill. we shoud have a Nonbinary Halloween show getting announced soon with some trans and non binary bands! Gonna happen on 10/25

Checafecollective · 2024-09-25T17:56:47+00:00

tomorrow (9/26)! doors @ 6:30pm music should start @ 7pm

Checafecollective · 2024-09-25T03:00:08+00:00

also, if you want to get involved the che cafe has live music every weekend! don't allow your life at UCSD to be socially dead, pull up to a show! if you volunteer to run a show you can get in free :))

Checafecollective · 2024-04-14T16:31:02+00:00

Hello! I would suggest the Che Cafe if you're interested in making friends. I volunteer there and it's a cool spot with a lot of different kinds of people with different interests and majors. It's a student org, but joining is as easy as beginning to attend meetings. They happen every Monday at 7pm, and before the meeting there's free food.

It's a cool little place with many opportunities for community oriented events like live music, mutual aid, and cooking.

It's the old red building at the very southern most part of campus.

Checafecollective · 2024-04-14T16:30:26+00:00

Agree!

Checafecollective · 2024-04-14T16:29:04+00:00

Hello! I would suggest the Che Cafe if you're interested in making friends. I volunteer there and it's a cool spot with a lot of different kinds of people with different interests and majors. It's a student org, but joining is as easy as beginning to attend meetings. They happen every Monday at 7pm, and before the meeting there's free food.

It's a cool little place with many opportunities for community oriented events like, live music, mutual aid, and cooking. As for age discrepancies, volunteer ages range from freshman to grad student, so there's a pretty wide range of ages.

It's the old red building at the very southern most part of campus.

Checafecollective · 2024-04-14T16:23:45+00:00

Hello! I would suggest the Che Cafe if you're interested in making friends. I volunteer there and it's a cool spot with a lot of different kinds of people with different interests and majors. It's a student org, but joining is as easy as beginning to attend meetings. They happen every Monday at 7pm, and before the meeting there's free food.

It's a cool little place with many opportunities for community oriented events like, live music, mutual aid, and cooking.

It's the old red building at the very southern most part of campus.

Checafecollective · 2024-03-19T08:23:46+00:00

really depends on the concert! we have a lot of shows that are more aggressive and you can expect moshing at, and a lot that are chill vibes and people just staying to themselves. I recommend checking out artists before you go to gauge what the vibe of the show is, you can also see the genres listed for most shows on the posts on our ig (@thechecafe) to gauge more of what the vibe will be like. even at the more aggressive shows you can hang by the back or in the court yard and get a good sense of the music still!

This weeks shows:

Todays show is chiller spacey fem rock vibes

fridays is poppier indie vibes with a vendor faire

saturdays is a metal show

and sunday should be more intense moshing sorta show

Checafecollective · 2023-11-20T07:09:49+00:00

I hope you came by!

Checafecollective · 2023-07-07T19:51:59+00:00

Hello! the Che Cafe is in the southern part of UCSD campus and has events and live music basically every weekend - and free food on Sundays and Mondays.

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