Kafe Kweer - Formerly The Greenwood

November is here and we’ve got a whole bunch of events to keep us cosy and warm in the chillier weather! Select event tickets can be found on our Eventbrite page, link in bio or just Google our name!

DATE TO BE CONFIRMED: free sexual health testing with .team

EVERY THURSDAY 5-7pm
Q***R LIFE DRAWING with .blobfish
(ticketed)

MONDAY 4th 4-5pm
Neighbourhood Surgery
with Greens Councillor
Ben Parker

16th and 30th 1:30-4:30
SATURDAY CHATTERDAY
meet friendly new people in a safe environment
(ticketed, includes a hot drink of your choice)

22nd 2-4pm
ZINE WORKSHOP with
(PWYC tickets via COP)

29th 5:15-6:30pm
POETRY NIGHT
featuring local q***r poets AND the chance to read your own work!
(ticketed)

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We’re back open tomorrow from 8.30am and we’re open til 7pm on Thursdays! 🤩

We’ve also got Life Drawing on from 5 o’clock and it’s Halloween themed! Tickets are still available on Eventbrite - just search ’Kafe Kweer’ and you’ll find it 🥰

We also have tonnes of q***r merch on our shelves too if you’re fancying kitting yourself out ready for the weekend ❤️❤️❤️

Happy Sunday folks! ❤️

We have a full lunch menu on for you today to warm you up now we’re finally getting into the cold 🥶

Our cafe space is open all day today if you fancy catching up with your pals, or just coming for some lunch solo - we don’t mind! 🥰

We’ve also restocked on fingerless gloves if you fancy keeping your hands warm now we’re getting into winter - they’re £13.50 a pair! 🥳

Here til 5, see you soon ❤️❤️❤️

We’ve restocked a whole bunch of merch from our fabulous friends at ! Including pins, earrings, stickers, totes, T-shirts, and more! Available on our shelves every day that we’re open (Thursday-Monday) ❤️🥰❤️
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Updated opening times and days!
This winter we’ll be closing on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so we’ll be open Thursday-Monday! Open til 7pm on Thursdays for all your post-work needs and for activities like Life Drawing, and open til 5pm on all other days!
Send us an email [email protected] if you have any questions or want to book a table or event ❤️ please help us spread the word of our new opening days and support indie business this winter!
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CLOSING TUESDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS!
After four years of being open every single day of the week, we’ve decided to give ourselves a couple days off as we enter the hibernation months! This will help us keep the costs of our rising bills etc down and focus on our busy weekends! We’re not going anywhere, just prioritising our time, money, and energy so that we can keep giving our best to all our events and weekly customers.
Please help us out by spreading the word, and coming to support us and all your other fave local indie businesses this winter!
Open 8:30am-5pm, and until 7pm on Thursdays.
Much love, the Kafe Kweer team
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🎃Pumpkin Carving is back!🎃
After a super successful event last year, we’re bringing it back just in time for Halloween on 27th october 2-4pm!
Tickets are available on our Eventbrite page, and include a cosy hot drink of your choice, a pumpkin, and carving tools! 🎃
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We’re open til 7 tonight and our Life Drawing class isn’t on so it’s a perfect opportunity for you to come and grab a Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate and come and see our new exhibition! ❤️❤️❤️

Our super popular Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate is back for cosy season!! Available as a hot drink for sit in or take away with oat/dairy milk, or off our grocery shelves to enjoy at home!!
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OCTOBER EVENTS AT KAFE KWEER!
As we settle into the cosy autumn gloom, we’ve got a fair few little events to keep us busy! Tickets are available on our Eventbrite at the link in our bio!

EVERY THURSDAY 5-7pm
Q***R LIFE DRAWING with .blobfish
(ticketed, materials provided)
MONDAY 7th 4-5pm
Neighbourhood Surgery
with Greens Councillor
Ben Parker

12th and 26th 1:30-4:30
SATURDAY CHATTERDAY
meet friendly new people
in a safe environment
(ticketed, includes a hot drink of your choice)

18th 2-4pm
ZINE WORKSHOP with
(PWYC tickets at the link in their bio)

NEW EXHIBITION!
The SAMHUINN FIRE FESTIVAL PHOTO EXHIBIT comes to you this spooky season to bring you a collection of fire, drums and cryptids!

Samhuinn is the sister festival to Beltane, celebrating and welcoming the turn of Summer into Winter. The exhibit displays many different years of the festival through lenses, with costuming from previous Summer King Nate Kelso. The free exhibit will be running until the 28th so it’s perfect for getting into the Samhuinney mood!

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TODAY!
Our super popular Kweer Kraft Market returns 4-7pm with all sorts of art, trinkets and more from a selection of local q***r creatives! Come support indie artists and business all at once! ❤️
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WE'RE STILL HERE AND WE'RE STILL KWEER!

Just your reminder that we're open every day of the week serving you delicious food and drinks, local art and plenty of q***r merch to boot! We also have our gallery space which hosts weekly Life Drawing, Zine clubs and is available to hire for just £10 an hour if you fancy putting on your own wee event. If we can fit you in, we will - please email [email protected] with your queries!

We've had a really quiet September, and with Winter starting to creep in slowly but surely, we want to remind you to please use your q***r spaces as it gets darker out - we need your help to keep the lights on, or we might not make it through to the Spring!

Whether you're coming to us for some lunch, or a gift for a friend, or you're supporting your other local places like Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop Logan Malloch The Street or many of the others that Edinburgh has to offer, you're helping to keep our community alive and thriving!

So, please take this as us asking for your support! Help us get through the next few months and into 2025! We can't do it without you, and as always we TRULY appreciate every single one of you that steps foot through our door and chooses to spend your hard earned money with us! 🥰🥰🥰

We’re back open after yesterday’s unexpected closure, and we’ve got looooads of half price bread and pastries! Please help us avoid food waste and come get as many as you want! Open til 5pm as usual 🥰❤️🥰
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4 years of Kafe Kweer ❤️
The official anniversary was a couple days ago but we q***r people get to redefine what time is and have fun on weekends, so TOMORROW Saturday 7th we’ll be celebrating our 4th anniversary!
We’re so grateful to everyone who’s kept us afloat these four years. Opening a tiny indie business at the height of the pandemic and somehow surviving years of Brexit, the cost of living crisis, bills increasing, a rise in right wing ideology, and the usual struggles for any business has been an exhausting but beautiful journey and we couldn’t have done it without YOU, our local q***r community. We’ve seen young q***r people grow into confident versions of themselves, hosted dozens of events and exhibitions, and met so many incredible people from across the world. I had a little scroll through our socials to find just a tiny selection of lovely memories. As we go into the colder months, remember to support ALL your local, indie, q***r businesses, £5 and a smile can make a difference between them staying open or not ❤️
We hope to see you tomorrow ❤️
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While we may be celebrating our birthday on Saturday, it has officially been FOUR WHOLE YEARS since we opened our doors today!! ❤️❤️❤️

We can’t tell you how proud we are that we’ve made it this far, and served so many of your lovely faces since 2020. 🥳

We’re open til 5pm today doing much of the same as the last four years, so why not pop down today and grab yourself a treat 🥰

We’re excited to announce that from next month we’ll be hosting a surgery from our local councillor Ben Parker! This is a chance to raise any concerns or questions about our neighbourhood or the city at large, and a chance for Ben to reach different demographics.
Catch him on the first Monday of the month from 7th October 4-5pm ❤️💚❤️
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Our menu for this gloomy Monday - we’re definitely past summer now!! ❤️

Our soup is bubbling away and smelling DELICIOUS! Come and try it for yourself. Our vegan food menu starts at £4.00 🥰

We’ve also got Pumpkin Spice Lattes on the menu to really usher in the Autumn months - they’re £4.50 🎃

Open til 5pm today! Come and say hey, and check out our gorgeous exhibition at the same time 🥳

SEPTEMBER AT KAFE KWEER!
We’re settling back into our regular schedule of events after being a venue! Tickets for select events available on our Eventbrite page, link in our bio. Come see us for any or all of these events:

EVERY THURSDAY 5-7pm
Q***R LIFE DRAWING with
(ticketed)

14th 1:30-4:30
SATURDAY CHATTERDAY
meet friendly new people in a safe environment
(ticketed, includes a hot drink of your choice)

15th 2-5pm
CLOTHES SALE FUNDRAISER FOR Q***R PoC hosted by

20th 2-4pm
ZINE WORKSHOP with Coin Operated Press
(PWYC tickets via COP)

26th 4-7pm
KWEER KRAFT MARKET
support local creatives!

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NEW EXHIBITION!
We’re so thrilled to get to exhibit the work of , who’s been kind enough to theme her whole exhibition around us for our 4th anniversary!
In her words:

Kreating Kommunity is an interactive exhibition (or just a really big coluring book) to celebrate Kafe Kweer, the community it has created, and the people that make it a safe and welcoming space.

The feeling of safety and support experienced in openly q***r spaces like Kafe Kweer is something we do not take for granted in the LGBTQIA+ community. Having a space where you can rest, escape the sometimes dreary world and ease loneliness is essential to our wellbeing as individuals and as a community. These spaces require an immense amount of care, energy, time and money to maintain. THANK YOU to Kafe Kweer and the wonderful people who create these spaces, and THANK YOU to you for adding magic to these spaces through your very being. I’m off to enjoy a chai latte and an apricot tart, please help me finish this work. Add your own magic and colour to the art!
(tart - art, I’m sure there’s a joke in there somewhere, let me know if you figure it out)
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Fringe 2024 might be over but that doesn't mean there's nothing going on this week at Kafe Kweer! 🏳️‍🌈

Today we've got safe and confidential sexual health testing from 1pm with ROAM! No need to book, you can just turn up - there may be a bit of a wait but it's usually pretty speedy! 🤩

Thursday at 5pm we have the return of Life Drawing with Maya! Tickets are £12.50 and available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/950663609447?aff=oddtdtcreator

Friday from 2pm we have Coin-Operated Press back in the house with their Zine Club! Tickets are PWYC and you can find the link on their page! 🥳

Saturday we see the launch of our new exhibition too - keep an eye on our socials this week for more information and full poster! 🥰

Open til 5pm today serving lots of hot food and drinks to warm you up in this rain too... ❤️❤️❤️

It’s the final week of the Edinburgh fringe festival!! 🥳

We’ve had a full restock on our pin badges from Rainbow and Co! They’re £10 and on our wee art shelf in the shop 🥰

Lots of vegan food on the menu too if you’re wanting something for lunch on this gloomy Monday ❤️

Open til 5 - free fringe shows on in the basement all afternoon too if you’re wanting something to do 🏳️‍🌈

🎃 THIS IS A PSA - PUMPKIN SPICE IS BACK AT KAFE KWEER 🎃

Pumpkin Spice Lattes are back on the menu from today - it can be made completely vegan with our Gluten Free Oat Milk, or you can have it iced too 🥳

We’ve also got these gorgeous new cookies in stock today! They’re vegan and GF too, so what’s stopping you trying them? 🥰

We’re open til 7pm tonight, with shows on between 12 and 5 - so pop in and give them a go too! ❤️❤️❤️