To get your weekend off to a start- a bad joke.

Why do all French people want to hug Obama?
Because President Sarkozy.

In contrast to last weekend we have lots of  events on over the next three days.  First up is the Ending Activism event.

Fri 15, 7.30-9pm, Ending Actvisim. People interested in learning from their mistakes — and other people’s – will gather at the Lass O’Gowrie pub in central Manchester. They will share their experiences and thoughts about climate activism’s past, present and future. “Endng Activism” refers to the ways and reasons people stop “doing” activism. It also refers to our belief that a form of “activism” that has been critiqued repeatedly needs to, well, have people ending it. http://endingactivism.org/

Fri 15, 6 to 7pm Free performance at Royal Exchange Theatre by “Geddes Loom“
Geddes Loom fuse spoken word, songwriting, beatbox, story-telling and electronic and acoustic music to create unique and intriguing musical and theatrical performances.
The group currently consists of poet and beatboxer Ben Mellor, singer, writer and cellist Léonie Higgins, and guitarist and all round purveyor of Technology, Dan Steele.

Sat 16, 5–8pm (after Didsbury Festival) Didsbury Dinners is having a vegan-friendly community celebration/BBQ to say “thank you” to all its supporters. “Come and join us to celebrate all that we’ve achieved so far and to find out more about what we’ve been up to. There’ll be free food from our vegan-friendly barbecue, seed planting, face painting and more!” See website here.

Sat 16th, from 7pm Rio+20 Earth Summit Teleconference: Southern Perspectives on Climate Change’ at The Creative Corner Cafe, 14 Milton Grove, Whalley Range, Manchester, M16 0BP Background papers can be found here http://tinyurl.com/bl6f5wk and here http://tinyurl.com/c3lkwj3.

If you know of weekend events that are about “climate” (and that includes food growing, or cycling or whatever), then let us know and we can include them in future “Something for the Weekend”s…

And if you know any jokes of the high standard we’ve used so far, please submit ’em.