CARISMA at Cambridge Cultural Olympiad Celebrations

CARISMA will take part to the Cultural Olympiad Celebrations held at The Corn Exchange theatre as shown on their web site.

A small group of CARISMA member will be selected to represent the club in the  half hour shows to be held on Sat 25 July between 11:45 and 12:15.   Please express you interested in being part of it (minimum technical standard and rank required) or if you would like to visit.  Those intending to be part of the show should consider to be busy on the Sat, between 11 and 12:30.

CARISMA AGM 2009

We would like to invite every member of CARISMA to the annual General meeting to be held on Tuesday 21 July 2009. The AGM will be held at the Snug Restaurant and Bar (on East Road, formerly known as “the vine”) at 8:30 for a 9pm sharp start. Agenda for the event will be:

  1. Welcome and Introduction
  2. Financial Report and attendance figures
  3. Review of the past year and plans for the future
  4. Election of new committee members positions
  5. A.O.B.
  6. Summary and conclusion

Please try your best to be there as we value your opinion as a member and as a possible candidate to relevant position in the committee.  We aim at finishing the whole meeting within an hour in order to allow people in a hurry to leave:  please try to be on time.

10 Years Celebration

CARISMA 10th Anniversary

CARISMA 10th Anniversary

I would like to thank personally the over 30 people that took part to the celebration of the 10th anniversary of CARISMA on Sat 20 June.

Starting at 3PM the party went on till late evening with a few guests that resisted all the way to the early Sunday morning 🙂

Some pictures of the events are availabile at this page and others will be added at a later stage under the tag BBQ.

A short clip with some of the relevant moments of the events is here:

And finally, as a tradition from previous years I’ll add for those interested in statistics what 24 actived eater and drinkers managed to consume on that day:

  • 2 Kg of Lamb
  • 3 Kg of chicken,
  • 7 Kg of beef
  • 1 Kg of Salmon
  • 4 Kg of fruit
  • 3 Kg of bread
  • undisclosed amounts of olives, dips and other nibbles
  • 2 cakes
  • 6 litres of coke
  • 2 litres of chardonnay
  • 2 litres of merlot-cabernet savignon
  • 6.75 litres of cava
  • 37 litres of beer
  • over 1 litre of palinka
  • some water and coffee

Carisma Dinner 7 Jun 2009

At CARISMA we established years ago to go for dinner at the end of each grading session.  So once more after June’s grading 12 of us celebrated the new ranks awarded with a nice dinner.  Here are a couple of pictures of the event: