How we spend our days is how we spend our lives. Taking time to slow down and be present is more important than ever in our busy and frantic world. Join us this autumn for one hour of relaxation, reflection and mindfulness.

This in-person event will help you learn techniques to bring your mind back to the present moment, improve your focus, and enhance your overall wellbeing. As a registered Health Coach and 10 of Zen Mindfulness Teacher, Andreea Unwin will guide you through several mindfulness practices that can help you be more present in your day to day life.

Whether you're completely new to mindfulness or you tried it in the past but didn't really know how to apply it in your life, this workshop is perfect for anyone seeking to be more intentional with where their attention goes. Don't miss out on this opportunity to cultivate mindfulness in a supportive and nurturing environment!

There are limited spots available, so make sure you book early to avoid diappointment.

After the success of her first Vegan and Gluten Free event in Thrive, vegan chef Danielle is organising a new afternoon tea for Halloween on Saturday, October 9th!

Danielle will also give a demonstration on how to make some of these gorgeous desserts

On the menu:
- Sweet potato and chocolate swirl cones, cream and homemade jam
- Pumpkin cheesecake decorated with a cute pumpkin marzipan
- Bat on a nutella mousse, lemon curd and a hazelnut sponge

- A Black olive, spring onion and fresh mint patty
- Danielle’s unmissable seed bread with plant based cheese and rocket
- A gloomy black sesame tartlet, red pepper houmous and greek style cheese

Her first event SOLD OUT so quickly secure a spot by clicking the link below!

On Friday 18th October, come and enjoy a free comedy night for Mill Road Fringe’s first ever comedy venture. The evening will be led by award-winning comedians Kit Loyd and Ollie West, with support from Ali Warwood, Mark Ahier and Steve Ward from Cambridge’s fabulous Commoners’ Comedy Club.

Tickets are free but places are limited so please reserve your seats in advance on Eventbrite.

Doors from 6.30pm. Comedy from 7pm to around 9pm. Bar and food available throughout.

Come and enjoy Acoustic Nights in Thrive

All welcome!

For more information, visit cambridgeacousticnights.com

Join Amanda on the 12th of October for Yoga & Mimosas- Taylor’s version 2.0! We will jamming to a playlist full of our favourite Taylor tracks as we flow through a 60 minute vinyasa class!

One-Woman-Band solo performance by Maryen Cairns, plus singer-songwriter Charles Gorrie (from Glasgow). Being held upstairs in the Hive gallery, with great vegan food/drinks available from Thrive. Tickets are available in advance - £10 or £5 for Students (See Separate Ticket Link Below) All ages welcome.

For over 30 years, singer-songwriter Maryen Cairns’s allegorical folk-pop has offered a form of literate escapism for her worldwide fanbase. “I feel driven to create songs that people can disappear into. I want to pluck them away from reality so that they can lose themselves for a few minutes,” says the Guernsey-based Australian.

Maryen is a solo performance artist, a multi-instrumentalist, a producer, and a storytelling songwriter. Live, her work is both delicate and powerful, and surprisingly diverse… "Rainstick in one hand, keyboard in the other, microphone and voice firmly linked, feet punching a KikBox rhythm, clapping stick, shaker, medicine drum and guitar waiting in standby"

Maryen has released 7 critically-acclaimed albums; been produced and mentored by Rolling Stone's producer Chris Kimsey; and had a professional association with former Marillion lead singer Fish.

Today, the restless creative shows no signs of slowing down - she issued her first vinyl record in May 2024 - One Woman Band, Live at Echotown Studios, Vol 1.

Monthly event Soundhunt will this month welcome Tim Hodgkinson, Sue Lynch, NO Moore and Dominic Lash.

Come and enjoy some improvised and experimental music !

£5/£8 on the door, for more information please email domlash@hotmail.com

On Sunday 8th September at 3:30PM, come and enjoy a fully vegan and gluten free Afternoon tea in Thrive, hosted by chef Dnaielle Maupertuis.

MENU:
Sweet potato scones, cream and jam
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Lemon pie with passionfruit meringue
Revisited black forest gateau
White chocolate, apricot and lavender cheesecake
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Homemade seed bread, plant based cheese, rocket
Mexican wrap, guacamole, assorted beans, tomatoes and pineapple
French ratatouille tartlet, courgette, auberine, peppers, tomato, garlic
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Tea
£39/person

Limited tickets available!
Secure your seat with a £10 deposit HERE

Join this mindful mediation on how to connect with nature paintings by Izabela Imiolczyk

August 22nd ¦ 3:30-5PM

SATURDAY 10th AUGUST - 2-4PM ON THE THRIVE TERRACE

Bring your unwanted accessories and make someone happy while getting yourself some new accessories!
PLEASE ONLY BRING ACCESSORIES (bags, purses, hats, shawls, belts, jewellery…)
NO CLOTHES/SHOES

Q: I don’t have anything to bring, can I still come?
- Yes, please do!

Q: I don’t want to swap anything, can I just drop things off?
- Yes, please

Q: Will I need money?
- No, this is a FREE event

Q: Is there a limit to how much I can take?
- We’re going to say max 5 items per person (but bring your friends, more people, more items!)

Alex will be joined by some incredible acts to be announced.

Ali Warwood will MC and there is food, drinks, heating and loo roll in Thrive.

Occasionally line ups have to change last minute, soz in advance if this happens.

*** Please note: The time of these shows has now changed - Doors - 7pm, Show starts 7.30pm ***

Commoners and Custard Comedy have collaborated to bring two stellar comedy shows to the Cambridge Festival line up.

Our first show is Samantha Day - The Booby Trap.

Breasts loom large in our culture, but why are we so obsessed with them?
Award winning comedian Samantha Day gets her tit jokes out and exposes some big issues.
Interesting, sophisticated and funny.
Amused Moose Award Nominee - Edinburgh 2023
“Just brilliant. Her tit material is without equal.” - Arthur Smith
“The real deal, a fresh voice tempered by a life full of square peg experience” - English Comedian of the Year Nick Page

Headliner: Lindsey Santoro

Naturally effusive and full of giddy joy, Birmingham’s Lindsey Santoro has emerged as one of the most original female voices to come out of the West Midlands, and is one of the best hidden gems on the comedy circuit.

Lindsey Santoro has won the BIGGEST Prize in Comedy for her critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe debut Pink Tinge. The Award, organised by NextUp, was decided by a public vote and a panel of judges.

Lindsey will be joined by three other excellent comedians and the night will be MC'd by our very own Ali Warwood

*** Please note: The time of these shows has now changed - Doors - 7pm, Show starts 7.30pm ***

Soundhunt kicks off 2024 with two duos - the saxophone and double bass duo of Olie Brice (who Brian Morton as described as making "the entire body of his bass sing") and Rachel Musson (who John Fordham rightly calls "sensitive to melody-like narrative and dramatic pacing"), and the guitar/double bass duo of Soundhunt organisers N.O. Moore and Dominic Lash. Inventive and expressive improvisation in the relaxed and intimate setting of the terrific Thrive Cafe.

Poster design by Ben Varney.

Tickets £7 advance or £8/£5 conc. on the door.

Community Party - Get Together & Get Down with live vinyl form the Chez Le Funk Collective.

Raising funds for Cambridge and South Cambridge Green Party.

£10 / £5 unwaged/low waged/students

Ali Warwood will be hosting and introducing four acts with headliner: Felicity Ward

Line up subject to last minute change (usually due to train strikes).

Thrive will be serving food until the start of the show and drinks throughout.

Award Winning Singer-Songwriter James Kirby performs heartfelt melodic songs that captivate 
audiences of all ages and with his unique style of guitar playing he is not to be missed! 

    "Beautifully Done"
         BBC Radio Introducing / A-List

             “A Force To Be Reckoned With”
                 Global Songwriters, Nashville

www.jameskirbymusic.com

Doors Open at 7:00PM
Starts at 7:30PM

In this energetic new festive comedy play from award-winning playwright, Paul Richards, cash-stricken couples all over the world have told their loved ones those painfully untrustworthy words: let's not do presents this year. But do they actually mean it? A real test of trust, hope that the true meaning of Christmas will ring true, and reflection...of the terrible presents they received over the years, performed by an outstanding cast. Guaranteed to make you feel all warm and full of yuletide joy. And probably a little stressed. But it is that time of the year, after all...

Cast: Liz Barker, Alex Machell, Izzy Rees, Nicole Horst
Written and directed by: Paul Richards

For its regular monthly Sunday afternoon slot (which takes place on the last Sunday of every month), Soundhunt presents an exceptional international quartet of world-renowned improvisers. Belgian vocalist Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg (who film fans may remember from Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio) has been described by All About Jazz as employing "a vast vocabulary of sounds". Lawrence Casserley is a pioneer of electronic sound processing, while classically-trained French microtonal acoustic guitarist Pascal Marzan has forged his own language on the instrument. Completing the quartet is violinist Philipp Wachsmann, quite simply one of the world's most imaginative and experienced improvisers.

PLUS the trio of N.O. Moore (guitar), Verity Lane (violin), and Douglas Benford.

For more information: domlash[@]hotmail.com

On Friday 24th November, 7PM, come and enjoy an 3 course Indian menu from vegan chef Melanie Hanspall

!!! PRE-ORDER ONLY !!!
LIMITED SPACES

£30pp

For tickets, please email: melaniehanspall@yahoo.co.uk

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MENU*

VADA PAV
Nan topped with spiced potato & pea, green chutney, tamarind yoghurt

THALI
Red lentil dahl with coconut milk & curry leaves
Mixed vegetable masala
Turmeric & cumin rice
Poppadum

CARROT CAKE, CHAI
Chai spiced carrot cake
Masala chai tea

*Menu is Vegan, Nut free. Gf option is available upon request.

A special additional Soundhunt concert for the Cambridge Jazz Festival, featuring:

Rachel Musson - saxophones

Andrew Lisle - drums

N.O. Moore - electric guitar

Dominic Lash - double bass

doors 7pm, music 7:30pm

tickets £7 from Eventbrite or £8 (£5 concessions) cash on the door

Gecko is a singer storyteller sharing playful songs full of wit and warmth. Expect to hear about pig fugitives, feminist fairytales and Guanabana fruit juice from this festival favourite.

Gecko has performed across the world, from Milan to Auckland, from Stockholm to Amsterdam. He has shared work at Glastonbury, Latitude, the Southbank Centre and the Edinburgh Fringe as well as on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music and BBC THREE TV.

He was a guest on BAFTA winning Sky Arts TV Show ‘Life & Rhymes’ hosted by Benjamin Zephaniah and has shared stages with the likes of Ed Sheeran, Tim Minchin, Eddie Izzard and Billy Bragg. His TikTok videos have received over 4 million views and 1 million likes.

Ali Warwood will be hosting and introducing the following acts:
Chelsea Birkby
Su Mi
Matt Hobs
and a headline act who is not yet completely confirmed

Line up subject to last minute change (usually bc of train strikes). Thrive does lovely food and drinks.

The Cambridge Samosa Company will be providing vegan indian food from their food pod on the terrace. You can eat on the terrace, bring it in to the restaurant or take away.

Midday until 4pm: Thali Lunch - samosa, rice, selection of 3 curries, nan, pickles & chutney £15

5pm until 8:30pm: Thali Dinner - samosa, rice, selection of 3 curries, nan, pickles & chutney £22

On Sunday, October 29th at 2PM, come and enjoy some experimental and improvised music in Thrive’s basement.

Pete ROBSON - horns

Stuart WILDING - percussion
Regard BOWERING - percussion

Carina TINT Xiao - Chinese bamboo flutes

NO MOORE - guitar

For more information: domlash[@]hotmail.com

Blood on the Clocktower is a social deduction game where the good townsfolk are trying to work out who the evil characters are over a course of days. Every character has a special power, and players who die are still allowed to talk, vote once, and can win with the rest of their team. More info here:

https://bloodontheclocktower.com/

Players are encouraged to dress up in character for this Halloween Special

Come and enjoy Andy’s short poems and tall stories from 1971’s
with WYSIWYG

Music from the time of peace, love and napalm

Call or email Thrive to book a table

Headliner: Jodie Mitchell

Jodie Mitchell is a stand-up comedian, writer, actor, podcaster and Drag King. They’ve appeared on Comedy Central Live and Channel 4’s ‘Jokes Only A Lesbian Can Tell’ and wrote on season 3 of Netflix’s ‘Sex Education’.

They’re an Off Broadway Award winner for their work as macho alter-ego John Travulva with their drag king troupe ‘Pecs’, and co-founded the queer women, trans and non-binary comedy show ‘The LOL Word’, which currently has a residency at Soho Theatre.

Jodie will be joined by the brilliant Adam Vincent, Amy Jay and Andy Storey and the night will MC'd be our very own Ali Warwood.