
SAT 26 SEPTEMBER
State of the Art - Painting
Three hours of painting badly, which is the only way to start.
A social club in Oran



Three or four things a month
There are people you’d get on with, and no particular reason to ever meet them.
Founded in Oran in 2026 for people in their twenties and thirties who wanted something in the diary that was not work
Tennis, films, books, billiards, hikes and long lunches, in cafés and courts and one stretch of coast an hour west
Oran, Algeria
What’s on
Most of it is free. Where there is a fee it is on the ticket, at what the thing actually costs us.
How it works
Somebody picks the thing, calls the venue and holds the table. All you do is put your name down and arrive, and there is a first name waiting for you when you do.
Nobody is asked to be interesting. Most people come on their own the first time, which is the only genuinely difficult part of it.
What the club is
The regulars
Some run every week, others a few times a year. You do not have to be any good at any of them.




How you get in
It costs nothing, and you do not have to do it to come to most of what is on. The call exists so that on the day, somebody already knows your name.
Your name here
Yours after the call
Your name, a number we can reach you on, and a few things you like doing.
Ten minutes on WhatsApp. Not an interview — mostly working out who to sit you next to.
You are on the list, and the quiet ones — the ones listed by month alone — open up.