Easter Sunday Barbeque – Souvlisma Arniou!

Time again for another proud Hellenic Society tradition (and the president’s favourite): the Lamb spitroast and barbeque on Easter Sunday!

Like every year this takes place all day on Easter Sunday, with our kind host the Opal Gardens halls of residence in Victoria Park (Anson Road, M14 5EX), the biggest Greek residence in Manchester, with beautiful grass areas and green gardens.

This is an informal affair. The Hellenic Society is providing the spit (souvla), and the lamb, Opal Gardens is letting us use their barbeques. If you’d like to join us, all you have to do is drop us an email at hellenic@umsu.manchester.ac.uk or call Manolis at 07845680695, and show up on the day. The lamb is free for everyone, but you with your friends can also bring your own meat to barbeque, wine, beers, salads and red eggs! It’s completely informal, and the purpose is to get together, keep the Greek easter custom of the lamb and have a great feast in a huge outdoors table, with Greek music and dancing!

The event is open to anyone who would like to join, Greek or not. Because of noise and other security concerns, we will need to keep the number of people under a certain limit, and with invitation only, so make sure you contact us soon to start putting this together! The forecast is looking cloudy with some sun so far, let’s hope it stays good.

UPDATE (Friday): the weather forecast for sunday is VERY RAINY so that won’t let us have our lamb spitroast. We’ll still be buying a lamb, but cut up at the butchers to barbeque instead, and having our barbeques under some cover from the water.
Because of the rain again we’ll have to eat indoors in the common room, so again the numbers limited. If you’re definitely coming, reply on the event’s page.

We’ll start setting up around 12, so show up around then. Of course we can’t provide lamb for 30-40 people, so bring some food / raw meat /salad along (don’t overdo it on the food, you’ll be surprised how many people can eat from a 15-16 kilo lamb!). For further questions, post on the event’s page and i’ll answer questions there so everyone can see.

since people have been asking, you don’t have to be already a member of Hellenic Society (or Greek) to join in, everyone’s welcome.