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Bob’s Back from Africa

Bob, Blake and Caley were in Africa helping with a new residence for orphans from the Kibera slums. The children's current home is in Kibera, Africa's largest slum and it is in shambles. The roof is rotten, there is mold, asbestos, and no running water. To top it off, the children are being evicted at [...]

Clinic In Africa

Bob’s Holidays

All our "Friends of Naked" know that Bob has been operating the cafe as a place for local young artists to use for free, for 25+ years. In all that time, he's never taken the time for a vacation, instead keeping the place available for the local neighbourhood. Bob is actually taking a vacation! And [...]

Naked Cafe

Well, it's been 25+ years and we've been providing a place for local musicians and artists to come and express themselves. When we started, we were one of the first internet cafes around, and that's been part of our business for all these years. Admittedly, in the beginning it was a bigger part, since we [...]

Boyle Street Rapid Fire Improv

Improv – Supporting Inner City Youth

October 31, 2018

We’re excited to be hosting the monthly Improv with Boyle Street and Rapid Fire Theatre! Naked has been supporting inner city youth for a couple of decades, and this is a great way to spend a couple of hours: enjoy a coffee, have a laugh and help out. Admission is by donation. Last Tuesday every […]

New Events Calendar

New Events Calendar

October 19, 2018

I’ve installed a new events calendar that should make booking events a bit smoother! You still submit a booking ON the events calendar, just use the little button at the top right corner. Fill in some info, contact info, date etc (you can skip “venue info” because well, duh). Once it’s submitted you’ll get a […]

Munya Mataruse at Calgary Folk Festival

Munya Mataruse

October 18, 2018

One of the coolest artists who just “walked in” one day years ago, was Munya Mataruse. (@MunyaMats) He just dropped in one open stage, and blew the place away! A big star in Africa, he wanted to move into the Canadian market as well and brought his amazing stage presence to our stage! BIO: Munya Mataruse […]

Fish Griwkowsky

Eviction of Naked – Fish Griwkowsky

October 17, 2018

This article by Fish Griwkowsky from back when Naked CyberCafe was first kicked out to make way for the “downtown entertainment district”. Also known as let’s get rid of “those people” from downtown. Fish on Facebook

Non-Exclusive

October 17, 2018

One of the things that I love about the cafe is that we’re all the same within it’s walls. (That’s technically true anywhere, but very formally within them). When you’re inside Naked, you can hang out and read, use a computer, or drink coffee and do your homework. You can also join in many lively […]

Mboya Nicholson

October 17, 2018

Mboya Nicholson Mboya Nicholson is a wildly talented jazz pianist and we’re fortunate to count him as a good friend of the cafe. In addition to doing fairly regular shows at Naked Cyber Cafe, he’s around Edmonton in other venues, has a busy schedule writing songs, doing videos for his YouTube channel, and even finds […]

Sahil Chugh at the Baby Grand

Serving Baby Grand Realness

October 11, 2018

So, when you think about your local neighborhood (non-chain) cafe, it’s awesome enough to have an actual fully-equipped stage for local artists to play on. Bob went to the next level when he managed to find a Yamaha C3 Centennial Edition baby grand piano! If you play keyboards, you have to check it out next Open […]