General history of Ducks & Bears (In Progress)

AOR 

In 1964 the AOR (Algemene Ontmoetings Ruimte/ General Meeting Space) was founded. This was a student café made by the student associations ESC, SSRE and DEMOS. In 1970 the AOR moved to ‘De Bunker’ the concrete building which some of the older students can still remember. Until 2005 the AOR was one of the biggest customers of Dommelsch, at some point even bigger than de Efteling. This was also the first bar where, in 1981, the first beer tanks in the Netherlands because it was a fulltime volunteer position to change the kegs. In 2005 the AOR was abolished because of the competition with Stratumseind. Read more about the AOR and the closure here: http://web.tue.nl/cursor/bastiaan/jaargang47/cursor17/achtergrond/special.html  

Tent Bar 

Voorloper van SCOrE.

Oude locaties van de culturele verenigingen

SCOrE 

In 2007 the culture association moved to the middle part of de Bunker. With the culture associations also a bar came with them. This was the SCOrE bar (Stichting Culturele Ontmoetingsruimte Eindhoven/ Foundation Cultural Meetingroom Eindhoven). This bar had a 24/7 permit and during the introweeks on ‘Doorhaaldonderdag’ eagerly used this to survive the night. Hubble took over some stuff from SCOrE in exchange to host 2 drinks a year: SCOrE a BOCK(somewhere in October) and the Grand Prestige drink (31st of May)

Hubble Community Café 

When it became known that the SCOrE bar and all the cultural student associations had to move to the new Luna building a group of students decided that it was only fitting that a new student bar also needed to be in the Luna building. In 2015 this group of students was formed and on the 19th of May 2017 Bar Potential BV was founded. This is also the Dies Natalis of Hubble so keep that date free in your agenda. On the 19th of February 2018 Hubble was formally opened. Two weeks prior the first associations had signed their usage contracts with B&R Beurs Eindhoven being the first association that signed the contract. Soon many more followed with almost 90 connected associations & teams when the second bar was about to open its doors.

Meteor Community Café 

A couple of old Hubble board members and meubulair noticed that Hubble became overcrowded resulting in students having to sit in the lobby. Reservations had to be denied and some guests complained that Hubble became very busy. With the plan of the student housing of Castor, a place was created to place a second bar that would become part of the same community, opening on July 28th 2025. This made it possible to give room to more students and support the student life in Eindhoven and support the student associations that are operation in this city even more. Meteor would get its own identity, taking the bear as mascot as Hubble would have the duck. This created the Duck & Bears community we know today.