Art and Home Decor

Food Partner: City Girl Café Girl has served the Boston area with distinctively flavorful food and creative menus. Using the freshest ingredients and highest quality food, our chefs create and attractively present everything on our catering menu for your business lunches, conferences, casual gatherings and formal events.  The Café, Located in Inman Square (204 Hampshire St., Cambridge), is high on atmosphere with rich deep tones of wood and a rustic charm, and eclectic décor of handcrafted pottery, paintings and sculpture. http://www.citygirlcafe.com/Performance Partner: The Center for New Words, K.L. PereiraThe Center for New Words is dedicated to use the power and creativity of words to strengthen the voice of progressive women and women speaking from the margins of society. CNW programs support diverse communities of women as we engage with the written and spoken word in all of its expressions, from reading to blogging to creative writing to theater and performance to opinion-making in the media. http://www.centerfornewwords.org/K.L. Pereira is a poet, teacher, and activist. Pereira has served as an editor and writer for Whats Up Magazine/Spare Change News, advocacy publications by and for the homeless and underemployed. She teaches poetry classes and workshops focused on promoting the power of women's words and encouraging women to find their voices at both The Women's Center and Center for New Words. Pereira's poetry and nonfiction can be found in The Pitkin Review, Girlistic Magazine, The Hub Journal: Boston's Literary Occassional, Sui Generis, Bitch Magazine, Clamor Magazine, and Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia from Greenwood Press. Community Partner:  The YWCA of Cambridge The YWCA of Cambridge has grown to become the largest residential facility for women in the city. We provide temporary and permanent housing for displaced women, homeless women and children, women with HIV/AIDS, battered women, and women recovering from substance abuse. Because our goal for all these women is that they are able to live fruitful lives outside the YWCA, we encourage them to participate in job training and educational programs. Because those skills are not always enough to survive independently, we also offer training in a variety of daily living skills, such as money management, health and awareness, and parenting techniques. http://www.ywcacam.org/about.htm