RSVP TODAY!
Every Wednesday night at Cafe Zoe
October 2nd - Dec 11th
Mid-Week Breather with communal meals, culture & connection
6-715 pm: eat regional Greek/Mediterranean meze & one pot meal
715 pm: join cross-cultural gathering or hang out (see details below)
$20
Help us build a "village of all together" with friends from around the world
P.S. We are so glad you are here! You might feel lost in Silicon Valley, but that does not mean you are not needed or wanted! We need all of our friends from this land and far away lands to bring your way of being, caring for community and gifts into this crazy place so we can make it feel more humane! Email Mary Jane and team with any questions and ideas! Sign up for our FB page or welcome (at) kafenia.org
Come once or every week and help us build a community spirit! We provide food (Cafe Zoe menu not avail).
Includes simple regional Greek food (pre-WW2 mostly vegetarian)
About Our Fall Evenings at Cafe Zoe
Oct 2nd: Food (Evia- keftedes, tiropita, Greek salad); Gathering - Support for the Journey
Oct 9th: Food (Ikaria - Mageirio Stew, Arugula & Pistachio); Gathering - International Welcome Night
Oct 16th: Food (TBD); Gathering - Storytelling - Creating a Village
Oct 23rd: Food (Acorn from Kea, TBD): Gathering - Peacebuilding - In the Land of our Ancestors, Dialogue about living on Ohlone Land
Oct 30th: Food, (TBD); Halloween Eve Hang Out; Gathering: Crafts, real roots of Halloween, family friendly
Nov-Dec to COME
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Come hang out with us!
Mary Jane and Yia-Yia's (grandmas) in the village of Amelides, Greece
About The Kafenia:
a physical place for our global humanity - deep connection, friendship, and food in Silicon Valley.
We offer welcome & refuge & real human connection in an ever more virtual world. We do this by rooting our community in immigrant indigenous voices from village cultures who understand the value of relationship. Old ways, but with the feminine instead of the patriarchy. We weave together each of us into a village of all together& encourage each of us to listen to and share our voices, stories, cultures, visions, callings, through circles and creative community offerings. In the process, the global feminine rises up & is empowered to lead in our community and in our world, and peace finds her way into our hearts so that no one ever experiences war again.
Our cafe is a community building, communal food & event space, with a village spirit of hanging out over earthy Greek foods, delicious divinations & by gatherings involving arts, music, storytelling that build understanding and challenge outdated paradigms.
The Kafenia is a reimagining of the traditional Greek kafenio where men shared food, friendship and social and political life together. My grandfather had a kafenio at 16th and Folsom in San Francisco in the 1930s to keep the village alive in a bustling metropolis - but it was only for men. Now, as his granddaughter, Mary Jane, whose father was a WW2 refugee and who has done peacebuilding around the world, I am reimagining it as a multicultural village in Silicon Valley- with women front and center. (see World Pulse story.)
Status:
We just found a venue to host every Wednesday evening this fall at Cafe Zoe, Oct 2 - Dec 11th. Our goal is to be open independently or in partnership with another group as a public community gathering space with food that also includes gatherings, support for social change and upending old paradigms, events and dialogues.
Past Gatherings
a physical place for our global humanity - deep connection, friendship, and food in Silicon Valley.
We offer welcome & refuge & real human connection in an ever more virtual world. We do this by rooting our community in immigrant indigenous voices from village cultures who understand the value of relationship. Old ways, but with the feminine instead of the patriarchy. We weave together each of us into a village of all together& encourage each of us to listen to and share our voices, stories, cultures, visions, callings, through circles and creative community offerings. In the process, the global feminine rises up & is empowered to lead in our community and in our world, and peace finds her way into our hearts so that no one ever experiences war again.
Our cafe is a community building, communal food & event space, with a village spirit of hanging out over earthy Greek foods, delicious divinations & by gatherings involving arts, music, storytelling that build understanding and challenge outdated paradigms.
The Kafenia is a reimagining of the traditional Greek kafenio where men shared food, friendship and social and political life together. My grandfather had a kafenio at 16th and Folsom in San Francisco in the 1930s to keep the village alive in a bustling metropolis - but it was only for men. Now, as his granddaughter, Mary Jane, whose father was a WW2 refugee and who has done peacebuilding around the world, I am reimagining it as a multicultural village in Silicon Valley- with women front and center. (see World Pulse story.)
Status:
We just found a venue to host every Wednesday evening this fall at Cafe Zoe, Oct 2 - Dec 11th. Our goal is to be open independently or in partnership with another group as a public community gathering space with food that also includes gatherings, support for social change and upending old paradigms, events and dialogues.
Past Gatherings