"Whatever the problem, community is the answer." - Meg Wheatley, Berkana Institute
As a social mission gathering space, we support grassroots global change makers, and all international community members in feeling welcomed, sharing stories, projects, opportunities, challenges and growth. What happens here will be co-created.
We are a space of hope and possibility, to remind, encourage and give us tools that help us build the world we want ourselves and our children to inherit.
Come on and join us!
As a social mission gathering space, we support grassroots global change makers, and all international community members in feeling welcomed, sharing stories, projects, opportunities, challenges and growth. What happens here will be co-created.
We are a space of hope and possibility, to remind, encourage and give us tools that help us build the world we want ourselves and our children to inherit.
Come on and join us!
Every Wednesday night at Cafe Zoe
October 2nd - Dec 11th
6-7 pm: eat regional Greek/Mediterranean meze & one pot meal.
7 -830 pm: join cross-cultural gathering village-style with dialogue, storytelling, song (see details below)
Cost: $20 (includes dinner)
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
Oct 30th: All Ages Halloween Mashup: Old Ways & New RSVP - Special time: 545-8pm, $10
Nov 6th: Global Village Circle & Greek Kephalonia Food
Nov 13th: Storytelling
Nov 20th: Peacebuilding
Dec 4th: Global Village Circle
Dec 11th; International Welcome & CLOSING OF FALL SERIES (International Celebration!)
Sign up for our FB page or welcome@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)
October 2nd - Dec 11th
6-7 pm: eat regional Greek/Mediterranean meze & one pot meal.
7 -830 pm: join cross-cultural gathering village-style with dialogue, storytelling, song (see details below)
Cost: $20 (includes dinner)
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
Oct 30th: All Ages Halloween Mashup: Old Ways & New RSVP - Special time: 545-8pm, $10
Nov 6th: Global Village Circle & Greek Kephalonia Food
Nov 13th: Storytelling
Nov 20th: Peacebuilding
Dec 4th: Global Village Circle
Dec 11th; International Welcome & CLOSING OF FALL SERIES (International Celebration!)
Sign up for our FB page or welcome@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)
PAST GATHERINGS
We held our Second Annual Community Peace Meal honoring war survivors in Libera and Cote d'Ivoire on June 9th, 2018! The event sold out and raised enough to rebuild a school and assist with restoration for a local community by fall! We are taking time off this summer & will return with even more offerings in the fall.
We have had monthly circles since November 2016 through May 2018, each season culminating in a Peace Meal in solidarity with friends affected by war and conflict. Each gathering explores a primal theme - welcome, the land, democracy, sound - in a culturally-rooted heartfelt way. Our 1st Peace Meal centered on Libya and went viral across Libya! (30,000 likes!) Our 2nd Peace Meal centered on Cote d'Ivoire and Liberia and included storytelling circles & dancing under the fig tree village-style.
Check out some of our previous gatherings below.
2nd Annual Peace Meal June 2018
2017-2018 Pop Up Season
Winter 2017-18
Spring 2018
Peace Meals: Bridging Cultures with FoodThese gatherings give participants an embodied experience of other cultures by sharing foods and stories around food.
Why? Sharing food deepens community and connections and, like personal stories, gives one a practical connection and pathway to engage more meaningfully. |
Heartfelt Gatherings and Meaningful ConnectionsSpring 2018Gatherings and talks from people from or returned from afar help translate abstract "over there" events into personal, heartfelt experiences of connection with people, art and heart.
Why? Heart and personal connections help reduce overwhelm and light a clearer path for engagement based on relationship. |
Participate in the World!If you could move the needle on one issue, what would it be?*
The Kafenia helps you connect with the incredible global work based in the Bay Area, and offers practical ways (connections to groups, on site-volunteering) to do it.. Why? It can be overwhelming to decide how to engage or when to find the time. Our staff and programming will help you engage regularly, with community and help you identify what resonates for you. This is a pathway between the great efforts and the wider public that is missing right now. **After Rachel sent photos to Liberia, "the president of the cooperative, Agathe, came to the market with a photo of the Peace Meal, and the whole village came to look, and they started singing and celebrating. When the chief of the village saw that we raised enough to rebuild a school, he started crying. He couldn't believe it." |