A Walk in a May Meadow Care Café | May 19
May 19, 2026
Tuesday, 5-7pm
Community Arts Space
74A East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
This is a free event! You can either RSVP through the link or drop in anytime between 5-7 pm.
Created by Lois Weaver
and cohosted with Kim Ima, Peggy Shaw &
Erin Amlicke
Photo by Lori E Seid
Third Tuesday Care Cafés
THIS MONTH:
May 19, 2026, marks our 17th consecutive Care Café! Over all these months, we have collected food for food pantries, written thank you notes to lawmakers who have our backs, celebrated queer love, joined in with the spoken words of Nuyorican Poets Café, planted seeds of care, painted stars while looking for solstice light, painted our own horse so we could get on it and ride with the resistance and much more!
We are thinking that this month we will take a more restful stroll through the meadows of May and just focus on sitting down, having a chat and enjoying each other’s company before we start gearing up for a summer of hard midterm work. So come join us on Tuesday May 19 between 5 and 7 pm. Hopefully the weather will be good, and we can fling open the patio doors, sit on the porch and enjoy the sweet spring air.
But worry not, we will still have plenty of activities on hand. We will do a spring cleaning and a big recycle by bringing out all our art supplies from the last 17 months including some of the leftover horses and stars to paint and we can continue making our paper chain of care! Plus, there will be lots of plans to make for the coming months.
About
A Care Café asks us to turn up as we are, with no specific agenda, expectation, or discussion topic, simply asking the question: How can we maintain an attitude of care in an uncaring world?
Set up like a conventional café with small tables and chairs, the Care Café acts as a temporary venue for community and conversation with some simple table activities set up within a framework of care. Just by entering the room, we acknowledge something of our own needs in the present moment and our desire to give and receive care.
You can RSVP with La Mama to let us know you are coming, but you can drop in anytime between 5-7 pm.
To learn more about The Care Café and how to hold your own, please visit THIS page.
Aug 19, 2025
End of SUMMER Care Café
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July 22, 2025
Third Tuesday SUMMER Care Cafés
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June 17, 2025
A 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Care Cafe, Celebrating the Love Amongst Us🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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May 6, 2025
A Spring Cleaning/Seed Planting Care Cafe
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Apr 1, 2025
No Time For Fools April Care Cafe
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Feb 24, 2025
Care Café in the time of Chaos
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Jan 20, 2025
Care Café
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