July 4, 2025

Mujeres Hablan/Women Speak Care Café- March 17

March 17
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:

To honor International Women’s Month, we are partnering with the Nuyorican Poets Café to host the Mujeres Hablan/Women Speak Care Café,dedicated to Women and Spoken Word

In the spirit of our ongoing Care Cafés, we will gather in an atmosphere of care and celebrate the beauty of our diversities,the unique power of our own voicesand the extraordinary beauty and power of language.

All are welcome – all those who identify as women and those who love and support women – to come and sit at our café tables and consider this question:

If you had the attention of the entire world,
what would you say?

As usual there will be simple activities to accompany our conversations: some hand work with words, a collective Speak-Out possibility and some ways to honor the poets amongst us – both past and present. Perhaps you could bring a favorite to share or pin on the wall.

As inspiration here is a poem by one of our cohosts,

Caridad De La Luz/ aka La Bruja dedicated to Julia de Burgos, a Puerto Rican Nationalist poet who is the foundation of Nuyorican poetry.

Querida Julia

Dear Julia

Despierto pensando en tus “porqués”

I awaken thinking of your “whys”

Envuelta en respuestas de la esclavitud

Wrapped in responses to slavery

No llores Julia, que eres una reina

Do not cry Julia, for you are a queen

Tu nombre baila en mi boca

Your name dances in my mouth

Y tus poemas en mi cabeza

And your poems in my head

Vives Julia, no estás muerta

You live Julia, you are not dead

Hasta las aves de la madrugada

Even the morning birds

Abren sus alas para ti

Open their wings for you

Y pronuncian tus poemas sus cantos

Pronouncing your poems in their song

No eras loca, pero revolucionaria

You were not crazy, but revolutionary

Nuestra incomprendida bohemia

Our misunderstood bohemian

Soltera nunca, contigo misma estabas casada

Single never, with you yourself you were married

Casada con la luna, el sol y todas las estrellas

Married to the moon, the sun and all of the stars

Amada por una perla gloriosa que nunca duerme

Loved by a glorious pearl that never sleeps

Entiendes bella Julia, tu importancia

Understand beautiful Julia, your importance

Porque entre tu espíritu y la eternidad

Because between your spirit and eternity

No hay distancia

There is no distance

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.

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