The Kenosha Women’s Network meets on the second Friday of every month.
Our meetings are fun, informative, and provide a great opportunity to network with other women. Join us!
Monthly Lunch Meeting
KWN meets for lunch on the second Friday of each month. We meet at Casa Capri, 2129 Birch Rd, Kenosha. The meeting begins at 11:30am with a chance to talk to other attendees, with lunch and the program beginning at 12 Noon. We will wrap things up by 1pm. The meeting will include networking, lunch, interesting speakers, raffles and more. Cost is $20 per person and includes the hot buffet lunch.
The next meeting will be held on May 9th at our normal location of Casa Capri Restaurant. Click the link below to sign up. The deadline to register is end of day May 6th, so that we can give our hosts a number for the food.
Not a KWN member yet? We’d love for you to check us out! Register to join us for a lunch or two in order to see what we’re all about. Visitors are welcome to attend up to two meetings before joining; when you’ve made up your mind, click on the form link on our membership page to sign up!
click here to register for lunch
50/50 Raffle
Members are encouraged to donate gifts valued at $10 or more. Donors and their business are recognized in the monthly newsletter. Raffle tickets are sold at the meeting–$1 each or 6 for $5. The first ticket drawn is half of the proceeds. KWN keeps the remainder for the Mini Grant Fund. Additional winners are then drawn for however many prizes were donated at that meeting.
KWN’s monthly book club, Wise Women Read, meets monthly at Blue House Books, 5915 6th Ave A, Kenosha.
May’s Wise Women Read Meeting
On Tuesday May 13 at the Wise Women Read Book Club meeting at 6:30 p.m. at Blue House Books, 5915 6th Ave A, we’ll be discussing The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin. It’s also a movie, but, as usual, the book is better!
A. J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. Slowly but surely, he is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island—from Lambiase, the well-intentioned police officer who’s always felt kindly toward Fikry; from Ismay, his sister-in-law who is hell-bent on saving him from his dreary self; from Amelia, the lovely and idealistic (if eccentric) Knightley Press sales rep who keeps on taking the ferry over to Alice Island, refusing to be deterred by A.J.’s bad attitude. Even the books in his store have stopped holding pleasure for him. These days, A.J. can only see them as a sign of a world that is changing too rapidly.
And then a mysterious package appears at the bookstore. It’s a small package, but large in weight. It’s that unexpected arrival that gives A. J. Fikry the opportunity to make his life over, the ability to see everything anew. The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is an unforgettable tale of transformation and second chances, an irresistible affirmation of why we read, and why we love.
At the June 10 meeting we’ll be discussing The Wedding People by Alison Espach. Our favorite author Hannah Morrissey picked this out for us, plus it’s been optioned for a movie, so we know it’s gonna be good!
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.
It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She’s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years ― she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe’s plan ― which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.
In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined ― and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.