CORNER  COFFEE  CAFE A great place to eat, drink meet and mingle! Check out our...  Daily Lunch Menu,  Catering Menu, Happy Hour ($1.75 coffee & cookie from 2-3pm) and Friday Lunch Special. Wow your family by taking one of our gourmet cooking classes.   The YWCA's Facility is available for private events from conferences to wedding receptions and everything in between. For more information call Patrick at 913-371-1105 x248 or email palexander@ywca-kck.org. Proceeds support YWCA Girls' Programming and your community.	Celebrity Dish! Our own Executive Chef, Andrea Duncan, will be featured each week on the Fox 4 Noon News Segment, Celebrity Dish. She will be demonstrating how to make favorite dishes of well known celebrities. Check it out! Kristen Stewart from Twilight shares her favorite dish with Fox 4 News this week! Check out Andrea's special recipe!  Click here. YWCA Women's Health and Fitness Center HOURS Monday - Friday 6:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. Sign Up Wednesday Pilates  over lunch! Click here to see a class schedule. YWCA of Greater Kansas City M-F 8-5 p.m. Corner Coffee Cafe M-F 7-3 p.m. 6th St. Gallery M-F 9-5 p.m.	Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities, Inc. and the YWCA of Greater Kansas City present: "What Every Artist Needs to Know about Copyrights" When: Monday, December 8th at 7:00 p.m. Where: The YWCA Black Box Theater 1017 N. 6th St. Kansas City, KS, 66101 (913) 371-1105 Lead By: Kansas City Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts (KCVLAA) Cost: Classes are FREE to KCVLAA Members. $10.00 each for non-members. Who to contact: Carol Kariotis 913-371-0024 or kariotisc@kvarts.org
YWCA Welcomes Girl Power/Health Power! Did you know that girls who are physically active are more likely to graduate, have stronger self-esteem, and are half as likely to get pregnant or use drugs? Girls involved in sports and other fitness activities live stronger, healthier lives. Sarah Vandersall Our Patagonia, Dowsing for Water drawings, sculptures and installation Nov 14 - Dec 10 Artist reception FRIDAY, NOV. 14, 5-8 p.m. Vandersall questions the role of the consumer as a way to reassess the aesthetic value of the discarded object. It is at this moment in the objects’ aesthetic evolution that Vandersall showcases its utopian origins and possibilities, calling attention not only to a culture of waste, but to our culture’s inability to attach aesthetic value to an object that has been used rather than created for a specific aesthetic purpose. Vandersall’s work references the history of the materials and the pictorial order that they utilize, while attempting to make ideal images/objects that do not contain an overt cultural critique, but rely on the viewer’s ability to link these works with culture as a filter.   Sarah Vandersall is a MFA graduate from University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, recently finished an Urban Culture Project studio residency in KCMO and has taught sculpture at Longview Community College in Lee’s Summit, MO		Community Benefit Shopping Event for the YWCA of Greater Kansas City Tuesday, December 9th, 5pm - 8pm 7947 Santa Fe Drive Overland Park, KS 66204 Join us for an evening of shopping with friends while supporting two worthy organizations that share the vision of the economic empowerment of women around the world. The mission of Ten Thousand Villages (TTV) is to “provide vital, fair income to developing people by marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America.” Ten Thousand Villages have been trading fairly for over 61 years and have had a retail store in Overland Park for over eight years. Ten Thousand Villages of Kansas City, Inc. enjoys being part of the local community as well the global community. One way TTV makes local connections is by partnering with area non-profits, like the YWCA of Greater Kansas City, in Community Benefit Shopping Events to help in fundraising efforts.  During a Community Benefit Shopping Event, TTV donates 15% of its profit to the organization. Community Benefit Shopping Events are an opportunity to take the stress out of fundraising while partnering with an area non-profit. Visit the Ten Thousand Villages website here.