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Open House Event

Please visit us for our open house!

Come see the progress we’ve made fixing up the House of Hospitality, check out our garden plans, and peruse our photo album.

Meet and chat with guests, volunteer hosts, board members, and other Bread & Roses supporters.

Eat yummy snacks, listen to good music, and even dance in our kitchen if you like!

Bread & Roses’ volunteer hosts, board members, and guests will be available to answer any questions you may have.

We’ll have copies of our newsletter, progress reports, budget, and finance reports handy for you to look over.

But, most importantly, we’ll have good music and great snacks!

Saturday, Dec 12th

4-6PM

1320 8th Ave SE

Olympia, WA 98501

Donations will be gratefully accepted.

Make too much, Invite too many

There is a funny story in the Catholic Worker that the movement was founded on the basis of a “soup” recipe: Make too much, invite too many.

At Bread & Roses, we’ve got this recipe down pat. We baked 6 turkeys and had close to 30 people over for Thanksgiving dinner this year. Guests included volunteers (thank you Tom, Roxanne, Dana, and kids!), in-laws (thanks for coming Martin!), women from the B&R shelter, families from the Family Support Center’s shelter, and a couple folks from Camp Quixote.

It was a great time. We danced around to the Pogues and Irish Independence music while baking turkeys, pies, and pumpkin bread. Meta gave proper instructions for “see-food” to the small children (much to the delight of the parents). Pets chewed on stew bones. And there was an abundance of food.

Special thanks to Maria Garner (with FUMCO and the Volunteer Center) for chasing down the turkeys! Hope you didn’t get too winded, Maria. :)

Friday Night Dinners to begin August 7th

You are invited to join us for our weekly Friday night potluck dinners. We will begin hosting the dinners on Friday, August 7th (7:00 PM). Our address is 1320 8th Ave SE, Olympia 98501

Here’s the deal with the dinners: We invite our friends, family, neighbors, and supporters. Our guests at the Women’s Guesthouse invite their friends and family. We put on some music (think Woody Guthrie or Utah Phillips), lay out the food, eat, laugh, and chase the children around the house. It’s a really good time.

The Friday dinners are also the best way to get to know our community. Interested in volunteering? Come to dinner and you’ll get plugged in. Want to know who your contributions support and how? Come meet them and share a meal together!

To learn more about our dinners, and why we host them, please see our “Community Meals” page on this website.

Get all the facts – B&R Informational Meeting

June 25th 7:00PM St Michael’s Parish

From Bread & Roses’ Board President:

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

As you may be aware, Bread & Roses is going through a transition. We want to tell you about it and invite you to help guide our future.

I am the new president. On behalf of the new board of directors, I am writing to introduce ourselves, tell you about our plans, and ask for your input.

What has happened with Bread & Roses recently?

In the past few months, almost the entire board of directors of Bread & Roses has changed. The new board has years of experience dealing with local housing and homeless issues.

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Oly Action Network – Gettin’ the job done.

Six volunteers from Olympia Action Network spent Saturday morning last weekend scrubbing and priming walls for painting. Thanks to these generous volunteers, we’re almost ready to paint!

(From OAN’s website) “Inspired by President Obama’s call for change, the Olympia Action Network is a service organization that provides our community with opportunities to ‘be the change’.” If you are interested in joining OAN, email olyactionnetwork@hotmail.com or visit their Facebook page.

Thanks OAN!

Six volunteers from Olympia Action Network spent Saturday morning last weekend scrubbing and priming walls for painting. Thanks to these generous volunteers, we’re almost ready to paint!

(From OAN’s website)

“Inspired by President Obama’s call for change, the Olympia Action Network is a service organization that provides our community with opportunities to ‘be the change’.” If you are interested in joining OAN, email olyactionnetwork@hotmail.com or visit their Facebook page.

Thanks OAN!

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Open House Event

Make too much, Invite too many

Friday Night Dinners to begin August 7th

Get all the facts – B&R Informational Meeting

What has happened with Bread & Roses recently?

Oly Action Network – Gettin’ the job done.

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