Empower Women with Songbird Supper Club

Songbird Supper Club is a free monthly community event that supports, uplifts, and celebrates women in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Over the past two years, it has become a transformational space, where patriarchal conditioning that has held women back is being subverted. At each event, four women are featured, performing and sharing their creative work before speaking openly in an interview with host Cashavelly. Women are encouraged to show up as they are, be it messy, imperfect, and raw and truthful. This in itself is powerful, freeing women in front of an audience to be celebrated for who they are and where they are on their paths, whether seasoned professionals or new to performing. The interviews are powerful and unique as women share within community what is normally kept behind closed doors - the vulnerability, issues, stories, and concerns that have shaped women's lives, yet also have limited and hurt women when kept silent. The interviews offer an in-the-moment corrective experience to women's pain and trauma, empowering and emboldening women with strategies to overcome and end outdated modes of systemic sexism and misogyny. The event is free so that it remains accessible to everyone in the community to attend the event every month, allowing roots to deepen and connections to be made.

Songbird Supper Club was supported by the U.S. federal ARPA grant through the Forsyth County Winston-Salem Arts Council for its first two years. We are now on our own and need to raise our own funding. Please contribute so this safe, generative space for women can continue as a staple of our Winston-Salem community and further the positive change it is spearheading.

What people are saying:

“This was everything last night! All these women creators are doing mind-blowing, interwoven, embodied things and it’s exactly what the world needs right now!”

“Have been coming to this from the start. Wouldn’t miss it and love it!”

“This event is powerful and groundbreaking. Being able to let my voice be heard has moved me. We need more!”

“This space is so beautifully encouraging. The community being cultivated at Songbird Supper Club is powerful, generative, and so needed in our world.”

“Open, honest, and candid conversations like this help us heal. It helps us feel human. I am truly grateful for moments and spaces like this. Cashavelly [is] changing the world for the greater good. Thank you!”

“Best night out in Winston-Salem, regardless of male or female. Open, challenging, out of this constrictive box! Thank you! So needed.”

"I can't begin to express how much Tuesday's Songbird Supper Club has meant to my heart.”

“I love this space! It feeds my soul.”

“Every month that I come, my heart and soul fills up!! This space is so wonderful and affirming as a woman and as an artist. Thank you for having such a beautiful space.”

“I love the variety of artists and the focus on local music.”

“Beautiful, empowering, can't wait to come back!”

“Incredible collective of women.”

"There's nothing like Songbird Supper Club."

"This space has been so vital for so many women, myself included."

"I absolutely love this community. It's so special."