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 8th at our normal location of Casa Capri Restaurant. Click the link below to sign up. The deadline to register is end of day May 5th, so that we can give our hosts a number for the food. The link to register for lunch will be live a couple of weeks before the meeting.
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
Every month we have an interesting speaker. The speaker in April was Atifa Robinson, Executive Director of Kenosha Emerging Leaders Academy. Click here to watch. All our speaker videos are available on the Links and Resources page.
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 12, at the Wise Women Read Book Club (meeting at 5:30pm) at Blue House Books, 5915 6th Ave A, we're discussing Tom Lake, the 2023 novel by Ann Patchett.
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Tom Lake is about a mother, Lara, who tells her three daughters the story of her youthful romance with a famous actor during a summer at a theater company called Tom Lake, all while they are stuck at their family’s Michigan cherry orchard during the COVID-19 pandemic. The narrative weaves together the past and present, exploring themes of love, family, memory, and the different lives parents lead before their children are born, set against the backdrop of a cherry harvest and a retelling of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.
The June 9 meeting has us discussing The Best Lies by local-ish author David Ellis. (He’s from the Chicago area.)
Bestselling and award-winning author David Ellis delivers a fast-paced, twisty thriller that will surprise readers at every turn.
Leo Balanoff is a diagnosed pathological liar with unthinkable skeletons in his family’s closet. He’s also a crusading attorney who seeks justice at all costs. When a ruthless drug dealer is found dead and Leo’s fingerprints show up on the murder weapon, no one believes a word he says. But he might be the FBI’s only shot at taking down the dealer’s brutal syndicate.
Risk his life going undercover for the feds or head straight to prison for murder? Leo accepts the FBI’s offer—but it comes with a price, including a collision course with his ex, Andi Piotrowski, a former cop and “the one who got away.” Forced to walk a tightrope between an ambitious FBI agent and a cruel, calculating crime boss, Leo’s trapped in a corner. But he has more secrets than anyone realizes and a few more cards left to play.
Bring your friends (book club members need not be KWN members), and join the Wise Women Read Book Club EVERY month or just when the book sounds good to you! Either way, you’ll be glad you did!