ALEMBIKA ZOOM CAFE

Melanie Whaley: Candid Conversation
Friday, June 17th, 4PM (EST)

Melanie, founder of Essential Elements-Chicago, has been in the fashion world for three decades. Her business savvy has brought her success, but she also uses it as a platform for supporting charitable initiatives in the community that supports her. Please join us for an open conversation with Melanie about being a top retailer in inner-city Chicago, a female leader, race and spirituality.

Lucy Boswell: Speax Talks
Friday, June 3rd, 4PM (EST)

You’re invited to an intimate and informational Zoom Café gathering designed to help us all feel and experience freedom in our changing bodies—whether you are still getting your period or you are post-menopausal. Lucy Boswell, who manages the Customer Experience team at Thinx Inc, educates consumers on how Thinx, Speax, and Thinx (BTWN) can support their bodies from puberty to post-menopause. Lucy will join us to provide education about these innovative brand offerings that bring sustainability and comfort to menstruation and incontinence.

Debra Rapoport: Crafting Together
Friday, May 20th, 4PM (EST)

Join us for a jewelry crafting session with Debra, whose creations fuse color, texture and layers using found materials! Before we meet, gather some materials: Paper images from labels, postcards, brochures, magazines + mesh from produce bags, yarn, buttons, fabric scraps + good tacky glue (Aileen’s is great; Elmers is a bit watery), scissors, clothespins or clips AND a cardboard toilet paper roll—the base of your handmade cuff bracelet… This is going to be so much fun!

Debra’s work is seen at The Met, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Athens’ Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum and more!

Lisa Bayne: Artful Home Story
Friday, May 6th, 4PM (EST)

Lisa is a knitter, foodie and collector + the CEO of Artful Home. After holding senior positions in retail, she joined Artful Home’s board of directors and was named CEO the next year. Now her apparel line appeals to women who express themselves with what they wear.

Meet Hadassah Female Leaders
Wednesday, May 4th, 7PM (EST)

In this very special Zoom Café, you will meet an empowered team of female leaders from Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, who Alembika has had the pleasure of working with on a passion project called “Helping Hands.” You will meet our featured Hadassah #AlembikaWomen, learn about Hadassah and Helping Hands, and hear inspiring words from several volunteers about what it means to be an empowered woman and philanthropist.

SaladBration with Yael!
Friday, April 22nd, 4PM (EST)

Gather with Yael and our creative community of #AlembikaWomen for a celebration of all things salad! As we embrace spring and summer’s abundance of fresh produce, and those hot days we’d rather not turn the oven on, let’s share our favorite go-to salad recipes. Whether it’s a simple toss-up for one, a special mix for pleasing a crowd, a unique fruit salad or a “famous” dressing recipe, we want to hear about it. Let’s SaladBrate together!

Rachella Glezer: The Holiday Table
Friday, April 8th, 4PM (EST)

Rachella will join us from Israel, sharing her ideas on creative table setting for Easter and Passover. As an artist and designer, she was head buyer for an Israeli home design chain, curating, textiles, ceramics and more—and her lines always had a story. Now your table settings will, too.

Judith Boyd: On End-of-Life
Friday, March 11th, 4PM (EST)

In her career as a psychiatric nurse and while caring for trauma patients, Judith wore fun outfits with hats as an uplifting meditation. She will share what happened next, after her husband’s diagnosis of a rare cancer… And now, as she muses the Art of Life without him.