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About DAWN

The Detroit Area Womyn's Network is a social group for professional women 30 years of age and older living in the south east Michigan area.

Our History
The group held its first gathering in October of 1995. The vision of the group is that it would provide women living in the south eastern Michigan area with an opportunity to meet similar others and to develop friendship and social networks. Monthly gatherings were held at the Lavendar Moon Cafe in Ferndale MI. In addition to the regular gatherings, smaller groups of women got together to pursue common interests including: dining out; pot luck dinners; going to the movies, concerts and cultural events; shopping; playing games and sports, etc. We also had a regular news letter that was sent out to all DAWN members. DAWN continued meeting until the summer of 1997 when the Lavendar Moon closed its doors. DAWN was revived on September 26th, 2000. We now have over 400 women on our mailing list.

DAWN Email

All DAWN email is sent out via the DAWN (detroitwomyn) yahoogroup. In order to receive DAWN email you have to be a member of our yahoogroup.

Click on the "Email & Yahoogroup" button at the top left of the page for information on: how to join; how our yahoogroup works; which DAWN yahoo address to send what to; and how to change the address where your DAWN email is delivered.

Hosting DAWN Activities

We are always looking for people to coordinate and host DAWN activities. You can host planned events or impromptu activities.

Planned events involve quite a bit more effort than impromptu ones. Typically reservations have to be made, there is limited space that must be signed up and paid for in advance, and usually 2+ months advance notice to the group is required to fill the event. If you have an idea for an event or are interested in coordinating and hosting one, please let us know.

Impromptu activities just require a desire to coordinate a get together for some of the women of the group. If you are interested in hosting one, send a message out via the yahoogroup 7-14 days in advance inviting those interested to join you for some activity (e.g., dinner, a movie, etc.). Then wait to see who shows up.

Planning and hosting are great ways to get to know other women in the community.