Manuscripts Collection
Includes correspondence (1976-1989), minutes (1981-1990), financial statements (1981-1985), calendar (undated and 1981-1989), flyers (undated and 1975, 1981-1989), contracts (1980-1989), a mailing list (1989), and a directory of performers connected with the Collective's history.
A Woman's Coffeehouse originally opened as a fund raiser for the Lesbian Resource Center (Dec. 20, 1975). The Coffeehouse Collective assumed management (Feb. 1976) and operated the coffeehouse until its closing (Sept. 9, 1989). Topics include the collective's philosophy, routine management, hiring of collective members, fund raising, publicity, programming (which included live performances, dancing, and political or educational presentations), and the coffeehouse's dissolution.
Accession number: 14,809
Processed by: Frank Hennessy, June 1993; January 2001
Catalog ID number: 1729330
Includes two posters advertising events at A Woman's Coffeehouse: the first, an appearance of Les Dames in concert (May 1, 1976), and the second, a performance of Gwen Avery at the coffeehouse's annual New Year's Eve party (December 31, 1981). There is also an original drawing for a poster announcing the presentation of a slide show by Alison Bechdel (undated).
Six sheets of notes from a community meeting (March 18, 1989) give information about the meeting's agenda and rules of order, the Collective's finances, and attendance statistics from coffeehouse events (January-March 1989).