::AVALON NORTH::
a women’s private club & sanctuary

Nous vivons dans la réverie

Our Words

May we see with eyes unclouded
May we feel with hearts unburdened
May our fires burn bright
so that all those who need us
will surely find us

Our mission

Avalon North is an artistic, educational and philanthropic organization founded by women for those who identify, in small or large part, as women.
The mission of our social club is to provide a warm and engaging second home. A space where we can work remotely or be at leisure while encouraging the creative, intellectual, and emotional growth of every woman in our community

OUR VISION 

One day we hope to purchase land in the North, where we could build a women's community and retreat to provide refuge and renewal for any woman who wants it.
Your membership brings us all closer to this dream

Women’s Clubs

“…most of which had started out as social and literary gatherings, eventually became a source of reform for various issues in the U.S.” Black American women's clubs were the first to become involved with issues surrounding education, temperance, lynching, child labor, juvenile justice, legal reform, environmental protection, library creation and more. They helped start many initiatives such as kindergartens and juvenile court systems.

read more on the history of the women’s club movement below

A Letter From Our Founder

::Avalon North:: is the manifestation of the dream that we are better together. Women are strongest and most beautiful when they raise each other up. We use our power in loud, courageous ways, like leading revolutions, and in quiet courageous ways like making it to the grocery store with a crying baby on our hip. We do this even when we are tired or sad or afraid.

And we have all been tired, and sad, and afraid.

I believe we have come to a threshold moment in the history of humanity. And the old lies are true: all women are witches, and we know things.

We are gutted by the collapse of our environment, imperialism, our democracies, our civil rights, human decency, emotional competency, capitalism - all of it.

But we are emboldened by this too. Our hearts burnt to cinders are now gathering strength to regenerate. Thresholds are powerful places.

What we choose to do now has the potential to impact the world for generations to come. How we decide we want our world to be, matters. How we decide who we want to become, collectively and as individuals, matters. Taking action, matters.

Now is the time to rebuild. Now is the time to gather and to rise. Now is the time to light the fires.

As women, just by being women, we are the embodiment of so many secrets lost to time and concerted oppression. When we come together, these living secrets, this deeply, communally rooted power expands exponentially. Together we become the light in the darkness.

This strange and magical whisper is universal. We are seeing it everywhere and we know you’ve seen it too. It is calling us all back home, a genetic memory long dormant. We are the living force of regeneration; an army of strong, beautifully brilliant, courageous, talented and wickedly creative women.

We do not know what is coming.
We do not know what we will become.
The world is full of unknowns and nothing is permanent.
But we are outrageously optimistic. Full to the brim,
with hope and ideas.

We invite you to gather, to participate joyfully, and to embrace a fearless curiosity of what tomorrow’s horizon may bring.

Won’t you join us?

Jocelyn Toffic