Spirited Women, Spirited Drinks—Join the Party! 🎉🎶🎤
We’re celebrating women (& their fans ;)) all month long! Plus Mardi Gras, Drag Kings, music & flash tattoos...
We’ve got a whole host of special events, cocktails, and exciting news for our cheeky friends here at Abricot… so stay tuned!
Springtime is around the corner and we’ve got such an exciting line-up of events, parties, and meet-ups for everyone in the Abricot community. We can’t wait to see the rockstars at our Rock U Girl Bands Night, and our crafters at I.R.L. Night, and especially everyone at our Drag Performance March 8th and our Spring Equinox March 15.
This month is particularly special for an independent woman-owned cocktail bar just like ours, as it’s INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S MONTH!!!!🎉🥳🎊
We’re so grateful to our supporters, especially the other women in our community and our industry who hold us up so we can all achieve greater things together!
P.S. Now is as good a time as any to remind everyone that anyone who identifies as a woman (even if just sometimes ;)) is invited and encouraged to celebrate this month (and all the time) with us at the bar. Abricot remains a space of safety and solidarity for the transfemme community now and forever les biches! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
March Events at Abricot
Mardi Gras
Tuesday, March 4th
Abricot celebrates Mardi Gras in style with masks, beads, decor, and a photo booth to capture your greatest Carnival moments!
International Women’s Day
with a Drag King Performance from the King Factory
Saturday, March 8th | 21h - 23h
Join us for International Women’s Day at Abricot, celebrating in style with our favorite drag kings from King Factory! In a performance like no other, they will woo you, seduce you, and bemuse you with a dragtastic performance… so come grab a cocktail, a seat, and enjoy Abricot’s favorite way to celebrate Women’s Day!
€5 majoration for the event, book your tickets in advance!
Craft Swap x Idle Hands
Monday, March 10th | 19h - 22h
Idle Hands will be backing this crafting extravaganza with great vibes, a strong community, and a willingness to help encourage any new or old hobby to shine!
We will be encouraging a Craft Swap, so bring yarn, fabric, beads, or any other unused materials and trade them for someone else’s. It’s eco-friendly and your wallet will thank you as well!
Melinda Blau: Author Talk with Inspirelle
Wednesday, March 12th | 19h
Join Inspirelle for an author talk with Melinda Blau, on her new book The Wisdom Whispers: Golden Guides to a Life Long of Grit, Grace, and Laughter.
From The New York Times bestselling co-author of Secrets of the Baby Whisperer, comes this poignant, hilarious, and deeply insightful exploration of how to make the most of life’s possibilities—at any age.
This is a ticketed event through Inspirelle.
The Spring Equinox Party at Abricot
with Distillerie de l’Arbre Sec
Saturday, March 15th
The Spring Equinox at Abricot will celebrate a phenomenal night of everything exciting; gin, tattoos, and tarot!
19h - 00h | We will have artist Solène la guêpe doing flash tattoos in the alcove, with exclusive designs just for Abricot! Reach out to caroline@abricotbar.com to reserve your slot.
19h - 22h | Diva Desvignes will be back reading tarot at the bar.
And Distillerie’s team will be here with us to try their Gin Étoile under our starry night sky!
We’re Back with Another MeetQueer
Thursday, March 20th | 19h
And it’s here to stay! We here to create a fun, queer, and above all, safe space for queer women to mingle and match! Come make friends and get flirty every third Thursday from 19h to whenever you want. 😉
Rock U Women’s Night
Saturday, March 21st | 20h - 23h
Rock out with Rock U’s favorite girl bands!!! You’ll hear some of your favorite covers by these rockin’ amateurs. Grab a cheeky cocktail (or mocktail) and head bob as aggressively as you can (no injuries at the bar please!) to cheer these rockstars on.
I.R.L. Night x The Offline Club
Tuesday, March 25th | 18h - 20h30
We’re partnering with the Offline Club for our next edition of I.R.L. Night. They’re an online community dedicated to offline time — a lot like us! So we’re joining forces this month to hang out, unwind, unplug, and enjoy a lovely cocktail. They’re organizing tickets directly so check out their site to join in!
Sapphink Social
Thursday, March 27th | 19h - 22h
Is back at Abricot for your monthly dose of queer media! The social hour is open to current and prospective members so don’t be shy… pull up a seat at the bar, bring your favorite book(s) to chat, and learn what Sapphink is all about to see if you’d like to join their monthly meetings. Their book this upcoming month? A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett.
Why Women Are Behind the Bar and the Business
An Owner’s Corner with Jennifer Crain
It’s a funny thing to talk about identities in general and women in particular in the context of one celebratory day or month. After all, we’re around to be celebrated — and more importantly, to give you reasons to celebrate — all year long. It’s not a time-limited celebration.
But at the same time, while representing the majority of the world’s population — and having the strongest track records as small business owners, women still represent the vast minority of the hospitality industry, receive 5% of all VC funding across all categories, and still don’t receive equal respect, equal representation or equal pay in the world at large. The category for women bar owners is smaller still. I hope that’s changing.
So why does it matter? If you like the bar, the atmosphere, the people, who cares who’s behind it? We have the best men on board too. Some of the best I’ve ever worked with… We believe when we’re hiring that who we are is way more than gender and at Abricot we care more about big generous hearts of hospitality and great cocktails. We aren’t just meant for women, we’re ‘by women, for everyone’. That said, I still believe it matters that women are at the heart of this bar and this business — because we bring unique viewpoints to the hospitality conversation. It’s difficult to explain but easy, I think, to feel when you come into Abricot.
Abricot isn’t meant to be a highly gendered space, pink isn’t our favorite color (it’s apricot, duh ;)) but we don’t shy away from who we are — and we hope you don’t either. We are meant to be a space where women’s talents and skills are showcased at least as frequently as men’s, where women (and all of our clients!!!) feel free to come alone with a book or to listen to jazz and know, without any considerations, that they are in a safe space where they can enjoy the evening however they’d like; we want to normalize environments where LGBTQIA+ communities, multiple nationalities and preferences can show up in whatever definition they’d like — or drop whatever definitions they’d like — and leave the baggage of a sometimes-difficult, very defining world behind. We want you to feel at home and cared for here. We want you to feel your spark burning brighter for the time you spend with us. We may not always succeed in every moment, but that’s the intention, and most of the amazing, creative, exceedingly bright, crazily multitasking women I know rock at this.
So why are women behind the business? Because I’m a woman, and this is the business I decided to create. And I’ve been lucky enough to create the most generous-hearted talented team to join me on this adventure. I hope you love it too, spread the word and keep bringing your unique voice to Abricot. That’s why we’re here.🧡
Love,🧡
Abricot