Summer Sunday at Comfort Kitchen

After experiencing a powerful home birth, Nashira Baril (founder of Neighborhood Birth Center), began researching how to scale her experience with the tenderness of community midwifery. Her early vision, rooted in community elders' vision for a birth center in Roxbury, became Neighborhood Birth Center. For years Biplaw Rai (co-founder of Comfort Kitchen) saw Nashira working on plans for the birth center at Dudley Cafe. Simultaneously, he and his co-founders were working on their own love letter to the community: a restaurant that celebrates the ingredients and flavors of the African diaspora and offers global comfort food. Comfort and community are at the heart of what Neighborhood Birth Center and Comfort Kitchen are doing.

Join us for a delicious and intimate afternoon of connecting and learning about Boston's first freestanding birth center! We want to accommodate all our guests with space and nourishment so we are asking you to come and hang in waves.

• Wave 1 is from 4:00pm - 5:00pm
• Wave 2 is from 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Please select the option that works best for you, and help spread the word by sending this link to your friends!

Transparent Ticket Pricing:

• $100 - Neighborhood Birth Center (capital campaign + building our brick-and-mortar space)
• $50 - Comfort Kitchen (food + staff)
• Ticket cost includes food. Cash bar.

About Neighborhood Birth Center:

Neighborhood Birth Center's mission is to offer comprehensive midwifery care throughout pregnancy, labor, birth and the postpartum period by integrating an independent freestanding birth center in Boston’s healthcare and community landscape. Birth is a sacred process, and when the pregnant person is centered, the experience has the power to transform and heal individuals, families, and communities. Neighborhood Birth Center is about people at the margins redesigning healthcare in ways that improve experiences and outcomes for all. For more information about our work, please visit us at www.neighborhoodbirthcenter.org and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook!

About Comfort Kitchen:

A Black-owned, immigrant-owned, and woman-owned cafe by day and restaurant by night in Dorchester, MA. Their food celebrates the ingredients and flavors of the African diaspora — global comfort food — connected from Asia to the Americas. Opened in January 2023 after transitioning from a series of pop-ups around Boston, Comfort Kitchen is creating a place that is actively engaged in creating space for the community.